Stabilization and Management of the Acutely Agitated or Psychotic Patient.

abstract：:The interrelationships between biomedical ethics and the law are perhaps nowhere as starkly apparent as in the realm of medical malpractice. Although ethical and legal conduct and practices are often in harmony, in many areas ethical principles and the issues surrounding medical liability appear to come into conflict....

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Solomon RC

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resuscitation goals for the patient with sepsis and septic shock are to return the patient to a physiologic state that promotes adequate end-organ perfusion along with matching metabolic supply and demand. Ideal resuscitation end points should assess the adequacy of tissue oxygen delivery and oxygen consumption, and b...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Greenwood JC,Orloski CJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although once considered unlikely, bioterrorism is now a reality in the United States since the anthrax cases began appearing in the fall of 2001. Intelligence sources indicate there are many countries and terrorist organizations that either possess biological weapons or are attempting to procure them. In the future i...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Darling RG,Catlett CL,Huebner KD,Jarrett DG

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurologic and myopathic complications of alcoholism are multiple and diverse, affecting both the central and peripheral nervous systems. In the ED, initial concern is for diagnosing readily reversible causes and ruling out possible life- or limb-threatening etiologies. A rapid assessment of the ABCs, a fingerstick bl...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Wrenn KD,Slovis CM

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sudden cardiac death is one of the leading causes of death and a major public health problem that particularly affects the elderly. Sudden cardiac death may be a terminal event after a prolonged debilitating and painful illness, or it may occur following many years of symptoms related to a cardiac disorder; however, i...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Tresch DD,Thakur RK

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a neurologic emergency due to bleeding into the subarachnoid space. Mortality can reach 50%. The clinical presentation is most often in the form of headache, classically defined as maximal at onset and worst of life. The most common cause is traumatic; approximately 80% of nontraumatic...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Long B,Koyfman A,Runyon MS

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental pain and disfigurements cause patients to seek care from the Emergency Department of hospitals. It is important for physicians to understand dental disease and trauma in order to diagnose, treat, and refer patients with dental emergencies efficiently. Many common dental problems have been discussed in clinical ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Klokkevold P

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disruption of cerebral blood flow may influence brain energy metabolism to produce reversible or irreversible neurologic deficits. The emergency physician is in a unique position to provide timely treatment during the first few hours of an acute stroke. He or she must be facile with unique pharmacologic and non-pharma...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Naradzay JF,Gaasch WR

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The definition of a transient ischemic attack (TIA) has evolved over the past decade from a clinical diagnosis to a tissue-based definition based on neuroimaging results. TIA shares the same pathophysiology as stroke, which occurs in up to 5% of patients within 48 hours of the TIA and 10% within 90 days. This rate is ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Duca A,Jagoda A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft tissue disorders of the mouth encompass a wide expanse of pathophysiology. This article focuses on the identification, etiology, management, and complications of common infectious processes (candidiasis, dental caries, and herpes labialis), inflammatory lesions (sialolithiasis, oral lichen planus, and aphthous ul...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Diebold S,Overbeck M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical planning requires the expedition physician to draw from many aspects of the knowledge base of wilderness and environmental medicine and to learn and use lessons from those that have gone before. The medical plan is dependent on parameters of the expedition objective, scope, and resources and is developed coope...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Tek D

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory failure is a frequent disease process encountered in the emergency department. There is significant need for improvement in the care of patients on mechanical ventilation. If not contraindicated, lung-protective ventilation strategies should be used. It is important to consider pathophysiology (shunting, d...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Wright BJ

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute dyspnea in older patients is a common presentation to the emergency department. Acute dyspnea in older adults is often the consequence of multiple overlapping disorders, such as pneumonia precipitating acute heart failure. Emergency physicians must be comfortable managing patients with acute dyspnea of uncertain...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Tyler K,Stevenson D

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UTIs are common, potentially severe infections that the emergency physician must manage efficiently and effectively. In most cases, this entity is well recognized, and the clinician will be confident of the correct course. However, in certain populations, complications are common, and the best therapy has yet to be pr...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Miller O 2nd,Hemphill RR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency medical services for children require the integration of many community resources to operate optimally. In both urban and rural areas, the abilities of the receiving hospitals and medical staffs must be defined to develop a system that considers severity of injury and illness as well as transport times. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Seidel J

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrhythmias may result from poisoning by a variety of agents. Although some cardiac disturbances are of limited concern, others occur because of the specific cardiac properties of the ingested drugs, and require specific antidotes. Clinicians must understand the resultant pathophysiology so that therapy is app...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Miller MB

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradydysrhythimas include sinus bradycardia, junctional brady-cardia, and idioventricular rhythm, which can be distinguished by examining the tracing for the presence or absence of P waves,noting the morphology of these P waves, and determining the width of the QRS complex. Sinoatrial blocks may occur in either first,...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Ufberg JW,Clark JS

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from a public health perspective. Case definitions are discussed. Incidence, outcome, and fixed and modifiable risk factors for cardiac arrest are described. There is a large variation in survival between communities that is not explained by patient or community fact...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Taniguchi D,Baernstein A,Nichol G

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most common problems facing the emergency department physician is the management of bite wounds. Therapy for these common injuries is ill-defined and often controversial. This article outlines treatment guidelines for the emergency physician for dog bites, cat bites, rabies, snake bites, and human bites. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Rest JG,Goldstein EJ

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general concepts of defibrillation are reviewed. Research continues in the area of implanted defibrillators, new circuiting, and more effective current transfer. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Ventriglia WJ,Hamilton GC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knee is one of the most commonly injured joints in the human body, and, largely because of athletic injuries, they are increasing in frequency in the United States. This article provides a brief overview of knee anatomy, examines radiographic imaging techniques and arthrocentesis of the knee, and discusses injurie...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Roberts DM,Stallard TC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preparation for, and response to, hazardous materials emergencies requires both preplanning and just-in-time information management. The development of an emergency operations plan and a hazardous materials incident response plan involves many steps and implicates numerous resources: institutional, governmental, and p...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Borron SW

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with human immunodeficiency virus, those who are posttransplant, and those undergoing chemotherapy are populations who are immunocompromised and present to the emergency department with abdominal pain related to their disease processes, opportunistic infections, and complications of treatment. Emergency depar...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： McKean J,Ronan-Bentle S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing for HIV infection is not generally required for the appropriate treatment of medical emergencies. Current standard HIV tests rely on the detection of antibodies to the HIV virus and are among the most sensitive and specific tests used in medicine. Standard HIV tests can be unreliable for detecting infection in...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Hansen KN

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This issue of the Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America focuses on the spectrum of public health issues that significantly impact the practice of emergency medicine and which are faced by practicing emergency physicians on daily basis. Topics include public health research in the emergency department; respirator...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Hirshon JM,Morris DM

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thorough working knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening electrolyte abnormalities in cancer patients, especially hyponatremia, hypoglycemia, and hypercalcemia, is essential to the successful practice of emergency medicine. Although most minor abnormalities have no specific treatment, severe cli...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Kacprowicz RF,Lloyd JD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Syncope is a sudden, transient loss of consciousness associated with inability to maintain postural tone followed by spontaneous recovery and return to baseline neurologic status. Global cerebral hypoperfusion is the final pathway common to all presentations of syncope, but this symptom presentation has a broad differ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Kessler C,Tristano JM,De Lorenzo R

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains one of the most challenging medical diseases in the emergency department. PE is a potentially life threatening diagnosis that is seen in patients with chest pain and/or dyspnea but can span the clinical spectrum of medical presentations. In addition, it does not have any particular clin...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Ouellette DW,Patocka C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Headache continues to be a frequent cause of emergency department (ED) use, accounting for 2% of all visits. Most of these headaches prove to be benign but painful exacerbations of chronic headache disorders, such as migraine, tension-type, and cluster. The goal of ED management is to provide rapid and quick relief of...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Friedman BW,Grosberg BM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clearly, a multitude of potential consent problems can exist for the emergency physician. It is difficult at times to balance the concepts of patient autonomy with the desire to provide optimal medical care. Experienced emergency physicians should be able to individualize the type of consent needed in a particular sit...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Siegel DM

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00