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Hospital admissions due to bike injuries doubled between 1998 and 2013
Bicycle-related injuries in adults in the United States have increased by 28% between 1998 and 2013, and hospital admissions for cycling injuries...
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First EDition: News for and about the practice of Emergency Medicine
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A 45-year-old man presented with severe left leg pain and deformity after being struck by a car while driving his moped.
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CT scan utilization down in children’s hospitals
The use of computed tomography in children’s hospitals appears to be on the decline across the top 10 all-patient-refined, diagnosis-related...
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Federal plan emphasizes heroin/opioid treatment over incarceration
The Obama administration will spend an additional $13.4 million fighting opioid and heroin abuse, emphasizing treatment over law enforcement. The...
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More bicyclists, more fatalities
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Emergency intervention did not reduce women’s heavy drinking, partner violence
Key clinical point: A brief motivational intervention in the ED failed to reduce recurrent episodes of heavy drinking or intimate-partner violence...
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Tool to predict abusive head trauma validated
The clinical tool Predicting Abusive Head Trauma (PredAHT) can support medical professionals in determining the likelihood that a pediatric head...
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Corpus callosum functioning, structural integrity impaired in some TBI patients
Half of the pediatric TBI patients studied had significantly slower interhemispheric transfer times than the control group.
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Player-to-player contact, not ‘heading,’ is main source of soccer concussions
Head contact with other players, not with the ball, is the main source of concussions among high-school soccer players of both sexes.