Propranolol-induced hypertension in treatment of cocaine intoxication.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Continuous positive airway pressure ventilation (CPAP) in appropriately selected patients with acute respiratory failure has been shown to reduce the need for tracheal intubation in hospital. Despite several case series, the effectiveness of out-of-hospital CPAP has not been rigorously studied. We perfo...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Thompson J,Petrie DA,Ackroyd-Stolarz S,Bardua DJ

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial rupture is a catastrophic complication of acute myocardial infarction that usually results in sudden death. If diagnosed quickly, patients with myocardial rupture may be salvaged. This report describes the application of emergency department two-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of six cases of ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Plummer D,Dick C,Ruiz E,Clinton J,Brunette D

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of discontinuation of base hospital participation, paramedics in a large urban zone of a California emergency medical services (EMS) system serving 1.1 million persons went on emergency standing orders for nearly all calls requiring advanced life support. Subsequently, the base hospital resumed medical control...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Pointer JE,Osur MA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We develop a comprehensive view of aspects of care associated with parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department (ED) visits, using both quantitative and qualitative data. METHODS:This was a retrospective observational study using data from an institution-wide system to measure patient sati...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Byczkowski TL,Fitzgerald M,Kennebeck S,Vaughn L,Myers K,Kachelmeyer A,Timm N

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A seven-year-old boy ingested 3,000 mg (125 mg/kg) of isoniazid. Initial blood levels of isoniazid were 250 micrograms/mL approximately six hours after ingestion. Despite IV treatment in the emergency department with 3,000 mg pyridoxine and a repeat of the same antidote one hour later in the intensive care unit, the h...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Orlowski JP,Paganini EP,Pippenger CE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a case of near-fatal intoxication following accidental exposure to 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane in a child. This solvent, generally safe, is widely used to 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane in a child. This solvent, generally safe, is widely used in industrial and domestic preparations. Exposure to high levels ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Gerace RV

更新日期：1981-10-01 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：:Little has been reported in the literature on the characteristics of existing and planned emergency medicine fellowships. To help answer important questions about fellowships, a 28-question survey was developed by representatives from the University Association for Emergency Medicine education and fellowship committee...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Podolsky SM,Woodburn JD,Murphy J,Stair T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine the clinical circumstances of femoral fractures in children. The study was a retrospective investigation of 117 consecutive patients with femoral fractures admitted to The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, from December 1975 to September 1979. Of the 117 patients....

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Anderson WA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness and incidence of adverse reactions with three treatment regimens for asthma in adults in the prehospital setting. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized clinical study. SETTING:Inner-city emergency medical service system providing basic and advanced life support and transport to 1...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Quadrel M,Lavery RF,Jaker M,Atkin S,Tortella BJ,Cody RP

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a study to assess the efficacy of the dipstick leukocyte esterase test (LET) in the detection of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leukocytosis as a quick screen for bacterial meningitis. Nine hundred forty-two CSF samples were collected from 800 patients. The LET was compared in a double-blinded fashion with rou...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： DeLozier JS,Auerbach PS

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：: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：:We investigated prospectively the radiopacity of 312 pills found on a university hospital formulary by first radiographing them through 15 and 25 cm of water to duplicate the radiodensity of the human body. The pills that were radiodense through water were studied in a human cadaver model, and their densities were qua...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Savitt DL,Hawkins HH,Roberts JR

更新日期：1987-03-01 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：:First-responding emergency medical technicians (EMTs) trained to defibrillate have been shown to increase survival from prehospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) almost fourfold in Washington's King County. Using Nebraska ambulance rescue run data from 1982 and published information relating ambulance response time to...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Ornato JP,McNeill SE,Craren EJ,Nelson NM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent interest in civilian trauma as a public health problem dates from the National Academy of Sciences white paper in 1966. Civilian trauma patterns vary depending on locale--blunt trauma predominates in rural and smaller urban areas (65% to 80% of hospital admissions); penetrating trauma in larger urban areas outw...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Baker CC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported is a case of a 34-year-old man, previously in good health, who underwent chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine for treatment of a recent whiplash injury. Immediately following manipulation, the patient became unresponsive and was found to have sustained a brain stem infarction resulting in the "Lock...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Horn SW 2nd

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:I test the hypothesis that having a gun in the home is a risk factor for adults to be killed (homicide) or to commit suicide. METHODS:Two case-control analyses were based on national samples of subjects 18 years of age or older. Homicide and suicide case subjects were drawn from the 1993 National Morta...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wiebe DJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several clinical studies have yielded conflicting results in examining the effectiveness of bystander CPR (BCPR). The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the effectiveness of BCPR in an animal model of cardiac arrest and resuscitation. Ten swine were instrumented for hemodynamic and regional blood flow measur...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hoekstra JW,Rinnert K,Van Ligten P,Neumar R,Werman HA,Brown CG

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:This study measures the effect of meeting emergency department (ED) patients' expectations for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions on patient satisfaction. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study of consecutive patients during block enrollment periods surveyed at the beginning and end of their E...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Toma G,Triner W,McNutt LA

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective, randomized study of 500 consecutive emergency department patients with traumatic lacerations requiring sutures was performed comparing use of topical 1% povidone-iodine (Betadine) and scrubbing with wound management by irrigation with normal saline without scrubbing. A 60-second wound irrigation and scr...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Gravett A,Sterner S,Clinton JE,Ruiz E

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course is sponsored by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. This course was developed to provide a consistent method of care for the resuscitation and evaluation of the injured patient. The ATLS course provides an easily remembered method for evaluating and trea...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Bell RM,Krantz BE,Weigelt JA

更新日期：1999-08-01 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：:The development of an organized filing system for referencing articles pertinent to emergency medicine is presented. This simple and flexible system allows for modification for the individual needs of the emergency physician. ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： McMicken D

更新日期：1980-09-01 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：:In rescue medicine, a suction apparatus must function in a variety of environmental conditions. To find an appropriate device for the Swedish Air Force air rescue service the Laerdal suction device 790,000 was selected for further testing according to international standards for aviation safety. Tests showed that vibr...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Dahlgren BE,Nilsson H,Bjorn P,Skedevik C

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Influenza has been linked to emergency department (ED) crowding, yet few studies have examined this association. We describe the relationship between ED crowding and influenza outbreaks. METHODS:A retrospective time series analysis was conducted in Toronto from January 1996 to April 1999 (n=170 weeks)....

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Schull MJ,Mamdani MM,Fang J

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bahamas is an archipelago of 700 islands with the majority of the population concentrated on just 2 islands: New Providence and Grand Bahama. Most emergency medical services are provided by Princess Margaret Hospital and Rand Memorial Hospital located respectively on those 2 islands. A detailed description of the ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Ezenkwele UA,Burnett-Garraway C,Green GB

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epiglottitis in adults, while uncommon, is certainly not rare. Despite the increasing reports of the disorder in the literature, it continues to be misdiagnosed in emergency departments. The first step in the diagnosis of acute epiglottitis is for the emergency physician to think of it. The literature concerning the e...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Sarant G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00