Issue 1/2018
Content (62 Articles)
Implementing blended learning in emergency airway management training: a randomized controlled trial
Madeleine Huei Tze Kho, Keng Sheng Chew, Muhaimin Noor Azhar, Mohd Lotfi Hamzah, Kee Man Chuah, Aida Bustam, Hiang Chuan Chan
An unusual case of infective pneumocephalus: case report of pneumocephalus exacerbated by continuous positive airway pressure
Abdus Samad Ansari, Brittany B. Dennis, Dilip Shah, Winfred Baah
Management and outcomes of patients presenting with sepsis and septic shock to the emergency department during nursing handover: a retrospective cohort study
Sami Alsolamy, Atheer Al-Sabhan, Najla Alassim, Musharaf Sadat, Eman Al Qasim, Hani Tamim, Yaseen M Arabi
Systematic reporting to improve the emergency medical response to major incidents: a pilot study
Sophie Hardy, Sabina Fattah, Torben Wisborg, Lasse Raatiniemi, Trine Staff, Marius Rehn
Ultrasound-guided identification of the cricothyroid membrane in a patient with a difficult airway: a case report
Hiromu Okano, Kohji Uzawa, Kunitaro Watanabe, Akira Motoyasu, Joho Tokumine, Alan Kawarai Lefor, Tomoko Yorozu
Correction to: Systematic reporting to improve the emergency medical response to major incidents: a pilot study
Sophie Hardy, Sabina Fattah, Torben Wisborg, Lasse Raatiniemi, Trine Staff, Marius Rehn
Ambulance use is not associated with patient acuity after road traffic collisions: a cross-sectional study from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Yonas Abebe, Tolesa Dida, Engida Yisma, David M. Silvestri
High inter-observer agreement of observer-perceived pain assessment in the emergency department
Martin Høhrmann Hangaard, Brian Malling, Christian Backer Mogensen
Outcome of elderly emergency department patients hospitalised on weekends - a retrospective cohort study
Steffie H. A. Brouns, Joyce J. Wachelder, Femke S. Jonkers, Suze L. Lambooij, Jeanne P. Dieleman, Harm R. Haak
Anxiety about anxiety: a survey of emergency department provider beliefs and practices regarding anxiety-associated low risk chest pain
Paul I. Musey Jr, John A. Lee, Cassandra A. Hall, Jeffrey A. Kline
A cross-sectional exploratory study of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of emergency health care providers in the assessment of child maltreatment in Maputo, Mozambique
Liliana Pinto, Adriana Lein, Raquel Mahoque, David W. Wright, Scott M. Sasser, Catherine A. Staton
Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in emergency department patients in the United Arab Emirates
Muna Al Jalaf, Hanan Fadali, Rasha Alanee, Firas Najjar, Zulfa Al Deesi, Rania M. Seliem, Eric J. Nilles
HEMS inter-facility transfer: a case-mix analysis
Damien Di Rocco, Mathieu Pasquier, Eric Albrecht, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Fabrice Dami
Prevalence and outcome of injury in patients visiting the emergency Department of Yirgalem General Hospital, Southern Ethiopia
Abel Negussie, Andarge Getie, Elias Manaye, Tamrat Tekle
Value of early change of serum C reactive protein combined to modified Alvarado score in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis
Mohamed Amine Msolli, Kaouther Beltaief, Wahid Bouida, Nahla Jerbi, Mohamed Habib Grissa, Hamdi Boubaker, Riadh Boukef, Semir Nouira
The feasibility, acceptability and preliminary testing of a novel, low-tech intervention to improve pre-hospital data recording for pre-alert and handover to the Emergency Department
David Fitzpatrick, Douglas Maxwell, Alan Craigie
