It’s important to make sure children know how to be safe around animals, including the family pet. Experts say most bites come from animals a child knows.
Category: Emergency Medicine
Publicly funding dental care could help ease the fentanyl crisis, and more
… the ER with toothaches. “Because dental care is one of these things that we have not included in our publicly funded health care system…these patients end up in the emergency room, because they say ‘I don’t know where else to go, I don’t know what …
A doctor’s lullaby for Syrian children
Dr. Dave Dvorak has traveled twice to the Greek island of Samos to treat A Syrian refugees. He hopes to “evoke some compassion” with his music.
What’s Going Around: pneumonia
Flu numbers continue to soar in Southwest Louisiana this week and one of the most common flu-related complications is also on the rise. Pneumonia is What’s Going Around this week, according to Dr. Robert Bernauer, emergency room physician at Lake Area Medical Center .
Highway Hazard – Impaired by Medication
But Dr. Jon Skelton, an emergency room physician at Star ER, warns that a common reason for accidents on the road is unexpected reactions to medication. Dr. Skelton offers this advice, “Whether it’s something as simple as a back strain and you have a muscle relaxer or your doctor is going up on your blood pressure medication, or changing your diabetes medication, see how that’s going to affect you, at least one dose, before you get behind the wheel and drive.”