Head, neck and ophthalmologic manifestations of HIV in the emergency department.

abstract：:Patient satisfaction is an integral component of the measurement of health care quality. Proper attention to patient complaints is one part of a patient satisfaction management strategy aimed at revealing and alleviating the causes of patient dissatisfaction. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Schwartz LR,Overton DT

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:In recent years, health care providers have sounded the call that the US mental health system is in crisis. With decreases in funding and eroding access to care, the availability of psychiatric services has become increasingly limited, failing to meet growing needs. This article provides a brief history of mental heal...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Halmer TC,Beall RC,Shah AA,Dark C

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric patients often present to the emergency department with orthopedic pathology that can challenge the emergency department physician. This article focuses on key diagnoses that are frequently mismanaged. These diagnoses require specific knowledge to execute appropriate treatment. Pediatric fractures, compartme...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Laine JC,Kaiser SP,Diab M

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care professionals often encounter patients who refuse a recommended treatment plan. Overriding a patient's right to autonomy has ethical, legal, and moral consequences. Incapacity is the determination by a physician that a patient lacks the ability to make informed decisions about his or her health care. The f...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Miller SS,Marin DB

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A future challenge for international EM development is expanding the specialty to Africa, where it is non-existent. Another goal for international EM development is to assist in the peace process in the Middle East. There is increasing need for good EM development throughout the world. Development of international EM ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Alagappan K,Holliman CJ

更新日期：2005-02-01 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：:The diagnosis of acute scrotal pain can be difficult. The most common causes include torsion of a testicular appendage, epididymitis, and testicular torsion, which account for 85% to 90% of all cases. These entities may be clinically indistinguishable because characteristic symptoms and signs for each overlap, whereas...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Burgher SW

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is designed to review proper procedure by an emergency or primary care physician when evaluating a patient with decreased hearing. It will cover the anatomy and physiology of hearing, as well as the evaluation and initial management of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Lawrence LJ,Brown CG

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nervous system (CNS) infections require early recognition and aggressive management to improve patient survival and prevent long-term neurologic sequelae. Although early detection and treatment are important in many infectious syndromes, CNS infections pose unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. The non...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Jain R,Chang WW

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although useful to emergency physicians in determining and following up treatment, the microbiology department can be a source of frustration and erroneous results due to improper or inconsistent methodology, ordering, and interpretation. This article will review the principles of microbiologic specimen collection, ha...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Pancoast P,McCabe JB

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altitude illness is a group of synergistic physiologic disturbances, each of which may occur alone but which more commonly occur together, with one dominating the clinical picture. Treated promptly, altitude illness is readily reversible with full recovery; procrastination may lead to death or disability. Descent shou...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Houston CS

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many systemic diseases have associated oral symptoms. Occasionally, patients with these diseases present with lesions that occur primarily in the mouth. Although few systemic diseases have strictly pathognomonic lesions of the oral mucosa, a careful examination of the oral cavity can often lend important clues to maki...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Mulliken RA,Casner MJ

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although emergency departments (ED's) vary in shape, size, and technology, similarities in responsibilities exist. The primary responsibility is to provide quality health care to the communities served. The (ED) constitutes a substantial business in any hospital. Because of changing acuity levels, patient volume, and ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Almeida SL

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transition of biphasic waveforms from ICDs to external defibrillators constitutes a significant technological advances for transthoracic defibrillation. Impedance compensation has enabled the delivery of defibrillating current adapted to each patient and each shock in the same patient. Optimally designed biphasic ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： White RD

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain, swelling, and limited range of motion of a joint are extremely common complaints in the emergency department. In assessing joint complaints it is helpful for the emergency physician to keep in mind the major categories of diagnostic possibilities; it is also useful to distinguish between chronic and acute proble...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Preslar AJ 3rd,Heckman JD

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elderly trauma patients present unique challenges and face more significant obstacles to recovery than younger patients. Despite overall higher mortality, longer length of stay, increased resource use, and higher rates of discharge to rehabilitation, most elderly trauma patients return to independent or preinjury func...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Callaway DW,Wolfe R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute urinary retention is a common emergency genitourinary symptom. The etiology of acute retention includes obstructive, neurogenic, pharmacologic, and psychogenic causes. The emergency management of acute urinary retention is bladder decompression, which is usually accomplished with a Foley catheter. ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Fontanarosa PB,Roush WR

更新日期：1988-08-01 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：:Toxidromes aid emergency care providers in the context of the patient presenting with suspected poisoning, unexplained altered mental status, unknown hazardous materials or chemical weapons exposure, or the unknown overdose. The ability to capture an adequate chemical exposure history and to recognize toxidromes may r...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Tomassoni AJ,French RN,Walter FG

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:International EM development requires a comprehensive assessment of the current system and careful planning to ensure that the most important needs are addressed. Modeling a country's EM system after an existing foreign system underestimates the complex needs for instituting appropriate system interventions. Planning ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Thomas TL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sepsis and septic shock remain all too frequent syndromes in modern medicine with unacceptably high mortality rates. Physicians must be aware of the many ways in which sepsis and septic shock may present and the multiple differential diagnoses. Early recognition and prompt institution of empiric therapy are of utmost ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Ellrodt AG

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prompt recognition of actual or impending aortic emergencies is essential to the effective practice of emergency medicine. Understanding the pathophysiologic principles and awareness of the potential subtleties in the clinical presentations of aortic dissection, aneurysm, and occlusive disease are prerequisites to thi...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Knaut AL,Cleveland JC Jr

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonography has emerged as a primary imaging modality in the evaluation of the trauma victim. Both emergency physicians and surgeons have been proven capable of performing this rapid, noninvasive evaluation of the chest and abdomen. This article describes the trauma ultrasound examination and illustrates how bedsi...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Melanson SW,Heller M

更新日期：1998-02-01 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：: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 formulary for dermatologic use in the emergency department must not only encompass drugs that are essential for advanced cardiac and trauma life support, but must have specific drugs that are indicated for common dermatologic conditions that are evaluated in the emergency department. First and foremost is the sele...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Drake LA

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides a review of the evaluation and treatment of common injuries to the shoulder, humerus, and clavicle in the emergency department (ED) setting. In addition to a focused review of the shoulder's physical examination, topics include common emergent injuries such as glenohumeral dislocations, proximal ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Malik S,Chiampas G,Leonard H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fever is the most common reason that children and infants are brought to emergency departments. Emergency physicians face the challenge of quickly distinguishing benign from life-threatening conditions. The management of fever in children is guided by the patient's age, immunization status, and immune status as well a...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Wing R,Dor MR,McQuilkin PA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few presentations to the emergency department are as critical or dramatic as the patient in shock. Cardiovascular disasters that commonly present with shock include massive pulmonary embolism, cardiac tamponade, aortic dissection and aneurysm, and cardiogenic shock associated with acute myocardial infarction. Because ...

journal_title：Emergency medicine clinics of North America

authors： Rodgers KG

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00