Issue 1/2012
Content (45 Articles)
Current status of establishing a venous line in CPA patients by Emergency Life-Saving Technicians in the prehospital setting in Japan and a proposal for intraosseous infusion
Kenji Isayama, Toshio Nakatani, Masanobu Tsuda, Akihiko Hirakawa
The role of perfusion CT in identifying stroke mimics in the emergency room: a case of status epilepticus presenting with perfusion CT alterations
Waldo R Guerrero, Haitham Dababneh, Stephan Eisenschenk
Acute myocardial infarction and coronary vasospasm associated with the ingestion of cayenne pepper pills in a 25-year-old male
Ozgur Sogut, Halil Kaya, Mehmet Tahir Gokdemir, Yusuf Sezen
Spontaneous upper limb monoplegia secondary to probable cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek, Nandita K Parmar, Norah-Hager Sadek, Sanjana Jaiganesh, Samer Elkhodair, Thiagarajan Jaiganesh
Autonomic dysreflexia in a tetraplegic patient due to a blocked urethral catheter: spinal cord injury patients with lesions above T-6 require prompt treatment of an obstructed urinary catheter to prevent life-threatening complications of autonomic dysreflexia
Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul Soni, Tun Oo, Peter Hughes, Gurpreet Singh, Kamesh Pulya
Successful treatment of severe accidental hypothermia with cardiac arrest for a long time using cardiopulmonary bypass - report of a case
Keigo Sawamoto, Katsutoshi Tanno, Yoshihiro Takeyama, Yasufumi Asai
Case report: successful lipid resuscitation in multi-drug overdose with predominant tricyclic antidepressant toxidrome
Martyn Harvey, Grant Cave
The impact of blood pressure hemodynamics in acute ischemic stroke: a prospective cohort study
Latha Ganti Stead, Sailaja Enduri, M Fernanda Bellolio, Anunaya R Jain, Lekshmi Vaidyanathan, Rachel M Gilmore, Rahul Kashyap, Amy L Weaver, Robert D Brown Jr
Hypothermic cardiac arrest far away from the center providing rewarming with extracorporeal circulation
Eckhard Mark, Olaf Jacobsen, Astrid Kjerstad, Torvind Naesheim, Rolf Busund, Ramez Bahar, Jon Kjetil Jensen, Per Kristian Skorpen, Lars J Bjertnaes
Cross-sectional survey of malaria prevalence in tsunami-affected districts of Aceh Province, Indonesia
David Muriuki, Sigrid Hahn, Braden Hexom, Richard Allan
Communicating carotid-cavernous sinus fistula following minor head trauma
Joshua B Kaplan, Aakash N Bodhit, Michael L Falgiani
Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) and CT perfusion changes
Vishnumurthy Shushrutha Hedna, Latha Ganti Stead, Sharathchandra Bidari, Akhil Patel, Amareshwari Gottipati, Christopher G Favilla, Arash Salardini, Aunali Khaku, Diana Mora, Ajay Pandey, Het Patel, Michael F Waters
The livelihoods of Haitian health-care providers after the january 2010 earthquake: a pilot study of the economic and quality-of-life impact of emergency relief
Rohini J Haar, Sassan Naderi, John R Acerra, Maxwell Mathias, Kumar Alagappan
Subgaleal coiling of the proximal and distal components of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt
Brian T Kloss, David M Hart, LaLainia Secreti
A randomized open-label trial on the use of budesonide/formoterol (Symbicort®) as an alternative reliever medication for mild to moderate asthmatic attacks
Keng Sheng Chew, Hamizah Kamarudin, Che Wan Hashim
Comparison of existing syncope rules and newly proposed anatolian syncope rule to predict short-term serious outcomes after syncope in the Turkish population
Kamil Kayayurt, Haldun Akoglu, Onder Limon, Asım Oktay Ergene, Ozcan Yavasi, Serdar Bayata, Nergiz Vanden Berk, Erden Erol Unluer
Applications of minimally invasive cardiac output monitors
Jahan Porhomayon, Gino Zadeii, Samuel Congello, Nader D Nader
Intraorbital foreign body projectile as a consideration for unilateral pupillary defect
Craig N Czyz, Thomas P Petrie, Jonathan D Harder, Kenneth V Cahill, Jill A Foster
Prevalence of intimate partner violence in patients presenting with traumatic injuries to a Guyanese emergency department
Kendra P Parekh, Stephan Russ, David A Amsalem, Navindranauth Rambaran, Shannon Langston, Seth W Wright
Analysis of traumatic injuries presenting to a referral hospital emergency department in Moshi, Tanzania
Erica R Casey, Florida Muro, Nathan M Thielman, Elifuraha Maya, Eric W Ossmann, Michael B Hocker, Charles J Gerardo
Health care workers and disaster preparedness: barriers to and facilitators of willingness to respond
Chinwe Ogedegbe, Themba Nyirenda, Gary DelMoro, Edward Yamin, Joseph Feldman
Performance of emergency physicians utilizing a video-assisted semi-rigid fiberoptic stylet for intubation of a difficult airway in a high-fidelity simulated patient: a pilot study
Derek R Cooney, Norma L Cooney, Harry Wallus, Susan Wojcik
Continued rise in the use of mid-level providers in US emergency departments, 1993–2009
David F M Brown, Ashley F Sullivan, Janice A Espinola, Carlos A Camargo Jr
Diagnostic values of ultrasound and the Modified Alvarado Scoring System in acute appendicitis
Shirzad Nasiri, Fatemeh Mohebbi, Nassim Sodagari, Anushiravan Hedayat
Spontaneous showering of tumor emboli in a patient with advanced primary lung cancer: a case report
Susan M Schreffler, William F Paolo, Brian T Kloss
Is there a relationship between wound infections and laceration closure times?
