Emergencies in General Practice

Evaluating the Knowledge of General Dentists of Hamadan in Management of Endodontic Emergencies

Introduction and Aims: Treatment of the endodontic emergencies requires efficient knowledge and skills in diagnosis, definitive dental therapy and drugs administration. There are various treatment modalities to treat endodontic flare-ups. Therefore, dentists may prefer a range of the modalities in the practice, based on their opinions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of ...

Emergencies of General Practice

A diagnostic consideration of late cells in an urban practice.

Most general practitioners in the Health Service are aware that emergency services are used in excess of strict necessity. Although thisphenomenon is frequently discussed, there is a dearth of accurate information of the subject. The most comprehensive investigation of emergency work in general practice was made by the South-east of Scotland Faculty of the College of General Practitioners (1957...

The reliability of patients' judgements of care in general practice: how many questions and patients are needed?

OBJECTIVES To estimate the number of questions and patients that are needed to achieve reliable measurements of patients' judgements of care in general practice. DESIGN Sensitivity study, using generalisibility theory and real data from surveys of patients. SUBJECTS 739 patients with chronic illness from 23 general practitioners in The Netherlands. MAIN MEASURES The reliability coefficien...

Gastrografin-based conservative approach to small bowel obstructions: too far from a daily use

As known, small bowel obstruction is one of the most common emergencies in general surgery carrying a not negligible rate of morbidity and financial expenditures as far as high social impact . Peritoneal adhesions are the leading cause of intestinal obstruction up to 74% of cases. In spite of increasing incidence worldwide, current management still presents some “blind corners”, whose aspects s...