Practical Emergency Medicine

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,...

Practice Essentials Anaphylaxis is an acute, potentially fatal, multiorgan system reaction caused by the release of chemical mediators...

Practice Essentials Malaria is a potentially life-threatening parasitic disease caused by infection with Plasmodium protozoa transmitted...

Background Adenovirus, a DNA virus, was first isolated in the 1950s in adenoid tissue–derived cell cultures, hence the name. These...

A worldwide outbreak of acute, severe hepatitis in children has made headlines recently. This is in part because the precise cause has...

Practice Essentials Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne virus typically transmitted via sexual intercourse, shared...

Incident Lead Incident Director Health Protection Teams are asked to share this BN with Local Authority Directors of Public Health for...

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 The Public Health Agency (PHA) is working with counterparts in other jurisdictions on a UK-wide investigation...