Emergency Medicine Advertisement Paradox

Analysis of medicine advertisement produced in Brazil

OBJECTIVE To analyze the compliance of drug advertisements with regulations in Brazil, subject to Resolution RDC No. 102/2000 since 2000, which abides by the WHO's (World Health Organization) Ethical Criteria for Medicinal Drug Promotion, published in 1988. METHODS Drug advertisements running within the period of October 2002 to October 2003 were collected and recorded. Media sources included...

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

The Paradox of Emergency Management

The role of Emergency Management is to respond effectively to a major emergency that cannot be handled by the day to day independent services such as fire fighters, police, and medical response facilities. However, normal evolutionary processes typically make the ability to respond to disasters more difficult. This leads to long term decision and policy conflicts and incompatibilities about des...

Cardiac enzyme in emergency medicine

Objective: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Chest pain due to suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is responsible for a large and ijncreasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. Current practice for suspected ACS involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom o...

Emergency medicine.

Elective rotations for Doctor of Medicine students are available at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics and at several other sites throughout Iowa, including St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids; Great River Medical Center, Burlington; Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo; Broadlawns Medical Center, Des Moines; and Mercy Medical Center, Sioux City. Students also may arrange an off-service electi...