Providing care for postoperative, acutely ill, or traumatically injured patients requires an understanding of mechanical ventilation.

Conservative management is used effectively to treat a woman with a ruptured appendix at 32 weeks' gestation.

Right hemihepatectomy with en bloc resection of the extrahepatic biliary tree is performed on a perihilar cholangiocarcinoma.

An otherwise active and healthy, older man experiences a recurrence of GI symptoms that occur after eating.

A pulmonary arteriovenous malformation, discovered as an incidental finding on a chest CT, is corrected with a vascular plug.

Knowing who needs open repair versus endografting is crucial in this condition with a mortality rate as high as 80%.

Case studies describe an alternative to repeat thoracentesis for patients who are at risk of reaccumulation of fluid in the chest cavity.

Hajdu-Cheney syndrome (HCS), or acroosteolysis, is described by the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) as a rare, heritable disorder of connective tissue.

A 29-year-old woman had difficulty regaining full range of motion after patellartendon autograft ACL reconstruction.

A 38-year-old white male presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 3-day history of persistent headache. The headache was located in the left temporoparietal area and had improved temporarily with the use of acetaminophen (Tylenol) at home. The patient denied fever, nausea, vomiting, or visual changes but admitted to some word-finding difficulties.