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Emergency Medicine

<乌鸦传媒 class='mpt-top_cat_title_description'>News, opinions and meeting coverage in emergency medicine.

<乌鸦传媒>App Claims to Measure Oxygen Saturation With Only a Smartphone

There are apps making unjustifiable claims, exposing patients to unnecessary risk

<乌鸦传媒>Persistent Sleep Trouble Common in Kids With Brain Injuries

TBI leaves children struggling for months with daytime sleepiness and problems sleeping at night

<乌鸦传媒>Abandoned Painkiller Makes a Comeback

Here's how the FDA let a widely abused opioid back on the market.

<乌鸦传媒>Ebola Virus Lives in Eye Long After Blood Clears

'Cured' in October, back in hospital in December

<乌鸦传媒>ACOG's Guide to Managing Miscarriage: Follow Patient Preference

Updated clinical management of early pregnancy loss focuses on patient choice.

<乌鸦传媒>Guideline: Managing Unprovoked First Seizures in Adults

Anti-epileptic drugs may reduce risk of recurrence, joint AAN-AES guideline says.

<乌鸦传媒>Duck Hunting for CME

Wilderness medicine physician's CME company offers credit while hiking, hunting, climbing.

<乌鸦传媒>Cold Packs on Extremities Aid in Heat Stroke

New method may ease danger more quickly.

<乌鸦传媒>Excerpt From 'The Secret Language of Doctors'

ED doc Brian Goldman investigates slang to "crack code of hospital culture."

<乌鸦传媒>All About Adenosine

This biochemical will stop your heart -- just long enough to be useful.

<乌鸦传媒>Bronchiolitis Guidelines: Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater?

AAP's new guidelines favor complexity over familiar treatment options.

<乌鸦传媒>Frostbite: How to Classify and Treat It

In the ED, this is most often seen in the homeless.

<乌鸦传媒>Friday Feedback: When Grief Turns Violent

How should clinicians know and react when family members blame them for adverse outcomes?

<乌鸦传媒>'Generic' Colchicine to Hit Market

May provide some price relief for gout patients.

<乌鸦传媒>Ebola Diary: On the Ground in Sierra Leone, Part 5

Last installment in a CDC fellow's account of her experiences tracking the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa.

<乌鸦传媒>Diclegis: Drug Makes 30-Year Comeback

Class A morning sickness medication gains FDA approval after decades of being misunderstood.

<乌鸦传媒>Is an Expensive New Antibiotic Worth the Cost?

Once-weekly dalbavancin might reduce admissions, but it introduces new concerns.

<乌鸦传媒>Opioid Linked to Low Blood Sugar

Tramadol was associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for hypoglycemia.

<乌鸦传媒>These Men Had Their Penises Broken, Cut, and Shot

Industrial accidents, self-inflicted genital mutilation, and gunshots: It's dangerous out there for the male member.

<乌鸦传媒>Portenoy Opioid Talk Sparks Controversy

Opioid advocate Russell Portenoy's invitation to an upcoming NIH workshop is under fire.

<乌鸦传媒>C. diff. Differs by Season and Region

WASHINGTON -鈥� March is the month when hospitals see more Clostridium difficile infections, and the Northeast is the region that leads the nation in the difficult to treat infection, researchers reported here.

<乌鸦传媒>Ebola Response: Slowed by a 'Perfect Storm' of Setbacks

WASHINGTON -- The world was taken by surprise by the West Africa Ebola outbreak and has been scrambling ever since to catch up, with many setbacks and only a few bright spots in the picture, international experts said at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

<乌鸦传媒>Urgent Care Centers Opening For Mental lllnesses

Mental health urgent care centers, also known as crisis stabilization units, are opening throughout California in response to the shortage of psychiatric beds and the increase in patients with mental illnesses showing up at hospital emergency rooms with nowhere else to go.

