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Clinical Focus: Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine:
  • Vascular emergencies
  • Defying diagnosis: nonspecific abdominal pain
  • New devices and products in emergency care
  • Health economics: emergency department overcrowding
  • Obese patients in the emergency department: critical care considerations
  • Imaging chest pain in the emergency department
  • Pediatric airway management
  • Procedural sedation considerations
  • The crashing patient: pre- or post-cardiac arrest
  • Misdiagnosis of chest pain
  • New cardiac drugs
  • Minimizing door-to-balloon times
  • Management of pulmonary failure in the emergency department
  • Approach to the unknown rash
  • New therapies to improve survival in septic patients
  • Detecting DVT: venous access in the emergency department
  • Bedside echocardiography
  • Head CT findings
  • C-spine imaging considerations
  • Facial anesthesia
  • Removal of foreign bodies
  • ENT emergencies
  • Reversing medications that cause bleeding
  • Infections in immunocompromised adults
  • HIV and the emergency department patient
  • Care of combative, altered, and agitated patients
  • Altered mental status in the elderly: neurological considerations
  • Combat casualty care: civilian applications
  • Acute respiratory failure: noninvasive ventilatory support in the emergency department
  • Community-acquired pneumonia
  • Pulmonary embolism monitoring and avoidance
  • Drug interactions: combinations that can kill
  • Poison management
  • Trauma in special populations
  • Protecting the kidneys: medication and contrast considerations
  • Hemostasis - stopping bleeding
  • Controversies in acute stroke care
Cardiovascular:
  • Implications of recent clinical CV trials for daily practice
  • Stroke
  • Antiplatelet therapy
  • Clinical trials
  • Hypertension treatment options in different patient populations
  • Statin therapy
  • Angiotensin receptor blockers
  • Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors
  • Calcium channel blockers
  • Combination therapies
  • Aortic atherosclerosis, hypercoagulability, and stroke
  • Assisted circulation in heart failure
  • Atherosclerotic process in patients with hypercholesterolemia
  • Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
  • Treatment options for elderly patients with congestive heart failure
  • Ectopic fat and cardiovascular disease
  • New-onset heart failure: worsening epidemic
  • Sleep-disordered breathing as a cardiovascular risk factor
  • Patient nonadherence and effect on clinical practice
  • Successful lifestyle changes for cardiovascular risk reduction
  • Imaging of vulnerable plaque and atherosclerosis
  • Molecular imaging of vascular disease
  • Genetics of PAD
  • Managing asymptomatic aortic stenosis
  • Limiting myocardial infarct size
  • Controversies in acute stroke care
  • Surgical therapies for heart failure
  • Improving outcomes after cardiac arrest
  • Heart failure with preserved systolic function
  • Current choices in PCI pharmacology
  • Diagnosis and treatment of thoracic aortic disease
  • Drugs in ACS
  • Cardiovascular complications of recreational drugs
  • Management of ischemic heart disease in high-risk populations
  • Improving survival from cardiac arrest
  • Imaging of cardiac risk in patients with diabetes
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