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Remember the first time you saw a patient seizing? Was it in school, at home, or during your initial training in medicine? Scary, yes? Didn't you think something needs to be done right away?
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This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports deals with infection control as it relates to the emergency department (ED). Several states now require infection control training for continued licensure, and it is hoped that this article may be useful to some in meeting that requirement.
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All of us have personal experience with the topic of this issue of EMR--diarrhea. We all have had diarrhea, likely several times, and all have seen more cases than we can count.
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On nearly every shift, the emergency physician confronts a patient with atrial fibrillation (AF), either new onset or chronic. AF is often seen in patients with congestive heart failure or prior myocardial infarction.
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This issue of Emergency Medicine Reports is devoted to increasing your understanding of these measures and the role they will play in your practice.
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This issue is the second part of a discussion of hand and wrist injuries. The complexity of the anatomy and the variation of injuries provides an explanation of why so many injuries are initially missed.
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Have you ever missed a hand or wrist injury? One that comes back to you as a call from the orthopedist office on how incompetent those ER docs are?
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Orthopedic injuries are frequently encountered in the emergency department. It is important to recognize and correctly treat these injuries to minimize any damage and optimize outcome.
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Abdominal pain in female patients can pose a diagnostic challenge to emergency physicians. There are a number of emergent clinical conditions that must be recognized in a timely fashion to reduce morbidity and mortality in these patients.
