World Health Assembly Resolution 60.22 and its importance as a health care policy tool for improving emergency care access and availability globally.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Studies of travel-related mortality and morbidity have been limited to nonfatal events. Causes of travel-related mortality may differ significantly from morbidity and thus have different prevention strategies. DESIGN:We examined the overseas fatalities of US citizen travelers for the years 1975 and 198...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hargarten SW,Baker TD,Guptill K

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the efficacy of emergency practitioner-performed brief intervention for hazardous/harmful drinkers in reducing alcohol consumption and negative consequences in an emergency department (ED) setting. METHODS:A randomized clinical trial (Project ED Health) was conducted in an urban ED from Ma...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： D'Onofrio G,Pantalon MV,Degutis LC,Fiellin DA,Busch SH,Chawarski MC,Owens PH,O'Connor PG

更新日期：2008-06-01 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 investigate whether the addition of a single aerosolized dose of glycopyrrolate leads to a greater improvement in pulmonary function than treatment with albuterol alone for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, blinded, cont...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Cydulka RK,Emerman CL

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Emergency departments (EDs) frequently refer patients for needed outpatient specialty care, but little is known about the dynamics of these referrals when patients are publicly insured. Hence, we explored factors, including the role of ED referrals, associated with specialists' willingness to accept pat...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Rhodes KV,Bisgaier J,Lawson CC,Soglin D,Krug S,Van Haitsma M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a number of studies have described endotracheal intubation of adult patients in the prehospital setting, there are few studies on prehospital endotracheal intubation of pediatric patients. The purposes of our study were to determine how frequently prehospital endotracheal intubation was used in pediatric card...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Aijian P,Tsai A,Knopp R,Kallsen GW

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent investigations suggest that increased intrathoracic pressure causing compression of the heart and great vessels in the thorax plays an important role in providing blood flow during cardiopulmonary resuscitation. This communication reports the case of a four-year-old asphyxiated girl found to have a small amount...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Forney J,Ornato JP

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colloid cyst of the third ventricle, although a benign lesion, carries with it high mortality and morbidity if not diagnosed in time. The most common presenting symptom is headache. A 31-year-old man with a history of intermittent, throbbing, unilateral headache and nausea was admitted because of exacerbation of his h...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Weisz RR,Fazal M

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest vary widely among locations. We surveyed the definitions used in published studies of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Data from 74 studies involving 36 communities showed survival rates ranging from 2% to 44%. There were five different case definitions and 11 different...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Eisenberg MS,Cummins RO,Damon S,Larsen MP,Hearne TR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Risperidone is an investigational antipsychotic agent currently being tested in an international multicenter drug trial. We report the first case of a risperidone overdose in an apparent suicide attempt. This was without serious clinical side effects and manifested mainly as ECG abnormalities. ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brown K,Levy H,Brenner C,Leffler S,Hamburg EL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We characterize repeat pediatric emergency department visits and determine the cause for such visits as an indicator of potential need for quality improvement. We hypothesized that most repeat ED visits resulting in hospitalization do not represent medical errors. METHODS:The study was performed at a l...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Depiero AD,Ochsenschlager DW,Chamberlain JM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrest caused by massive pulmonary embolism is highly refractory to conventional resuscitation. Emergency surgical embolectomy has been considered the only effective intervention. We present the case of a 33-year-old woman who suffered a massive pulmonary embolism with circulatory arrest refractory to one half...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Langdon RW,Swicegood WR,Schwartz DA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic injury after blunt abdominal trauma can be subtle and delayed in its onset. We present a 24-year-old man who became jaundiced 16 days after he experienced blunt trauma. He was found to have an isolated pancreatic contusion. We discuss the initial evaluation for blunt pancreatic injury, the differential diag...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Emmick RH Jr,Petersen SR

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a traditional clinical trial, a fixed number of patients are evaluated before the data are analyzed. This has the disadvantage that more patients may be enrolled than are necessary to achieve a statistically significant result. Sequential statistical techniques provide a method for the analysis of clinical trials s...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Lewis RJ,Bessen HA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Board of Emergency Medicine gathers extensive background information on emergency medicine residents and the programs in which they train. We present the third annual report on the status of US emergency medicine residency programs. [American Board of Emergency Medicine. Report of the Task Force on Reside...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hoffman GL,Bock BF,Gallagher EJ,Markovchick VJ,Ham HP,Munger BS

