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American Family Physician June 15, 2005 Zoltan, Taylor & Achar |
Health Issues for Surfers Millions of surfers worldwide are prone to a unique constellation of acute and chronic conditions. Family physicians in coastal areas should be prepared to treat patients with surfing injuries and to counsel surfers about the risks of sun exposure. |
American Family Physician February 15, 2004 |
Sea Creature Injuries and Fish Poisoning How to treat a jellyfish sting... Sea urchin sting... Stingray inury... Fish poisoning... |
American Family Physician October 1, 2003 Angela W. Tang |
A Practical Guide to Anaphylaxis Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening reaction with respiratory, cardiovascular, cutaneous, or gastrointestinal manifestations resulting from exposure to an offending agent, usually a food, insect sting, medication, or physical factor. |
Nursing June 2010 Linda Laskowski-Jones |
Summer emergencies: Can you take the heat? This article will review the most common summertime hazards, describe frontline emergency care interventions, and advise commonsense prevention strategies. |
American Family Physician April 1, 2002 Gregory Juckett |
Venomous Snakebites in the United States: Management Review and Update Venomous snakebites, although uncommon, are a potentially deadly emergency in the United States. Patients with snakebites should undergo a comprehensive work-up to look for possible hematologic, neurologic, renal, and cardiovascular abnormalities... |
Nursing April 2010 Michelle D. Smeltzer |
Making a point about open fractures This article describes fractures, explains the difference between open and closed fractures, and tells how to care for a patient who's had an open fracture. |
American Family Physician April 15, 2002 William M. Simpson |
Recognition and Management of Acute Pesticide Poisoning Acute pesticide poisoning is an unusual and potentially fatal reason for visiting a family physician in the outpatient or emergency department setting. These episodes are likely to occur so infrequently that the physician must go through a steep learning curve with each encounter... |
AskMen.com Sabrina Rogers |
5 Poisonous Foods Did you know that some foods could make you violently sick -- even kill you? Here are five potentially lethal edibles, and the symptoms of pending doom. |
American Journal of Nursing April 2009 |
Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 1 Despite advances in topical wound care and pharmacology, and a growing emphasis on palliative care, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury. |
American Journal of Nursing May 2009 Patricia Connor-Ballard |
Understanding and Managing Burn Pain: Part 2 Despite advances in treatment of burn injuries and their consequent pain, wound care is the main source of the pain associated with burn injury. |
American Family Physician April 15, 2004 Daniels, Zook, & Lynch |
Hand and Wrist Injuries: Part II. Emergent Evaluation The emergent evaluation, triage, and stabilization of hand and wrist injuries. |
Nursing November 2011 Jeanne Held-Warmkessel |
Taming Three High-Risk Chemotherapy Complications A review of three common chemotherapy-associated complications that can be serious enough to require hospitalization: febrile neutropenia, chemotherapy-related nephrotoxicity, and chemotherapy-related enterotoxicity. |
Nursing June 2010 Daniel A. Hussar |
New drugs 2010, part 2 In this article, you'll learn about 14 recently marketed new drugs. |
Nursing February 2009 Daniel A. Hussar |
New Drugs 09: Part 1 Learn about 10 new drugs, including nebivolol HCl, the newest beta-adrenergic blocking agent for hypertension. |
Nursing June 2011 Daniel A. Hussar |
New Drugs 2011: Part 2 In this article, you'll learn about seven recently approved drugs, including: fingolimod hydrochloride, an oral drug indicated to treat patients with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. |
American Family Physician September 15, 2006 Wong et al. |
Guidelines for the Use of Antibiotics in Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections To help physicians with the appropriate use of antibiotics in children and adults with upper respiratory tract infection, a multidisciplinary team evaluated existing guidelines and summarized key practice points. |
American Journal of Nursing November 2011 Christine L. Cutugno |
The 'Graying' of Trauma Care: Addressing Traumatic Injury in Older Adults Evidence-based strategies for managing trauma and its complications in this population. |
Nursing February 2010 Daniel A. Hussar |
New Drugs 2010, PART 1 In this article, you'll learn about 16 new drugs. |
Nurse Practitioner October 2009 Nancy Broderick |
