Septic Knee Joints in Adults Recurrent Cellulitis Analgesics and Risk for Fracture Nonunion Assessing for MACE with and without a Troponin IV Fluids in Headache Management COVID-19 and Telemedicine COVID-19: The Second Wave Dr Avijit Barai, MBBS, MRCS, MSc (Critical Care), PgCertCPU, FRNZCUC Diagnostic Dilemma: Septic Arthritis of Knee Joints in Adult Patients Key point: Synovial fluid white cell count and Gram stain are the most useful laboratory markers for septic arthritis. Clinical evaluation, synovial …
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October 2016
Abstracts in Urgent Care: December, 2015
SEAN M. McNEELEY, MD Family Members Are Most Frequent Cause of Pertussis in Children Younger Than 1 Year Key point: Be sure to suggest adding a pertussis vaccine to tetanus whenever possible. Citation: Skoff TH, Kenyon C, Cocoros N, et al. Sources of infant pertussis infection in the United States. Pediatrics. 2015;136:636–641. Despite recent efforts to increase the number of U.S. adults whose immunizations are current, pertussis still is a frequent problem for children younger …
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October 2015
Abstracts in Urgent Care: September, 2015
SEAN M. McNEELEY, MD Adverse Events Unlikely in Patients with Negative Findings on Cardiac Evaluation Key point: Adverse events in patients admitted with negative findings on cardiac evaluation are very infrequent. Citation: Weinstock MB, Weingart S, Orth F, et al. Risk for clinically relevant adverse cardiac events in patients with chest pain at hospital admission. JAMA Intern Med 2015;175:1207–1212. In this 5-year retrospective study of patients seen in an emergency department for symptoms potentially representing …
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