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Pain in the emergency department (ED) is common but undertreated. The objective of this study was to examine the efficacy and safety of intranasal (IN) ketamine used as an analgesic for patients with an acute injury with moderate to severe…

Clinical crisis management frequently requires key priorities to be initiated in a time-critical fashion to avoid significant morbidity or mortality to patients.

The Department of Health asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to produce public health guidance on the prevention and early identification of alcohol-use disorders among adults and adolescents.

The 2013 guidelines on hypertension of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) follow the guidelines jointly issued by the two societies in 2003 and 2007.

The first ever vaccine for malaria has been approved by the European Medicines Agency, meaning it is close to being introduced for use in Africa. Every year 600,000 people die from malaria and most of those are children in sub-Saharan…

Oxygen binds to hemoglobin in red blood cells when moving through the lungs. It is transported throughout the body as arterial blood. A pulse oximeter uses two frequencies of light (red and infrared) to determine the percentage (%) of…

Tachycardia simply means a faster heart rate than normal.  With the sinoatrial node, which is the heart's inborn pacemaker, the intrinsic rate is between 60 and 100 beats per minute.  When the rate exceeds 100 beats per minute, tachycardia…

Taking folic acid supplements and vitamins do not seem to cut the risk of developing dementia, say Dutch researchers