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Ultrasound for Dense Breasts — Is It Worth the Cost?
A cost-effectiveness model found that supplemental ultrasound screening after a negative mammogram for women with dense breasts substantially increases costs without yielding significant benefit.
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Concomitant Hysteroscopic Sterilization and Endometrial Ablation: What Are the Risks?
In this retrospective cohort study, women who underwent concomitant hysteroscopic sterilization and endometrial ablation procedures were more likely to have inadequate 3-month hysterosalpingram testing to confirm tubal occlusion.
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Are We on the Threshold of a New Approach to Evaluating Women with Recurrent Pregnancy Loss?
A small retrospective cohort study raises the possibility that advanced genetic techniques can be used to analyze the products of conception in women with recurrent pregnancy loss to identify those most likely to have treatable reasons for their miscarriages.
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Induction of Labor in Patients with Previous Cesarean Sections
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: Great improvements have been made while the fear of litigation ebbs.
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Quadriplegics’ Hand and Arm Movements Restored
In 2012, Michael D. Bavlsik, MD, his son, and other Boy Scouts were traveling in Minnesota when his van collided with a boat and a trailer. The accident left Bavlsik a quadriplegic. The primary care physician and father of eight is now able to feed himself, write, examine patients’ ears, and drive, based on a newly reported surgical technique. -
Evaluation of Syncope in the Emergency Department
This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports covers the current landscape of syncope from the ED perspective and continues to stress the importance of physician judgment.
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One Year Later, Ebola Lessons Emerge
New report highlights problems, offers recommendations for future improvements for epicenter of last year’s infectious disease crisis.
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Man-made Disaster: In-hospital Management
Man-made disaster directly impacts the emergency department and hospital when a mass casualty situation ensues, and is the focus of this review article. Using contemporary examples and the current literature, what follows is a primer on the causes, injury patterns, resource utilization, triage, and preparation for man-made mass casualty events.
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Interdisciplinary mistrust, communication breakdowns cited in survey of ED handoffs
Emergency physicians point to duplicate orders, other problems related to unclear timing on transfer of care.
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Travel history key to picking up on signs of bubonic plague
Health officials caution that symptoms of plague can mimic other types of infections.