Issue 1/2019
Content (41 Articles)
The association between intravenous fluid resuscitation and mortality in older emergency department patients with suspected infection
Sin Y. Ko, Laura M. Esteve Cuevas, Merel Willeboer, Annemieke Ansems, Laura C. Blomaard, Jacinta A. Lucke, Simon P. Mooijaart, Bas de Groot
Relationship between level of CPR training, self-reported skills, and actual manikin test performance—an observational study
Inger Lund-Kordahl, Maria Mathiassen, Jørgen Melau, Theresa Mariero Olasveengen, Kjetil Sunde, Knut Fredriksen
Impact of short basic emergency medicine training in introducing emergency medicine as a specialty in Sub-Saharan Africa: experience from Tanzania
Peter S. Mabula, Hendry R. Sawe, Victor Mwafongo, Juma A. Mfinanga, Michael S. Runyon, Brittany L. Murray
Evaluating the impact of emergency department crowding on disposition patterns and outcomes of discharged patients
Mahshid Abir, Jason E. Goldstick, Rosalie Malsberger, Andrew Williams, Sebastian Bauhoff, Vikas I. Parekh, Steven Kronick, Jeffrey S. Desmond
Implementation and performance of the South African Triage Scale at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya
Ali A. Wangara, Katherine M. Hunold, Sarah Leeper, Frederick Ndiawo, Judith Mweu, Shaun Harty, Rachael Fuchs, Ian B. K. Martin, Karen Ekernas, Stephen J. Dunlop, Michèle Twomey, Alice W. Maingi, Justin Guy Myers
Team-based learning improves knowledge and retention in an emergency medicine clerkship
Arif Alper Cevik, Margaret ElZubeir, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Sami Shaban
A pilot study of improvised CPAP (iCPAP) via face mask for the treatment of adult respiratory distress in low-resource settings
Brendan H. Milliner, Suzanne Bentley, James DuCanto
It’s not just FaceTime: core competencies for the Medical Virtualist
Rahul Sharma, Sapir Nachum, Karina W. Davidson, Michael Nochomovitz
Quick SOFA vs Rockall preendoscopy scores for risk assessment in patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a retrospective cohort study
Vladimir Bagin, Evgenii Tarasov, Maria Astafyeva, Evgenii Nishnevich, Vladimir Rudnov, Mikhail Prudkov
Improving the ability of ED physicians to identify subclinical/electrographic seizures on EEG after a brief training module
Geetha Chari, Kabir Yadav, Daniel Nishijima, Ahmet Omurtag, Shahriar Zehtabchi
Differences in initial electrocardiographic findings between ST-elevation myocardial infarction due to left main trunk and left anterior descending artery lesions
Toshiharu Fujii, Misaki Hasegawa, Junichi Miyamoto, Yuji Ikari
Medical students and metrics: seven techniques for a win-win situation
Tracy MacIntosh, David C. Lebowitz, Latha Ganti
Outcomes following clonidine ingestions in children: an analysis of poison control center data
Kendra Amico, Rolando Cabrera, Latha Ganti
A comparison of airway management devices in simulated entrapment-trauma: a prospective manikin study
Robin Pap, Charl van Loggerenberg
Emergency medicine in Saudi Arabia: a century of progress and a bright vision for the future
Eyad Khattab, Abdulrahman Sabbagh, Nawfal Aljerian, Hashim Binsalleeh, Mobarak Almulhim, Abdulrahman Alqahtani, Majid Alsalamah
The importance of platelet counts in severe hypothermia
Ian Joseph Cohen
Epidemiology of paediatric trauma in Norway: a single-trauma centre observational study
Eirik Nesje, Nadine Nalini Valøy, Andreas Jorstad Krüger, Oddvar Uleberg
Interdisciplinary in situ simulation-based medical education in the emergency department of a teaching hospital in Nepal
Roshana Shrestha, Anmol Purna Shrestha, Sanu Krishna Shrestha, Samjhana Basnet, Alok Pradhan
Effect of new year holidays on hospital mortality: a time series study
Mohadeseh Ghanbari Jahromi, Reza Goudarzi, Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Saeed Amini, Javad Nazari, Mohammadreza Amiresmaili
The impact of a multimodal intervention on emergency department crowding and patient flow
M. C. (Christien) van der Linden, H. M. E. (Jet) van Ufford, Roeline A. Y. de Beaufort, Robert W. Grauss, Herman M. A. Hofstee, Jochem M. Hoogendoorn, Sven A. G. Meylaerts, Roselyne M. Rijsman, Theo P. W. de Rooij, Christiaan Smith, Frans J. de Voeght, Olga J. G. Warffemius, Geesje van Woerden, N. (Naomi) van der Linden
Complications of subcutaneous penile modifications: a discussion of emergency department presentations and management
Cali L. Kirkham, Stormy M. Monks, Scott B. Crawford
New d-dimer threshold for Japanese patients with suspected pulmonary embolism: a retrospective cohort study
Jin Takahashi, Takashi Shiga, Yuita Fukuyama, Yuiko Hoshina, Yosuke Homma, Michiko Mizobe, Kenji Numata, Tetsuya Inoue, Hiraku Funakoshi
Clinical significance of urinary L-FABP in the emergency department
Ginga Suzuki, Ryo Ichibayashi, Saki Yamamoto, Yoshimi Nakamichi, Masayuki Watanabe, Mitsuru Honda
Chest pain while gardening: a Stanford type A dissection involving the aortic root extending into the iliac arteries—an uncommon and potentially catastrophic disease process
Gregory M. Taylor, Michael W. Barney, Eric L. McDowell
Prospective comparison of capillary and venous brain biomarker S100B: capillary samples have large inter-sample variation and poor correlation with venous samples
Tomas Vedin, Mathias Karlsson, Marcus Edelhamre, Mikael Bergenheim, Per-Anders Larsson
Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis associated with sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor use: a case report and review of the literature
Alexis Diaz-Ramos, Wesley Eilbert, Diego Marquez
Complete brachial plexus palsy following shoulder dislocation due to sneeze: a case report
Austin H. Middleton, John Roffers, Dean W. Ziegler
Impact of age on the seasonal prevalence of hypernatremia in the emergency department: a single-center study
Naohiko Imai, Hirofumi Sumi, Yugo Shibagaki
To enhance the quality of CPR performed by youth layman
Anna Abelsson, Annette Nygårdh
Outcomes of rapid response team implementation in tertiary private hospitals: a prospective cohort study
Awad Al-Omari, Abbas Al Mutair, Fadi Aljamaan
Case report: systolic murmur associated with pulmonary embolism
Cain M. Dudek, Kelly R. McCracken, B. James Connolly
Rhabdomyolysis as an initial presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report
Gayatri Saxena, Ahmed Mahdi
A compulsive act of excess water intake leading to hyponatraemia and rhabdomyolysis: a case report
Sudheera Fernando, Francisca Sivagnanam, Devarajan Rathish
Exploring emergency department visits: factors influencing individuals’ decisions, knowledge of triage systems and waiting times, and experiences during visits to a tertiary hospital in Saudi Arabia
Nawaf Alhabdan, Faisal Alhusain, Abdulkareem Alharbi, Muatassem Alsadhan, Moath Hakami, Emad Masuadi
Triage and flow management in sepsis
Hudson Henrique Gomes Pires, Fábio Fernandes Neves, Antonio Pazin-Filho
Developing an emergency medicine handoff tool: an electronic Delphi approach
Khaled Alrajhi, Abdulmohsen Alsaawi
Fluid resuscitation in trauma: what are the best strategies and fluids?
G. H. Ramesh, J. C. Uma, Sheerin Farhath
Right main bronchus rupture associated with blunt chest trauma: a case report
Carime Díaz, Daniel F. Carvajal, Eliana I. Morales, Saveria Sangiovanni, Liliana Fernández-Trujillo
The influence of past experiences on future willingness to perform bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Keng Sheng Chew, Shazrina Ahmad Razali, Shirly Siew Ling Wong, Aisyah Azizul, Nurul Faizah Ismail, Sharoon Juliet Kun Chyee Ak Robert, Yegharaj A/L Jayaveeran
A 2-year-old with a hepatic abscess secondary to an ascending retrocecal appendicitis: case report and review of the literature
Gregory M. Taylor, Ethan R. Saffer, Eric L. McDowell, Matthew A. Warpinski