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HealthNewsDigest.com
... emergency department can be difficult, said senior author Chadwick Miller, MD, MS, an assistant professor of surgical sciences and emergency medicine. ...
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![]() New directives would mandate pain treatment for children in hospitals
Ha'aretz
The new instructions were formulated by a committee of specialists from the association in cooperation with the Israeli Association for Emergency Medicine ...
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![]() 10 More Secrets the ER Staff Won't Tell You
Reader's Digest
-David Newman, MD, director of clinical research, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York City 9. ...
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![]() Docs using scribes to ease EHR transition
ModernHealthcare.com
“The word is biblical,” said Linda Pierog, practice manager for Emergency Medicine Services of Orange County, or EMSOC, and its ScribeMD service, ...
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![]() Children with Asthma at Higher Risk for Hospitalization on Warm Smoggy Days
Healthcanal.com
... MD, research director for the LIJ Medical Center Emergency Department, associate professor of emergency medicine at the Albert Einstein College of ...
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![]() Vertec To Market Siemens Healthcare X Class Ultrasound Systems In The UK
Medical News Today (press release)
... of ultrasound systems in the markets of emergency medicine, GP practices, rheumatology, orthopaedics, acute medicine, chest medicine and anaesthetics. ...
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![]() Building Haiti's Health Care System
KCRG
A group of emergency medicine physicians from the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics say they're determined to help rebuild a better Haiti - one ...
Nightmares, hope in HaitiIowa City Press Citizen
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![]() Ohio Health System Posting ED Wait Times on Web Site, Billboards
iHealthBeat
Some physicians who practice emergency medicine are concerned that publicizing wait times could have dangerous consequences by encouraging people with ...
Ohio Hospitals Advertise ER Wait Times On Billboards, InternetMedical News Today (press release)
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![]() Fire service gets new emergency equipment
Mirror
The special program was pioneered by Dr. Brian Kim, who chairs the Emergency Medicine Department at Garden City Hospital. “Previously, only one Garden City ...
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![]() Nobelmen: The brains behind the discovery of blood groups
Varsity
Modern surgery, emergency medicine, and the treatment of blood disorders are all dependent on blood and blood products. Transfusions between two people turn ...
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![]() Committee approves booster seat bill
KSL-TV
... in the emergency room at Primary Children's Medical Center," says Dr. Charles Pruitt, a physician of pediatric emergency medicine at Primary Children's. ...
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![]() Recommendations for fire and emergency medical services in Washoe County:
Reno Gazette Journal
The current franchise agreement for ambulance services provides little flexibility for fire agencies to have a say in emergency medicine even though they ...
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![]() End to 'shameful' overcrowding in A&E could save up to 400 lives
Sunday Business Post
In a scathing attack on health minister Mary Harney, the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) said that ''shameful new records'' in emergency ...
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![]() MVTHS first responder class under way
Mt. Vernon Register-News
“First responders will never intubate, but with this practice the kids are saying I want to go into emergency medicine or there might be some who say I ...
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![]() Huddersfield medical pair save thousands of lives in Haiti
Huddersfield Examiner
Accident and emergency manager Craig Wood and emergency medicine consultant Amjid Mohammed were part of team who carried out emergency surgery on countless ...
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![]() Simple, Quick Test Can Send Patient Safely Home from ER After Chest Pain
Newswise (press release)
Mahmarian's research, which was published online today in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, shows that patients with a coronary artery calcium score of zero ...
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![]() Reaching out to Haiti
Worcester Telegram
Dr. Katherine Harrison, an emergency medicine physician at UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus, cradles 6-year-old Cassandra in Port-au-Prince ...
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![]() Emergency medicine research lands award
Vanderbilt University News
1/29/2010 - Tyler Barrett, MD, assistant professor of Emergency Medicine, has received the 2009 Emergency Medicine Foundation Young Investigator award. ...
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![]() Dr. Frank McGeorge
WDIV
He trained in emergency medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit where, he said, "It really was like the show 'ER.' Every day was a crazy drama by itself. ...