Titration of oxygen therapy in critically ill emergency department patients: a feasibility study
Anna S. M. Dobbe, Renate Stolmeijer, Jan C. ter Maaten, Jack J. M. Ligtenberg
Frequency of intra-abdominal organ injury is higher in patients with concomitant stab wounds to other anatomical areas
Igor Jeroukhimov, Itay Wiser, Yehuda Hershkovitz, Zahar Shapira, Kobi Peleg, Ricardo Alfici, Adi Givon, Hany Bahouth, Alexander Becker, Michael Ben Ely, Alexander Braslavsky, Igor Jeroukhimov, Milad Qarawany, Boris Kessel, Yoram Klein, Guy Lin, Ofer Merin, Miklosh Bala, Youri Mnouskin, Avraham I. Rivkind, Gad Shaked, Dror Soffer, Michael Stein, Michael Weiss, Boris Kessel
Assessment of the Feasibility of automated, real-time clinical decision support in the emergency department using electronic health record data
Warren M. Perry, Rubayet Hossain, Richard A. Taylor
ECMO use and mortality in adult patients with cardiogenic shock: a retrospective observational study in U.S. hospitals
Rayan El Sibai, Rana Bachir, Mazen El Sayed
Facilitating HIV/AIDS and HIV testing literacy for emergency department patients: a randomized, controlled, trial
Roland C. Merchant, Tao Liu, Melissa A. Clark, Michael P. Carey
Epidemiology of patients presenting to a pediatric emergency department in Karachi, Pakistan
Nadir Ijaz, Matthew Strehlow, N. Ewen Wang, Elizabeth Pirrotta, Areeba Tariq, Naseeruddin Mahmood, Swaminatha Mahadevan
Emergency and disaster management training; knowledge and attitude of Yemeni health professionals- a cross-sectional study
Waheeb Nasr Naser, Huda Ba Saleem
Burnout and safety outcomes - a cross-sectional nationwide survey of EMS-workers in Germany
Natalie Baier, Karsten Roth, Susanne Felgner, Cornelia Henschke
Cross sectional study of multiresistant bacteria in Danish emergency departments: prevalence, patterns and risk factors for colonization (AB-RED project)
Christian B. Mogensen, Helene Skjøt-Arkil, Annmarie T. Lassen, Isik S. Johansen, Ming Chen, Poul Petersen, Karen V. Andersen, Svend Ellermann-Eriksen, Jørn M. Møller, Marc Ludwig, David Fuglsang-Damgaard, Finn Nielsen, Dan B. Petersen, Ulrich S. Jensen, Flemming S. Rosenvinge
Safety and efficiency of a redirection procedure toward an out of hours general practice before admission to an emergency department, an observational study
Charles Morin, Jacques Choukroun, Jean-Christophe Callahan
Delayed intracranial hemorrhage in elderly anticoagulated patients sustaining a minor fall
Nolan Mann, Kellen Welch, Andrew Martin, Michael Subichin, Katherine Wietecha, Lauren E. Birmingham, Tiffany D. Marchand, Richard L. George
The mission characteristics of a newly implemented rural helicopter emergency medical service
Daniel Kornhall, Robert Näslund, Cecilia Klingberg, Regina Schiborr, Mikael Gellerfors
A patient full of surprises: a body packer with cocaine intoxication, pneumococcal pneumonia and HIV infection
Miriam Luginbühl, Timo Junker, Dagmar I. Keller
Epidemiological and clinical profiles of acute poisoning in patients admitted to the intensive care unit in eastern Iran (2010 to 2017)
Omid Mehrpour, Ayob Akbari, Firoozeh Jahani, Alireza Amirabadizadeh, Elaheh Allahyari, Borhan Mansouri, Patrick C. Ng
Platelet indices and outcome after cardiac arrest
Antonella Cotoia, Federico Franchi, Chiara De Fazio, Jean-Louis Vincent, Jacques Creteur, Fabio Silvio Taccone
Socioeconomic gradients in admission to coronary or intensive care units among Australians presenting with non-traumatic chest pain in emergency departments
