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  1. This study aimed to describe the pathological findings and to analyze clinical predictors of abnormal imaging findings in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with syncope.

    Authors: Kerem Ozturk, Esra Soylu, Cem Bilgin, Bahattin Hakyemez and Mufit Parlak

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:16

    Content type: Original Research

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  2. The accessibility of laboratory test results is crucial to the performance of emergency departments and to the safety of patients. This study aims to develop a better understanding of which laboratory informat...

    Authors: Louis Raymond, Guy Paré, Éric Maillet, Ana Ortiz de Guinea, Marie-Claude Trudel and Josianne Marsan

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:15

    Content type: Original Research

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  3. Lung ultrasound is an effective tool for diagnosing pneumonia in developed countries. Diagnostic accuracy in resource-limited countries where pneumonia is the leading cause of death is unknown. The objective o...

    Authors: Yogendra Amatya, Jordan Rupp, Frances M. Russell, Jason Saunders, Brian Bales and Darlene R. House

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:8

    Content type: Original Research

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  4. Choosing a medical specialty is a poorly understood process. Although studies conducted around the world have attempted to identify the factors that affect medical students’ choice of specialty, data is scarce...

    Authors: Hadeel Alkhaneen, Faisal Alhusain, Khalid Alshehri and Nawfal Al Jerian

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:14

    Content type: Educational advances in emergency medicine

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    The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:56

  5. Following the publication of the original article [1], it was brought to our attention that author Leena Alqasem was erroneously included as Leena Alqusem.

    Authors: Feras Abuzeyad, Leena Alqasem, Mudhaffar I. Al Farras, Shaikha S. Al Jawder, Ghada Al Qasim and Salah Alghanem

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:13

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:4

  6. Pulmonary embolism (PE) during pregnancy remains one of the leading causes of maternal morbidity and mortality in the developed world. However, there is a paucity of high-quality evidence resulting in a lack o...

    Authors: Hyun Choi and Dinesh Krishnamoorthy

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:10

    Content type: Original Research

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  7. The treatment of acute pain in the emergency department is not always optimal. Peripheral nerve blocks using “blind” or nerve stimulator techniques have substantial disadvantages. Ultrasound-guided regional an...

    Authors: Rein Ketelaars, Joram T. Stollman, Evelien van Eeten, Ties Eikendal, Jörgen Bruhn and Geert-Jan van Geffen

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:12

    Content type: Original Research

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  8. Clinical ultrasound is commonly used in medical practices worldwide due to the multiple benefits the modality offers clinicians. Rigorous credentialing standards are necessary to safeguard patients against ope...

    Authors: Hein Lamprecht, Gustav Lemke, Daniel van Hoving, Thinus Kruger and Lee Wallis

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:11

    Content type: Original Research

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  9. Sudden cardiac death is one of the most frequent causes of death in Germany and the third leading cause of death in the industrialized world. Yet, the percentage of people providing first aid in the case of su...

    Authors: Manuela Malsy, Richard Leberle and Bernhard Graf

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:9

    Content type: Original Research

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  10. The purpose of our study is to investigate rates of individual procedures performed by residents in our emergency medicine (EM) residency program. Different programs expose residents to different training envi...

    Authors: Joshua T. Bucher, Christopher Bryczkowski, Grant Wei, Renee L. Riggs, Anoop Kotwal, Brian Sumner and Jonathan V. McCoy

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:7

    Content type: Original research

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  11. Clinical care review is the process of retrospectively examining potential errors or gaps in medical care, aiming for future practice improvement. The objective of our systematic review is to identify the curr...

    Authors: Laura E. Walker, David M. Nestler, Torrey A. Laack, Casey M. Clements, Patricia J. Erwin, Lori Scanlan-Hanson and M. Fernanda Bellolio

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:6

    Content type: Original research

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  12. Previous studies have demonstrated that patients have poor understanding of the discharge instructions provided from the emergency department (ED). The aims of this study are to determine if patient factors, s...

    Authors: Hasan Sheikh, Aleksandar Brezar, Agata Dzwonek, Lawrence Yau and Lisa A. Calder

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:5

    Content type: Original Research

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  13. It has been more than a decade since emergency medicine became recognized as a specialty in the Kingdom of Bahrain. In the last fifteen years emergency medicine has widely established itself and developed rapi...

