Trauma [0.03%]
Hugo Bonatti,James Forrest Calland
Hugo Bonatti
In terms of cost and years of potential lives lost, injury arguably remains the most important public health problem facing the United States. Care of traumatically injured patients depends on early surgical intervention and avoiding delays...
Michael H Catenacci,Kaira King
Michael H Catenacci
With an increasing incidence of sepsis, increasing use of the emergency department by populations at risk, and an increase in time spent in the emergency department awaiting hospital admission, emergency medicine practitioners are offered a...
Peter M C DeBlieux,Tiffany M Osborn
Peter M C DeBlieux
Critical care medicine [0.03%]
Amal Mattu
Amal Mattu
Colin G Kaide,Sorabh Khandelwal
Colin G Kaide
This article reviews the applications of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) as an adjunctive treatment of certain infectious processes. Infections for which HBO has been studied and is recommended by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society includ...
Daniel R Martin,Mark E Brauner,Joseph F Plouffe
Daniel R Martin
Influenza and pneumococcal pneumonia remain among the most significant causes of morbidity and mortality of any of the infectious disease emergencies presenting to emergency departments (EDs). Because the ED has become a recommended locatio...
Infectious agents of bioterrorism: a review for emergency physicians [0.03%]
生物恐怖袭击的致病微生物-急症医师应知指南及回顾文献
Nicholas E Kman,Richard N Nelson
Nicholas E Kman
The terrorist attacks on the United States in 2001 and the anthrax release soon after brought the issue of bioterrorism to the forefront in the medical community. Bioterrorism is the use of a biologic weapon to create terror and panic. Biol...
Travel-related infections [0.03%]
旅行相关感染疾病
Hans R House,Jesmin P Ehlers
Hans R House
Infections in travelers returning from international destinations are a common problem for emergency physicians. A careful travel history can help to distinguish the traveler's risk of having contracted an exotic infection, including malari...
Foodborne illness [0.03%]
食源性疾病
David C Pigott
David C Pigott
While few patients with foodborne illness present with life-threatening symptoms, there are a number of foodborne infectious diseases and toxins that the emergency physician or other health care provider must consider in the evaluation of t...
Howard K Mell
Howard K Mell
The epidemiology of oral and genital herpes has dramatically changed over the past decade. Herpes simplex virus-1, traditionally associated with oral herpes, is now implicated in an increasing percentage of genital herpes cases. The possibi...