title: [Emergency medicine: update 2008].
abstract: The emergency medicine appears more and more as a transversal discipline, leaning on specific competences regularly updated with evidence-based medicine concepts. This selection of recent articles presents an update on frequent conditions, including the place of neuroimaging for patients with seizures or minor head injuries, the management of acute cocaine intoxications, the diagnosis of aortic dissections, or the management of cardiopulmonary arrest. The primary care physician will find elements of diagnostic or therapeutic strategies. This selection reflects the dynamism of emergency medicine.
authors.affiliation: Centre interdisciplinaire des urgences, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. pierre-nicolas.carron@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Pierre-Nicolas
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Carron
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Rutschmann
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000145:classification; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D004554:Electric Countershock; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D006336:Heart Massage; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis