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A Case Report You Can't Make Up: A Bladder Foreign Body.

Tags: 2021, Bladder, Department of Emergency Medicine, Foreign body, Hill AC, journalArticle, May 2021 List, NEOMED College of Medicine, Simon EL, The Journal of emergency medicine, urethra, Winot S

Esophageal Obstruction and Death in a Nonverbal Patient.

BACKGROUND: There are more than 100,000 cases of esophageal foreign body in the United States each year. Most cases resolve spontaneously; however, complete esophageal obstruction is a medical emergency. Patients with developmental disabilities are…

Tags: 2021, Dennison JL, Department of Emergency Medicine, esophageal foreign body, esophageal obstruction, journalArticle, March 2021 List, NEOMED College of Medicine, NEOMED Student Publications, nonverbal, sepsis, Simon EL, The Journal of emergency medicine, Yocum AD

How Should Native Crotalid Envenomation Be Managed in the Emergency Department?

BACKGROUND: Pit vipers, also known as crotalids, are a group of snakes including rattlesnakes, copperheads, and cottonmouths (water moccasins). Crotalids have a broad geographic distribution across the United States, and bites from these snakes can…

The Accuracy of Interqual Criteria in Determining the Observation versus Inpatient Status in Older Adults with Syncope.

BACKGROUND: McKesson's InterQual criteria are widely used in hospitals to determine if patients should be classified as observation or inpatient status, but the accuracy of the criteria is unknown. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine whether InterQual…

Systematic Review: The Role of Intravenous and Oral Contrast in the Computed Tomography Evaluation of Acute Appendicitis

BACKGROUND: This systematic review provides practicing emergency physicians updated information regarding the role of oral and intravenous contrast in the computed tomography (CT) evaluation of acute appendicitis. METHODS: A PubMed literature search…

Tags: 2019, acute appendicitis, Cheng David, Childers Richard, Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital, Contrast, ct, Department of Emergency Medicine, January 2020 Update, Journal Article, NEOMED College of Medicine, Soucy Zachary, The Journal of emergency medicine, Vilke Gary M

Throws of Death: Traumatic Coronary Artery Dissection Resulting From Jiu Jitsu Training

BACKGROUND: The risk of cardiac injury in blunt thoracic trauma is quite rare, occurring in only 0.1% of patients. The least common cardiac injury is coronary artery dissection. Most cardiac injuries result from high-energy mechanisms such as motor…

Hemorrhagic Soft Tissue Upper Airway Obstruction From Brodifacoum-Contaminated Synthetic Cannabinoid

BACKGROUND: More than 60 types of cannabinoids are found in nature; the remaining are chemically synthesized analogs of natural cannabinoids. Synthetic cannabinoids were first reported in the United States in 2008. These compounds are usually smoked…

Tags: 2019, brodifacoum, Cannabinoid, coagulopathy, Department of Emergency Medicine, June 2019 Update, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ross Christopher H, Simon Erin L, Singh Parvinder, soft tissue hemorrhage, synthetic marijuana, The Journal of emergency medicine

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

During the Emergency Department Evaluation of a Well-Appearing Neonate with Fever, Should Empiric Acyclovir Be Initiated?

BACKGROUND: Herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection represents significant morbidity and mortality in the neonatal period. Although clear guidelines exist on the evaluation and management of the otherwise well-appearing febrile neonate pertaining to…

Tags: 2018, acyclovir, Acyclovir – Therapeutic Use, Acyclovir/*therapeutic use, Antiviral Agents – Therapeutic Use, Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use, Bruno Eric, Cheng David, Decision Making, Department of Emergency Medicine, febrile neonate, Female, Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index, Fever – Etiology, Fever/etiology, Guidelines as Topic/standards, Herpes Simplex – Complications, Herpes Simplex – Diagnosis, Herpes Simplex – Drug Therapy, herpes simplex virus, Herpes Simplex/complications/diagnosis/*drug therapy, Herpesviruses, HSV, Humans, Infant, Infectious – Diagnosis, Infectious/diagnosis, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, neonatal fever, Newborn, Pillus David, Pokrajac Nicholas, Practice Guidelines – Standards, Pregnancy Complications, Scales, Simplexvirus/pathogenicity, The Journal of emergency medicine, Vilke Gary

Patient Insurance Profiles: A Tertiary Care Compared to Three Freestanding Emergency Departments.

BACKGROUND: It has been speculated that freestanding emergency departments (FEDs) draw more affluent, better-insured patients away from urban hospital EDs. It is believed that this leaves urban hospital-based EDs less financially secure. OBJECTIVE:…

Tags: 2016, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Service, Emergency Service – Statistics and Numerical Data, Freestanding emergency department, Griffin Gregory, Hayslip Dave, Health – Statistics and Numerical Data, Health – Trends, Health/*statistics & numerical data/trends, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data, Hospitals, Human, Humans, Insurance, Jia Zhenyu, Jouriles Nicholas, Kobe Daniel, Medicaid – Statistics and Numerical Data, Medicaid/statistics & numerical data, Medically Uninsured – Statistics and Numerical Data, Medically Uninsured/statistics & numerical data, Medicare – Statistics and Numerical Data, Medicare/statistics & numerical data, NEOMED College of Medicine, Orlik Kseniya, Retrospective Design, Retrospective Studies, Simon Erin L, Special – Statistics and Numerical Data, Tertiary Care Centers/statistics & numerical data, The Journal of emergency medicine, United States, Urban – Statistics and Numerical Data, Urban/*statistics & numerical data

Type 1 Brugada Pattern Associated with Nicotine Toxicity.

BACKGROUND: Brugada pattern (BrP) findings on electrocardiogram (ECG) are mandatory for the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome (BrS). BrS is an incompletely understood cause of sudden cardiac death. CASE REPORT: Our patient was a young woman who was using…

The National Emergency Medicine Fourth-year Student (M4) Examinations: Updates and Performance.

BACKGROUND: Version 1 (V1) of the National Emergency Medicine Fourth-year Student (EM M4) Examination was released in 2011 and revised along with release of V2 in 2012. Each examination contains 50 multiple-choice questions designed to assess…

Freestanding emergency departments and the trauma patient.

BACKGROUND: Freestanding emergency departments (FEDs) continue to grow in number and more research is needed on these facilities. OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize the types of injuries and patients who initially presented to two FEDs and were…

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