Pulmonary embolism in the emergency department: A Singaporean nursing case review

Pulmonary embolism in a patient with “isolated syncope”, a diagnostic challenge

“…3 Although dyspnea, tachycardia and chest pain are the most common symptoms, clinical presentation can vary from incidentally discovered asymptomatic PE to shock and sudden death. 4,5 Untreated pulmonary embolism may be associated with a mortality of up to 30%, 6 falling to 2-8% for patients where the diagnosis is recognized and treated. A timely diagnosis is therefore essential.…”

Let us publish d-dimer in micrograms per liter

“…During 2013, the number was also 9 (PubMed search performed on 8/12/2014, too): milligrams per deciliter [5], milligrams per liter [6], micrograms per milliliter [7], micrograms per deciliter [8], micrograms per liter [3], nanograms per milliliter [9], nanograms per deciliter [10], nanograms per liter [11], and picograms per milliliter [12]. Moreover, 1 additional numerical unit appeared in 2014: milligrams per milliliter [13].…”

Toothpaste and shaving-induced bleeding and moreover…

“…Therefore, immediate good-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at the scene, with early ventilations, is essential to increase the chances of survival and to reduce the neurologic damage of survivors [1,2]. Evidence indicates that in real life, quality of CPR, even when performed by staff with duty to assist, used to be poor [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. In drowning events, the extreme physical conditions in which lifeguards have to perform CPR (sometimes after performing victim's water rescue), may result in even worse CPR quality [11].…”