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This Israeli study was a randomized, controlled trial comparing SSD, biafine, and saline-soaked gauze in the treatment of inflicted superficial partial-thickness burns in pigs.
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Fondaparinux, a synthetic polysaccharide, represents a new class of anti-thrombotic agents that specifically inhibit factor Xa of the clotting cascade and lack activity against thrombin.
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Although cervical spine injury is uncommon, the implications of a missed injury are profound and may result in many serious complications for the patient and the physician. This issue presents the physician with a thorough discussion of the imaging alternatives available and facilitates clinical decision-making for diagnostic imaging. The author also provides a comprehensive discussion of the evaluation of a patient with a potential ligamentous injury to the cervical spine.
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The echocardiogram (ECG) in the Figure was obtained from a 55-year-old man with a history of heart failure and emphysema. What might his ECG show?
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Fluoroquinolones are precise and powerful agents against infectious diseases. By inhibition of DNA gyrase leading to rapid bactericidal activity, these drugs are smart bombs of great value in fighting an array of gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial pathogens.
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Control of hemorrhage in the field is of utmost importance in improving survival from trauma. Although this is not possible for internal bleeding, a substance that can be applied to external wounds and control bleedingin a manner that outperforms direct pressure or bandageswould be enormously useful.
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This paper reports the University of California at Davis Medical Centers emergency department experience with rocuronium, a rapid-onset, non-depolarizing paralytic agent available as an alternative to succinylcholine for rapid sequence intubation (RSI).
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Thomson American Health Consultants is offering an audio conference with the information necessary to help you diagnose and treat patients with flu symptoms and, as important, prepare for an influenza pandemic.
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Education is key to improving immunization rates. National Infant Immunization Week, which occurs in April, and National Immunization Month in August are key times in which local media and other resources are used to call special attention to the importance of immunization.
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The National Partnership for Immunization designates every August as National Immunization Awareness Month. The goal is to raise awareness about immunization across the lifespan as families prepare for the return to school, and the medical community begins preparations for the upcoming influenza season.