    Authors: Feras Abuzeyad, Leena Alqasem, Mudhaffar I. Al Farras, Shaikha S. Al Jawder, Ghada Al Qasim and Salah Alghanem

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:4

    Content type: State of International Emergency medicine

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    The Correction to this article has been published in International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:13

  14. Emergency department (ED) triage is performed to prioritize care for patients with critical and time-sensitive illness. Triage errors create opportunity for increased morbidity and mortality. Here, we sought t...

    Authors: Jeremiah S. Hinson, Diego A. Martinez, Paulo S. K. Schmitz, Matthew Toerper, Danieli Radu, James Scheulen, Sarah A. Stewart de Ramirez and Scott Levin

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:3

    Content type: Original Research

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  15. When we established an emergency department-based telemedicine program, we assumed that many older patients would be skeptical of the new technology and choose not to participate. Our assumption was incorrect....

    Authors: Peter Greenwald, Michael Ethan Stern, Sunday Clark and Rahul Sharma

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:2

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  16. This study aimed to compare the epidemiology, clinical presentations, management, and outcomes of renal colic presentations in two major academic centers from geographically diverse populations: Qatar (a count...

    Authors: Sameer A. Pathan, Biswadev Mitra, Zain A. Bhutta, Isma Qureshi, Elle Spencer, Asmaa A. Hameed, Sana Nadeem, Ramsha Tahir, Shahzad Anjum and Peter A. Cameron

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018 11:1

    Content type: Original Research

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  17. Several efforts have been made to assure and to improve the quality of procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) performed by emergency physicians (EPs) in The Netherlands. This study investigated the current PS...

    Authors: Maybritt I. Kuypers, Gaël J. P. Smits, Suzanne C. Valkenet, Wendy A. M. H. Thijssen and Frans B. Plötz

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:33

    Content type: Original Research

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  18. Clinical decision makings according studies result require the valid and correct data collection, andanalysis. However, there are some common methodological and statistical issues which may ignore by authors. ...

    Authors: Manoochehr Karami and Salman Khazaei

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:32

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  19. Very frequent outpatient emergency department (ED) use—so called “superutilization”—at the state level is not well-studied. To address this gap, we examined frequent ED utilization in the largest state Medicai...

    Authors: Chris Delcher, Chengliang Yang, Sanjay Ranka, Joseph Adrian Tyndall, Bruce Vogel and Elizabeth Shenkman

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:31

    Content type: Original Research

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  20. A report of loss of consciousness (LOC) is frequently considered reason enough to obtain a computed tomography (CT) scan in the evaluation of head trauma. We conducted this study to reduce exposure to radiatio...

    Authors: Muhammad Waseem, Patrick Iyahen Jr, Hilary Bryan Anderson, Kevin Kapoor, Ramnath Kapoor and Mark Leber

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:30

    Content type: Original Research

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  21. The safe and effective administration of fluids and medications during the management of medical emergencies in children depends on an appropriately determined dose, based on body weight. Weight can often not ...

    Authors: Mike Wells, Lara Nicole Goldstein and Alison Bentley

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:29

    Content type: Review

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  22. Although human and equipment resources, proper training, and the verification of endotracheal intubation are vital elements of difficult airway management (DAM), their availability in Japanese emergency depart...

    Authors: Yuko Ono, Koichi Tanigawa, Kazuaki Shinohara, Tetsuhiro Yano, Kotaro Sorimachi, Ryota Inokuchi and Jiro Shimada

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:28

    Content type: Original Research

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  23. Coins are made of metal, which is generally radiopaque, and so physicians often have the misconception that all coins are detectable by radiography. Here, we report a case of intentionally swallowed coins in t...

    Authors: Jin Takahashi, Takashi Shiga and Hiraku Funakoshi

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:27

    Content type: Case report

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  24. Nail abnormalities in childhood are generally uncommon. Recently, onychomadesis is described as a rare, late complication of hand-foot-mouth disease, which is a viral illness commonly seen in the pediatric age...

    Authors: Ibrahim Mortada, Rola Mortada and Mohamad Al Bazzal

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:26

    Content type: Case report

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  25. The objective of this study was to determine the attitude of patients, healthcare professionals, and noninjured lay persons towards adding a video with discharge instructions to patient care for patients with ...

