Disha Awasthi,Akhilesh Kumar Tiwari,Abhinav Upadhyaya et al.
Disha Awasthi et al.
Chorea, hemichorea-hemiballismus and severe partial seizures may be the presenting features of nonketotic hyperglycemia in older adults with type 2 diabetes, but cases in young adults with type 1 diabetes are rare. We hereby report a very r...
Ali Rahil,Fahmi Yousef Khan
Ali Rahil
We report a case of parathyroid hormone-related protein-mediated hypercalcemic crisis in a 36-year-old pregnant woman, who was admitted to women hospital with recurrent vomiting and epigastric pain. She was diagnosed with uterine fibroid si...
Ashraf F Hefny,Peter Corr,Fikri M Abu-Zidan
Ashraf F Hefny
Intestinal obstruction (IO) is a common cause of acute abdominal pain. The recent increased use of sonography in the initial evaluation of abdominal pain has made point-of-care ultrasound a valuable tool for the diagnosis of IO. Sonography ...
Peter Corr
Peter Corr
Gangrenous cholecystitis is an acute surgical emergency, which requires early cholecystectomy. Differentiation of patients with gangrenous cholecystitis from those with non-gangrenous cholecystitis can be difficult, both clinically and with...
Lubna F Husain,Laura Hagopian,Derek Wayman et al.
Lubna F Husain et al.
Lung sonography has rapidly emerged as a reliable technique in the evaluation of various thoracic diseases. One important, well-established application is the diagnosis of a pneumothorax. Prompt and accurate diagnosis of a pneumothorax in t...
The role of bedside ultrasound in the diagnosis of pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade [0.03%]
床旁超声在心包积液及心脏压塞诊断中的作用分析
Adam Goodman,Phillips Perera,Thomas Mailhot et al.
Adam Goodman et al.
This review article discusses two clinical cases of patients presenting to the emergency department with pericardial effusions. The role of bedside ultrasound in the detection of pericardial effusions is investigated, with special attention...
Fikri M Abu-Zidan
Fikri M Abu-Zidan
Experience over the last 25 years has shown that point-of-care ultrasound is a very useful tool when used by nonradiologists. Its value will be optimized by understanding its limitations and by adopting a focused binary decision making appr...
Strategies for coping with stress in emergency medicine: Early education is vital [0.03%]
急诊医学应激应对策略：早期教育至关重要
Gillian R Schmitz,Mark Clark,Sheryl Heron et al.
Gillian R Schmitz et al.
Introduction: Physician burnout has received considerable attention in the literature and impacts a large number of emergency medicine physicians, but there is no standardized curriculum for wellness in resident education...
The injured child in Africa [0.03%]
非洲受伤的儿童
Timothy C Hardcastle
Timothy C Hardcastle
Pediatric trauma in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges in overcoming the scourge [0.03%]
东非地区儿童创伤的挑战及应对措施
Adesoji O Ademuyiwa,Usang E Usang,Kehinde S Oluwadiya et al.
Adesoji O Ademuyiwa et al.
All over the world, pediatric trauma has emerged as an important public health problem. It accounts for the highest mortality in children and young adults in developed countries. Reports from Africa on trauma in the pediatric age group are ...