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One-third of the estimated 177,504 ED visits by elderly patients for adverse drug events were caused by warfarin, insulin, and digoxin in 2004 and 2005, says a new study.
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If your next patient had altered mental status and lethargy, would you suspect an unintentional overdose of pain medication?
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On the way to being rushed to a Level 1 trauma center after being hit by a car, a boy's airway suddenly filled with blood.
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When a man with a severe liver injury from blunt abdominal trauma arrived at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's ED, he had no recordable blood pressure and a barely palpable carotid pulse.
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The value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in helping clinicians to better assess the size and extent of known breast cancers is well established. However, the use of MRI as a screening tool in women at high risk of breast cancer is now on the increase as well, particularly since April when the American Cancer Society (ACS) unveiled guidelines recommending the use of MRI as a screening tool in this subset of women.
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While results from the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (DMIST) trial, published in 2005, demonstrated that digital mammography outperformed conventional film-screen mammography for a large percentage of women,1 data from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) show that the technology has only been adopted by 25% of the 8,000 imaging sites in the United States.2
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Toward the end of 2007, about 500 documented cases of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF), a painful condition that affects skin and internal organs, were reported worldwide. However, that number is very likely an underestimation.
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A prophylactic procedure performed before surgery this fall on N.J. Gov. Jon Corzine could raise the public's awareness of using radiation to treat heterotopic ossification (HO), says Carol Kornmehl, MD, director of radiation oncology at St. Mary's Passaic (NJ) Hospital and author of the book, The Best News About Radiation Therapy.
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Numerous trials have shown that ultrasound offers certain advantages over other imaging technologies in determining whether some lesions are cancerous. However, data presented thus far are less convincing when ultrasound is used as a screening methodology.
