When patients are admitted to an inpatient service from the ED and no inpatient beds are immediately available for the patient, the patient may spend hours in the ED waiting for the inpatient bed. This is termed ED boarding.
Several characteristics of melanoma have been identified and well-studied. Among the factors studied for primary lesions, the depth of invasion and presence or absence of invasion are most important and are incorporated into the formal American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging criteria.
Bacterial endocarditis is a dangerous and often life-threatening infectious ailment that must be diagnosed and treated immediately. If left untreated, it will destroy…
Anesthesiology is the division of medicine that deals with the use of pharmaceutical agents (anesthetic drugs) for sedation and pain management before…
Addiction psychiatry is a subspecialty in the field of psychiatry that deals with individuals with dependencies, for example, to alcohol, drugs, nicotine, and other…
In surgical cases, it is always critical to make sure there were indications for the surgery and the correct surgery was chosen. Below is a decision tree for Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement.
In surgical cases, it is always critical to make sure there were indications for the surgery and the correct surgery was chosen. Below is a decision tree for Patellofemoral Replacement:
