*Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, †Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and ‡Department of Anesthesiology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York Reprint Address: Lawrence Haines, MD, MPH, RDMS, Division of Emergency Ultrasonography, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, 4802 1...

In emergency medical services, portable ultrasound scanners have the potential to become new-age stethoscopes for emergency physicians. For trauma cases in particular, portable ultrasound scanners can scan the chest and abdomen of emergency patients both rapidly and conveniently. This study describes the development of tele-ultrasound for pre-diagnosis in a medical emergency setting as a part o...

Physician credentialing is the process of gathering information in regard to a physician’s qualifications for appointment to the medical staff, whereas delineation of clinical privileges denotes those specific services and procedures that a physician is deemed qualified to provide or perform. The specific processes for physician credentialing and delineation of clinical privileges must be defin...

Thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency causing Wernicke encephalopathy occurs most frequently in people with compromised absorption (e.g., malnutrition, hyperemesis), increased metabolism (e.g., sepsis, malignancy) or increased carbohydrate intake (e.g., administration of intravenous dextrose). Guidelines from the European Federation of Neurological Societies suggest that Wernicke enceph alopathy is ...

Introduction: owadays, many researches in the field of medicine are conducting all around the world and medical journalism is a way to share the results. In fact, dissemination of the related manuscripts can prevent the repetitive research or may even lead to conducting a better survey. Therefore high quality medical journals are considered as up-to-date resources for further investigations (1,...

Objective: To determine the incidence of afferent limb failure of the in-hospital Medical Emergency Team, characterizing it and comparing the mortality between the population experiencing afferent limb failure and the population not experiencing afferent limb failure. Methods: A total of 478 activations of the Medical Emergency Team of Hospital Pedro Hispano occurred from January 2013 to July...

1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Department of Emergency Medicine, Besat Hospital, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Trauma Research Center, Shiraz University of ...