Air Medical Transport for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study of National Trends Over an 8-Year Period.

Objective: Optimal management of ischemic stroke is time dependent. An understanding of patterns of air medical transport may identify disparities that could affect patient care.

Methods: In this 8-year (2007-2014) observational, retrospective, cohort study, we abstracted a 20% national sample of Medicare data from patients ≥ 66 years of age hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke who presented to the emergency department by ambulance (air or ground).

Arsenic Toxicity From the Ingestion of Terracotta Pottery.

Background: Symptomatic arsenic toxicity has not been associated with terracotta pottery despite thousands of years of use in food storage and preparation. We describe a case of chronic arsenic toxicity from undiagnosed pica involving the ingestion of terracotta pots.

Case Report: A 49-year-old woman with a history of anemia and abnormal uterine bleeding presented to the Emergency Department complaining of lower extremity pain.

Lower-dose epinephrine administration and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes.

Background: International guidelines recommend administration of 1 mg of intravenous epinephrine every 3-5 min during cardiac arrest. The optimal dose of epinephrine is not known. We evaluated the association of reduced frequency and dose of epinephrine with survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).