Articles: emergency-services.
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A 42-year-old woman presented with the acute onset of bilateral blurred vision that occurred immediately after bending over. She denied pain or any other associated symptoms. ⋯ This case represents an atypical presentation of acute narrow-angle glaucoma, a true ophthalmological emergency. The pathophysiology and treatment options of this disease process are summarized.
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To assess the extent and distribution of hospital and emergency department crowding nationally. ⋯ Our study strongly suggests that ED crowding is not an isolated phenomenon; ED crowding and its attendant problems appear to affect hospitals with similar adverse effects regardless of ownership. Although our results suggest that ED crowding is concentrated in metropolitan areas and in a smaller subset of hospitals, we found instances of crowding among hospitals nationwide.
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In the last ten years, many emergency medicine specialists have studied animal bite wounds. The majority of these studies have addressed the controversies of prescribing prophylactic antibiotics or suturing wounds. This study was undertaken to determine risk factors for cat bite wound infections. ⋯ In this study, wound type and wound depth were the most important factors in determining the likelihood of developing wound infection regardless of whether the patient was prescribed prophylactic oral antibiotics.