Practical Emergency Medicine

Dengue is the most common and important arthropod-borne viral (arboviral) illness in humans. It is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus...

Practice Essentials Ebola virus (see the image below) is one of at least 30 known viruses capable of causing viral hemorrhagic fever...

Background Worldwide, shock is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. Shock is defined as a state of...

PALS: Pediatric Arrest 1. The initial evaluation is as follows: [1, 2, 3, 4] Activate emergency response system. Initiate pediatric basic...

https://www.keystepmedia.com/why-focus-is-foundational/ By Ann Flanagan Petry “Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a...

Sepsis and Septic Shock: Medical Emergencies! Consider steroids when/if a second vasopressor is required Emergency departments (EDs) try...

A 26 year old female presents fever and chills. She is febrile and tachycardia, normal BP. You think you hear a murmur on the exam, and...

Doctor save the patient, but save yourself also. Working of a doctor and nurses is not free from risk to themselves. The risk is...

The National Virology Institute, Pune, confirmed that the contagious fever that has killed several people in Kozhikode and Malappuram...

Background Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas produced by incomplete combustion of carbonaceous material. Clinical...