Babette Newman,R Gentry Wilkerson
Babette Newman
Sickle cell disease is a chronic hematologic disease that affects over 100,000 people in the United States. Many of these patients will present to the emergency department seeking treatment for an acute complication. Vaso-occlusive crisis, ...
Hemang Acharya,Sabrina M Tennant,Kathleen Yip
Hemang Acharya
In the United States, more than 450,000 patients are on dialysis due to end-stage renal disease. Compared to the general population, these patients account for a disproportionate number of emergency department visits due to higher rates of ...
Corey S Hazekamp,Dana Sacco
Corey S Hazekamp
As the United States continues to grapple with the opioid crisis, emergency clinicians are on the front lines of managing patients with opioid use disorder. This issue reviews tools and best practices in emergency department management of p...
Neurovascular ultrasound in acute stroke: emergency department applications [0.03%]
急性卒中的神经血管超声检查：急诊科的应用
Grigory Ostrovskiy,Alexandra S Reynolds,Aarti Sarwal
Grigory Ostrovskiy
Acute stroke is one of the most common neurologic emergencies encountered by emergency clinicians. While point of care ultrasound has been a core part of emergency clinicians' training and practice for many years, the use of specialized ult...
Reuben J Strayer
Reuben J Strayer
Ketamine has been in use since its development as a dissociative anesthetic in the 1960s, but it was largely confined to the operating theater or austere environments until used by emergency physicians to facilitate painful procedures in ch...
Jillian Horning
Jillian Horning
Though the vast majority of conditions associated with otalgia are not life-threatening, there are nuances and controversies in the diagnosis and management of even the most common diseases, such as acute otitis media and otitis externa. Fo...
Christopher Richardson
Christopher Richardson
Each year, over 1.3 million patients visit the emergency department for constipation. Most cases are benign, but serious complications, such as fecal impaction and stercoral colitis, must be ruled out. Evidence to guide the evaluation and t...
Chiemela B Ubani,Dawn R Sollee,Sophia Sheikh
Chiemela B Ubani
There are approximately 10,000 emergency department visits in the United States for snakebites every year, and one-third of those involve venomous species. Venomous North American indigenous snakes include species from the Crotalinae (pit v...
Daniel S Brenner,Onyedika J Ilonze,Shelby Bell et al.
Daniel S Brenner et al.
Right heart failure (RHF) can result from many cardiac, pulmonary, and systemic pathologies. Common causes of RHF include pulmonary embolism, left heart failure, congenital heart disease, chronic lung disease, acute myocardial infarction, i...
A practice-based approach to emergency department evaluation and management of patients with postacute sequelae after COVID-19 infection: long COVID [0.03%]
基于实践的COVID-19后急性期后遗症患者评估与急诊管理方法：长新冠综合征
Zijian Chen,Charles V Pollack Jr,Robert Rodriguez
Zijian Chen
Afflicting millions of people across the world, "long COVID" is a new disease entity that can present with a diverse array of symptoms of variable severity, affecting nearly every organ system. The presumptive diagnosis of long COVID is lar...