    Authors: Amber E. Hoek, Maaike van den Hamer, Carianne K. Deelstra, Ed F. van Beeck, Diederik W. J. Dippel, Juanita A. Haagsma and Pleunie P. M. Rood

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:25

    Content type: Brief Research Report

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  26. In order to enhance patient safety during resuscitation of critically ill patients, we need to optimize team communication and enhance team situational awareness but little is known about resuscitation team co...

    Authors: Lisa Anne Calder, George Mastoras, Mitra Rahimpour, Benjamin Sohmer, Brian Weitzman, A. Adam Cwinn, Tara Hobin and Avi Parush

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:24

    Content type: Original Research

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  27. Patients with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus may present repeatedly to the emergency department (ED) for management and treatment of hyperglycemic episodes, including diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmola...

    Authors: Justin W. Yan, Katherine M. Gushulak, Melanie P. Columbus, Kristine van Aarsen, Alexandra L. Hamelin, George A. Wells and Ian G. Stiell

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:23

    Content type: Original Research

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  28. Pesticides are identified as one of the dangerous poisons globally in children and are associated with increased short- and long-term morbidity. Pesticide poisoning is the most common method of self-poisoning ...

    Authors: Kavinda Chandimal Dayasiri, Shaluka F. Jayamanne and Chamilka Y. Jayasinghe

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:22

    Content type: Original Research

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  29. Innovative methods for delivering healthcare via the use of technology are rapidly growing. Despite the passage of the Affordable Care Act, emergency department visits have continued to rise nationally. Health...

    Authors: Rahul Sharma, Peter Fleischut and Daniel Barchi

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:21

    Content type: Case study

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  30. Mass Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training using less expensive and easily portable manikins is one way to increase the number of trained laypeople in a short time. The easy-to-carry, low-cost CPR trai...

    Authors: Shota Tanaka, Alexander E. White, Ryo Sagisaka, Guanseng Chong, Eileen Ng, Jinny Seow, Nurul Asyikin MJ, Hideharu Tanaka and Marcus Eng Hock Ong

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:20

    Content type: Original Research

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  31. Hospitalization and early anticoagulation therapy remain standard care for patients who present to the emergency department (ED) with pulmonary embolism (PE). For PEs discovered incidentally, however, optimal ...

    Authors: Srinivas R. Banala, Sai-Ching Jim Yeung, Terry W. Rice, Cielito C. Reyes-Gibby, Carol C. Wu, Knox H. Todd, W. Frank Peacock and Kumar Alagappan

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:19

    Content type: Original Research

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  32. Time is a crucial factor for the successful early management of the multi-trauma patient. Hybrid operating theaters, which support the integration of surgical treatment and interventional radiology, provide op...

    Authors: Naofumi Bunya, Keisuke Harada, Yosuke Kuroda, Tsubasa Toyohara, Takashi Toyohara, Narumi Kubota, Ryuichiro Kakizaki, Hideto Irifune, Shuji Uemura and Eichi Narimatsu

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:18

    Content type: Case report

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  33. Loop diuretics are common therapy for emergency department (ED) patients with acute heart failure (AHF). Diuretic resistance (DR) is a term used to describe blunted natriuretic response to loop diuretics. It w...

    Authors: Andrew Doering, Cathy A. Jenkins, Alan B. Storrow, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Gregory J. Fermann, Karen F. Miller, Matthew Sperling and Sean P. Collins

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:17

    Content type: Original Research

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  34. Pain is among the most commonly treated symptoms in the emergency department, and opioids are commonly prescribed from the emergency department to treat moderate to severe pain. Prescription drug monitoring pr...

    Authors: Henry W. Young II, Joseph A. Tyndall and Linda B. Cottler

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:16

    Content type: Original Research

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  36. The goal of this article was to provide an overview of the literature available on carbon dioxide intoxication. Articles were included based on their focus on medical or physiological effects of carbon dioxide...

    Authors: Kris Permentier, Steven Vercammen, Sylvia Soetaert and Christian Schellemans

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:14

    Content type: Review

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  37. Natural disasters affected millions of people worldwide every year. Evaluation of disaster health and health response interventions is faced with several methodological challenges. This study aimed (1) to desc...

