Emergency Medicine

Clinicians diagnose a notorious transmissible bacterial infection rarely seen in the U.S.

Rural life has its hazards, as clinicians in China explain

An infection treated 2 weeks earlier may have been the culprit

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome offers an important diagnostic clue

Pregnancy can cause a range of changes in cardiac function and ECG findings

Idiopathic ventricular fibrillation can affect people with no clinical evidence of heart disease

Moral of the story: don't walk barefoot in the fields

Clinicians found CT scan to be best diagnostic tool

Outbreak "may be a wake-up call for the field," say editorialists

Patient recovered quickly, thanks to cardiologist's fast response

Case highlights a little-known, potentially dangerous, often recurrent condition of swimmers

Symptoms persisted for 2 years before the patient was admitted to the hospital

Alcoholism, liver dysfunction highly linked with rare disease of unknown etiology

Case study illustrates iatrogenic risks not to be underestimated