Emergency outpatient unit

This patient participated in a 200-m relay race at an athletics meeting on October 10. After dinner, a dull pain in his left flank occurred and gradually worsened, but it differed from colic. There was no decrease in urine volume or dark urine. At 2330 hours, the patient attended the Emergency Outpatient Unit of our hospital because of the pain. An intramuscular injection of scopolamine butylbromide relieved the... 

On June 13,1998, this patient participated in 100-m, 400-m, and 1500-m time-trial races at 1400 hours. Left loin pain occurred at 1600 hours. He considered that he had caught a cold, and took a commercially available drug for colds and an analgesic agent. Initially, pain was marked in the sitting position, and became less marked in the supine position. However, it gradually became worse even in the supine position, and he attended the Emergency Outpatient Unit of our hospital at 0500 hours on June 14. His serum creatinine, total bilirubin, and CPK levels were increased to 2.1 mg/dl, 2.8 mg/dl (the reason for an increase in total bilirubin was unclear), and 329 U/L, respectively, and the patient was referred to our department. On June 14, CT 24, 48, and 96 h after the administration of contrast medium showed patchy lesions (Fig. 38)... 

This patient required hemodialysis for ALPE. Delayed CT and a bone scan with MDP in the recovery phase showed patchy lesions (these imaging procedures were performed in conjunction with another patient with myoglobin uric acute renal failure due to a malignant syndrome). On July 19, 1999, the patient fell into the water while fishing in a mountain stream, and was carried about 100 m in a few minutes while struggling all the time. As a precaution, he was admitted to a local clinic overnight. There were no abnormal laboratory data. However, at 0300 hours on July 21, he attended the Emergency Outpatient Unit of our hospital with severe bilateral loin... 

At the Emergency Outpatient Unit, most patients were initially diagnosed as having ureteral stone, or acute gastroenteritis based on vomiting/slight fever, or acute pancreatitis, lumbar pain, muscular pain, or lumbar disc hernia based on severe pain (Fig. 73). 

In the Zambian emergency contraception voucher scheme, all public maternal and child health units had to be excluded from the list of service providers because of their restricted working hours (Monday to Friday only). Since, to be effective, emergency contraception needs to be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, any outlet that could potentially be contracted had to be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The agency eventually chose private pharmacies and hospital outpatient departments. Pharmacies have the additional advantage of anonymity, which is particularly well suited to a sensitive issue such as emergency contraception. 

The high prevalence of asthma comes with a high cost, including 13.9 million outpatient visits, 1.9 million emergency visits, 484,000 hospitalizations, and 4261 deaths from asthma in the United States in 2002 [3]. According to... 

To get a sense of how the Triage Cards can be used, suppose that a fifty-five-year-old man undergoes an outpatient lung biopsy and is recovering in a short-stay unit (SSU). After a delayed assessment, a nurse discovers the patient in acute discomfort the pulse oximeter alarm has been turned off, and the patient s lung has partially collapsed. An emergency chest tube is inserted, and the patient recovers. But how is it possible to discover what happened ... 

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