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![]() Baylor study doubts neck brace standard
Seattle Post Intelligencer
... most people who suffer high neck injuries die immediately," said Dr. Tom Scaletta, the past president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. ...
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![]() Nursing home drug use concern
6minutes
... detected accurately in wounds using a benchtop ultrasound machine, say emergency specialists in a study in Emergency Medicine Australia (online 4 Feb).
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![]() Two dead, dozens sickened trying to keep warm
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
... up for lost electricity," said Dr. Donald M. Yealy, chairman of the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Health System's departments of emergency medicine. ...
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Ann Emerg Med
Does End Tidal CO(2) Monitoring During Emergency Department Procedural Sedation and Analgesia With Propofol Decrease the Incidence of Hypoxic Events? A Randomized, Controlled Trial.
(Sep 2009)
A Prospective Observational Study of Medication Errors in a Tertiary Care Emergency Department.
(Jan 2010)
Acad Emerg Med
Diagnostic accuracy of emergency Doppler echocardiography for identification of acute left ventricular heart failure in patients with acute dyspnea: comparison with Boston criteria and N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide.
(Jan 2010)
Risk of Serious Bacterial Infection in Isolated and Unsuspected Neutropenia.
(Jan 2010)
Emerg Med Clin North Am
The legal process.
(Nov 2009)
Early identification of shock in critically ill patients.
(Feb 2010)
Am J Emerg Med
Potentially lethal enteric bleeding in the ED.
(Nov 2009)
Tricyclic antidepressant toxicity treated with massive sodium bicarbonate.
(Nov 2009)
Pediatr Emerg Care
Make an M-PACT on asthma: rapid identification of persistent asthma symptoms in a pediatric emergency department.
(Jan 2010)
Maneuver for the recovery of a foreign body causing a complete airway obstruction: illustrative case.
(Jan 2010)
Eur J Emerg Med
Discharge against medical advice from emergency department: results from a tertiary care hospital in Tehran, Iran.
(Nov 2009)
A meta-analysis on the utility of peripheral venous blood gas analyses in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the emergency department.
(Dec 2009)
JAMA
Traumatic dislocation of the hip.
(Jun 1983)
Informed consent in emergency research. Prehospital thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
(Jul 1989)
N Engl J Med
A randomized trial of immediate versus delayed elective angioplasty after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator in acute myocardial infarction.
(Sep 1987)
Management of emergencies. I. Management of the unconscious patient.
(Apr 1966)
BMJ
Pregnant teenagers' knowledge and use of emergency contraception.
(Jun 1995)
Cost effectiveness analysis of intravenous ketorolac and morphine for treating pain after limb injury: double blind randomised controlled trial.
(Nov 2000)
Prehosp Emerg Care
The effect of physical exertion in chemical and biological personal protective equipment on physiological function and reaction time.
(Jan-Mar 2010)
Geographic Cluster Analysis of Injury Severity and Hospital Resource Use in a Regional Trauma System.
(Jan 2010)
Air Med J
Successful training of HEMS personnel in laryngeal mask airway and intubating laryngeal mask airway placement.
(Jul-Aug 2008)
Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome: implications for transport management and care.
(Nov-Dec 2008)
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CBCED Features
Links to other web pages related to Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases.
The Casualty Care Research Center prepared this series of real-life-based risk scenarios.
The Centers for Disease Control has established a Bioterrorism Program to ensure the rapid development of federal, state, and local capacity to address potential bioterrorism events.
The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the Centers for Disease Control notifies clinicians of serious ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats.
The Health and Human Services Office of Emergency Preparedness is responsible for managing and coordinating Federal medical responses to major emergencies, including those resulting from terrorism.
Documents and resources to facilitate response planning for a terrorist incident
eMedicine CBRNE
An extensive list of CBRNE topics from the world's largest medical textbooks.
