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Full July 1, 2007 Issue in PDF
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Chronic Pain: Evaluation and Treatment in the Emergency Department
Patients with chronic pain can be some of the most difficult patients to deal with. They are often miserable and demanding, and their quest for pain relief can lead to addiction. -
Full June 25, 2007 Issue in PDF
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Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria: Implications for the Emergency Physician
The authors of this issue discuss three types of drug-resistant bacteria that can colonize or infect emergency department patients. Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and, to a lesser extent, vancomycin-resistant enterococci are known to most emergency physicians. -
Full June 11, 2007 Issue in Pdf
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Full June 1, 2007 Issue in Pdf
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Part II. Pediatric Procedural Sedation: Selecting an Agent
The agents available for use in pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) have expanded considerably over the last 20 years. -
Selenium and Sepsis: It's Not Your Average Once-a-Day Vitamin
A prospective randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center trial demonstrates that a prolonged course of intravenous selenium improves mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock and is associated with minimal to no side effects. -
MRSA in Dialysis Patients
The incidence of invasive infections due to MRSA in 2005 was approximately 100 times greater in chronic dialysis patients than in the general population. -
Revised Empiric Treatment IDSA/ATS Guidelines for CAP
Since the publication of the initial IDSA Guidelines for the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in 2003, hospital administrators have been scrambling to improve their numbers.