Tourniquet syndrome caused by metallic bands: a new tool for removal.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study was conducted to compare the clinical and spirometric effects of continuous and intermittent nebulization of salbutamol in acute severe asthma. METHODS:Forty-two consecutive patients presenting to the emergency department for acute severe asthma (peak expiratory flow [PEF] mean+/-SD, 24%+/-1...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Besbes-Ouanes L,Nouira S,Elatrous S,Knani J,Boussarsar M,Abroug F

更新日期：2000-09-01 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:The role of emergency department (ED) thoracotomy after blunt trauma is controversial. The objective of this review is to determine whether patients treated with an ED thoracotomy after blunt trauma survive and whether survivors have a good neurologic outcome. METHODS:A structured search was performed ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Slessor D,Hunter S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Nearly 3 million patients present to US emergency departments (EDs) annually with undifferentiated musculoskeletal low back pain. Little is known about short- and longer-term outcomes in this group. We seek to describe the pain and functional outcomes 1 week and 3 months after discharge in a sample of E...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Friedman BW,O'Mahony S,Mulvey L,Davitt M,Choi H,Xia S,Esses D,Bijur PE,Gallagher EJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 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 the presence of cocaethylene, an active metabolite of the combination of cocaine and ethanol, among trauma patients who test positive for cocaine. METHODS:We assembled a case series of 416 consecutive urban trauma center patients with major trauma. Urine was tested for the presence of the ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brookoff D,Rotondo MF,Shaw LM,Campbell EA,Fields L

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Single-payer health care is supported by most Americans, but the effect of single payer on any particular sector of the health care market has not been well explored. We examine the effect of 2 potential single-payer designs, Medicare for All and an alternative including Medicare and Medicaid, on total ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Pomerantz A,Burke R,Friedman A,Burke L,Wolfe R,Smulowitz P

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of the emergency IV contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) scanning was evaluated in 90 pediatric patients sustaining blunt abdominal trauma. Medical records, CT scans, and operative and postmortem reports, when applicable, were reviewed retrospectively. By identifying the organs of injury, CT sc...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Haftel AJ,Lev R,Mahour GH,Senac M,Akhtar Shah SI

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We evaluate the sensitivity of Ohio's 2009 emergency medical services (EMS) geriatric trauma triage criteria compared with the previous adult triage criteria in identifying need for trauma center care among older adults. METHODS:We studied a retrospective cohort of injured patients aged 16 years or old...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Ichwan B,Darbha S,Shah MN,Thompson L,Evans DC,Boulger CT,Caterino JM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY HYPOTHESIS:To determine the prevalence of antibody to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in trauma and nontrauma patients not identified as having known HIV infection in a noninner-city university teaching hospital emergency department, and to determine the frequency with which treating emergency physicians are k...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Baraff LJ,Talan DA,Torres M

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We derive a prediction rule to identify children at very low risk for intra-abdominal injuries undergoing acute intervention and for whom computed tomography (CT) could be obviated. METHODS:We prospectively enrolled children with blunt torso trauma in 20 emergency departments. We used binary recursive ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Holmes JF,Lillis K,Monroe D,Borgialli D,Kerrey BT,Mahajan P,Adelgais K,Ellison AM,Yen K,Atabaki S,Menaker J,Bonsu B,Quayle KS,Garcia M,Rogers A,Blumberg S,Lee L,Tunik M,Kooistra J,Kwok M,Cook LJ,Dean JM,Sokolo

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We compare the ability of 5 established risk scores to identify patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes who are suitable for discharge after a modified single-presentation high-sensitivity troponin result. METHODS:This was a prospective observational study conducted in a UK district general ho...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Carlton EW,Khattab A,Greaves K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The foraging of wild mushrooms can be complicated by toxicity from several mushroom types. Amatoxin, a peptide contained in several mushroom species, accounts for the majority of severe mushroom poisonings by binding to RNA polymerase II irreversibly, leading to severe hepatonecrosis. There is no effect...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Tong TC,Hernandez M,Richardson WH 3rd,Betten DP,Favata M,Riffenburgh RH,Clark RF,Tanen DA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:The health care needs of the elderly population are significantly different from those of younger patients and require special knowledge and skills on the part of emergency physicians. The purpose of this study was to identify the nature and extent of geriatric training currently provided to emergency ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Jones JS,Rousseau EW,Schropp MA,Sanders AB