Muhammad Waseem, Viraj Lakdawala, Rohit Patel, Ramnath Kapoor, Mark Leber, Xuming Sun
Medical students’ perceptions of an emergency medicine clerkship: an analysis of self-assessment surveys
Jennifer L Avegno, Heather Murphy-Lavoie, Daryl P Lofaso, Lisa Moreno-Walton
The use of end-tidal carbon dioxide monitoring in patients with hypotension in the emergency department
Cheah P Kheng, Nik H Rahman
Improving the quality of emergency medicine care by developing a quality requirement framework: a study from The Netherlands
David E Ikkersheim, Harm van de Pas
Improvement of refractory migraine headache by propofol: case series
Hassan Soleimanpour, Aliakbar Taheraghdam, Rouzbeh Rajaei Ghafouri, Ali Taghizadieh, Karim Marjany, Maryam Soleimanpour
Carbon monoxide poisoning: Novel magnetic resonance imaging pattern in the acute setting
Ryan A Stephen, Sheehan W Donal, O’Neill B Siobhain, Clarkson R Michael, Costello J Daniel
Fatal transorbital penetrating intracranial injury caused by a bicycle hand brake
Willemijn B Huiszoon, Pieter N Noë, Albertus Manten
Non-fatal injuries among pediatric patients seeking care in an urban Ghanaian emergency department
Lauren K Whiteside, Rockefeller Oteng, Patrick Carter, John Amuasi, Ekua Abban, Sarah Rominski, Michelle Nypaver, Rebecca M Cunningham
Pericardial calcification in constrictive pericarditis
Michel Toledano, Anjali Bhagra
National inventory of emergency departments in Singapore
Leana S Wen, Anantharaman Venkataraman, Ashley F Sullivan, Carlos A Camargo
Emerging concepts in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with undifferentiated angioedema
Jonathan A Bernstein, Joseph Moellman
Optimizing global health experiences in emergency medicine residency programs: a consensus statement from the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors 2011 Academic Assembly global health specialty track
Janis P Tupesis, Christine Babcock, Doug Char, Kumar Alagappan, Braden Hexom, G Bobby Kapur
Elderly out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has worse outcomes with a family bystander than a non-family bystander
Manabu Akahane, Seizan Tanabe, Soichi Koike, Toshio Ogawa, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Hideo Yasunaga, Tomoaki Imamura
Patellar dislocation: cylinder cast, splint or brace? An evidence-based review of the literature
Johanna P van Gemert, Lisette M de Vree, Roger A P A Hessels, Menno I Gaakeer
Technical and clinical analysis of microEEG: a miniature wireless EEG device designed to record high-quality EEG in the emergency department
Ahmet Omurtag, Samah G Abdel Baki, Geetha Chari, Roger Q Cracco, Shahriar Zehtabchi, André A Fenton, Arthur C Grant
Major incident preparedness and on-site work among Norwegian rescue personnel – a cross-sectional study
Sabina Fattah, Andreas J Krüger, Jan Einar Andersen, Trond Vigerust, Marius Rehn
Survey of preferred guideline attributes: what helps to make guidelines more useful for emergency health practitioners?
Samar Aboulsoud, Sue Huckson, Peter Wyer, Eddy Lang
Lung injury prediction score for the emergency department: first step towards prevention in patients at risk
Marie-Carmelle Elie-Turenne, Peter C Hou, Aya Mitani, Jonathan M Barry, Erica Y Kao, Jason E Cohen, Gyorgy Frendl, Ognjen Gajic, Nina T Gentile
The duration of SIRS before organ failure is a significant prognostic factor of sepsis
Hiroki Sugita, Yoshihiro Kinoshita, Hideo Baba
Towards prevention of acute lung injury: frequency and outcomes of emergency department patients at-risk – a multicenter cohort study
Peter C Hou, Marie-Carmelle Elie-Turenne, Aya Mitani, Jonathan M Barry, Erica Y Kao, Jason E Cohen, Gyorgy Frendl, Ognjen Gajic, Nina T Gentile