Due to an increased need for all aspects of health care to cut costs, emergency rooms are relying more and more on the services of physician’s assistants, PAs. PAs can diagnose and treat patients, and their lower cost can help keep the price of running an emergency room down while helping…
Category: emergency room care
Sometimes it’s necessary, and sometimes it’s not, but it is certainly true that almost all of us have been to the emergency room at some point. Maybe it was a broken leg, or the fear of one. Perhaps it was a poisoning or a burn. Whatever it was, we are…
Often children with asthma sometimes find themselves in the emergency room where an emergency room doctor, such as Dr. Josyann Abisaab will treat them for the difficult breathing asthma sufferers experience. Although the underlying cause of asthma is unknown it often runs in families. What happens is that certain substances…
There is no exact number which determines that someone with high blood pressure should go to the emergency room or dial 911. However, if there are other symptoms accompanying the high blood pressure reading, including severe headache with no known cause, back-pain, severe chest pain or impaired or blurry vision,…
An informed ER patient is one who has a basic understanding of the workings of the emergency room, and so can better appreciate the complex and wide range of medical care that is provided. ER physicians, like Dr. Josyann Abisaab, explain that a visit to the ER frequently involves one…
People often make the mistake of going to the ER when their condition is not an emergency. Not only is this a waste of time and money, it also causes stress and unnecessary disorder in the emergency room. Doctors such as Dr. Josyann Abisaab recommend that you think objectively about…
A new study published recently in Pediatrics highlights that more children and teenagers are suffering traumatic brain injuries while playing basketball. Taking a ten year range from 1997 to 2007, researchers looked at visits to emergency rooms like the one where Dr. Josyann Abisaab works. They found that, for people…
Lyme disease is an infection which is often misunderstood by parents and misidentified by the health community. One of the reasons for the confusion is that Lyme disease manifests in many different ways in the body. Another reason is that it varies so widely from state to state. The most…