Emergency Medicine - Adult and Pediatric
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Missed MI: Costly, deadly, and sometimes unpreventable
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Spineless approach to trauma patients may strike a raw nerve
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Forensic Emergency Medicine: Practitioners Must Consider Roles as Investigators, Reporters
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Don’t let dyspnea take the wind out of your practice
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Wrongful death, wrongful life, emotional distress: Death in the ED: A complex event
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Errors at triage don’t get off on the wrong foot
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Medicolegal issues and risk management in pediatric emergency medicine
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EMTALA Update 2001: Guidelines, developments, and recent court opinions
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Beat the Heat: Recognizing and Managing Pediatric Heat-Related Illness
Since 1996, at least 150 children have died as a result of being trapped in hot, parked vehicles. Contrary to what would be expected, these deaths occurred throughout all regions of the United States, making it important for all emergency medicine physicians to be familiar with the resuscitation of a child with a heat-related illness. This article provides an overview of heat-related illnesses in children and prevention and management strategies to facilitate care. -
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.