See complete eMedicine table of contents
Anthrax Infection
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Arsenicals, Arsine
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Biological Warfare Agents
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Botulism
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Brucellosis
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Chemical Decontamination
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Chemical Detection Equipment
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Chemical Warfare Agents
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Chemical Warfare Mass Casualty Management
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Cyanides, Cyanogen Chloride
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Cyanides, Hydrogen
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Evaluation Of A Biological Warfare Victim
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Evaluation Of A Chemical Warfare Victim
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Glanders and Melioidosis
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Incapacitating Agents, 3-quinuclidinyl Benzilate
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Incapacitating Agents, Agent 15
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Incapacitating Agents, Cannabinoids
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Incapacitating Agents, LSD
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Incendiary Agents, Magnesium and Thermite
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Incendiary Agents, Napalm
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Incendiary Agents, White Phosphorus
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Irritants: Cs, Cn, Cnc, Ca, Cr, Cnb, PS
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Lung-Damaging Agents, Chlorine
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Lung-damaging Agents, Chloropicrin
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Lung-damaging Agents, Diphosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Phosgene
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Lung-damaging Agents, Toxic Smokes: Nox, Hc, Rp, Fs, Fm, Sgf2, Teflon
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Nerve Agents, G-series: Tabun, Sarin, Soman
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Nerve Agents, V-series: Ve, Vg, Vm, Vx
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Personal Protective Equipment
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Plague
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Q Fever
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Ricin
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Smallpox
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Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B
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T-2 Mycotoxins
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Urticants, Phosgene Oxime
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Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
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Vesicants, Mustard: Hd, Hn1-3, H
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Vesicants, Organic Arsenicals: L, ED, MD, PD, HL
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
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Vomiting Agents: Dm, Da, Dc
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RECENT BLOG POSTINGS
The Ebooks Nest : Free Ebooks Download: Intensive Review for the ...
The Ebooks Nest : Free Ebooks Download
Based on the acclaimed Manhattan Review Course and drawing on valuable insights from top New York City emergency departments, this review has everything you need to pass the Emergency Medicine written boards on your very first try. ...
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One Night, One Emergency Room | BU Today
BU Today - University Headlines
“If it can happen, we'll get it,” says Andy Ulrich, a School of Medicine associate professor of emergency medicine and executive vice chairman of the emergency medicine department. “We never know what's coming. Every day, every minute, ...
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Apple's new iPad – sorry, Apple fans, it doesn't look like it's ...
Oz E Medicine - emergency medicine in Australia
Blog to assist those working in emergency medicine in Australia. « Want a new easy way to write a medical knowledge article and have full control over it rather than use a wiki or personal website? Try a Google Knol. ...
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Therapeutic Hypothermia After CPR Used in 92% of ICU's in Norway ...
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine
The ACUTE CARE Blog: Non-Urban Emergency Medicine · Entries RSS | Comments RSS. Poll. View This Poll · polls. Flickr Photos. windom er room 2 · windom er room · windom er entrance · windom er desk · Vandalia ER Desk ...
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WDUQNews: Pittsburgh Emergency Medicine Doctor Back from Haiti
WDUQNews
Earlier this week, Chip Lambert, an emergency medicine physician, returned to Pittsburgh after spending two weeks in Haiti. He works for the Medical Benevolence Foundation of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. Lambert is also medical director ...
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My Emergency Medicine Blog: 18 month old febrile male has non ...
My Emergency Medicine Blog
I'm an emergency medicine physician who works at a community ED near a major metropolitan US city. I blog about questions, clinical and otherwise, that arise during my daily practice. ...
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Rosen's Emergency Medicine, Concepts and Clinical Practice 5th ...
Free Your Mind All Free Download
Rosen's Emergency Medicine continues to be the premier resource defining the field of Emergency Medicine. Though it is highly clinical, focusing on the diagnosis and management of problems encountered in Accident and Emergency, ...
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Atlas of Emergency Medicine
science - Ebook30.com
McGraw Hill July English CHM MB *The primary visual sourcebook for diagnosis of emergency conditions *Features high quality full color photos *Covers diagnosis and clinical features 176419.
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Workers Comp Kit Blog Workers Blog Archive » How One Doctor Really ...
How to Reduce Work Comp Costs
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he is board certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Addiction Medicine, and Occupational Medicine. Dr. Evans has been successful in helping employers greatly reduce costs ...
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Dental Information & Library Innovation: New from the NLM ...
