Medical emergencies: seizures

Medical Emergencies

Medical Emergencies

Seizures, Stroke, and Other Neurologic Emergencies

• Improve the recognition, differential diagnosis, and management of seizures occurring in critically ill patients • Understand the pharmacology and application of newer anticonvulsant drugs in the ICU • Recognize and manage status epilepticus • Understand the special diagnostic and management issues of refractory status epilepticus • Improve recognition of patients with acute subarachnoid hemo...

Medical emergencies in medical imaging.

Sending inpatients to the medical imaging department is sometimes tantamount to discharging them from hospital for hours at a time. Consider, for example, a patient with an unexplained acute abdomen where an urgent CT scan is indicated. Patient transport, logistical delays and the procedure itself may lead to gaps in monitoring vital signs, providing intravenous fluids and administering medicat...

Emergencies in Medical Practice