This study identified predictors of emotional stress that crime victims experience within 30 days of the crime event. Brief Treatment of Crisis Intervention
There is a high incidence of medication errors among acutely ill and injured children treated in rural emergency departments in northern California, study findings suggest. Reuters Health Information
Subspecialization among some hospitalists is growing as the field of hospital medicine grows. What do these "hyphenate hospitalists" mean to the evolution and strength of the hospitalist movement? The Hospitalist
Dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography (DASE) is more cost effective than electrocardiographic exercise testing (EET) for the triage of low-risk patients presenting to the emergency department with acute chest pain, researchers report in the October issue of the American Journal of Cardiology. Reuters Health Information
In a randomized controlled trial, patients with acute low back pain receiving recommended first-line care did not recover more quickly with the addition of diclofenac or spinal manipulative therapy. Medscape Medical News
A large systematic review shows that patients who experience a transient ischemic attack are at a substantially increased risk of having a major stroke within 1 week — a finding that, researchers say, warrants treating TIA as a medical emergency. Medscape Medical News
The results of a new study suggest that soldiers who sustain a facial fracture can have the injury safely and definitively repaired in the war zone. Reuters Health Information
Based on data for patients hospitalized for heatstroke in Lyon, France, during the August 2003 heat wave, it seems heatstroke is associated with poor outcomes in temperate urban areas. "This could be explained at least in part by our lack of experience," researchers note in the November 12 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Reuters Health Information
The American Academy of Neurology has released a new Practice Parameter on how to manage a first unprovoked seizure. In general, the document advocates routine use of EEG as well as brain imaging using CT or MRI. Medscape Medical News
