OBJECTIVES Clinical research is often time-consuming and difficult to conduct in busy academic institutions. Previous studies have proposed methods to integrate undergraduate students as a means to increase research productivity. The authors aimed to describe the possibility to enhance emergency department research productivity at an academic emergency department in the United States, using und...

Cardiogenic shock is a syndrome characterized by a low cardiac output, elevated left ventricular filling pressure (usually greater than 18 mm Hg) and arterial hypotension (commonly less than 80mm Hg systolic). The commonest cause is extensive left ventricular damage resulting from myocardial infarction and this has a poor prognosis. Other causes, which may be surgically correctable and so have ...

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications for medical diagnosis and patient care. Telecommunication technology allows for the provision of medical services to sites that are physically separated from the provider. The telemedicine communication link usually involves standard telephone service through high speed, wide bandwidth transmission of digital signals in conjunction with computer enh...

Demand for critical care services is increasing. Unless the supply of intensivists increases, critically ill patients will not have access to intensivists. Recent critical care society recommendations include increased graduate medical education support and expansion of the J-1 visa waiver program for foreign medical graduates. This article proposes additional recommendations, based on strength...

1 Clinic of Internal Medicine, „Sf. Ioan” Clinical Emergency Hospital, „Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 2 Clinic of Internal Medicine, Clinical Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, „Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania 3 Department of Pathology, Elias Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 4 Department of Vascular Surgery, „Sf. I...