Volume 64 Number 4&5
September/October 1997

ANNOUNCEMENT OF 1996 AWARDS

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PART A

Introduction: Issues in Emergency Care and Resuscitation	239
Sheldon Jacobson
Acute Stroke: Emergency Management and Future	241
Interventions Denise Nassissi
The Evaluation and Treatment of Seizures in the Emergency	249
Department Andy Jagoda and Lynne Richardson
Emergency Department Management of Acute Myocardial	258
Infarction Edward Mintz
Management of Life-threatening Asthma in the Emergency	275
Department Lynne Richardson and Andy Jagoda
Poisoning and Overdose Diane F. Giorgi and Andy Jagoda	283
Emergency Airway Management	292
Paul H. Hamilton and John J. Kang
Pediatric Trauma	302
Matthew J. Kapklein and Robby Mahadeo
The Evaluation of Blunt Abdominal Trauma: The Evolving Role	311
of Ultrasound Sheree D. Givre and Stuart Kessler
Vascular Emergencies Denise Carol Semashk	316
Disaster Medicine Neill S. Oster	323
Severe Head Injury: Prehospital and Emergency Department	329
Management Salvatore Silvestri and Susan Aronson

PART B

Nontraumatic Intramural Hematoma of the Duodenum	339
Complicating Warfarin Therapy David E. Gutstein and Stanley J. Rosenberg
Splenic and Renal Infarctions Complicating Atrial	342
Fibrillation Athanassios Argiris
The Stuck Catheter - A Case Study	350
Philip K. Ng, Mark J. Ault, and Michael C.Fishbein

DERMATOLOGY NOTES

Acute Meningococcemia	353
Allen Sapadin, Marsha Gordon, and Edward J. Bottone

OPHTHALMOLOGY NOTES

Angle-Closure Glaucoma Arif Khan

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BOOK REVIEWS

Our Health, Our Lives: A Revolutionary Approach to Total	355
Health Care for Women Harriet S. Gilbert
Keep on Running: The Science of Training and Performance	356
Sherman Kupfer
Abdominal Access in Open and Laparoscopic Surgery	356
A. James McElhinney
Crohn's Disease Lawrence S. Friedman	357

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