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  1. A core task for commanders in charge of an emergency response operation is to make decisions. The purposes of the study were to describe what critical decisions the ambulance commander and the medical commande...

    Authors: Rune Rimstad and Stephen JM Sollid
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015 8:4
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  2. Whole-body multislice computed tomography (WB-MSCT) has become an important diagnostic tool in the early treatment phase of severely injured patients. The optimal moment of WB-MSCT’s use during this treatment ...

    Authors: Tobias Topp, Rolf Lefering, Caroline L Lopez, Steffen Ruchholtz, Wolfgang Ertel and Christian A Kühne
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015 8:3
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  3. To date, no clinical decision rules for acute wrist injuries are available. In the past, clinical decision rules for the knee, ankle and spine injuries have been developed and validated. Implementation of thes...

    Authors: Anne Brants and Michiel A IJsseldijk
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015 8:2
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  4. Patient safety in the context of emergency medicine is a relatively new field of study. To date, no broad research agenda for patient safety in emergency medicine has been established. The objective of this st...

    Authors: Amy C Plint, Antonia S Stang and Lisa A Calder
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015 8:1
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  5. Acute stroke can be missed in the emergency department, particularly in younger patients and in those with more vague symptoms such as headache or dizziness. Cervicocephalic dissections are one group of etiolo...

    Authors: Ganesh Asaithambi, Pradeepan Saravanapavan, Vaibhav Rastogi, Sheema Khan, Sharatchandra Bidari, Anna Y Khanna, Latha Ganti, Adnan I Qureshi and Vishnumurthy Shushrutha Hedna
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:44
    Content type: Review Published on:

  6. During cold weather months in much of the country, the temperatures in which prehospital care is delivered creates the potential for inadvertently cool intravenous fluids to be administered to patients during ...

    Authors: Jeremy Joslin, Andrew Fisher, Susan Wojcik and Derek R Cooney
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:47
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  7. Myanmar has struggled through decades of internal conflict, which has negatively impacted the country’s health outcomes. Recent government changes have brought hope and reduced conflict. The ethnic minority gr...

    Authors: Charles H Washington, Francis J Tyler, Julia Davis, Douglas R Shapiro, Adam Richards, Matthew Richard, Thomas J Lee, Taryn L Colton, Louis Berk, Loren Rauch, Eh Kalu Shwe Oo, Richard Hahn and Lawrence M Stock
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:46
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  8. Emergency medical technicians intubate patients in unfamiliar surroundings and with less than ideal positioning. This study was designed to evaluate advanced life support (ALS) emergency medical technicians' (...

    Authors: Derek R Cooney, Charles Beaudette, Brian M Clemency, Christopher Tanski and Susan Wojcik
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:45
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  9. Abdominal pain is one of the most frequent reasons that elderly people visit the emergency department (ED). In this article, we review the deadliest causes of abdominal pain in this population, including mesen...

    Authors: Ryan Spangler, Thuy Van Pham, Danya Khoujah and Joseph P Martinez
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:43
    Content type: Review Published on:

  10. Recently there have been efforts to derive safe, efficient processes to rule out acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in emergency department (ED) chest pain patients. We aimed to prospectively validate an ACS assess...

    Authors: Anne-Maree Kelly and Sharon Klim
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:42
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  11. Constrictive pericarditis is caused by fibrosis and calcification of the pericardium, processes that inhibit diastolic filling of the heart. For the diagnosis of constrictive pericarditis, a combined approach ...

    Authors: Mu Sook Lee, Joon Hyouk Choi, Young Uck Kim and Su Wan Kim
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:40
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  12. Pulmonary hypertension is a disease with many etiologies and is responsible for 200,000 admissions and 25,000 hospitalizations in the United States each year. We report the case of a previously healthy 58-year...

    Authors: Maricel Dela Cruz and Jeremy Seelinger Devey
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:32
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  13. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Geriatric Emergency Medicine Task Force recommends assessment of delirium for all elderly emergency department (ED) patients. Little is known about emergency ...

    Authors: Jiraporn Sri-on, Gregory Philip Tirrell, Prasit Wuthisuthimethawee and Shan Woo Liu
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:38
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  15. Lemierre's syndrome is a rare condition characterized by thrombophlebitis of internal jugular vein, septicemia and septic metastatic infection of different organs. It is preceded by an oropharyngeal infection ...

    Authors: Sonali Sihindi Chapa Gunatilake, Lakmini Gunarathna Yapa, Malinga Gallala, Rohitha Gamlath, Chaturaka Rodrigo and Harith Wimalaratna
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:39
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  16. We aimed to compare the clinical judgments of a reference panel of emergency medicine academic physicians against evidence-based likelihood ratios (LRs) regarding the diagnostic value of selected clinical and ...

    Authors: Seyed-Foad Ahmadi, Shahin Khoshkish, Kamran Soltani-Arabshahi, Peyman Hafezi-Moghadam, Golara Zahmatkesh, Parisa Heidari, Davood Baba-Beigloo, Hamid R Baradaran and Shahram Lotfipour
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:34
    Content type: Brief Research Report Published on:

  17. In the advent of mass voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for the partial prevention of HIV, previously rare adverse events associated with adult male circumcision are likely to be encountered with high...

    Authors: Moses Galukande, Dennis Bbaale Sekavuga, Alex Muganzi and Alex Coutinho
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:37
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Acute pain assessment in the emergency department (ED) is important in particular during the triage process. Early pain assessment and management improve outcome. The objective of this study was to determine t...

    Authors: Nik Hisamuddin NA Rahman and Cecilia Ananthanosamy
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:36
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  19. The aims of the study were to identify the characteristics of elderly frequent attenders to the emergency department (ED) presenting with chest pain and to assess the 1-year prognosis for developing adverse ca...

    Authors: Faraz Zarisfi, Qi En Hong, Pauline See Joon Seah, Huihua Li, Susan Yap and Marcus Eng Hock Ong
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:35
    Content type: Brief Research Report Published on:

  20. Patients suffering from aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage often present with electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities that mimic cardiac ischemia, but documented left ventricular regional wall-motion dysfunction...

    Authors: Mai Shimada and Jonathan D Rose
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:33
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  22. Emergency Medicine (EM) is increasingly becoming an international field. The number of fellowships in International EM in the USA is growing along with opportunities to complete international health electives ...

    Authors: Steve O’Donnell, David H Adler, Pholaphat Charles Inboriboon, Hermenegildo Alvarado, Raul Acosta and Daniel Godoy-Monzon
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:24
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  40. In many countries, including the Netherlands, a substantial number of patients visit the Emergency Department (ED) without a referral by a general practitioner. The goal of this study was to determine the char...

    Authors: Janneke de Valk, Elisabeth M Taal, Mariette S Nijhoff, Maren H Harms, Esther MM Lieshout, Peter Patka and Pleunie PM Rood
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:30
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2015 8:15

  41. Nearly all Dutch citizens have a general practitioner (GP), acting as a gatekeeper to secondary care. Some patients bypass the GP and present to the emergency department (ED). To make best use of existing emer...

    Authors: M Christien van der Linden, Robert Lindeboom, Naomi van der Linden, Crispijn L van den Brand, Rianne C Lam, Cees Lucas, Rob de Haan and J Carel Goslings
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:28
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  42. In our level I trauma center, it is considered common practice to repeat blood haemoglobin measurements in patients within 2 h after admission. However, the rationale behind this procedure is elusive and can b...

    Authors: Joanne C Sierink, Pieter Joosse, Steve MM de Castro, Niels WL Schep and J Carel Goslings
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:26
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  43. Early warning score (EWS) is a system that assists in the timely recognition of hospitalized patients outside critical care areas with potential or established critical illness at risk of deteriorating and who...

    Authors: Nuno Correia, Rui Paulo Rodrigues, Márcia Carvalho Sá, Paula Dias, Luís Lopes and Artur Paiva
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:22
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  44. Polymicrobial Gram-negative pericarditis is a rare entity in the immune-competent patient, and purulent pericarditis due to bacteria complicated by tamponade is a life-threatening condition with high mortality...

    Authors: Carl Frederik Brandt Simonÿ, Mikkel Malham, Jacob Kanstrup, Piotr Wojtek, Folmer Lynggaard and Stig Andersen
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:21
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  45. Trauma is the leading cause of death in the developed world. Accurate assessment of severity of injuries is critical in informing treatment choices. Current models of assessing severity of injury are not witho...

    Authors: Michael Okello, Patson Makobore, Robert Wangoda, Alex Upoki and Moses Galukande
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:20
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  46. The right person in the right place and at the right time is not always possible; telemedicine offers the potential to give audio and visual access to the appropriate clinician for patients. Advances in inform...

    Authors: Ahjoku Amadi-Obi, Peadar Gilligan, Niall Owens and Cathal O’Donnell
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:29
    Content type: Review Published on:

  47. Unscheduled return visits to the emergency department (ED) may reflect shortcomings in care. This study characterized ED return visits with respect to incidence, risk factors, reasons and post-ED disposition. ...

    Authors: M Christien van der Linden, Robert Lindeboom, Rob de Haan, Naomi van der Linden, Ernie RJT de Deckere, Cees Lucas, Steven J Rhemrev and J Carel Goslings
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:23
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  48. A 70-year-old patient was referred to our emergency department with severe retrosternal pain after forceful vomiting. Computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a left-sided oesophageal rupture with accompanying p...

    Authors: Gerben van der Weg, Marald Wikkeling, Maarten van Leeuwen and Ewoud ter Avest
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:27
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. A possible downstream effect of high in-hospital bed occupancy is that patients in the emergency department (ED) who would benefit from in-hospital care are denied admission. The present study aimed at evaluat...

    Authors: Mathias C Blom, Fredrik Jonsson, Mona Landin-Olsson and Kjell Ivarsson
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:25
    Content type: Original Research Published on:

  50. Pneumonia is among the foremost causes of hospitalization and mortality in patients residing in extended care facilities. Despite its prevalence, there is currently little literature focusing on the course and...

    Authors: Syed Imran Ayaz, Nadia Haque, Claire Pearson, Patrick Medado, Duane Robinson, Robert Wahl, Marcus Zervos and Brian J O’Neil
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 7:19
    Content type: Original Research Published on:
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