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Procedural Sedation: General Principles and Specific Pharmacotherapeutic Strategies — Part I
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What Insect Repellent Should Your Patients Be Using?
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Effectiveness of OTC Cough Medications Doubtful, at Best
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Medical Conditions that Mimic Psychiatric Disease: A Systematic Approach for Evaluation of Patients Who Present with Psychiatric Symptomatology
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You must brace for change in ED pain management
There are a number of significant advancements in pain management that will impact your clinical practice, including more frequent use of patient-controlled analgesia and increased use of conscious sedation. -
Dangerous Rashes
Dermatologic complaints are common presentations in the emergency department and the emergency physician should have a working knowledge of the most common of these complaints. -
Evaluation and Management of Foot Pain in the Emergency Department
The foot is divided into three anatomic regions: the forefoot, made up of the fourteen phalanges and the five metatarsals; the midfoot, made up of the navicular, the cuboid, and the three cuneiforms (the medial, the middle, and the lateral); and the hindfoot, made up the talus and calcaneus. -
Trauma Reports for January/February 2007
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Make your most common ED nursing tasks mobile
It's a common source of frustration in many EDs: leaving patients in the waiting room until a "specialty" room is available, or placing the patient in a room that doesn't have the right equipment, which delays care. That's why many EDs are investing in mobile workstations on laptops or wheeled carts. -
Abdominal pain is often misdiagnosed in the ED: Take steps to protect patients
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleed. Cancer. Myocardial infarction (MI). Constipation. These are just some of the conditions that could present as abdominal pain in ED patients.