Symposium on Acute medicine

Article number 10125347

CONTENTS Foreword – Lawrence Sherman and Howard D. Kolodny Evaluation of the Unconscious Patient – I. P. Hinterbuchner Management of Urban Tetanus – Albert E. Heurich, John C. M. Brust, and Ralph W. Richter Infective Endocarditis Today – Randolph M. Chase, Jr. Acute Forms of Tuberculosis – Charles P. Felton and Julia M. Jones Gram-Negative Bacteremic Shock – Ansari Hassen The Rapid Differential Diagnosis of Meningitis – Stephen J. Seligman Hyponatremic Syndromes – Lowell T. Taclob and Mark A. Needle Hypokalemia and Hyperkalemia – Jerome Lowenstein Fasting Hypoglycemia – Selim Baruh, Lawrence Sherman, Howard D. Kolodny, and Amar Jit Singh Thyrotoxic Crisis and Myxedema Coma – Carlos E. Menendez and Richard S. Rivlin Barbiturate Poisoning—An Endemic Disease – Paul W. Spear and Leon M. Protass Evaluation of Acute Chest Pain – Edgar Lichstein and Stanley G. Seckler Non-Invasive Techniques in the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Cardiac Problems – Lothar Wertheimer Life-Threatening Arrhythmias – Samuel Zoneraich and Olga Zoneraich Cardiac Pacemakers – Maurice Dunst The Diagnosis and Management of Arterial Aneurysms – Sandor A. Friedman Acute Respiratory Failure: Current Concepts of Pathophysiology and Management – Nathan S. Seriff, Faroque Khan, and Benjamin J. Lazo Application of Ventilators in Acute Respiratory Failure – E. Leslie Chusid and Hewitt Bryan Medical Conditions Mimicking the Acute Surgical Abdomen – Francis U. Steinheber Recognition and Management of Acute and Chronic Hepatic Encephalopathy – Sheldon Jacobson and Bertrand Bell Acute Renal Failure – Gerald E. Thomson Sickle Cell Crisis – Roscoe B. Guy and Sheldon P. Rothenberg Acute Manifestations of Platelet Dysfunction – Edward L. Amorosi Tests of Coagulation: Use and Interpretation – Robert C. Lerner and Robert Goldstein