<乌鸦传媒>Now What? DEA Tosses Tramadol in Schedule IV

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) scheduled tramadol as a Schedule IV substance -- whats the big fuss about tramadol that led to this decision by the DEA?

<乌鸦传媒>AMA Highlights: VA, Cheerleaders, and Guns

CHICAGO -- Wrapping up a full agenda, the AMA agrees cheerleading is a sport, doctors outside the VA need to pitch in to help care for veterans, and e-cigarettes need to be regulated.

<乌鸦传媒>AMA Clamps Down on MOC, But Punts on Gun Regs

CHICAGO -- The AMA鈥檚 House of Delegates drew the line on this year's hot button topic -- maintenance of certification (MOC), saying it should not be mandatory, nor should it be a condition of licensure.

<乌鸦传媒>More Brain Bleeds With Stroke Drug in 'Real World鈥�

BOSTON -- Intracerebral hemorrhage was more common among patients receiving tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in the real world compared with those in a clinical trial, a small, single-center study showed.

<乌鸦传媒>APA Meeting Highlights Mental Health Biology

NEW YORK CITY -- The biological basis for normal and abnormal mental function is emerging as a dominant theme in psychiatry research, and the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting that starts here Saturday won't be an exception.

<乌鸦传媒>CardioBuzz: Is Marijuana Bad for Your Heart?

Whether marijuana actually causes cardiovascular problems remains unclear, a situation that was not necessarily helped by a study based on 35 reports of cannabis-related complications in France, a country with about 1.2 million recreational users.

<乌鸦传媒>Missed Doses Cripple Postop DVT Prevention

Missed doses of prophylactic anticoagulation account for much of the deep vein thrombosis that occurs in surgery and trauma patients, a study showed.

<乌鸦传媒>How to Replace IV Nitroglycerin in the Shortage

What are the alternatives for IV nitroglycerin in the emergency setting as the shortage saps reserves? Several experts share their thoughts.

<乌鸦传媒>ACC: Gout Drug Tames the Heart

WASHINGTON -- Colchicine may be as effective at reducing multiple recurrences of pericarditis as it is in treating acute episodes and first recurrences.

<乌鸦传媒>10 Ways to Safely Push Ketamine in the ED

A doctor recently took me on a Special K trip, and I enjoyed it immensely.

<乌鸦传媒>13 Mobile Apps Every ER Doc Should Test Drive

Here are the best mobile apps for emergency medicine physicians gleaned from a recent EMJ paper by Michelle Lin, MD, Iltifat Husain, MD, Salim Rezaie, MD, and remixed with a talk from last month's AAEM meeting by Graham Walker, MD.

<乌鸦传媒>Which Bullets Are Safe in an MRI?

Don't go ballistic -- only steel bullets will cause problems in MRI, says a study of 39 kinds of the projectiles.

<乌鸦传媒>ER Briefs: DIY Laptop to AED Kit -- Good Idea?

Inventors aim to resurrect laptops and tablets as AEDs. We asked Clifton Callaway, MD, PhD, an emergency medicine doctor who heads up EM research at the University of Pittsburgh, to weigh in.

<乌鸦传媒>A Brain-Dead Mother, a Million-Dollar Baby

The costs associated with maintaining a pregnant, brain-dead, Texas woman on life support until her fetus is viable are likely to approach $1 million, and long-term costs could easily top $1.5 million.

<乌鸦传媒>EMTs Can Give Positive Pressure Ventilation

Out-of-hospital noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation in patients with severe respiratory distress significantly reduced rates of inhospital mortality and need for invasive ventilation, researchers found.

<乌鸦传媒>What Bystanders Should Know About CPR -- and Why

Bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has poor neurological outcome, and this is true even when bystanders are family members, which suggests deficits in public CPR training.

<乌鸦传媒>At-Home Seizure Tests Promising

WASHINGTON -- Technologies to provide instant at-home detection of life-threatening seizures and that could allow epilepsy patients to monitor their own drug levels are almost ready, researchers said here.

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