The use of glucagon in a case of calcium channel blocker overdose.

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:Disposition decision for patients with possible acute coronary syndrome in the emergency department (ED) is driven primarily by perception of short-term risks. We sought to evaluate communication between patient and physician about these risks by ascertaining the content of discussions surrounding dispo...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Newman DH,Ackerman B,Kraushar ML,Lederhandler MH,Masri A,Starikov A,Tsao DT,Meyers HP,Shah KH

更新日期：2015-07-01 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

abstract：:Traumatic dislocation of the hip joint is relatively uncommon in children. The trauma required to produce a dislocation can vary from minimal to severe, high-energy force. We report a case of posterior hip dislocation in a 9-year-old boy who received relatively minor trauma to his leg but who did not seek medical atte...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： McGoff JP,Ramoska EA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As we mark the 25th anniversary of the clinical application of closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation (SCPR), it is time to look back and analyze the progress we have made in the resuscitation of sudden death syndrome. Recent studies of SCPR's effectiveness have yielded mixed results, in comparison to early studie...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Thompson BM,Stueven HA,Mateer JR,Aprahamian CC,Tucker JF,Darin JC

更新日期：1985-08-01 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：: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：:From 1995 to 2000, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sponsored an initiative to create and operate an Automatic Collision Notification (ACN) system on a demonstration basis in a rural area to provide faster and smarter emergency medical responses and in an attempt to save lives and reduce disa...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： National Highway Safety Administration.

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of early fluid resuscitation on the rate, volume, and duration of hemorrhage using a sheep model of uncontrolled pulmonary vascular hemorrhage. METHODS:Sixteen adult sheep were anesthetized and fitted with catheters to measure systemic and pulmonary artery pressures. A branch o...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Sakles JC,Sena MJ,Knight DA,Davis JM

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：: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：:Elevated intracranial pressure commonly is associated with severe head injury. Emergency airway management technique in the patient who has sustained severe head injury must optimize conditions for intubation, minimize the adverse effects of intubation, and permit rapid and effective management of the elevated intracr...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Walls RM

更新日期：1993-06-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We sought to characterize the clinical manifestations, outcome, and etiology of inadvertent ketamine overdose in the emergency department. METHODS:We investigated cases of inadvertent ketamine overdose in children seen in the ED solicited through electronic mail subscription lists or reported to the In...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Green SM,Clark R,Hostetler MA,Cohen M,Carlson D,Rothrock SG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To characterize the role of emergency medicine residency programs in determining emergency medicine career choice among medical students. DESIGN:Observational, cross-sectional, descriptive study. Information on student career choice was obtained through a targeted query of the National Resident Matchin...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Gallagher EJ,Goldfrank LR,Anderson GV Jr,Barsan WG,Levy RC,Sanders AB,Strange GR,Trott AT

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Controversy surrounds the linkage of prevention counseling with emergency department (ED)-based HIV testing. Further, the effectiveness and feasibility of prevention counseling in the ED setting is unknown. We investigate these issues by conducting a preliminarily exploration of several related aspects of our...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Sitlinger AP,Lindsell CJ,Ruffner AH,Wayne DB,Hart KW,Trott AT,Fichtenbaum CJ,Lyons MS

更新日期：2011-07-01 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 OBJECTIVE:To develop management guidelines for the treatment of anaphylactoid reactions to intravenous N-acetylcysteine (NAC) and to assess the safety of restarting the infusion after a reaction. METHODS:In phased 1, we used a 6-year retrospective case series of hospitalized patients and a review of the literatu...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Bailey B,McGuigan MA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Recent systematic reviews have noted a lack of evidence that screening for intimate partner violence does more good than harm. We assess whether patients screened for intimate partner violence on a computer kiosk in the emergency department (ED) experienced any adverse events during or subsequent to the...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Houry D,Kaslow NJ,Kemball RS,McNutt LA,Cerulli C,Straus H,Rosenberg E,Lu C,Rhodes KV

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the ability of 64 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to ventilate a resuscitation manikin with a bag valve mask and with a pocket face mask to determine if their skill levels met the American Heart Association standard of 12 ventilations per minute, each with a tidal volume of 800 mL or more. All ventila...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Cummins RO,Austin D,Graves JR,Litwin PE,Pierce J

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emergency clinicians often care for patients with terminal illness who are receiving hospice care and many more patients who may be in need of such care. Hospice care has been shown to successfully address the multidimensional aspects of the end-of-life concerns of terminally ill patients: dying with dignity, dying wi...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Lamba S,Quest TE

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium dichloroacetate (DCA) has been shown to lower elevated serum lactate levels produced by hypoxia, exercise, and phenformin. We conducted a study to investigate the effect of DCA treatment on lactic acidosis following resuscitation from asphyxial cardiac arrest. Conditioned dogs were anesthetized with pentobarbit...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Gin-Shaw SL,Barsan WG,Eymer V,Hedges J

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 27-year-old man who sustained a minor head injury and presented with complaints of headache and vomiting. The diagnosis of vertex epidural hematoma is discussed. ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Plotkin FR,Burke TF

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontraumatic gas gangrene is extremely rare. It usually occurs following ulceration or perforation of an abdominal or pelvic viscus in persons having impaired host immune defenses. A fatal case of nontraumatic Clostridium septicum septicemia and myonecrosis in an elderly diabetic man with a perforated colon carcinoma ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Kizer KW,Ogle LC

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse (July 17, 1981) provided the emergency medical services system of Kansas City, Missouri, with its greatest challenge ever. Utilizing an EMS-based, centralized, city-wide disaster plan, the rescue operation encountered 113 dead and 188 multiply traumatized patients. The rescue operati...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Orr SM,Robinson WA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was undertaken to assess the efficacy and safety of femoral venous catheterization for resuscitation of critically ill patients in the emergency department setting. From May 1982 to April 1983, 100 attempts were made at percutaneous insertion of a large-bore catheter into the femoral veins of patients presenti...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Swanson RS,Uhlig PN,Gross PL,McCabe CJ

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Peripheral intravenous catheters are the most common invasive device in health care yet have very high failure rates. We investigate whether the failure rate could be reduced by the addition of skin glue to standard peripheral intravenous catheter care. METHODS:We conducted a single-site, 2-arm, nonbli...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Bugden S,Shean K,Scott M,Mihala G,Clark S,Johnstone C,Fraser JF,Rickard CM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Right ventricular infarction due to ischemic heart disease can be diagnosed by a right precordial electrogram or by first-pass radionuclide angiography (FPRNA). Prior FPRNA studies have shown that cardiac dysfunction after blunt chest trauma (myocardial contusion) is most often due to right ventricular dysfunction. We...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Mooney R,Niemann JT,Bessen HA,Mena I,French S,Laks MM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catatonic syndrome has a wide differential diagnosis that includes both psychiatric and organic disorders. We present the cases of two patients with catatonia seen acutely in the emergency department. In these cases, the striking clinical picture proved to be secondary to psychiatric disturbances, and were accompa...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Valenstein M,Maltbie A,Kaplan P

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY PURPOSE:To evaluate the efficacy of adenosine in the treatment of emergency department patients with spontaneous paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT). DESIGN:An eight-month prospective outcome study. POPULATION:Patients 16 or more years old with PSVT by surface ECG criteria. Patients were excluded if ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Cairns CB,Niemann JT

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00