Understanding chronic wound healing Having a basic understanding of the skin, the phases of acute wound healing, and knowing when to refer to a wound-care clinic are all part of comprehensive patient care. |
American Journal of Nursing January 2010 |
Life-Support Interventions at the End of Life: Unintended Consequences Nurses need to be knowledgeable life-support interventions at the end of life and able to communicate what they know about those consequences to patients, family members, and others on the health care team, leading to better decision making at this difficult time. |
Nurse Practitioner May 2012 Hammersla & Kapustin |
Peripheral Neuropathy: Evidence-based treatment of a complex disorder Peripheral neuropathy is a common and often progressive condition frequently seen in primary care. The chronic pain associated with PN, or neuropathic pain, can significantly diminish patients' quality of life and be challenging to treat. |
Nursing September 2010 Donna Nayduch |
Back to basics: Identifying and managing acute spinal cord injury Spinal cord injuries involve damage to the neurons of the spinal cord. They're often devastating because they're associated with life-threatening complications and loss of functional independence. |
American Journal of Nursing June 2007 Baugh et al. |
Wounds in Surgical Patients Who Are Obese Surgery, whether bariatric or not, puts this population at risk. Review the basics of prevention and care. |
Nursing Management March 2011 Sibbald et al. |
Tip the SCALE toward quality end-of-life skin care An expert panel was established to formulate a consensus statement on Skin Changes At Life's End (SCALE). |
Nursing April 2012 Elliott et al. |
Managing alcohol withdrawal in hospitalized patients A focused nursing assessment is critical in identifying the potential for alcohol withdrawal symptoms in all hospitalized patients. This article discusses how to assess patients at risk and how to use these assessment findings as a basis for nursing interventions. |
Nutrition Action Healthletter October 1998 |
Safe Food Quiz Food poisoning, safe preparation, contaminants, etc. |
Nursing March 2010 Peg Gray-Vickrey |
Gathering pearls of knowledge for assessing older adults If you attended nursing school more than 10 years ago, you may have received limited education about gerontological nursing. But as baby boomers age, this is becoming an increasingly important area of nursing practice. |
Nursing August 2010 Bartley & Shiflett |
Handle older trauma patients with care Your comprehensive understanding of how age-related changes can affect outcomes during and after trauma will help your patients recover to the fullest extent possible. |
Nurse Practitioner September 2011 Wells & Kalman |
Women & Heart Disease: Symptoms and Treatment Guidelines Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death for women. Nurse practitioners need to educate women about their risk and follow practice guidelines. |
Outside October 2001 Peter Stark |
The Sting of the Assassin In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Last Breath: Cautionary Tales from the Limits of Human Endurance, Peter Stark combines true life science with chilling scenarios of fatal hazards in the wild� -- including deadly stings, drowning, falling, and heatstroke... |
AskMen.com January 15, 2004 Sarah Keefe |
Your Guide To Food Poisoning To avoid experiencing digestive problems, find out which foods are prime food poisoning suspects, and learn how to combat these often invisible enemies. |
AskMen.com Jen Janzen |
Food Poisoning 101 According to the Center for Disease Control, millions of North Americans contract food poisoning every year. Read on to learn more about food poisoning and what you can do to prevent it. |
American Family Physician June 15, 2005 |
Safe Surfing A patient guide to first-aid, preventive care, and other issues arising from the sport. |
Nursing October 2009 Yvonne D'Arcy |
Overturning barriers to pain relief in older adults This article will describe how to lower the barriers to effective pain control in older patients and provide practical tips for helping them receive the full benefit from pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies. |
American Journal of Nursing April 2010 Mary Curry Narayan |
Culture's Effects on Pain Assessment and Management When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain. |
Chemistry World July 17, 2006 Bea Perks |
Marine Toxin Synthesised From Scratch The synthesis of a little understood toxin found in tropical fish marks an important step in natural product synthesis, report chemists. The work will not only help to tackle a widespread food-borne illness -- it will also spare tons of Moray eels from a grisly end. |