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June 2008

Cover Article

How to Recognize the Top Three STDs in Women
Bisan Salhi, MD
Elusive and often misleading, these infections can have serious consequences if not caught in time. Here’s how to diagnose and treat them.

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Feature Article

Halting Heat Illness Before It Turns Deadly
Christopher B. Colwell, MD
Excessive heat kills more Americans than all other natural disasters combined, but recognizing and treating heat illness quickly can save lives. The author discusses how to diagnose, treat, and prevent this dangerous sequela of summer.

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Editorial
Diurnal Dichotomies
Neal E. Flomenbaum, MD, Editor-in-Chief

EM's editor-in-chief discusses the persistent, problematic inconsistencies that exist between day and night shifts in most hospital emergency departments.

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Emergency Ultrasound

A patient cannot tolerate palpation of her painful, reddened inner thigh
during physical exam, so instead you opt for a bedside sonogram. What diagnosis does this ultrasound image suggest?

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Diagnosis at a Glance

A 47-year-old woman presents with progressive, symmetrical loss of pigment involving her hands, axillae, shoulders, and groin; an elderly man seeks treatment for erythematous, scaly patches and plaques on his trunk and extremities.

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Emergency X-Ray

A 16-year-old boy complains of hip pain. What diagnosis can you make based on this frontal film of his pelvis?

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Tricks of the Trade

When a patient presents with an early abscess from an infected hair follicle, Dr. James Nelson, of Brawley, California, takes a dental pick and runs it through the follicle at the center of the lesion. By pulling on the pick slightly and squeezing the lesion firmly, he is often able to squeeze out a dab of pus that could not have been reached with an incision or needle aspiration. It is, of course, imperative to anesthetize the area prior to the procedure. 

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Gary M. Klein, MD, MBA, MPH, CHS-V, Rama B. Rao, MD, Neal E. Flomenbaum, MD, Lewis S. Nelson, MD, and Brenna M. Farmer, MD
This supplement to EMERGENCY MEDICINE features articles on understanding, diagnosing, and treating toxicity from organophosphorus pesticide exposure and other forms of chemical poisoning.

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