Ace The Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse Certification Examination

The most common type of fracture in the pediatric population is elbow fractures. Most commonly,  individuals fall on their outstretched hand. ...

Pediatric abusive head trauma (AHT) most often involves brain injury of infants and young children. Another term for this condition is shaken baby ...

The World Health Organization defines dehydration as a condition that results from excessive loss of body water. The most common causes of dehydrat ...

Roughly a million abortions are performed each year in the United States alone (CDC 2015).

Cardiac tamponade is a medical or traumatic emergency that happens when enough fluid accumulates in the pericardial sac compressing the heart ...

Beta-1 receptors, along with beta-2, alpha-1, and alpha-2 receptors, are adrenergic receptors primarily responsible for signaling in the sympatheti ...

Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone ADH release (SIADH) is a condition defined by the unsuppressed release of antidiuretic hormone ...

Crutches are medical devices designed to aid in ambulation, by transferring body weight from the legs to the torso and arms.

Gas gangrene is synonymous with myonecrosis and is a highly lethal infection of deep soft tissue, caused by species, with

A pulmonary contusion is an injury to the lung parenchyma in the absence of laceration to lung tissue or any vascular structures. It usually result ...

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) was first described by Dr. Petersdorf and Dr. Beesom in 1961.  ...

Laboratory tube collection is a process applied when withdrawing blood samples from patients before they get tested in the laboratory. It foll ...

Chickenpox or varicella is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). The virus is responsible for

Syphilis is a systemic bacterial infection caused by the spirochete . Due to its many protean clinical manifestations,&n ...

The focus of replanting any part of the upper extremity is maximizing functional outcome rather than the simple survival of the amputated part. Fun ...

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a serious complication of relative insulin deficiency affecting primarily type-1 diabetes mellitus (DM). DKA can occ ...

Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of acute, flaccid, neuromuscular paralysis in the United States. Guillain-Barre syndrome was ...

Named after Abraham Colles, who first described a distal radius fracture in 1814 at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, the Colles fracture is ...