Ace The Emergency Medicine Exam

is a pathogenic spirochete responsible for Lyme disease via a tick vector. This spirochete causes a characteristic an ...

Cor pulmonale is a Latin word that means "pulmonary heart," its definition varies, and presently, there is no consensual definition. Cor pu ...

Spinal shock is a result of severe spinal cord injury. It usually requires high-impact, direct trauma that leads to spinal cord injury and spi ...

Posterior spinal decompression is one of the most common surgical procedures to release neural structures when nonoperative treatment has failed, i ...

Caustic ingestions are severe causes of morbidity and mortality and can easily affect all age groups. 80% of the total cases of caustic ingestion i ...

Acute esophageal necrosis (AEN), also known as the black esophagus, Gurvit syndrome, or acute necrotizing esophagitis, is a rare and life-threateni ...

Aortic transection describes the shearing injury to the aortic wall that typically results from blunt traumatic mechanisms. Although uncommon, this ...

Hydrocarbons are organic compounds that consist of hydrogen and carbon. They are quite ubiquitous in society and are present in many common househo ...

Gabapentin is an anticonvulsive medication which first discovered in the 1970s in Japan. Its original use was as a muscle relaxer and anti-spa ...

Phosphodiesterase inhibitors (PDE inhibitors) are a class of agents acting on specific phosphodiesterase enzymes in target cells and are FDA approv ...

The definition of anemia is either a decreased amount of circulating red blood cells (RBCs), the amount of hemoglobin (Hgb), or volume of pack ...

Spontaneous pneumothorax refers to the abnormal collection of gas in the pleural space between the lungs and the chest wall. Spontaneous ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is the third most common cause of cardiovascular death in the United States of America. It is one of the most common causes ...

Ocular tuberculosis is a clinical disease caused by (TB). It has various modes of transmission, and it can infe ...

Pericardiocentesis is a procedure performed to remove pericardial fluid from the pericardial sac. It is often performed in the setting of pericardi ...

A platelet count that falls below the lower limit of normal, i.e., 150000/microliter (for adults) is defined as thrombocytopenia. Platelets are blo ...

Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE), also called slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE), is the most common hip pathology in pre-adolescent an ...

An arterial pseudoaneurysm, AKA false aneurysm, is caused by damage to the arterial wall, resulting in locally contained hematoma with turbulent bl ...