A Consequence of an Electrical-Burn Injury: Atrial Fibrillation.

Cardiac arrhythmias following electrocution injuries can accompany high-voltage or high- intensity currents. Contributing factors to electrical hazard are the type of current, voltage, resistance, and duration of contact and pathway through the body. It is important to monitor for delayed arrhythmias in patients with an electrical injury.

Multiple Hospital In-Situ Mass Casualty Incident Training Simulation for Emergency Medicine Residents: A Sarin Bomb Scenario.

Introduction: We simulated an on-site, multi-hospital mass casualty incident (MCI) to educate emergency medicine providers in the principles of trauma resuscitation and collaboration with administration and staff during an MCI.

Methods: We implemented high-fidelity manikins, inflatable manikins, and actors to simulate a sarin gas bombing. Learners triaged patients at a decontamination tent using the simple triage and rapid treatment (START) tool, or they participated in a simulation in a resuscitation bay.

Recurrent Appendicitis Caused by a Retained Appendiceal Tip: A Case Report.

Background: Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies, and it is treated definitively with appendectomy. Recurrent appendicitis is a rare entity, being reported after approximately 1 in 50,000 appendectomies. It is typically caused by inflammation of the appendiceal stump.

Early postnatal ethanol administration does not affect prepulse inhibition in rats.

Human prenatal ethanol exposure is associated with relatively widespread cognitive deficits but it is unclear whether general deficits in responsivity to sensory stimuli contribute to or underlie the deficits in later or more complex stages of information processing. The present experiment assessed the effects of early postnatal ethanol administration in rats on prepulse inhibition, with animals tested in adolescence (postnatal day (PD) 35) and early adulthood (PD 70). Animals were assigned to receive ethanol (5.