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Credentialing requirements for specific numbers of procedures performed may be suitable for most hospital units, but these may be difficult or impossible to meet in the ED.
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This month we will address attempts by State Medical Boards to use their licensure powers to censure or fine physicians, suspend their medical license, or outright revoke their ability to practice medicine for providing unprofessional testimony.
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It is very common for adolescent females to present with menstrual irregularities and differentiating normal variations from life-threatening problems is critical to the emergency department physician.
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Emergency physicians deal with anticoagulation on a daily basis. We have all dealt with the bleeding patient on anticoagulants.
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Citalopram Useful for Depression in CDA Patients;; When to Stop Anticoagulation Before Surgery?;; Drug Warnings: Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab;; Growth Hormone Treatment, More Harm Than Good;; FDA Actions
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In 2000, the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network (ARDSnet) reported an unprecedented low mortality for ARDS patients ventilated with a tidal volume of 6 mL/kg of predicted body weight (and a plateau pressure ¡Ü30 cm H2O) compared to a tidal volume of 12 mL/kg.
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) is a major nosocomial infection associated with increased morbidity and perhaps with some attributable mortality. There has been great controversy as to which is the best practical strategy to diagnose and treat VAP.
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Ouimet and colleagues at Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital in Montreal studied 820 consecutive patients admitted to their mixed medical-surgical ICU to determine the incidence of delirium, factors associated with it, and its clinical consequences. The patients were adults who stayed in the ICU more than 24 hours and survived for at least 1 day.