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Emergency Medicine Reports - Full August 31, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Agitation: What Every Emergency Physician Should Know
Does this happen in your ED? About half-way through your shift, the triage nurse brings you a restraint order form and asks you to sign it. You ask what is going on and are told that EMS is bringing in a combative patient, so Security is going to meet them at the ambulance entrance to restrain the patient and they need an order to so do. -
The Missed Acute Myocardial Infarction in the ED: Strategies to Reduce the Risk for Both the Patient and the Physician
We have all heard a story that starts with, "Remember that patient you saw and discharged yesterday? Well, ...." This next series of EM Reports tackles one of the most common subjects of such a story: missed heart attacks. -
Full May 11, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Atypical Presentations of Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease: Part II
This is the second part of the article on atypical presentations of stroke and TIAs. We start with the same patient we introduced last time and discuss the differential diagnosis of his myriad complaints. -
Full April 27, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Full February 16, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format
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Accidental Hypothermia
Hypothermia has been recorded throughout history. Galen, personal physician to Marcus Aurelius, wrote in his treatise "Hygiene" that newborns should be wrapped in swaddling clothes because, "it is necessarily going to come in contact with cold and heat." -
Anorectal Emergencies
Patients with anal diseases can be some of the most uncomfortable patients presenting to the emergency department. -
Emergency Medicine Reports - Full December 7, 2009 Issue in Streaming Audio/Downloadable MP3 Format