Fatal ascending tonic-clonic seizure syndrome.

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：:While remaining prominent in paramedic care and beneficial to some patients, out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation has not clearly improved survival or reduced morbidity from critical illness or injury when studied more broadly. Recent studies identify equivocal or unfavorable clinical effects, adverse events and er...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Wang HE,Yealy DM

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:The World Health Assembly 2007 Resolution 60.22 tasked the global health community to address the lack of emergency care in low- and middle-income countries. Little progress has yet been made in integrating emergency care into most low- and middle-income-country health systems. At a rural Ugandan district hospital, ho...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hammerstedt H,Maling S,Kasyaba R,Dreifuss B,Chamberlain S,Nelson S,Bisanzo M,Ezati I

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:This study tests the effect of a brief intervention with emergency department (ED) patients to reduce at-risk drinking. METHODS:We enrolled patients aged 18 years or older who screened positive for at-risk drinking in an urban academic ED and used alternative allocation to assign them to control or int...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Bazargan-Hejazi S,Bing E,Bazargan M,Der-Martirosian C,Hardin E,Bernstein J,Bernstein E

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：:The ventilatory status of patients within the first few hours following head injury has not been well established. We prospectively studied 63 patients who presented to an urban trauma center with varying severity of head injury to determine whether any trend toward hypo- or hyperventilation existed within the first t...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Vicario SJ,Coleman R,Cooper MA,Thomas DM

更新日期：1983-03-01 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：STUDY OBJECTIVE:A 2-hour accelerated diagnostic pathway based on the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction score, ECG, and troponin measures (ADAPT-ADP) increased early discharge of patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction presenting to the emergency department compared with standard care (from 11% to 19.3%)...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Than MP,Pickering JW,Aldous SJ,Cullen L,Frampton CM,Peacock WF,Jaffe AS,Goodacre SW,Richards AM,Ardagh MW,Deely JM,Florkowski CM,George P,Hamilton GJ,Jardine DL,Troughton RW,van Wyk P,Young JM,Bannister L,Lord SJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine use and abuse continue to overwhelm urban economic, social, and health care systems. Patients frequently present to the emergency department with life-threatening manifestations of cocaine use, including trauma, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, psychomotor agitation, and cardiovascular collapse. Adequate t...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Goldfrank LR,Hoffman RS

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a case of delay in diagnosis of diaphragmatic rupture and herniation in a pregnant 25-year-old woman. The diaphragmatic rupture was secondary to trauma sustained five months prior to presentation. Subsequent to her accident, she was provided medical care on multiple occasions for symptoms of intractable nau...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Henzler M,Martin ML,Young J

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：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：:Excitatory behavior, xerostomia, chest pain, severe dyspnea, tachycardia (150 beats/min), and mild hypertension (160/80 mm Hg) without ECG abnormalities were observed in a 20-year-old subject 6 hours after nasal insufflation (snorting) of a "legally" obtained white powdered substance sold as Synthacaine. A serum sampl...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Lonati D,Buscaglia E,Papa P,Valli A,Coccini T,Giampreti A,Petrolini VM,Vecchio S,Serpelloni G,Locatelli CA

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Emergency department (ED) patients with atrial fibrillation or flutter are at risk of stroke, and guidelines recommend anticoagulation for patients with increased cardiovascular risk. Emergency physicians have a unique opportunity to provide appropriate anticoagulation for such patients, and we wished t...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Scheuermeyer FX,Innes G,Pourvali R,Dewitt C,Grafstein E,Heslop C,MacPhee J,Ward J,Heilbron B,McGrath L,Christenson J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foundation of safe care for patients with confirmed or suspected Ebola virus disease is effective infection control practice, which requires implementation of appropriate administrative policies, work practices, and environmental controls, accompanied by focused education, training, and supervision. In 2002, Emory...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Isakov A,Miles W,Gibbs S,Lowe J,Jamison A,Swansiger R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We derive a clinical decision rule for ongoing investigation of patients who present to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain. The rule identifies patients who are at low risk of acute coronary syndrome and could be discharged without further cardiac testing. METHODS:This was a prospective obse...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Greenslade JH,Parsonage W,Than M,Scott A,Aldous S,Pickering JW,Hammett CJ,Cullen L

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:We determine the sensitivity, specificity, and clinical utility of the Gram's stain of peritoneal fluid in patients undergoing paracentesis. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective chart review of all peritoneal fluid analyses in a 3-year period in an urban 3-hospital system. Peritoneal dialysis and diagn...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Chinnock B,Fox C,Hendey GW

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is general agreement that physical examination alone is inadequate for abdominal evaluation in the multiply injured blunt trauma patient; but controversy exists regarding the preferred method of detecting intraabdominal injuries requiring celiotomy. Both peritoneal lavage and the newer computed tomography imagin...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Kearney PA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Previous studies have suggested that the initial emergency department (ED) lactate concentration may be an important prognostic indicator for inhospital mortality from acute drug poisoning. We conduct this cohort study to formally validate the prognostic utility of the initial lactate concentration in a...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Cheung R,Hoffman RS,Vlahov D,Manini AF

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article summarizes the current requirements for a waiver of informed consent for emergency research and analyzes ethical issues that are involved. Researchers who intend to apply for a waiver of informed consent for emergency research must understand that they are asking for the major protector of human subjects,...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Adams JG,Wegener J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVES:We assessed the validity and completeness of data in the past medical history (PMH) obtained electronically from parents and examined effects of the human-computer interface and sociodemographic variables on electronic parental report. METHODS:We compared parents' electronic report of PMH data with a ...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Porter SC,Silvia MT,Fleisher GR,Kohane IS,Homer CJ,Mandl KD

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：: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：:We reviewed the patterns of injuries sustained by 12 consecutive fallers and jumpers in whom primary impact was onto the feet. The fall heights ranged from 20 to 100 ft. The 12 patients sustained 49 significant injuries. Skeletal injuries were most frequent and included 15 lower extremity fractures, four pelvic fractu...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Lowenstein SR,Yaron M,Carrero R,Devereux D,Jacobs LM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annals' 25th anniversary is a cause for celebration, but the future imposes a new set of ethical questions and moral dilemmas for emergency physicians. Each physician will need to make personal choices consistent with the courage, judgment, integrity, and dedication of past leaders when dealing with the moral dilemmas...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Waeckerle JF

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of a 4-day "burst" course of prednisone added to standard treatment with H1 antihistamines for the management of acute urticaria in outpatients. DESIGN:Prospective, randomized, double-blinded, clinical trial. SETTING:Emergency department of an urban tertiary care teaching hosp...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Pollack CV Jr,Romano TJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life-threatening hypothermia can be treated by active and passive rewarming techniques, the treatment of choice being partial cardiopulmonary bypass. The use of closed thoracic cavity lavage has been evaluated in animals, but no formal presentations in human beings have been reported. We report two cases in which rapi...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Hall KN,Syverud SA

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:We conducted a study to determine the number of items and successful response rate to questions specific to emergency medicine on the National Board of Medical Examiners Test, Part II (NBME-II). The 1979 and 1983 NBME-II examinations were reviewed by a subcommittee of the Society of Teachers of Emergency Medicine. Ite...

journal_title：Annals of emergency medicine

authors： Sanders AB,Burdick WP,Stair TO,Witzke D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00