Practical Emergency Medicine

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

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

Practice Essentials Smoke inhalation is the leading cause of death due to fires. It produces injury through several mechanisms, including...

Practice Essentials Sodium levels are tightly controlled in a healthy individual by regulation of urine concentration and an intact...

Overview Outcomes for burn patients have improved dramatically over the past 20 years, yet burns still cause substantial morbidity and...

Practice Essentials Hypokalemia is defined as a potassium level of less than 3.5 mEq/L, while moderate hypokalemia is a serum level of...

Practice Essentials Hyperkalemia is defined as a potassium level greater than 5.5 mEq/L. [1] It can be difficult to diagnose clinically...

Practice Essentials Hypercalcemia is a disorder that most commonly results from malignancy or primary hyperparathyroidism. [1, 2, 3, 4,...

Practice Essentials Ingestion of excessive calcium channel blocker (CCB) agents is one of the most potentially lethal prescription drug...

Background Hepatitis, a general term referring to inflammation of the liver, may result from various causes, both infectious (ie, viral,...