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A research project was developed to study the process of professional socialization in graduate medical education by describing and analyzing the development of emergency medicine residencies in comparison to those of surgery and internal medicine. Based on the assumption that residency programs have a profound impact...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Anwar RA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We sought to develop and validate standardized clinical criteria to identify patients presenting to the emergency department whose care may be safely deferred to a later date in a nonemergency setting. METHODS:Using a modified Delphi process, a 17-member multidisciplinary physician panel developed expl...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Washington DL,Stevens CD,Shekelle PG,Baker DW,Fink A,Brook RH

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The esophageal obturator airway (EOA) is in common use throughout the country. This report outlines an unexpected and serious complication: gastric rupture due to overinsufflation. A survey of the literature revealed that most of the known complications involve direct trauma to the esophagus or trachea. In our case, t...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Crippen D,Olvey S,Graffis R

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of thrombolytic treatment in acute myocardial infarction is to reestablish permanent blood flow, salvage ischemic myocardium, and reduce mortality. If patency is achieved sufficiently early and is maintained, left ventricular function is preserved and mortality decreases. The recent experience with tissue pla...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Heras M,Chesebro JH,Gersh BG,Holmes DR,Mock MB,Fuster V

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Abdominal compressions can be interposed between the thoracic compressions of standard CPR (SCPR). The resulting interposed abdominal compression CPR (IAC-CPR) may increase blood pressures and patient survival, particularly if applied as a primary technique after in-hospital cardiac arrest. We used a pr...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hoekstra OS,van Lambalgen AA,Groeneveld AB,van den Bos GC,Thijs LG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent animal and clinical data require a reevaluation of the traditional approach to the patient exposed to carbon monoxide. Unfortunately, these new data are inconclusive and generate controversies regarding the indications and value of neuropsychologic testing, cause of carbon monoxide toxicity, and indications (if...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Seger D,Welch L

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To assess the ability of parents to estimate their children's weight. METHODS:We assembled a convenience sample of children, newborn to 5 years, who presented to the ED of a tertiary care hospital. Each child's mother or father was asked to estimate the child's weight as accurately as possible. The tri...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Leffler S,Hayes M

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Situated in the heart of Europe, Switzerland's 7 million inhabitants, including 1 million foreigners, live in an area of 41,000 km2. German, French, Italian, and Rhaeto-Romanic are the official languages. The Swiss health service stands out because of the high quality and efficiency of its ambulatory and hospitalized ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Osterwalder JJ

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Debate exists about the mortality benefit of administering antibiotics within either 1 or 3 hours of sepsis onset. We performed this meta-analysis to analyze the effect of immediate (0 to 1 hour after onset) versus early (1 to 3 hours after onset) antibiotics on mortality in patients with severe sepsis ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Rothrock SG,Cassidy DD,Barneck M,Schinkel M,Guetschow B,Myburgh C,Nguyen L,Earwood R,Nanayakkara PWB,Nannan Panday RS,Briscoe JG

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24-year-old man was assaulted and sustained a stab wound to the left lower neck. When he arrived at the emergency department, he was hemodynamically stable. Although the wound had penetrated the platysma, on initial evaluation the patient did not appear to have sustained significant injury. Closer examination of the...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Pollack CV Jr,Kolb JC,Griswold JA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We determine the accuracy of an age-adjusted D-dimer threshold to detect pulmonary embolism in emergency department (ED) patients older than 50 years and describe current ED practices when evaluating possible pulmonary embolism. METHODS:This was a retrospective study of ED encounters for suspected pulm...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Sharp AL,Vinson DR,Alamshaw F,Handler J,Gould MK

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To develop clinical rules for the safe and effective use of flumazenil in suspected benzodiazepine overdose. METHODS:We assembled a retrospective series of 35 consecutive comatose patients admitted between October 1992 and July 1993 to a toxicologic ICU with the presumptive diagnosis of drug overdose. ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Gueye PN,Hoffman JR,Taboulet P,Vicaut E,Baud FJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In December 2002, the federal government began a program to immunize approximately 500000 civilian public health and health care workers with smallpox (vaccinia) vaccine as a part of our pre-event defense against bioterrorism. First responders will likely follow, and the general US population might be offered vaccinat...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Thorne CD,Hirshon JM,Himes CD,McDiarmid MA

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blacks, Hispanics/Latinos, American Indians, Pacific Islanders, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians make up 33% of the US population. These same groups are underrepresented in medicine. In 2013, the physician workforce was 4.1% black, 4.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.7% Asian, and 48.9%...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Garrick JF,Perez B,Anaebere TC,Craine P,Lyons C,Lee T

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented is a case of syncope as the initial sign of a painless aortic dissection. The patient was stabilized by percutaneous drainage of a hemopericardium, and then underwent angiography and successful operative repair. Although uncommon, painless aortic dissection should be included in the differential diagnosis of...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Kuhlmann TP,Powers RD

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00