Mortality higher among women with MI and no chest pain
Clinicians should be aware of gender differences in symptom presentation when caring for patients with heart attack.
Clinicians should be aware of gender differences in symptom presentation when caring for patients with heart attack.
A nurse’s careless mishandling of medical evidence jeopardizes a criminal rape case and causes undue emotional harm.
A jury in Wyoming recently ruled in favor of Louis Prager, a 51-year-old field worker, awarding him and his wife a record-breaking $9 million in damages after an ED physician at a regional hospital did not order neck X-rays or CT scans after an accident.
A patient presents to the emergency department complaining of pain that originated over the distal tip of the digit.
Early fluid resuscitation is recommended for hemodynamic support in critically ill children, but there has been little evidence to guide the type, timing and volume of fluids to use, especially in children who are not severely hypotensive or dehydrated.
No one health-care provider can go it alone. Nurses, physicians, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, pharmacists and every other support and ancillary department depend on each other to provide each patient with the best care possible.
Since 50% of patients admitted to the ED with deep vein thrombosis, should it be common practice to do a chest CT prior to discharge?
Tenderness over the hypothenar eminence, swelling and limited flexion also suggest fracture.
A father is rushed to the emergency department after ingestion of a foreign, powderlike substance.
“Bath salts” are new synthetic drugs that are typically found as white, light tan or brown powders, believed to contain psychoactive chemicals known as mephedrone and/or methylenedioxypyvrovalerone.