- Pediatric skin conditions are the third most common reason for presentation in the ED for children
- Suspected Rocky Mountain spotted fever should be treated immediately, before laboratory confirmation, as untreated cases can progress to serious illness or death
- Clinical scoring systems for necrotizing fasciitis and toxic epidermal necrolysis
Latest Updates
- Pediatric skin conditions are the third most common reason for presentation in the ED for children
- Suspected Rocky Mountain spotted fever should be treated immediately, before laboratory confirmation, as untreated cases can progress to serious illness or death
- Clinical scoring systems for necrotizing fasciitis and toxic epidermal necrolysis
- The DSM-III ushered in the era of criteria-based diagnoses that improved the reliability of the psychiatric diagnostic process.
- The multiaxial diagnostic system was discontinued in the DSM-5 because it had outlived its usefulness and was subject to misuse.
- The DSM-5 emphasized the importance of dimensional assessment, although not as extensively as originally hoped.
- Pediatric skin conditions are the third most common reason for presentation in the ED for children
- Suspected Rocky Mountain spotted fever should be treated immediately, before laboratory confirmation, as untreated cases can progress to serious illness or death
- Clinical scoring systems for necrotizing fasciitis and toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Pediatric skin conditions are the third most common reason for presentation in the ED for children
- Suspected Rocky Mountain spotted fever should be treated immediately, before laboratory confirmation, as untreated cases can progress to serious illness or death
- Clinical scoring systems for necrotizing fasciitis and toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Pediatric skin conditions are the third most common reason for presentation in the ED for children
- Suspected Rocky Mountain spotted fever should be treated immediately, before laboratory confirmation, as untreated cases can progress to serious illness or death
- Clinical scoring systems for necrotizing fasciitis and toxic epidermal necrolysis
Pregnancy of Unknown Location and Ectopic Pregnancy
- hCG curves have been redefined to help identify abnormal pregnancies, whether in location or viability, and to further broaden the hCG values of a potentially normal pregnancy so as not to inadvertently interrupt a potentially viable pregnancy.
- Risks and benefits of single, two-dose, and multidose methotrexate therapy for medical management of ectopic pregnancy have been studied further and defined.
- Diagnostic accuracy for nontubal ectopic pregnancies is improving, but recommendations regarding treatment options remain controversial.
- The eighth edition of the AJCC TNM staging system has presented new stage groups for thyroid cancer subtypes.
- Intraoperative nerve monitoring is a technique that helps prevent recurrent laryngeal nerve injury during thyroidectomy.
- Minimallyinvasive video-assisted thyroidectomy and minimally invasive nonendoscopic thyroidectomy are new techniques that can be performed with or without gas insufflation; patient perceptions of cosmesis are often improved by the smaller incisions used.
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