Emergency Medicine Alert articles from August 2003

Emergency Medicine Alert archives from August 2003

SAEM 2003: reviews of the latest research in emergency medicine.(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine)
August 1, 2003... The following are brief summaries of nine abstracts presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) 2003 Annual Meeting in Boston. Editorial board members who attended selected these topics because of their interesting content...

Taking the trauma out of traumatic spinal taps. (Abstract & Commentary).
August 1, 2003... Source: Mazor SS, et al. Interpretation of traumatic lumbar punctures: Who can go home? Pediatrics 2003; 111:525-528. WHEN THE PEDIATRIC LUMBAR PUNCTURE (LP) IS traumatic, confusion arises as to whether cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white blood...

Bell's palsy: new trials for better smiles. (Special Feature).
August 1, 2003... Introduction Bell's palsy (BP) is the most common affliction of the facial nerve and the most frequent cause of acute facial paralysis worldwide. Since its first clinical description in 1829 by Sir Charles Bell in England, BP has been...

Physician CME questions.
August 1, 2003... 13. The study by Seupaul et al on the incidence of post-dural headache following LP demonstrated that: a. use of an 18-gauge needle resulted in higher incidence of traumatic taps. b. post-dural headache rates were lower when performed...

Tachycardia with 1[degrees] AV block. (ECG Review).
August 1, 2003... Clinical Scenario: The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 61-year-old woman who was being treated with flecainide for "arrhythmia." Her tracing was interpreted as showing sinus tachycardia with 1[degrees] AV block, with the conduction...