Endocarditis in the emergency department.

abstract：:A 39-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with symptoms of acute knifelike chest pain and was discharged with a diagnosis of musculoskeletal pain syndrome. One day later, she returned with a complaint of persistent chest pain. Physical examination disclosed meningismus, this led to a lumbar puncture an...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Barton CW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy of adenosine in the treatment of emergency department patients with spontaneous paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT). DESIGN:An eight-month prospective outcome study. POPULATION:Patients 16 or more years old with PSVT by surface ECG criteria. Patients were excluded if ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Cairns CB,Niemann JT

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We determine the feasibility and yield of universal opt-out HIV screening among adolescents and adults in a southeastern emergency department (ED) serving a semiurban-semirural population. METHODS:Individuals aged 13 to 64 years who visited the ED during specified hours received the OraQuick rapid HIV test (...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Sattin RW,Wilde JA,Freeman AE,Miller KM,Dias JK

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the public health impact of a hurricane on an inland area. DESIGN:Descriptive study. SETTING:Seven hospital emergency departments. PARTICIPANTS:Patients who were treated from September 22 to October 6, 1989, for an injury or illness related to Hurricane Hugo. INTERVENTION:None. MEASUREM...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brewer RD,Morris PD,Cole TB

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The resuscitation of a patient with failure of a permanent artificial pacemaker is described. A mechanically inactive heart showed a variety of ineffective rhythms, and dissociation could not be overcome by drug therapy. The urgent need for artificial pacing presented problems that eventually were overcome. The time r...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： McNeil EL

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early reports of "reperfusion arrhythmia" after experimental temporary coronary occlusion raised concern that these arrhythmias, particularly ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia, might occur in association with reperfusion of an occluded coronary vessel during thrombolysis. Such an occurrence could in...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Burney RE,Walsh D,Kaplan LR,Fraser S,Tung B,Overmyer J

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To document prehospital and inhospital time intervals from stroke onset to emergency department evaluation and to identify factors associated with presentation to the ED within 3 hours of symptom onset, the current time window for thrombolytic therapy. METHODS:Patients admitted through the ED with a di...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Kothari R,Jauch E,Broderick J,Brott T,Sauerbeck L,Khoury J,Liu T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Machine-learning algorithms allow improved prediction of sepsis syndromes in the emergency department (ED), using data from electronic medical records. Transfer learning, a new subfield of machine learning, allows generalizability of an algorithm across clinical sites. We aim to validate the Artificial ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wardi G,Carlile M,Holder A,Shashikumar S,Hayden SR,Nemati S

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine whether N-acetylcysteine (NAC reduces methemoglobin. METHODS:We carried out an in vitro laboratory experiment in which five healthy adult volunteers donated blood. Each sample was divided equally among three test tubes. Tube 1 served as a negative control. Sodium nitrite .18 mol/L with dex...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wright RO,Magnani B,Shannon MW,Woolf AD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented is a rationale for use of a new class of drugs, the iron chelating agents, in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) to prevent late deaths and brain damage following successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The relevant biochemical hypothesis states that free iron ions, liberated from bound intracellular sto...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Babbs CF

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the potential usefulness of external cardiac pacing for the termination of sustained ventricular tachycardia in the emergency department setting. TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS:Five men and one woman (mean age, 57 years) who presented to the ED with a wide-complex, hemodynamically stable tachycardia...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Grubb BP,Temesy-Armos P,Hahn H,Elliott L

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ON THIS TOPIC: Previous out-of-hospital studies indicate that selective spinal immobilization may miss patients with cervical injury. WHAT QUESTION THIS STUDY ADDRESSED: Can paramedics apply the Canadian C-Spine Rule in alert, stable, cooperative, blunt-trauma patients to reserve spinal immobiliz...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Barrett TW,Schriger DL

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthoracic cardiac pacing historically has been relegated to the role of the technique of last resort in treating cardiac arrest. Recent studies have shown that this technique has a high rate of successful electrical capture, but often without mechanical activity. Survival rates have been shown to be dismal when th...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hedges JR,Syverud SA,Dalsey WC

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Radiology-performed transabdominal pelvic ultrasound, used to evaluate female patients with suspected pelvic pathology in the pediatric emergency department (ED), is often delayed by the need to fill the bladder. We seek to determine whether point-of-care ultrasound assessment of bladder fullness can pr...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Dessie A,Steele D,Liu AR,Amanullah S,Constantine E

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The syndrome of rhabdomyolysis associated with cocaine use has been recently described, but the incidence, severity, risk factors, and complications are unknown. This study sought to describe the spectrum of the syndrome and identify clinical features of patients at risk. DESIGN:Retrospective case ser...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brody SL,Wrenn KD,Wilber MM,Slovis CM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Tetanus antibody levels have been shown to be inadequate in 50% of patients older than 65 years. Although immunization recommendations have been made for this age group, the efficacy of this intervention has not been well documented. We sought to determine the difference in tetanus antibody levels after...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Alagappan K,Rennie W,Narang V,Auerbach C

