Ophthalmic symptoms as chief complaint in neurologic disorders

Chief Complaint: Right Hip Pain

Supervising Section Editor: Sean O. Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted April 01, 2012; Accepted April 16, 2012 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2012.4.12292 [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):494] Shankar LeVine, MD Caitlin Bailey, MD Arun Nagdev, MD Alameda County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakla...

Chief complaint: "He predicts earthquakes".

So we did what we usually do, approach understanding clumsily, not knowing if such a complaint could ever be resolved, or how, or to whose satisfaction, or the child’s wishes, with so little help to offer, recording an uncertain prognosis, so awkward to translate, entering the clinical elements anyway, using terms that burnish our bronzed mode of medical thinking, closing our eyes, trying to co...

Section I. Symptoms of Neurologic Disorders

Toward vocabulary control for chief complaint.

The chief complaint (CC) is the data element that documents the patient's reason for visiting the emergency department (ED). The need for a CC vocabulary has been acknowledged at national meetings and in multiple publications, but to our knowledge no groups have specifically focused on the requirements and development plans for a CC vocabulary. The national consensus meeting "Towards Vocabulary...

Neurologic manifestations as presenting symptoms of endocarditis.

The features of infective endocarditis include both cardiac and non-cardiac manifestations. Neurologic complications are seen in up to 40% of patients with infective endocarditis and are the presenting symptom in a substantial percentage. We describe in detail the clinical scenarios of three patients admitted to our hospital, compare their characteristics and review the recent literature descri...