Practical Emergency Medicine

Abstract and Introduction Abstract Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex disease that requires differential diagnosis...

Practice Essentials Meningococcemia is a bloodstream infection (BSI) caused by Neisseria meningitidis. Its wide variety of acute...

Practice Essentials Encephalitis presents as diffuse or focal neuropsychological dysfunction. Although it primarily involves the brain,...

Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Hypertensive emergencies encompass a spectrum of clinical presentations in which uncontrolled blood pressures...

Nirmatrelvir is an orally bioavailable protease inhibitor that is active against MPRO, a viral protease that plays an essential role in...