    Authors: Karin Hugelius, Mervyn Gifford, Per Örtenwall and Annsofie Adolfsson

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:13

    Content type: Original Research

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  38. We report the ultrasound finding of ascariasis in a patient with hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS). Although ascariasis is common in low-resource settings, there has been no previous report associating as...

    Authors: Giles N. Cattermole and Jean-Paul Nzabandora

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:12

    Content type: Case report

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  39. Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a common presentation of type I diabetes mellitus to the emergency departments. Most children with DKA are initially managed in community emergency departments where providers ma...

    Authors: Janine E. Zee-Cheng, Emily C. Webber and Samer Abu-Sultaneh

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:11

    Content type: Original Research

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  40. The concept of emergency medical services (EMS) is new to Sri Lanka. This article describes the development, delivery, and future ideas for EMS in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka also faces frequent natural hazards that ...

    Authors: Kelum Wimalaratne, Jeong IL Lee, Kang Hyun Lee, Hee Young Lee, Jung Hun Lee and In Hye Kang

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:10

    Content type: STATE OF INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE

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  41. The key guidelines in the management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) include the 2010 British Thoracic Society (BTS) Pleural Disease guideline and 2001 American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Con...

    Authors: Jiyoon Yoon, Parthipan Sivakumar, Kevin O’Kane and Liju Ahmed

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:9

    Content type: Brief Research Report

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  42. In several European countries, emergency departments (EDs) now employ a dedicated team of full-time emergency medicine (EM) physicians, with a distinct leadership and bed-side emergency training, in all simila...

    Authors: Pedro Ramos and José Artur Paiva

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:8

    Content type: Original Research

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  43. Stercoral colitis is an inflammatory process involving the colonic wall related to fecal impaction. This rare condition is associated with high morbidity-mortality.

    Authors: Abdelghafour Elkoundi, Mustapha Bensghir and Charki Haimeur

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:7

    Content type: Clinical Image

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  44. Implementing procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department is still is a challenge on an international scale. Here, we describe the Dutch setting of emergency medicine and explain the strategie...

    Authors: Maybritt I. Kuypers, Frans B. Plötz and Francis Mencl

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:6

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  45. Blood product transfusion occurs in a significant percentage of intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Pulmonary complications, such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), occurring in the setting of tran...

    Authors: Alexander Beyer, Ryan Rees, Christopher Palmer, Brian T. Wessman and Brian M. Fuller

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:5

    Content type: Original Research

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  46. Tension gastrothorax is a kind of obstructive shock with prolapse and distention of the stomach into the thoracic cavity. Progressive gastric distension leads to mediastinal shift, reduced venous return, decre...

    Authors: Naofumi Bunya, Keigo Sawamoto, Shuji Uemura, Takashi Toyohara, Yukino Mori, Ryoko Kyan, Kei Miyata, Hideto Irifune, Keisuke Harada and Eichi Narimatsu

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:4

    Content type: Case report

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  47. Hyperkalemia is a common electrolyte abnormality and has well-recognized early electrocardiographic manifestations including PR prolongation and symmetric T wave peaking. With severe increase in serum potassiu...

    Authors: Shareez Peerbhai, Luke Masha, Adrian DaSilva-DeAbreu and Abhijeet Dhoble

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:3

    Content type: Case report

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  48. Burns occur disproportionately within low-socioeconomic populations. The Western Cape Province of South Africa represents a middle-income setting with a high rate of burns, few specialists and few burn centres...

    Authors: Rachel L. Allgaier, Lucie Laflamme and Lee A. Wallis

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:2

    Content type: Original research

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  49. Although rapid sequence intubation (RSI) is the method of choice in emergency department (ED) airway management, data to support the use of RSI remain scarce. We sought to compare the effectiveness of airway m...

    Authors: Masashi Okubo, Koichiro Gibo, Yusuke Hagiwara, Yukiko Nakayama and Kohei Hasegawa

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017 10:1

    Content type: Original research

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  50. Afterload reduction with bolus enalaprilat is used by some for management of acute hypertensive heart failure (HF) but existing data on the safety and effectiveness of this practice are limited. The purpose of...

    Authors: Syed Imran Ayaz, Craig M. Sharkey, Gregory M. Kwiatkowski, Suprat Saely Wilson, Reba S. John, Rosa Tolomello, Arushi Mahajan, Scott Millis and Phillip D. Levy

    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2016 9:28

    Content type: Brief Research Report

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