Tobacco control interventions in the emergency department: a joint statement of emergency medicine organizations.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and illness in the United States. National practice guidelines call for all health care providers to "ask" all patients about tobacco use, and to "advise, assess, assist, arrange" when smokers want to quit smoking (the "5 As"). Emergency departments (EDs) have not been an important locus of tobacco control efforts, although ED patients typically smoke at rates exceeding that of the general population, are interested in quitting, and often have limited access to primary care.

Tobacco control interventions in the emergency department: a joint statement of emergency medicine organizations.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death and illness in the United States. National practice guidelines call for all health care providers to "ask" all patients about tobacco use, and to "advise, assess, assist, arrange" when smokers want to quit smoking (the "5 As"). Emergency departments (EDs) have not been an important locus of tobacco control efforts, although ED patients typically smoke at rates exceeding that of the general population, are interested in quitting, and often have limited access to primary care.

Reduction of early thalamic input alters adult corticocortical connectivity.

The functional specificity of mammalian isocortex requires that precise connections be established between cortical areas and their targets. While recent studies of cortical development have focused on intrinsic specification, the role of extrinsic factors has received considerably less attention. In the present study, we examined how early removal of thalamic input affects the development of visual corticocortical connections.

Congestive heart failure patients with chest pain: incidence and predictors of acute coronary syndrome.

Objective: New diagnostic and treatment options for emergency department (ED) patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) may facilitate the ED discharge of some patients. However, some patients require admission to exclude concurrent acute coronary syndrome (ACS) as the precipitant of CHF. The objective of this study was to identify the incidence, clinical characteristics, and hospital course of CHF patients who present to the ED with and without concurrent ACS.