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Acute urinary retention.

Acute urinary retention is a common emergency genitourinary symptom. The etiology of acute retention includes obstructive, neurogenic, pharmacologic, and psychogenic causes. The emergency management of acute urinary retention is bladder…

Tags: 1988, Emergencies, Emergency medicine clinics of North America, Female, Fontanarosa P B, Humans, Male, Physical Examination, Roush W R, Urinary Bladder, Urinary Catheterization, Urination, Urination Disorders/diagnosis/*etiology/physiopathology/therapy

Adult epiglottitis.

Adult epiglottitis (or "supraglottitis") is an uncommon but increasingly recognized entity. Though prior studies emphasized the fulminant nature of the disease, recent evidence suggests that epiglottitis in adults may follow a relatively less severe…

Tags: *Epiglottitis/diagnosis/therapy, *Laryngitis/diagnosis/therapy, 1989, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Department of Emergency Medicine, Female, Fontanarosa P B, Goldman G E, Haemophilus Infections/diagnosis/therapy, Haemophilus influenzae, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Polsky S S, The Journal of emergency medicine

Case finding for cognitive impairment in elderly emergency department patients.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility of a case-finding program for cognitive impairment in elderly emergency department patients, and to describe the prevalence of cognitive impairment in screened patients and identify factors associated…

Case finding for cognitive impairment in elderly emergency department patients.

Difficulty in predicting bacteremia in elderly emergency patients.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To characterize the clinical presentation and identify factors predictive of bacteremia in elderly patients. DESIGN: Retrospective review of emergency department charts, hospital records, and microbiology reports. SETTING: Community…

Electrical shock and lightning strike.

Cardiac arrest from electrical shock or lightning strike is associated with significant mortality and requires modification and extension of standard advanced life support measures to achieve successful resuscitation. Patients who experience…

Tags: 1993, Annals of emergency medicine, Electric Injuries/complications/epidemiology/*therapy, Fontanarosa P B, Heart Arrest/etiology/therapy, Heart Injuries/etiology, Humans, Lightning Injuries/complications/epidemiology/*therapy, Prognosis, Resuscitation/*methods, United States

Emergency cardiac stress testing in the evaluation of emergency department patients with atypical chest pain.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility, safety, and reliability of emergency cardiac treadmill exercise stress testing (CTEST) in the evaluation of emergency department patients with atypical chest pain. DESIGN: Thirty-two patients with…

GLUCAGON FOR THE TREATMENT OF RESPIRATORY EMERGENCIES

Tags: 1993, Book/Monograph, Fontanarosa P B, Henry J A, Lefebvre P J, Wilson J E, Zaloga G P

Locked-in syndrome: report of a case.

Locked-in syndrome is a unique clinical condition associated with ventral pontine lesions. The locked-in state is characterized by tetraplegia and mutism with maintenance of alertness as well as vertical eye movements and eye blinking, by which…

Tags: *Quadriplegia/diagnosis, 1989, Coma/diagnosis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Diagnosis, Differential, Fontanarosa P B, Gallo U E, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Prognosis, The American journal of emergency medicine

Managing Jehovahs-witnesses - Medical, Legal, And Ethical Challenges

Tags: 1991, Annals of emergency medicine, Emergency Medicine, Fontanarosa P B, Giorgio G T

Occupational considerations for the prehospital care provider.

Contemporary prehospital personnel are facing the major issues of infectious disease exposure, malpractice, attrition, and career opportunities in their challenging and demanding profession. Successful prehospital emergency medicine is contingent not…

Tags: *Emergency Medicine, 1990, Burnout, Career Choice, Career Mobility, Communicable Disease Control, Emergency medicine clinics of North America, Fontanarosa P B, Humans, Job Satisfaction, Malpractice, Occupational Diseases/prevention & control, Professional/etiology

Radiologic contrast-induced renal failure.

RCIRF is a complex syndrome resulting in acute renal dysfunction following exposure to radiologic contrast media. It accounts for 10 per cent of all cases of acute renal failure. The pathogenesis appears multifactorial but most probably involves…

Tags: 1988, Acute Kidney Injury/*chemically induced/epidemiology/physiopathology/therapy, Contrast Media/*adverse effects, Emergencies, Emergency medicine clinics of North America, Fontanarosa P B, Humans, Risk Factors

Recognition of subarachnoid hemorrhage.

The medical records of 109 patients who presented to the emergency department during a five-year period with proven nontraumatic, spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) were retrospectively reviewed. The clinical presentation, diagnostic…

The Role Of The Emergency Physician In The Management Of Jehovahs Witnesses

Tags: 1989, Annals of emergency medicine, Emergency Medicine, Fontanarosa P B, Giorgio G T

Toxic streptococcal syndrome.

The streptococcal toxic shocklike syndrome is a recently recognized, multisystem disorder that shares many of the features of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome, but is caused by toxins elaborated by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus. We describe…

Tags: 1990, Adult, Annals of emergency medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Diagnosis, Differential, Emergency Service, Female, Fontanarosa P B, Gallo U E, Hospital, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pharyngitis/*complications, Septic/blood/*diagnosis/etiology, Shock, Sinusitis/*complications, Streptococcal Infections/*complications, Streptococcus pyogenes

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