Practical Emergency Medicine

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

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

We are normally exposed to many fungi, but if our immune system is adequate, it may not go beyond on inmunosuppression (cancer, HIV)

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.

Practice Essentials Heat illness may be viewed as a continuum of illnesses relating to the body's inability to cope with heat. It...

Nirmatrelvir is an orally bioavailable protease inhibitor that is active against MPRO, a viral protease that plays an essential role in...

Practice Essentials Serum sodium concentration and serum osmolarity normally are maintained under precise control by homeostatic...

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

Introduction Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death among individuals younger than 45 years old [1]. Eighty percent of traumatic...

Practice Essentials Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is defined as illness caused by a novel coronavirus called severe acute...