Dental Information & Library Innovation
The Emergency Access Initiative (EAI) collection includes common biomedical journal titles and reference books, and emergency medicine-related titles. EAI serves as a temporary collection replacement and/or supplement for libraries ...
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Emergency medicine physicians participate in suicide detection and ...
University of Colorado Denver: News Releases
Emergency room physicians are on the front lines of seeing the impact of patients who try to harm themselves with attempted suicide. Too often these patients don't get the ongoing care they need. The physicians in emergency medicine and ...
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Atlas of Pediatric Emergency Medicine by Binita R. Shah, Michael ...
Free Your Mind All Free Download
The first atlas of pediatric emergency medicine! Modeled after Atlas of Emergency Medicine by Knoop, this book uses visual cues enabling physicians to reach a quick and accurate clinical diagnosis. Concise, tightly formatted text ...
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Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice 5th ...
Latest - Ebook30.com
CV Mosby th edition January English PDB MB ROSEN S EMERGENCY MEDICINE continues to be the premier source that defines the field of emergency medicine It describes the science of 176380.
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First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards by Barbara Blok ...
Free Your Mind All Free Download
First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards presents time-strapped emergency medicine residents (taking annual in-training exams or the end of residency board certification exam) and practitioners (renewing their certification) with a ...
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Tropical/WIlderness/Emergency Medicine for PAs Conference
The PA Forum
Global Health for Medical Professionals: Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease, and Wilderness/Emergency Medicine PA Conference in NM in October 18 & 19. It sounds like a great conference. I hope to see you there.
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Weston & Tokesky: Older Persons in Emergency and Disaster ...
Big Medicine
Older Persons in Emergency and Disaster Situations A case study of Hurricane Katrina in the United States of America in 2005 by Michael M. Weston President, Servision Inc., Disaster Consultant, US Administration on Aging George M. ...
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Atlas of Emergency Medicine: A Visual Guide to Diagnosis and ...
Free Your Mind All Free Download
It's the most thorough atlas of emergency medicine that I've read, although in comparison to others, the text information is a bit sparse, leaving me feeling that I should look up the topic elsewhere to have a thorough understanding of ...
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SHO, HO Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine Locum Job Whitehaven ...
Locum Jobs Vacancies UK Doctors Medical NHS
Staff Grade, Emergency Medicine North West. 08/02/2010 to. SPR Acute Medicine Locum Job Cumb... Specialist Registrar, Medicine Cumbria. 13/01/2010 to 30/04/2010. HO Acute Medicine Locum Job Cumbr... House Officer, Medicine Cumbria. ...
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Atlas of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
science - Ebook30.com
McGraw Hill March English CHM MB This atlas provides a fantastic photographic commentary on the broad field of pediatric emergency medicineThe text is easy to read The pictures 176418.
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Red & White Emergency Medicine: Neonatal Emergencies by Richard ...
Free Your Mind All Free Download
Purpose:According to the authors, the book was "developed to assist our colleagues in the evaluation and treatment of children of a young age," to meet the "obvious need within the practice of emergency medicine. ...
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Daily Question
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How is acute renal failure defined in renal transplant patients?
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Whereas in normal patients renal failure is defined as an acute rise of 50%25 in the serum creatinine, in transplant patients it is defined as an acute rise of 20%25 in the serum creatinine.
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Daily Aphorism
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Daily Eponym
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Optic ataxia (inability to visually guide limb movements), ocular ataxia (inability to direct eyes to a precise point in the visual field), inability to enumerate objects in a picture or extract meaning from a picture, and inability to avoid objects in one's path, simultanagnosia, from infarction in unilateral or bilateral visual association due to watershed stroke between distal pca and mca.
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Daily Phobia
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Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
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Historical Terms
Mnemonics
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GRIM FED - Granulomas (sarcoid, TB),
- Renal faliure
- Immobility (esp. long term)
- Malignancy
- Familial (eg familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia)
- Endocrine (see below for subtypes)
- Drugs (esp. thiazide diuretics, lithium)
- Phaeochromocytoma
- Addison's disease
- Thyrotoxicosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
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