Pain in a patient with sickle cell disease (SCD) can be an indicator of lifethreatening pathology. The provider can be lured into diagnosing and treating pain as a vaso-occlusive episode…
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) results from a variety of conditions that can vary from annoying to life threatening. The determination of nonvariceal versus variceal bleeding is critical as the tests…
Emergency providers (EP) frequently evaluate patients with acute chest pain. While most EPs rely on traditional risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) to aid their evaluation, they should also…
What is Tumor Lysis Syndrome ? Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a metabolic syndrome characterized by renal failure and multiple metabolic abnormalities caused by the rapid and massive cell destruction…
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Venous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is responsible for more than 250,000 annual hospitalizations in the United States, with significant risk for morbidity…
For an average adult, water accounts for 60% of total body mass. However, this percentage decreases as the percentage of fat increases since fat has a lower water content than…
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an increasingly popular technology that is used as a modified cardiopulmonary bypass in order to oxygenate blood externally. First demonstrated in the 1970s, it has…