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There are a number of recommendations as to the best available approach to the care of patients with pneumonia. This investigation
is part of a larger study looking at the effect of a pneumonia pathway on patient outcomes.
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How would you interpret the 12-lead electrocardiogram shown in the Figure? What is distinctly unusual about this tracing? What would you ask the technician who recorded this tracing?
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The purpose of this prospective study was to assess whether a strategy of D-dimer testing and multidetector-row computed tomography —without the use of lower-limb ultrasonography —would safely rule out pulmonary embolism in emergency department patients suspected to have PE.
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The purpose of this study was to perform a comprehensive meta-analysis of all randomized trials with abciximab as adjunctive treatment of STEMI, including both fibrinolytic and mechanical reperfusion
strategies.
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Less lethal weapons are becoming increasingly popular amongst law enforcement agencies and the military to apprehend and subdue violent and dangerous persons in the field.
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This article will review and dispute some commonly held beliefs about dogma in the practice of emergency medicine.
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The only consistent intervention which appears to extend lifespan in mammals has been caloric restriction. This has been shown in a number of species, and there are ongoing studies in primates. Patients who voluntarily undergo caloric restriction show improvement in some of the biomarkers which improve in calorically restricted mammals. Other interventions, however, have been largely unsuccessful in extending lifespan.
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The availability of sensitive and reproducible measures of autonomic function has improved physicians’ ability to diagnose these disorders.
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It would be reasonable to empirically try sildeanfil and related drugs in both men and women with MS having sexual complaints.
