Emergency Medicine - Adult and Pediatric
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Spineless approach to trauma patients may strike a raw nerve
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Missed MI: Costly, deadly, and sometimes unpreventable
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Wrongful death, wrongful life, emotional distress: Death in the ED: A complex event
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Don’t let dyspnea take the wind out of your practice
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Forensic Emergency Medicine: Practitioners Must Consider Roles as Investigators, Reporters
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Errors at triage don’t get off on the wrong foot
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EMTALA Update 2001: Guidelines, developments, and recent court opinions
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Medicolegal issues and risk management in pediatric emergency medicine
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Full May 2003 Issue in PDF
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Trauma Reports Supplement: From Stingers to Fangs - Evaluating and Managing Bites and Envenomations
Whether a bite or sting results in an anaphylactic reaction, impressive local effects, or a life-threatening systemic reaction, the emergency physician must be able to institute appropriate and effective treatment. Emergency physicians also must be able to recognize clinical envenomation patterns, since some critically ill patients may not be able to convey the details of the attack. Since all areas of the country are represented in the envenomation statistics, all emergency physicians should be familiar with identification and stabilization of envenomated patients and know what resources are available locally for further management of these often complicated patients.