Transferred emergency general surgery (EGS) patients have slightly higher mortality and morbidity rates, compared with directly admitted…
Outcomes in the first year after cervical-artery dissection are similar with antiplatelet or anticoagulation therapy, according to…
It was a simple idea that actually has a long-standing history in medicine: Oxygen insufflated into the…
I recently spent a month rotating on the trauma service at my hospital. One day early in…
Charlottesville, Virginia, Aug. 12—At 1:42 p.m., a speeding car slammed into a gathering of protestors, injuring many….
Rade B. Vukmir, MD, JD, FCCP, FACEP, FACHE, is an emergency and critical care physician and one…
Massive transfusion ratios commonly used in trauma settings might not be appropriate for nontrauma patients, a retrospective…
Emergency department physicians should check certain patients for optic nerve head edema (ONHE) by fundus photography, researchers…
Coagulation factor concentrates (CFC) are more effective than fresh frozen plasma (FFP) for reversing trauma-induced coagulopathy, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—Use of the HEART score for evaluating patients with chest pain in the emergency…