Ventricular tachycardia may masquerade as supraventricular tachycardia in patients with preexisting bundle-branch block.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Experts advocate the use of a standard nasal cannula to provide oxygen at flow rates of up to 15 L/minute during emergency intubation. However, because of concerns about potential patient discomfort, some providers avoid providing nasal cannula oxygen at flow rates greater than 6 L/minute. This trial is...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brainard A,Chuang D,Zeng I,Larkin GL

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Video capsule endoscopy has been used to diagnose gastrointestinal hemorrhage and other small bowel diseases but has not been tested in an emergency department (ED) setting. The objectives in this pilot study are to demonstrate the ability of emergency physicians to detect blood in the upper gastrointes...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Meltzer AC,Ali MA,Kresiberg RB,Patel G,Smith JP,Pines JM,Fleischer DE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Factors associated with intraosseous (IO) catheterization are not well described. Our objective is to identify factors associated with the attempt and timing of IO catheterization in a pediatric emergency department (ED) resuscitation setting. METHODS:We completed a video-based, case-control study (1:3...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Lee SH,Frey M,Kerrey BT,Zhang Y,Byczkowski T,Geis GL

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Medication history is an essential part of patient assessment in emergency care. Patient-reported medication history can be incomplete. We study whether an electronic pharmacy-sourced prescription record can supplement the patient-reported history. METHODS:In a community hospital, we compared the patie...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Fung KW,Kayaalp M,Callaghan F,McDonald CJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：:The insurance market is evolving, with increased emphasis on plans with high deductibles and a large degree of coinsurance. This article serves as an introduction to the defining characteristics of consumer-driven health care plans and their associated health savings accounts. We discuss the most recent evidence on th...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： McConnell KJ

更新日期：2005-12-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Women and students underrepresented in medicine are less likely to apply for residency in emergency medicine. The latter are from racial or ethnic populations that are underrepresented as physicians relative to the general population. The factors that result in lower application rates from women and gro...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Burkhardt J,DesJardins S,Gruppen L

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoerythrocyte sensitization syndrome is characterized by sudden and spontaneous painful bruising and swelling occurring in young female patients with psychiatric disorders. This syndrome may present with such severe swelling of involved areas that aspiration or excision may be needed to relieve pressure. The present...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Tomec RJ,Walsh M,Garcia JC,Jordan PK

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many infectious causes of fatigue, sore throat, and fever, including mononucleosis and toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasma antibody testing is rarely performed in most emergency departments; as a result, toxoplasmosis is diagnosed infrequently. We obtained Toxoplasma IgG IFA titers on ED patients who had mononucleosis...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Sayre MR,Jehle D

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although we commonly assume that because residents spend a given number of months in the emergency department they achieve adequate exposure to all necessary clinical entities, this has never been shown. We suspect, rather, that great variability exists among residents in the number and variety of patients they see; a...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Langdorf MI,Strange G,Macneil P

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:To determine whether music significantly reduces the pain and anxiety associated with laceration repair in the emergency department. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING:Adult patients presenting to the ED at an urban teaching hospital for laceration repair. Exclusion criteria included patients less than 18 years...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Menegazzi JJ,Paris PM,Kersteen CH,Flynn B,Trautman DE

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We identify the incidence and predictors of missed fracture and characterize patterns of radiography performance in children with a diagnosis of radial head subluxation in the emergency department (ED) setting. METHODS:We queried the Pediatric Health Information System database for visits by children y...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Genadry KC,Monuteaux MC,Neuman MI,Lipsett SC

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We identify measures of emergency department (ED) and hospital workflow that would be of value in understanding, monitoring, and managing crowding. METHODS:A national group of 74 experts developed 113 potential measures using a conceptual model of ED crowding that segmented the measures into input, thr...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Solberg LI,Asplin BR,Weinick RM,Magid DJ

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency of cross clamping the thoracic aorta for cases of massive hemorrhage and impending cardiac arrest is questionable. We present two cases of major intra-abdominal aortic injury in which the bleeding could not be controlled by cross clamping the thoracic aorta. Multiple collateral pathways around the clamp...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Brotman S,Oster-Granite M,Cox EF

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Preoxygenation is important to prevent oxygen desaturation during emergency airway management. The purpose of this study is to describe the use of end tidal oxygen (eto2) during rapid sequence intubation in the emergency department. METHODS:This study was carried out in 2 academic centers in Sydney, Au...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Caputo ND,Oliver M,West JR,Hackett R,Sakles JC