George Mnatzaganian, Janet E Hiller, Jason Fletcher, Mark Putland, Cameron Knott, George Braitberg, Steve Begg, Melanie Bish
Emergency response time and pre-hospital trauma survival rate of the national ambulance service, Greater Accra (January – December 2014)
Mohammed-Najeeb Mahama, Ernest Kenu, Delia Akosua Bandoh, Ahmed Nuhu Zakariah
Prior CT imaging history for patients who undergo whole-body CT for acute traumatic injury and are discharged home from the emergency department
Mary Matthews, Peter Richman, Scott Krall, Kimberly Leeson, K Tom Xu, Albert L Gest, Osbert Blow
High time to omit oxygen therapy in ST elevation myocardial infarction
Ardavan Khoshnood
Strategies for improving physician documentation in the emergency department: a systematic review
Diane L. Lorenzetti, Hude Quan, Kelsey Lucyk, Ceara Cunningham, Deirdre Hennessy, Jason Jiang, Cynthia A. Beck
Evaluation of public awareness, knowledge and attitudes towards basic life support: a cross-sectional study
Samiha Jarrah, Mahfuz Judeh, Mohannad Eid AbuRuz
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and minimal trauma: medical review and case report
Karim Hajjar, Ralphe Bou Chebl, Mohammad Kanso, Gilbert Abou Dagher
Reduction in the IL-6 level at 24 h after admission to the intensive care unit is a survival predictor for Vietnamese patients with sepsis and septic shock: a prospective study
Pham Thi Ngoc Thao, Ton Thanh Tra, Nguyen Truong Son, Koji Wada
Pain score, desire for pain treatment and effect on pain satisfaction in the emergency department: a prospective, observational study
Judith E. van Zanden, Susanne Wagenaar, Jozine M. ter Maaten, Jan C. ter Maaten, Jack J. M. Ligtenberg
Seasonal prevalence of hyponatremia in the emergency department: impact of age
Naohiko Imai, Kiyomi Osako, Nagayuki Kaneshiro, Yugo Shibagaki
Creative adapting in a fluid environment: an explanatory model of paramedic decision making in the pre-hospital setting
Gudrun Reay, James A. Rankin, Lorraine Smith-MacDonald, Gerald C. Lazarenko
Comparison of the use of comprehensive point-of-care test panel to conventional laboratory process in emergency department
Meri Kankaanpää, Marika Holma-Eriksson, Sami Kapanen, Merja Heitto, Sari Bergström, Leila Muukkonen, Veli-Pekka Harjola
Utility and effectiveness of the Scandinavian guidelines to exclude computerized tomography scanning in mild traumatic brain injury - a prospective cohort study
Arurann Ananthaharan, Gunnhild Kravdal, Truls Martin Straume-Naesheim
Provision of post-crash first aid by traffic police in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a cross-sectional survey
Gift G. Lukumay, Menti L. Ndile, Anne H. Outwater, Dickson A. Mkoka, Mojgan Padyab, Britt-Inger Saveman, Susann Backteman-Erlanson
Sonographic guided hydrostatic saline enema reduction of childhood intussusception: a prospective study
Ademola Olusegun Talabi, Olusola Comfort Famurewa, Kayode Taiwo Bamigbola, Oludayo Adedapo Sowande, Babalola Ishmael Afolabi, Olusanya Adejuyigbe
Application of the emergency medical services trigger tool to measure adverse events in prehospital emergency care: a time series analysis
Ian Howard, Bernard Pillay, Nicholas Castle, Loua Al Shaikh, Robert Owen, David Williams
Predictive value of quick surgical airway assessment for trauma (qSAT) score for identifying trauma patients requiring surgical airway in emergency room
Kei Hayashida, Shokei Matsumoto, Mitsuhide Kitano, Junichi Sasaki
Potential benefits of triage for the trauma patient in a Kenyan emergency department
Maria Lampi, Johan P. E. Junker, John S. Tabu, Peter Berggren, Carl-Oscar Jonson, Andreas Wladis
