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If a seizure patient comes to your ED, one of the first questions you need answered is "What diagnostic testing is needed?"
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Immediately after a 70-year-old man presented with fever, tachycardia, low blood pressure and abdominal pain, ED nurses gave acetaminophen, started two large-bore intravenous (IV) lines of normal saline infusing wide open, obtained all blood work including cultures and lactate, obtained a portable chest X-ray and electrocardiogram, and administered antibiotics with lab results pending.
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A 6-year-old girl comes to your ED with wheezing and lethargy. Emergency medical services (EMS) reports a previous history of asthma. What would you suspect?
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When a 2-year-old girl came to the Emergency Center at Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson, AZ, with difficulty breathing and a bluish appearance, nurses set about preparing for an emergency tracheostomy to save the child's life. Suddenly, they determined a key piece of equipment was missing.
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B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), a neurohormone secreted by the heart in response to fluid overload, has been shown to be elevated in medical patients with left ventricular dysfunction, which speeds diagnosis of congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. But can it also detect CHF in critically ill trauma patients?
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have made headlines recently, and EDs are being hit hard.
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New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey has signed legislation requiring healthcare providers to test pregnant women for HIV as part of routine prenatal care. The bill also requires testing of newborns whose mother's HIV status is either positive or unknown at the time of delivery.
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Internet-browsing men who have sex with men (MSM) apparently will respond to a dramatic, online short film with a message about reducing sexual risk behaviors, new research shows.
