The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Volume 73 Number 2
March 2006

THEME ISSUE
Emergency Department Management of Cardiovascular Emergencies - Part 2
Luke Hermann and Andy Jagoda, guest editors
Approach to Undifferentiated Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: A Review of Recent Medical Literature and Published Practice Guidelines	499
Elin Ringstrom and Jessica Freedman
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Formulating an Evidence-Based Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment (Part I)	506
Philip Chung and Luke Hermann
Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Formulating an Evidence-Based Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment (Part II)	516
Francesco Buccelletti and Luke Hermann
New Diagnostic and Treatment Modalities for Pulmonary Embolism: One Path Through the Confusion	528
Christopher J. Langan and Scott Weingart
Blunt Cardiac Injury	542
Marie-Carmelle Elie
GENERAL ARTICLES
Patient Noncompliance: Causes and Solutions	553
Fred Rosner
The Effects of the Prophylactic Tropisetron-Propofol Combination on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Patients Undergoing Thyroidectomy under Desflurane Anesthesia	560
Aynur Akin, Aliye Esmaoglu, Isin Gunes, and Adem Boyaci
Essay
Essays in Public Health and Preventive Medicine	564
Philip J. Landrigan
Commentary
I Matched, Not for Residency, But to Save a Life	573
Jason Aaron Sokol
In Memoriam: Leonard I. Malis	575