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Strangulation Injuries
You are on duty in the ED when the paramedics bring in a patient from the county jail who had tried to hang himself. When the patient arrives, you are told by the accompanying guard that the patient was found with a tightly twisted bedsheet around his neck and looped over the bedpost of the metal bunkbed.Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 2, 2010 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 2, 2010 Issue in PDF
CVD decreases with aggressive treatment
Folic acid and vitamin B12 for CAD
ARBs and cancer risk
Pharmacology Watch - Full August 2010 Issue in PDF
Corticosteroids for exacerbations of COPD
Prescription drug abuse in young adults
Do Rapid Response Teams Reduce Hospital Mortality or Simply Increase Costs?
In the past decade, rapid response teams (RRTs) were broadly implemented to identify and treat patients on medical and surgical wards at risk for catastrophic deterioration and thus prevent death.