Practical Emergency Medicine

a set of guidelines and an associated training course for healthcare professionals who manage critically ill infants and children experiencing life-threatening emergencies such as respiratory failure, shock, arrhythmias, and cardiac arrest. This is a summary of the latest AHA protocols

Global HIV, viral hepatitis epidemics and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to pose significant public health challenges, causing 2.5 million deaths each year, according to a new WHO report - Implementing the global health sector strategies on HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections, 2022–2030.

Practice Essentials In 1970, when smallpox was nearly eradicated, a previously unrecognized orthopoxvirus named monkeypox (mpox) was...

The pregnant trauma presents challenge because care must be provided for 2 patients:mother and fetus. It requires a multidisciplinary team.

Las catástrofes causadas por peligros naturales y los desplazamientos de población, son factores de riesgo para infecciones.

Disaster planning must be a cooperative effort. Every jurisdiction should plan for mass casualty incidents and disasters.

Pregnancy increases the risk of VTE 4- to 5-fold over that in the nonpregnant state.The two manifestations of VTE are DVP and PE.

Malaria is the most deadly vector-borne human disease in the world. Although typically tropical, more cases have been reported in US & Eu

Practice Essentials Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a hallucinogen that is also known as an entactogen (“to touch within” [1] ), is one...

Background Peritonitis is defined as an inflammation of the serosal membrane that lines the abdominal cavity and the organs contained...