Practical Emergency Medicine

Hypothermia presents a critical challenge in emergency medicine, demanding prompt recognition and intervention to prevent severe complications. For emergency physicians and medical students alike, understanding the risks associated with hypothermia is essential to improving patient outcomes and advancing clinical proficiency in acute care settings.

Explore Chagas disease: a stealthy parasite driving cardiac and digestive complications. This is an overview of the illness, the diagnose the approach and treatment

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

Vasculitis is defined as inflammation of blood vessels. Vasculitis can involve vessels of any size and can affect any organ system. This article focuses on the primary systemic vasculitides of childhood.

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

The incidence of viral pneumonia has increased during this decade. This is a review on these pneumonias which can cause severe complication

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

Floodwaters have closed healthcare facilities, evacuations, and interrupted services, this is a review on public health consequences

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.