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  The WADEM Congress 2023. World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). 9-12 May 2023. Killarney. Ireland  Pasé unos días en #wadem2023 y comenzó con una explosión (literalmente) cuando el Dr. Mark Forrest y Jason van der Velde El Grupo ATACC ofrecieron una sesión verdaderamente inmersiva e interactiva sobre algunos aspectos de la medicina antiterrorista. Especialmente las brechas...

In this Part 1 or our two-part podcast series on STIs we discuss a general approach to cervicitis, vulvovaginitis and urethritis, elucidate some key historical features, debate who needs a pelvic exam in the ED, understand who needs what testing, debate self swabs vs physician taken swabs, dig into some specific under-recognized organisms like Mycoplasma Genitalium, figure out who needs what kind of empiric treatment, sexual partner treatment and which discharge instructions are key... The post Ep 182 STIs: Cervicitis, Vulvovaginitis and Urethritis Emergency Recognition and Management appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

In this Part 1 or our two-part podcast series on STIs we discuss a general approach to cervicitis, vulvovaginitis and urethritis, elucidate some key historical features, debate who needs a pelvic exam in the ED, understand who needs what testing, debate self swabs vs physician taken swabs, dig into some specific under-recognized organisms like Mycoplasma Genitalium, figure out who needs what kind of empiric treatment, sexual partner treatment and which discharge instructions are key... The post Ep 182 STIs: Cervicitis, Vulvovaginitis and Urethritis Emergency Recognition and Management appeared first on Emergency Medicine Cases.

A team of medical engineers at Cornell University has developed a knitted glove that is designed to treat hand edema, where fluid accumulation leads to swelling in the hands. The condition can make it difficult for patients to perform daily activities, and current treatment often involves receiving a manual edema massage performed by a trained […]

Researchers at Houston Methodist have developed an implant that can provide localized and sustained release of immunotherapies to treat pancreatic cancer. Their device is tiny, at approximately the size of a grain of rice, and they have termed it a “nanofluidic drug-eluting seed”. Pancreatic cancer is particularly difficult to treat, and current therapies have problems […]