Emergency Medicine - Adult and Pediatric
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Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Although electrical injuries are rare, patients who present with these injuries to emergency departments pose particular challenges to emergency physicians and trauma surgeons.
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Commonly Missed Radiographic Findings
The practice of medicine involves judgment, the weighing of possibilities and probabilities. Even more so when interpreting radiographs.
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Diabetic Ketoacidosis
MONOGRAPH: It's characterized by markedly increased circulating ketone bodies leading to ketoacidosis.
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Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Concussions in the ED
MONOGRAPH: Here are crucial steps to treat this common presentation in children.
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EPs Often Unaware of Psychiatric Patients’ EMTALA Risks
Screening must cover both medical and mental health.
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Complacency Is Risky for Frequent ED Users with Psychiatric History
Assumptions of “same old” symptoms are dangerous.
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Assuming Patient’s Symptoms ‘Just Psychiatric’ Is Legally Risky
EPs sometimes assume that delusions, hallucinations, agitation, and other psychiatric complaints are due to a psychiatric illness without performing a complete history and physical examination.
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Psych Patients Held in ED for Days Create Legal Risks for EPs
Some patients discharged without evaluation.
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Did Your ED Examine a Mass Shooter?
Lawsuit could allege inadequate evaluation; EPs could be liable for violent acts of patients.
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Hyponatremia in the Emergency Department
Sodium and water balance are closely linked, and abnormalities in one often occur in association with abnormalities in the other. Hyponatremia and disordered water balance are among the most common electrolyte disturbances seen in the emergency department (ED).