Emergency Medicine General
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Bioterrorism Watch: Ease of access to deadly chemicals may be the greatest threat to hospital readiness
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Bioterrorism Watch: Signs and symptoms of chemical exposures
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Bioterrorism Watch: Triage, decontamination after chemical exposures
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Crush Injuries
MONOGRAPH: In the U.S., alcohol intoxication associated with prolonged muscle compression and/or seizures is the most common cause of traumatic rhabdomyolysis.
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Evaluation and Management of Sudden Vision Loss: Part I
Emergency physicians are often consulted by patients experiencing ocular symptoms. It is estimated that more than two million emergency department (ED) visits occur in the United States every year (approximately 3% of total ED visits) due to ocular complaints. Acute vision loss is an especially frightening experience that leads many patients to seek emergency care. Although this symptom is rarely life-threatening, early recognition and treatment of the cause is of paramount importance, as the patient may permanently lose sight in the affected eye(s). Emergency physicians (EPs) should be adept at diagnosing, treating, and obtaining appropriate ophthalmology consultation and follow up for this reason. -
Steroids to Prevent Extubation Failure?
Post-extubation laryngeal edema, although infrequent, can necessitate reintubation and lead to other complications. -
Should Patients at Increased Risk of Bleeding Receive Activated Protein C?
Despite concerns that recombinant human Activated Protein C (rhAPC) is associated with an increased risk of bleeding, the FDA failed to list several of the bleeding-related exclusion criteria used in the PROWESS trial as contraindications to use of this agent. -
Special Feature: Severe Pulmonary Hypertension in the ICU
Pulmonary hypertension (ph) is common among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). In fact, many ICU clinicians simply view PH the same way they view leukocytosis as an expected finding caused by the "bigger problems" of sepsis, respiratory failure, congestive heart failure, volume overload, and myocardial infarction. -
Volume of Clinical Information Generated in the ICU
This study from the University of Toronto sought to quantify the number of individual pieces of clinical information entered into the medical record on each patient in the ICU each day. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement