Penile emergencies.

abstract：:EMS quality assurance programs can help guarantee that the provision of prehospital care is medically accountable. The establishment and management of such a program, although time consuming, are critically important. It is essential that the medical director or a designee responsible for quality assurance activities ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Polsky SS,Weigand JV

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recognition of hypothyroidism may not always be easy in the emergency department setting. Laboratory evaluations of thyroid function are not usually performed on a 24-hour basis, and therefore the emergency physician, although suspecting the presence of hypothyroidism, may be unable to confirm the diagnosis while ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Mitchell JM

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the number of advanced practice providers has grown in emergency medicine, establishment of guidelines and policies governing their practice has become increasingly important. This article addresses the scope of practice of physician assistants and nurse practitioners working in the emergency department, including ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Clark A,Amanti C,Sheng AY

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat stroke is reviewed in detail. Particular attention is paid to diagnosis and current emergency department treatment, and a brief overview of pathophysiology is included. Early complications, with recommendations for prevention and management, are described. Minor heat related syndromes are also mentioned. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Tek D,Olshaker JS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abdominal injuries are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. In the face of more obvious traumatic lesions, life-threatening intra-abdominal injuries may be initially overlooked. Plain abdominal and chest radiographs may prove diagnostic for specific injuries. However, normal or equivocal studies should not e...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Evers K,DeGaeta LR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTV is an adjunct to airway management that can prove helpful in selected cases. Its speed and ease of performance are offset by the need for specialized equipment to accomplish it. This difficulty, combined with infrequent indications, makes PTV a rarely performed procedure. Nevertheless, it remains a viable airway m...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Jorden RC

更新日期：1988-11-01 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：:Bleeding in late-term pregnancy can present as an innocuous start to parturition or a catastrophic maternal-fetal hemorrhage masked by the physiologic adaptations of pregnancy. The emergency management of late-term bleeding can be challenging, especially when providing stabilizing care in a limited-resource environmen...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Young JS,White LM

更新日期：2019-05-01 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：: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：:The spectrum of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) includes several clinical complexes that frequently cause critical instability in affected patients. This article focuses on several critical care aspects of these unstable ACS patients. The management of cardiogenic shock can be particularly challenging because the mecha...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Naples RM,Harris JW,Ghaemmaghami CA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determining the appropriate immunizations for international travelers is a complex, multifaceted process. This article proposes a stepwise and systematic approach to the immunization needs of the traveler-patient. Vaccines for routine health maintenance as well as special issues of the elderly, pregnant, immunocomprom...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Thanassi WT,Weiss EL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Avoiding legal pitfalls of orthopedic injuries in the emergency department (ED) requires an understanding of certain high-risk injuries, their presentation, evaluation, and disposition. Various pitfalls pertaining to both upper and lower extremity injuries are discussed in detail, with recommendations regarding the hi...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Germann CA,Perron AD

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newer drugs of abuse, such as MDMA, GHB, GBL, 1,4-BD and ketamine, are frequently used in the settings of raves and are often promoted on the internet. The popularity of these agents is increasing; therefore, emergency physicians should become familiar with the clinical presentations and management of the toxicity ind...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Graeme KA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scope of gynecologic infections presenting to the emergency department is quite diverse. This article presents an update on the current literature for vaginitis, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, tubo-ovarian abscesses, the Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome, herpes, and syphilis. Inadequate identification or treatm...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Zeger W,Holt K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wound healing is a complex interchange, orchestrated between cellular components that play their respective parts signaled by and mediated by different cellular instruments of healing. When healing is performed well, the final product is a thing of beauty. When healing is delayed, interrupted, or excessive, then unsig...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Strecker-McGraw MK,Jones TR,Baer DG

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：: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：:The mechanism of injury, diagnosis, and treatment of maxillofacial, laryngeal, tracheal, and bronchial trauma are considered. Also discussed is pulmonary barotrauma. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Meislin HW,Iserson KV,Kaback KR,Kobernick M,Sanders AB,Seifert S

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases do not always show the usual or "classic" signs and symptoms in the elderly. Physiologic changes over the years of a long life seem to be responsible for impairment of regulation or function of many organ systems. Since function often is measured in clinical medicine by laboratory testing, physicians frequent...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Kelso T

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:This article discusses clinical presentations and diagnostic approaches to acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Yiadom MY

更新日期：2011-11-01 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

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：:The emergency department (ED) presents unique challenges to infection control and prevention. Hand hygiene, transmission-based precautions, environmental cleaning, high-level disinfection and sterilization of reusable medical devices, and prevention of health care-associated infections (catheter-associated urinary tra...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Liang SY,Riethman M,Fox J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, also known as primary HIV infection, is the initial phase of infection, spanning from inoculation to the establishment of CD4 count and viral load set points. This phase is marked by dynamic changes in viral replication and host immune responses and contains 2 import...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Self WH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical or radiant energy injuries to the eyes are considered ocular burns. The majority of these injuries are occupation-related. Chemical burns are by far more common and represent a true emergency. Thermal and UV injuries are associated with severe pain, but often result in less long-term sequelae than chemical in...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Spector J,Fernandez WG

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most dog and cat bite injuries are minor wounds that require only local wound care as well a patient evaluation for tetanus and rabies postexposure immunoprophylaxis. For larger wounds, primary or delayed primary closure can be performed safely where indicated. When antimicrobial agents are necessary, inexpensive peni...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Dire DJ

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of gynecologic and other infections in obstetric patients involves consideration of the physiologic changes of pregnancy, the clinical implications of the infection for the patient as well as the fetus, and the safety of antimicrobials available for therapy. This article highlights the treatment of infec...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Torres M,Moayedi S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the past decade several new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) have become available, including new formulations of some of the older medications. Understanding the pharmacokinetics of the new AEDs is important because they are primarily used for adjunctive therapy and interactions with other medications can result in ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Hung OL,Shih RD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00