Correction
Correction to ‘Are diagnostic testing and admission rates higher in non–English-speaking versus English-speaking patients in the emergency department?’ [ Annals of Emergency Medicine 36 (2000) 456–461] Matthew A. Waxman, AB…
Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Acute Pancreatitis: Serious Adverse Effects of Everolimus
The Food and Drug Administration has approved everolimus for treating a variety of cancers. Everolimus inhibits signaling in the PI3K/AKT/MTOR pathway, which is critical for cell growth and angiogenesis. It…
Man With Painless Oral Lesions
A 50-year-old healthy man presented to the emergency department with painless palatal lesions that developed 3 weeks before, after a dental procedure ( Figure ). The lesions were initially tender,…
Ketamine Causing Apnea?
After reading the article by Driver and Reardon in the January 2017 edition of Annals , I have several questions for the authors, as well as a few comments from…
Are You Paying Attention? Related Guidance on How Concepts of Attention May Inform Effective Time Sharing of Tasks in Emergency Medicine
We read with interest “Can You Multitask? Evidence and Limitations of Task Switching and Multitasking in Emergency Medicine” and we found it to be an important overview relevant to the…
Adolescent Female With Abdominal Pain
A 19-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 9-day history of abdominal pain and emesis, with no bowel movements for several days. Her abdomen was distended on examination,…
X Marks the Spot (or Does It?): Ultrasonography-Assisted Site Marking for Lumbar Puncture in Children
Discussion Points 1. Neal et al performed a randomized clinical trial comparing ultrasonography-assisted site marking with traditional lumbar puncture in infants aged 6 months or younger who presented to a single,…
Woman With Severe Headache
A 42-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of severe postural headache. It was gradual onset, diffuse, and consistently relieved when she lay down and provoked…