更新日期：1992-07-01 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:Severe myocardial ischemia is the leading cause of arrhythmic sudden cardiac death. It is unclear, however, in which percentage of patients sudden cardiac death is triggered by ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and whether the diagnosis of STEMI can be reliably established immediately after res...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Müller D,Schnitzer L,Brandt J,Arntz HR

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the ability of emergency medical technician-paramedic (EMT-P) units to become and remain proficient in the performance of the intraosseous infusion procedure. DESIGN AND SETTING:Descriptive nonrandomized trial open to all patients meeting protocol criteria over a five-year period; prehospit...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Glaeser PW,Hellmich TR,Szewczuga D,Losek JD,Smith DS

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relationship between conjunctival pH (pHcj), arterial pH (pHa), and cardiorespiratory variables during normal and low-flow conditions, hemorrhagic hypotension was induced in eight dogs. Conjunctival pH became significantly less than control values after a hemorrhage volume of 15 mL/kg (P less than .05); ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Abraham E,Fink SE,Markle DR,Pinholster G,Tsang M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine whether physicians blinded to the serum potassium level can predict hyperkalemia (potassium concentration of more than 5.0 mmol/L) from the ECG. DESIGN:ECGs of patients at high risk for hyperkalemia were interpreted retrospectively by two physicians blinded not only to the specific clinica...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wrenn KD,Slovis CM,Slovis BS

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The objective was to quantify the analgesic effect of a dose of intravenous morphine, 0.1 mg/kg, to emergency department (ED) patients presenting in acute, severe pain. METHODS:This was a prospective convenience cohort of patients aged 21 to 65 years and presenting to an academic urban ED with acute, s...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Bijur PE,Kenny MK,Gallagher EJ

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Video imaging of intubation as seen by the laryngoscopist has not been a part of traditional instruction methods, and its potential impact on novice intubation success rates has not been evaluated. METHODS:We prospectively tracked the success rates of novice intubators in paramedic classes who were req...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Levitan RM,Goldman TS,Bryan DA,Shofer F,Herlich A

更新日期：2001-01-01 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:To evaluate the ability of emergency health care providers and patients to demonstrate the proper use of metered-dose inhalers (MDIs). DESIGN:Prospective cross-sectional survey. SETTING:Five Midwestern community teaching hospitals. PARTICIPANTS:One hundred eighty-five health care providers, comprisin...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Jones JS,Holstege CP,Riekse R,White L,Bergquist T

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To confirm the ability of the esophageal detector device (EDD) to indicate positioning of endotracheal tubes (ETTs) in patients intubated under emergency conditions and to compare the performance of the EDD with that of end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2). METHODS:This single-subject study comprising a p...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Bozeman WP,Hexter D,Liang HK,Kelen GD

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with acute agitation, confusion, and tonic seizures. She had a history of drug abuse, most notably beer, which constituted her major dietary intake. The patient's seizures were at first thought to be factitious in association with an acute psychosis; however, h...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Joyce SM,Potter R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The traditional use of the throat culture to guide treatment of potential streptococcal pharyngitis recently has been questioned because of the following facts: antibiotic therapy within the first 48 hours of illness reduces the severity and symptoms of streptococcal pharyngitis; more rapid treatment of streptococcal ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hedges JR,Lowe RA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Crisis resource management skills are integral to leading the resuscitation of a critically ill patient. Despite their importance, crisis resource management skills (and their associated cognitive processes) have traditionally been difficult to study in the real world. The objective of this study was to...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： White MR,Braund H,Howes D,Egan R,Gegenfurtner A,van Merrienboer JJG,Szulewski A

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:[Parkhurst DC: Shift change. Ann Emerg Med June 1998;31:785-788.]. ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Parkhurst DC

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00