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The Dizzy Patient: How You Can Help

Painstaking elucidation of a patient's symptoms is the key component of the diagnostic workup for dizziness and vertigo. A rational, straightforward, and cost-effective approach that uses minimal, selective diagnostic testing can get to the root of an individual's specific problem. Dizziness is a nonspecific complaint that can have different meanings in different patients, which makes careful a...

Domestic violence: how you can help.

In April of this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that domestic violence results in the “typical” victim missing three days of work per month as a result of being abused. This loss of work results in greater than 1.8 billion dollars in lost wages, earnings, and productivity. With these staggering costs, business leaders have begun to recognize that domestic v...

All bleeding stops: how we can help...

Rossaint and colleagues provide the critical care community with a comprehensive review of evidence-based data in an updated European guideline on management of bleeding following major trauma. In addition to reevaluating and grading recommendations carried forward from their previous work, they present new recommendations in areas such as coagulation support and monitoring, tourniquet usage, c...

QCD : how we can help each other

A brief summary is given of the outstanding issues in experimental work on the strong interaction at collider experiments. I focus particularly on those areas where more than one collider can address the same issue. (Some figures in this article are in colour only in the electronic version; see www.iop.org)

How can ROTEM testing help you in trauma?