更新日期：2019-09-01 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:This study investigated the hypothesis that modern computed tomographic (CT) imaging is sufficient to exclude subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) in patients with severe headache. METHODS:All 38,730 adult patients who presented to Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas, during a 16-month period were prospectivel...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Morgenstern LB,Luna-Gonzales H,Huber JC Jr,Wong SS,Uthman MO,Gurian JH,Castillo PR,Shaw SG,Frankowski RF,Grotta JC

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We seek to describe the medical history and clinical findings of patients attending the emergency department (ED) with suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and estimate the diagnostic accuracy of patients' characteristics for predicting COVID-19. METHODS:We prospectively enrolled all patients ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Peyrony O,Marbeuf-Gueye C,Truong V,Giroud M,Rivière C,Khenissi K,Legay L,Simonetta M,Elezi A,Principe A,Taboulet P,Ogereau C,Tourdjman M,Ellouze S,Fontaine JP

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maprotiline, a new tetracyclic antidepressant, has a pattern of toxicity that is different from that of tricyclics. Maprotiline overdosage appears more likely to cause seizures but less likely to cause the peripheral autonomic and cardiac manifestations seen with tricyclics. Two cases of maprotiline overdose resulting...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Northup L,Reed G,McAnalley B,Anderson RJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the usefulness of the lumbar spine x-ray series in the emergency department and to generate clinical criteria for optimizing its application, we retrospectively studied 552 consecutive emergency department patients for whom lumbar spine x-rays were ordered. Patients were divided into traumatic (47.6%) and no...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Patrick JD,Doris PE,Mills ML,Friedman J,Johnston C

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that residency-trained emergency physicians who left the practice of emergency medicine do not differ significantly from those who continue to practice. DESIGN:A retrospective cohort study using a mailed questionnaire. TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS:Eight hundred fifty-eight emergency med...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hall KN,Wakeman MA,Levy RC,Khoury J

更新日期：1992-03-01 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:The use of nonprescription cough and cold medicines is widespread, but their use has been sporadically associated with severe toxicity and death. We evaluate the role of these medications in pediatric fatalities and identified factors that contributed to the death. METHODS:Fatalities that involved a ch...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Dart RC,Paul IM,Bond GR,Winston DC,Manoguerra AS,Palmer RB,Kauffman RE,Banner W,Green JL,Rumack BH

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) and advanced trauma life support (ATLS) courses have become accepted standards for physicians who care for the critically ill and injured patient, only recently have pediatric advanced life support (PALS) courses been developed. The American Academy of Pediatrics has shown re...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Thompson BM,Rice T,Jaffe J,Aprahamian C,Horwitz L,Torphy D

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experimental animal studies, opiate receptor antagonists (such as naloxone) and physiological opiate antagonists (thyrotropin-releasing hormone [TRH] have been used with some success to improve outcome and physiological variables following traumatic shock associated with hypovolemia, spinal cord trauma, and head in...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： McIntosh TK,Faden AI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Serum markers of smooth muscle destruction have been shown to be elevated in ectopic pregnancy, but they remain of questionable clinical utility. Our goal was to determine the clinical utility of 3 markers of smooth muscle destruction: creatine phosphokinase (CPK), smooth muscle heavy-chain myosin (SMHC...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Birkhahn RH,Gaeta TJ,Paraschiv D,Bove JJ,Suzuki T,Katoh H,Nagai R

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Previous studies suggest improved patient outcomes for providers who perform high volumes of complex medical procedures. Out-of-hospital tracheal intubation is a difficult procedure. We seek to determine the association between rescuer procedural experience and patient survival after out-of-hospital tra...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wang HE,Balasubramani GK,Cook LJ,Lave JR,Yealy DM

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the case of a 41-year-old man who suffered a bite to the tongue from the Western Diamondback rattlesnake (C atrox). Life-threatening obstruction of his upper airway secondary to massive edema of the tongue and other soft tissue structures quickly followed envenomation. Nasotracheal intubation, IV antivenin...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Gerkin R,Sergent KC,Curry SC,Vance M,Nielsen DR,Kazan A

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the hypothesis that all victims of severe blunt trauma require a pelvic radiograph, we prospectively studied all such patients admitted to the Southern New Jersey Regional Trauma Center during a seven-month period. All patients were classified as unconscious; impaired; awake, alert, and symptomatic; or ale...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Civil ID,Ross SE,Botehlo G,Schwab CW

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00