Infants with the chief complaint of crying can present a diagnostic dilemma to the health care provider. This article discusses the differential diagnosis and management of the crying infant.

Coronary arteriosystemic fistula which drains into the left ventricular cavity is a rare congenital anomaly. A case of double fistulae between the left anterior descending and left circumflex coronary arteries and left ventricular cavity is presented. The patient's chief complaint, chest pain, was attributable to the "steal phenomenon."

As hospitals increasingly use electronic medical records for research and quality improvement, it is important to provide ways to structure medical data without losing either expressiveness or time. We present a system that helps achieve this goal by building an extended ontology of chief complaints and automatically predicting a patient’s chief complaint, based on their vitals and the nurses’ ...

Introduction The LAC SSS has been in existence since 2004. Currently, the system collects data from over 50 hospitals daily and performs a chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest due to its inclusion within several syndrome category definitions such as influenza, meningitis, etc. However, inclusion of such terms in synd...