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Child abuse can be difficult to recognize, especially in the often chaotic environment of the emergency department. As the leaders of the community and medical safety net that is the ED, emergency physicians play a unique role in detecting, treating, and preventing child abuse. This issue of Emergency Medicine Specialty Reports provides an update on the patterns, diagnosis, and treatment of physical child abuse injuries.
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A new oral direct thrombin inhibitorximelagatran (Exanata; Astra-Zeneca)steals the stage at this years American College of Cardiology 52nd Scientific Session in Chicago.
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Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a stroke syndrome characterized by headache, seizures, and hemorrhagic infarction.
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Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is an expensive but powerful and useful therapeutic tool in the neurologists armamentarium. Guillain-Barré syndrome, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, multifocal motor neuropathy, Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome, and dermatomyositis have all been shown, in controlled clinical trials, to benefit from IVIG.
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Pneumococcal vaccine protects older adults from developing pneumococcal bacteremia but does not prevent community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to a new study from Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.
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This article reports the novel observation that therapeutic vaccination with Copaxone (glatiramer acetate, Cop-1), protects motor neurons against acute and chronic neurodegenerative conditions.
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Surgical treatment for Parkinsons disease has become increasingly used as a modality of treatment. Nevertheless, the efficacy and its long-term outcomes as compared to medical therapy are not well established.
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Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3, Machado-Joseph disease (MJD), is an adult onset, autosomal-dominant disorder often presenting as a combination of upper and lower motor neuron signs, including facial and tongue fasciculations, resembling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
