-
While no one has precise numbers, the practice of human trafficking is hardly limited to third-world countries. In fact, experts maintain it is big business in the United States, with somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 people trafficked into the country each year.
-
It's a problem that every ED grapples with: A patient comes in complaining of chronic pain and you give him or her a one-time prescription for a powerful narcotic with instructions to seek comprehensive treatment from a primary care provider (PCP).
-
Emergency departments tend to be noisy, bright, and intensely focused on patient throughput.
-
The medications your elder patient is taking can cause a worsened injury or misleading vital signs, warns Chris Hoag-Apel, RN, TNS, SANE, trauma service supervisor at Freeman Health Systems in Joplin, MO.
-
-
-
The number of adult ED visits for eye-related complaints is largely limited to data on eye injuries.
-
Two new drugs for treatment of hepatitis C; NSAIDs and myocardial infarction risk; AIM-HIGH clinical trial stopped; and FDA actions.
-
Crest failed to demonstrate any significant differ-ence in the primary endpoint (composite of stroke, myocardial infarction, or death during the 4-year follow-up period) between carotid artery stenting (CAS) and carotid endarterectomy (CEA) in patients with symptomatic or asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis.
-
Entrapment neuropathies are not more common in the setting of chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy and suggest a surgically treatable lesion.