Emergency medicine clinics of North America
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This article summarizes current law pertaining to medical malpractice litigation, focusing on the special medical/legal problems encountered by the emergency physician and defining the applicable legal standard of care. The discussion includes the issues of informed consent, documentation of emergency room treatment, advice and instruction to patients, legal abandonment, and the implications of the failure of an attending physician to authorize admission of an emergency department patient contrary to the advice of the emergency physician. The requirements for countersuits against lawyers and patients for the initiation of frivolous or malicious lawsuits is summarized.
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Computed tomography (CT) plays a vital role in the evaluation of head and facial trauma. This article describes various lesions in such patients and details their CT findings.
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Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Aug 1985
ReviewEvaluation of the chest radiograph in the emergency department patient.
This article discusses the differential diagnosis of abnormal radiographic patterns most commonly seen in emergency department patients with chest disease. Conditions associated with trauma are also described.
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Emerg. Med. Clin. North Am. · Aug 1985
ReviewThe radiologic diagnosis of subtle extremity injuries.
This article reviews soft tissue and alignment abnormalities that may be critical for identifying subtle extremity fractures and dislocations.