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Managing the Patient with Alcohol Intoxication

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It may be mistaken for acute intoxication, psychiatric illness, or other occult pathology. Consider a psychiatric consult (and labs needed for psychiatric admission) or check blood work if there is a concern for concomitant underlying medical pathology as a cause of hallucinations. Acta Psychiatr Scand. Epub 2007 Aug 3.

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MI in Children

Pediatric Emergency Playbook

Repeated use causes multiple psychiatric, personality, and neurologic changes. Fontan Operation and the Single Ventricle. 2007; 2:2-11. 2007; 5(3):172-176. That, in conjunction with arterial vasospasm and platelet activation, is a recipe for acute MI in the young. References Congenital AboulHosn JA et al. Aliku TO et al.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

2007 Oct; 33(3): 233–239. Risk-score performance was measured by comparing the proportions of patients with arrhythmias at various levels of the score and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. Sixth, psychiatric evaluation can detect mental disorders associated with syncope in up to 25% of cases. 95% CI = 1.9