Practical Emergency Medicine

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.

In 2019, 1.4 billion people traveled worldwide - compared to 25 mil in 1950. This is a review of more frequent ilness and and prevention

ACS, acute coronary syndrome; involves performing an electrocardiogram (ECG) to assess for Abnormalities. Those are ERC guidelines

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

Practice Essentials Organophosphate (OP) compounds are a diverse group of chemicals used in both domestic and industrial settings....

Background Exfoliative dermatitis (ED) is a definitive term that refers to a scaling erythematous dermatitis involving 90% or more of the...

Practice Essentials Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (see the image below) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections...