Blunt trauma to the abdomen.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To assess the timing of key decisions and clinical events in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction with thrombolytic therapy. DESIGN:Prospective study of emergency department patients. SETTING:EDs in 11 urban and two rural hospitals. TYPES OF PARTICIPANTS:Patients with presumed acute myocardi...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Gonzalez ER,Jones LA,Ornato JP,Bleecker GC,Strauss MJ

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the use of diclofenac ophthalmic solution is a safe and effective analgesic in the treatment of traumatic corneal abrasions in the emergency department. METHODS:We conducted a prospective, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Consenting consecutive patient...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Szucs PA,Nashed AH,Allegra JR,Eskin B

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of electronic control devices has expanded worldwide during the last few years, the most widely used model being the Taser. However, the scientific knowledge about electronic control devices remains limited. We reviewed the medical literature to examine the potential implications of electronic devices in terms...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Pasquier M,Carron PN,Vallotton L,Yersin B

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The literature suggests that the d -dimer is useful in patients suspected of having pulmonary embolism and who have a low pretest probability of disease. A previously defined clinical decision rule, the Wells Criteria, may provide a reliable and reproducible means of determining this pretest probability...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wolf SJ,McCubbin TR,Feldhaus KM,Faragher JP,Adcock DM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, randomized, blinded study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of standard compared with high-dose epinephrine in cardiac arrest in dogs. Twenty-five mongrel dogs were anesthetized and monitored by central venous catheter, intra-arterial catheter, and ECG. A left lateral thoracotomy was performed, and...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brunette DD,Jameson SJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the sciences of emergency medicine and acute care medicine develop, it becomes imperative for researchers in these fields to accurately and completely report the methodology of their investigations. It is only through complete reporting that other investigators can critically examine, replicate, or expand on the re...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brown CG,Kelen GD,Moser M,Moeschberger ML,Rund DA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From October 1985 to April 1988, 297 patients with presumed unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction, or permanent pacemaker failure were transferred by helicopter from community hospitals to our medical center for tertiary care. Fifty-six patients (19%) experienced treatable bradycardia (heart rate of less than 5...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Vukov LF,Johnson DQ

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：:This clinical policy focuses on critical issues in the evaluation and management of patients with acute myocardial infarction or unstable angina. A MEDLINE search for articles published between January 1993 and December 1998 was performed using combinations of the key words chest pain, acute myocardial infarction, uns...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors：

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite 3 decades of scientific progress, rates of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest remain low. The Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) was created to provide communities with a means to identify cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, measure how well emergency medical services (EMS) perf...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： McNally B,Stokes A,Crouch A,Kellermann AL,CARES Surveillance Group.

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Measurement of interval data is important in the accurate recording of events that occur in an emergency medical services system. Measurement of intervals should be a simple task. However, when two separate clocks are needed to record the beginning and end of an interval, accurate measurement may be dif...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Campbell JP,Gridley TS,Muelleman RL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated charcoal is a safe, effective, inexpensive adjunct in the management of most toxic ingestions. It has the ability to adsorb a wide variety of drugs and chemicals, one of which is acetaminophen. N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is the specific antidote available for serious overdoses of acetaminophen. Current managemen...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Renzi FP,Donovan JW,Martin TG,Morgan L,Harrison EF

更新日期：1985-06-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate that a complete and rapid clinical history can be obtained using a self-administered, bilingual questionnaire. DESIGN:A post-test experimental design was used to evaluate time spent obtaining the history and information completeness for the two groups. SETTING:Urban county emergency dep...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Nasr I,Cordero M,Houmes B,Fagan J,Rydman R,Green C

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented is the case of a 10-year-old child who presented in cardiopulmonary arrest from hypovolemic shock due to pathologic splenic rupture of undetermined etiology. Despite aggressive resuscitation efforts, the patient died. Although rare, pathologic rupture of an abnormal spleen must be considered in the patient w...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Keaton BF

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We surveyed all patients admitted to nine community hospital coronary care units to determine what proportion could be candidates for thrombolytic therapy. During the 12-month study period, there were 4,115 admissions for possible acute myocardial infarction, and 1,076 (26%) had a discharge diagnosis of myocardial inf...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Eisenberg MS,Ho MT,Schaeffer S,Litwin P,Larsen MP,Hallstrom AP,Weaver DW

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypotension and myocardial depression that result from calcium channel blocker ingestion often are refractory to standard therapeutic modalities. Anecdotal reports on the use of glucagon have failed to show significant hemodynamic improvement. We report the first case of calcium channel blocker overdose that respo...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Doyon S,Roberts JR

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Midazolam is widely used for procedural sedation and analgesia. Etomidate has been studied mostly in adults. Our objective is to compare the efficacy of etomidate and midazolam for achieving procedural sedation and analgesia in children. METHODS:A randomized, double-blind, emergency department and orth...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Di Liddo L,D'Angelo A,Nguyen B,Bailey B,Amre D,Stanciu C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the effectiveness of magnetic resonance imaging in detecting early myocardial infarction in vivo after coronary artery occlusion. DESIGN:A prospective, controlled canine study using a left anterior descending coronary artery ligation model. INTERVENTIONS:After thiopental anesthesia, nine ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Angelos MG,Katz-Stein A,Leasure JE

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was conducted to test the reliability of at-home observation of head trauma victims in the rural South among a population of low educational level. During a four-month period, 99 patients entered and 90 patients finished the study. In all cases, an individual was identified as willing to accept the...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Cline DM,Whitley TW

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective chart review to determine whether the treatment of uncomplicated convulsions in emergency department patients with a history of epilepsy complied with a clinical standard and whether the degree of compliance with the standard was related to the treating physician's specialty or postgraduat...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Baraff LJ,Schriger DL,Starkman S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a new method of implementing a transcribed emergency record at minimum cost. Dictated emergency records are typed immediately by a transcriber located in the emergency department. This member of the medical record transcriber pool is given other non-urgent medical record material to type when there a...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Klimt CR,Becker S,Fox BS,Ensminger F

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:For an emergency medicine pharmacist to become a well-integrated multidisciplinary team member, his or her services need to be accepted by the emergency department (ED) staff. There have been 2 published studies attesting the value of the emergency medicine pharmacist by ED staff: at an academic medical...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Splawski J,Horner D,Tao K

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the cases of two children with acute plastic fractures of the long bones following trauma. Bowing deformity was evident clinically and radiographically in both cases. The unique radiologic features consisted of absence of fracture lines and of periosteal new bone formation during the healing phase. The mecha...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Komara JS,Kottamasu L,Kottamasu SR

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Communication at discharge is an important part of high-quality emergency department (ED) care. This review describes the existing literature on patient understanding and implementation of discharge instructions, discusses previous interventions aimed at improving the discharge process, and recommends best practices a...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Samuels-Kalow ME,Stack AM,Porter SC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Traumatic eye injuries are common emergency department presentations worldwide, and diagnosis may be delayed because of concurrent injuries and lack of guidelines in regard to the utility of clinical examination, computed tomography (CT), and point-of-care ultrasonography. In this study, we compare poin...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Ojaghihaghighi S,Lombardi KM,Davis S,Vahdati SS,Sorkhabi R,Pourmand A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is intimately related to the time from cardiovascular collapse to the initiation of CPR, or downtime. Furthermore, the reperfusion technique that optimizes coronary and cerebral blood flow after cardiac arrest may also be dependent on downtime. Peak blood lactate levels ha...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Carden DL,Martin GB,Nowak RM,Foreback CC,Tomlanovich MC

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We examine whether a specific educational effort reduces emergency department violence in the short term and quantify the amount of violence in the ED. METHODS:Cross-sectional prospective surveys were conducted at a tertiary referral center at baseline (1998) and at 3 and 6 months (1999) after the Prev...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Fernandes CM,Raboud JM,Christenson JM,Bouthillette F,Bullock L,Ouellet L,Moore C,Violoence in the Emergency Department Study (VITES) Group.

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine if the use of verapamil in patients with contraindications is associated with adverse sequelae, thereby assessing whether process measures of the quality of care are correlated with patient outcomes. DESIGN:Retrospective chart review comparing the incidence of adverse outcomes and drug fa...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Kuhn M,Schriger DL

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We determine whether children with immediate posttraumatic seizures require hospitalization for observation of possible neurologic complications. METHODS:This was a prospective observational cohort study of children younger than 18 years with blunt head trauma resulting in immediate posttraumatic seizu...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Holmes JF,Palchak MJ,Conklin MJ,Kuppermann N

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00