Management of acute coronary syndrome in emergency departments: a cross sectional multicenter study (Tunisia)
Asma Sriha Belguith, Kaouthar Beltaief, Mohamed Amine Msolli, Wahid Bouida, Hela Abroug, Manel Ben Fredj, Imen Zemni, Mohamed Habib Grissa, Hamdi Boubaker, Mohamed Hsairi, Samir Nouira, Krid Jamel, Chtara Majed, Nouira Semir, Marghelli Soudani, Slim Anis, Gassab Khaled, Ben Amor Mehdi, Boukef Riadh, Methammem Mehdi, Aissa Jalled Ahlem, Bouhamed Chafiaa, Borsali Falfoul, Ben Cheikh Maamoun, Souissi Mohamed Hedi, Souissi Sami
Ear measurement of temperature is only useful for screening for fever in an adult emergency department
Christian Backer Mogensen, Malene Bue Vilhelmsen, Johanne Jepsen, Lilian Keene Boye, Maiken Hjuler Persson, Florence Skyum
Trajectories of early secondary insults correlate to outcomes of traumatic brain injury: results from a large, single centre, observational study
Paola Cristina Volpi, Chiara Robba, Matteo Rota, Alessia Vargiolu, Giuseppe Citerio
Hypoglycemia secondary to factitious hyperinsulinism in a foster care adolescent - a case report of munchausen syndrome in a community hospital emergency department setting
Ashruta Patel, Gary Daniels
Man vs machine in emergency medicine – a study on the effects of manual and automatic vital sign documentation on data quality and perceived workload, using observational paired sample data and questionnaires
Niclas Skyttberg, Rong Chen, Sabine Koch
Public knowledge of emergency medicine in Beirut, Lebanon
Afif Mufarrij, Nicholas Batley, Rinad Bakhti, Philippe Doueihi, Hani Tamim
Admission rates in emergency departments in Geneva during tennis broadcasting: a retrospective study
Jorge César Correia, Olivia Braillard, Christophe Combescure, Eric Gerstel, Hervé Spechbach
Emergency and acute care management of traumatic spinal cord injury: a survey of current practice among senior clinicians across Australia
Lisa N. Sharwood, Shelly Dhaliwal, Jonathon Ball, Brian Burns, Oliver Flower, Anthony Joseph, Ralph Stanford, James Middleton
A review of triage accuracy and future direction
Hon Lon Tam, Siu Fung Chung, Chi Kin Lou
Influence of social characteristics on use of paediatric emergency care in Sweden - a questionnaire based study
Julia Ellbrant, Jonas Åkeson, Jenny Eckner, Pia Karlsland Åkeson
Point-of-care ultrasound findings in unselected patients in an emergency department —results from a prospective observational trial
Jesper Weile, Christian B. Laursen, Christian A. Frederiksen, Ole Graumann, Erik Sloth, Hans Kirkegaard
A real life evaluation of non invasive ventilation in acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema: a multicenter, perspective, observational study for the ACPE SIMEU study group
Stefano Aliberti, Valentina Diana Rosti, Chiara Travierso, Anna Maria Brambilla, Federico Piffer, Giuseppina Petrelli, Chiara Minelli, Daniele Camisa, Antonio Voza, Giovanna Guiotto, Roberto Cosentini, Andrea Cellini, Tommaso Maraffi, Caterina Bonino, Paolo Groff, Andrea Bellone, Massimo Giorgino, Lucia Morelli, Federico Furlan, Antonio Villa, Andrea Purro, Federica Molinaro, Adolfo Di Nardo, Raffaella Francesconi, Fabio Guzzin, Marta Salzillo, Vitaliano Tiscione
Emergency department charges may be associated with mortality in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock: a cohort study
Nicholas M. Mohr, Ryan Dick-Perez, Azeemuddin Ahmed, Karisa K. Harland, Dan Shane, Daniel Miller, Christine Miyake, Levi Kannedy, Brian M. Fuller, James C. Torner