Objectives:Despite evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the emergency
management of asthma, substantial treatment variation exists. Our objective was to assess …

Emergency medicine (EM) is a growing specialty internationally, but has yet to be cultivated
in countries with otherwise advanced health care systems. To promote the growth of EM, …

OBJECTIVE To provide primary care physicians with an understanding of West Nile virus in
North America. This article focuses on epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and …

• Caused by an enterovirus with 3 serotypes (1, 2* and 3), poliomyelitis is spread mainly by
the fecal–oral route. However, where there is good sanitation, the virus may be transmitted in …

In addition to water disinfection, travellers must use safe food preparation methods and
practise good personal hygiene to prevent enteric illness. Food should be washed with …

Medical work in developing countries is challenging and rewarding. To make a lasting impact
on the local community, a health care worker must be willing to listen to the needs of the …

The global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003 highlighted the
inherent risks that infectious diseases pose to prehospital and transport personnel, and the …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the most common cause of death and disability globally. TBI,
which disproportionately affects low middle-income countries (LMIC), uses significant …

We construct the most general local solutions to 11-dimensional supergravity (or M theory),
which are invariant under the superalgebra D (2, 1; c′; 0)⊕ D (2, 1; c′; 0) for all values of …

… ) adds significant aspects to this problem such as: taking into consideration the decision
makers’ preferences; the decision makers’ behavior in relation to risk; and using the interval …