Selections from Signs, Symptoms, and Presentations and Psychobehavioral Disorders

Content Area 1. Signs, Symptoms, and Presentations

• Clinical value of the total white blood cell count and temperature in the evaluation of patients with suspected appendicitis
• Clinical decision making
• Emergency physician recognition of adverse drug-elated events in the elder patients presenting to an emergency department
• Clinical policy: critical issues in the initial evaluation and management of patients presenting to the emergency department in early pregnancy
• Clinical assessment of hypovolemia
• Does this dyspneic patient in the emergency department have congestive heart failure?
  

Content Area 14. Psychobehavioral Disorders

• National study of US emergency department attempted suicide and self-inflicted injury
• Emergency department brief motivational interventions for alcohol with motor vehicle crash patients.
• A 35-year old physician with opioid dependence
• Schizophrenia
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Domestic violence: an approach to identification and intervention

The Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine

Content Area 3. Cardiovascular Disorders

• Practical implementation of the guidelines for unstable angina/non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the emergency department.
• Are we putting the cart ahead of the horse: who determines the standard of care for the management of patients in the emergency department?
• Short-term risk of death after treatment with nesiritide for decompensated heart failure.
  

Content Area 4. Cutaneous Disorder

• Are blood cultures necessary in adults with cellulitis?
• High prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in emergency department skin and soft tissue infections.
  

Content Area 15. Renal and Urogenital Disorders

• Care of the renal transplant recipient in the emergency department.

Content Area 19. Procedures and Skills Integral to the Practice of Emergency Medicine

• Ultrasonography-guided peripheral intravenous access versus traditional approaches in patients with difficult intravenous access.