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the concordance of emergency physicians' and cardiologists' interpretations of abnormal ECGs. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. SETTING:An urban teaching hospital emergency department. TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS:Patients with an abnormal ED ECG that was interpreted by both an emergency physic...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Westdrop EJ,Gratton MC,Watson WA

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 10 seriously injured patients requiring resuscitation and definitive operative control of hemorrhage was studied. Simultaneous arterial and mixed venous blood gases were measured sequentially throughout the resuscitative and operative periods. Improvement of the mixed venous oxygen saturation was associate...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Kazarian KK,Del Guercio LR

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Frequent emergency department (ED) users have been the targets of health care reform proposals and hospital crowding interventions, but it is not clear that common assumptions about this group are supported by data. We review the literature pertaining to frequent ED users, their demographics, acuity of ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： LaCalle E,Rabin E

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We hypothesize that emergency department (ED) volume and increased patient complexity are associated with lower quality of care, as measured by time to antibiotics for patients being admitted with community-acquired pneumonia. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study at a university tertiary care hospi...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Fee C,Weber EJ,Maak CA,Bacchetti P

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) message that can be given via telephone by emergency dispatchers directly to an individual reporting a cardiac arrest. The message was developed and evaluated on the basis of empirical observation of CPR performance of 203 community volunteers during simulated cardiac...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Carter WB,Eisenberg MS,Hallstrom AP,Schaeffer S

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with primary axillary vein thrombosis was treated successfully in the emergency department with a single IV bolus of anistrepalase followed by continuous IV heparin. The patient's symptoms resolved quickly, and a repeat venogram 16 hours later showed near-complete resolution of the venous obstruction. We dis...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Pires LA,Jay G

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitatory behavior, xerostomia, chest pain, severe dyspnea, tachycardia (150 beats/min), and mild hypertension (160/80 mm Hg) without ECG abnormalities were observed in a 20-year-old subject 6 hours after nasal insufflation (snorting) of a "legally" obtained white powdered substance sold as Synthacaine. A serum sampl...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Lonati D,Buscaglia E,Papa P,Valli A,Coccini T,Giampreti A,Petrolini VM,Vecchio S,Serpelloni G,Locatelli CA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The European Cooperative Acute Stroke Study III (ECASS III) showed that recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) administered 3 to 4.5 hours after acute ischemic stroke led to improvement in patient disability versus placebo. We evaluate the long-term incremental cost-effectiveness of rtPA admini...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Boudreau DM,Guzauskas G,Villa KF,Fagan SC,Veenstra DL

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:We determine whether the addition of heat to topical eutectic mixture of local anesthetic (EMLA) cream shortens the onset time to effective analgesia. We hypothesized that applying EMLA cream for 20 minutes with an external heat pack would be as effective as the standard 60-minute application time. ME...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Liu DR,Kirchner HL,Petrack EM

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annals' 25th anniversary is a cause for celebration, but the future imposes a new set of ethical questions and moral dilemmas for emergency physicians. Each physician will need to make personal choices consistent with the courage, judgment, integrity, and dedication of past leaders when dealing with the moral dilemmas...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Waeckerle JF

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY HYPOTHESIS:The clinical features of children treated with oral antibiotics before the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis differ from those who receive no antibiotics. DESIGN:Retrospective case series. SETTING:University medical center. PARTICIPANTS:Two hundred fifty-eight children 24 months old or younger with ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Rothrock SG,Green SM,Wren J,Letai D,Daniel-Underwood L,Pillar E

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Advanced, out-of-hospital procedures such as intravenous access are commonly performed by emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, yet little evidence supports their use among noninjured patients. We evaluate the association between out-of-hospital, intravenous access and mortality among noninjured, ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Seymour CW,Cooke CR,Hebert PL,Rea TD

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemodynamically unstable patients will benefit from therapy to control their blood pressure only if this pressure can be determined with accuracy. We compared the accuracy of arterial blood pressure measurements taken aboard helicopters by palpation with a Doppler device and with an oscillometric device. Twenty critic...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Low RB,Martin D

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Postoverdose interventions that deploy peer recovery support specialists to emergency departments (EDs) are a promising response to opioid overdoses among patients presenting in EDs. The objective of this study was to elicit patients' perspectives regarding the feasibility and acceptability of such an i...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wagner KD,Mittal ML,Harding RW,Smith KP,Dawkins AD,Wei X,Woodard S,Roget NA,Oman RF

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00