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This long-term epidemiological study shows an association between glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease.
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Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, consisting of the triad of mental status changes, ocular motility abnormalities, and ataxia, in the setting of thiamine deficiency, remains a clinical diagnosis.
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Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis has now been well characterized clinically, physiologically, and genetically.
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An outbreak of fungal meningitis and paraspinal infections occurred over the past year due to contaminated methylprednisolone injections.
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Subjects with Lesch-Nyhan disease and Lesch-Nyhan variant have significant reductions in brain size in the basal ganglia as well as several cortical areas.
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RSV occurs primarily in the winter months in the United States and is a cause of significant morbidity and mortality, particularly in the very young and very old.
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One emergency physician (EP) found himself in the position of giving orders for an emergency department (ED) patient in cardiac arrest by phone, while nurses remained in the ED to run the code, while responding to and running another code on the floor of the hospital.
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Discharge instructions frequently play an important role as evidence in medical malpractice cases, says John J. Barton, JD, a partner in the Providence, RI, office of Barton Gilman.
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Stephanie C. Sher, Esq., an attorney with Stevens & Lee in Lancaster, PA, says that outside evaluations of an emergency department (ED)s processes can identify risk-prone practices that could result in bad outcomes and malpractice claims.
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