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Up to 50% of patients with seronegative ocular myasthenia gravis have antibodies to clustered acetylcholine receptor antibodies that can fix complement and passively transfer disease to experimental mice.
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Dementia and benzodiazepines; effectiveness of omega-3 fatty acid and Ginkgo biloba supplements; and FDA actions.
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Early seizures and EEG abnormalities as well as status epilepticus predicts worse outcome in SCN1A-positve Dravet syndrome in this new, large cohort of patients.
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Two recently reported Phase 3 trials for BG-12 demonstrated efficacy and safety in the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
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A Simple Score Can Predict Outcome after Ischemic Stroke; Mismatch Between Perfusion and Diffusion on MRI Can Identify Good Candidates for Endovascular Reperfusion Therapy; Cerebral Microbleeds May Be Associated with Elevated Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor
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Even though the admission handoff has occurred, the "boarded" ED patient is often still managed by the admitting emergency physician (EP) or another ED attending physician many hours after the shift has ended, warns Uwe G. Goehlert, MD, MPH, an ED attending physician at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans, VT, and principal of Goehlert & Associates in South Burlington, VT.
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If a parent objects to a medical evaluation or treatment of a child with a potentially life-threatening emergency, due to religious beliefs or any other reason, says Kevin M. Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP, chief medical officer of Emergency Medicine Physicians in Canton, OH, the emergency physician (EP) can get a court order to get the child treated.
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When experts on either side of a lawsuit alleging ED malpractice make misleading or false statements, this reflects badly on the whole legal system, according to Ken Zafren, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAWM, EMS medical director for the state of Alaska and clinical associate professor in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Stanford (CA) University Medical Center.
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An ED's policy may state that reassessments should occur every 30 minutes, or that EKGs should be given within 10 minutes of the patient's arrival, but there will always be circumstances in which these timeframes aren't met.
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Jurors might be able to understand the fact that patients can't always be treated immediately in a busy ED, particularly if a plaintiff didn't have obviously life-threatening symptoms at the time.
