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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full November 9, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Trauma Reports - Full November/December 2009 Issue in PDF
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Pediatric Hand Injuries, Part II: Lacerations, Amputations, Bites, and Nail-bed Injuries
Pediatric hand injuries are common in the emergency department (ED), and may be challenging to manage. Children may be frightened and uncooperative, making a thorough and careful evaluation difficult. -
Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports - Full October 1, 2009 Issue in PDF
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 31, 2009 Issue in PDF
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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 31, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Agitation: What Every Emergency Physician Should Know
Does this happen in your ED? About half-way through your shift, the triage nurse brings you a restraint order form and asks you to sign it. You ask what is going on and are told that EMS is bringing in a combative patient, so Security is going to meet them at the ambulance entrance to restrain the patient and they need an order to so do. -
Respiratory Therapist-driven Protocol for Non-ICU Surgical Patients Reduces ICU Use and Decreases Costs
Harbrecht and colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh studied the effects of a targeted protocol for respiratory assessment and management in patients admitted to the hospital's neurosurgery step-down, trauma/surgery step-down, and trauma/surgery general units. -
Special Feature: Critical Care Management of the Patient with Elevated Intracranial Pressure
Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) occurs as a complication of neurosurgical emergencies including traumatic brain injury (TBI) and intracranial hemorrhage or due to medical illnesses, such as meningitis or fulminant hepatic failure. -
Pharmacology Watch: Tamoxifen, SSRIs, and Breast Cancer Recurrence
In this issue: Tamoxifen and CYP2D6 inhibitors, FDA Actions, and FDA Warnings.