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If youve been worrying about staff quarantines and whether smallpox vaccination will be mandatory, you can breathe a sign of relief.
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New guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic heart failure from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association reflect a new emphasis on prevention.
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The four pharmacologic pillars of heart failure management are diuretics, beta-blockers, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and lanoxin.
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The scenario described in this article illustrates two important new approaches given in updated guidelines for the evaluation and management of chronic heart failure, published jointly by the Bethesda, MD-based American College of Cardiology and the Dallas-based American Heart Association.
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Thomson American Health Consultants is offering "Imminent Smallpox Vaccinations in Hospitals: Consequences for You and Your Facility," a 90-minute audio conference Wednesday, Dec. 11, from 2-3:30 p.m., EST.
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The final part of this three-part series focuses on diagnosis and management of hand infections and deep tissue injuries. Guidelines for patient evaluation, surgical consultation, and initial antibiotic therapy, when indicated, are provided.
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One year later: Emergency department response to biological terrorism, part II - smallpox, viral hemorrhagic fevers, tularemia, and botulinum toxins
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Among the many electrocardiographic findings indicative of acute coronary syndromes, the emergency physician must be familiar with the characteristics of the pre-infarction stage of coronary artery disease known as Wellens syndrome.
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Ultrasound guidance (USG) for the placement of central venous catheters (CVC) has been recognized as a helpful adjunct in anesthesia and surgical literature since 1984, but has received little notice in the emergency medicine (EM) literature. To clarify the EM role of this emerging technique, Miller and colleagues compared USG to the traditional landmark technique for insertion of CVC in ED patients without obtainable peripheral access.