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Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:131
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Racial disparities in health care—emergency department management of minor head injury
International research has demonstrated disparities in the Emergency Department care of patients of certain racial or ethnic backgrounds. The management of minor head injuries requires a careful clinical asses...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:124 -
Rapid HIV testing program implementation: lessons from the emergency department
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines and the World Health Organization (WHO) both recommend HIV testing in health-care settings. However, neither organization provides prescriptiv...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:123 -
Do echo-enhanced needles improve time to cannulate in a model of short-axis ultrasound-guided vascular access for a group of mostly inexperienced ultrasound users?
Vascular access is a critical skill for emergency physicians. However, it can be unpredictably challenging in some patients. While ultrasound-guided vascular access has been encouraged in emergency departments...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:114 -
Emergency medicine in Dubai, UAE
Dubai has rapidly risen to prominence in the Persian Gulf region as a center of global commerce and tourism and as a cultural crossroad between East and West. The health-care infrastructure has undergone rapid...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:122 -
Intraosseous vascular access in adults using the EZ-IO in an emergency department
Intraosseous (IO) access is an alternative to conventional intravenous access.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:116 -
Dietary supplements and herbal medicine toxicities—when to anticipate them and how to manage them
Dietary supplements and herbal medicines are gaining popularity in many developed countries.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:105 -
Overcrowding is associated with delays in percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction
Recently developed crowding measures, such as the Emergency Department (ED) Work Index (EDWIN) score, provide a quantifiable measurement of overcrowding in the ED.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:107 -
Rebuilding the health care system in Afghanistan: an overview of primary care and emergency services
Developing nations have many challenges to the growth of emergency medical systems. This development in Afghanistan is also complicated by many factors that plague post-conflict countries including an unstable...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:106 -
Emergency department procedural sedation practice in Cape Town, South Africa
There are no general policies or protocols for procedural sedation in the emergency department and no literature on present practice in South Africa.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:101 -
Chest pain in a 12-year-old boy: when is it a harbinger of poor outcome?
Chest pain is usually a benign presentation in children who present to emergency departments (ED) or primary care centers. Unlike adults, where chest pain is commonly due to cardiac causes, in children the cau...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:104 -
Artificial neural network, genetic algorithm, and logistic regression applications for predicting renal colic in emergency settings
Logistic regression is the most common statistical model for processing multivariate data in the medical literature. Artificial intelligence models like an artificial neural network (ANN) and genetic algorithm...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:103 -
Resident productivity: trends over consecutive shifts
It has been shown that residents’ ability to see more patients and patients of higher acuity improves with level of training.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:109 -
Acute left flank pain
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:110 -
Post-traumatic pneumocephalus
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:108 -
Heart block and nonocclusive mesenteric ischemia
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:100 -
The International Journal of Emergency Medicine: successes of the first year
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:102 -
Analysis of trends in emergency department attendances, hospital admissions and medical staffing in a Hong Kong university hospital: 5-year study
The workload of emergency departments (ED) continually changes in response to presentations, overcrowding and availability of expertise and investigations.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:98 -
Ovarian torsion in a prepubertal girl
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:99 -
Listening to syncope
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:95 -
Case of carbon monoxide poisoning after smoking shisha
Carbon monoxide poisoning has been reported as a result of exposure to various sources of smoke, such as car exhaust fumes, home water heaters and tobacco smoke. We describe a case of symptomatic, moderately s...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:97 -
EMCON 2008: 10th Annual National Conference of the Society for Emergency Medicine in India
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:94 -
Upcoming conferences
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:96 -
Lateral lumbar spondyloptosis
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:92 -
Visual representation of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network criteria for anaphylaxis
We present a user-friendly visual representation of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network criteria so as to enhance recognition of anaphylaxis an...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:93 -
Comparison of the point-of-care blood gas analyzer versus the laboratory auto-analyzer for the measurement of electrolytes
Electrolyte values are measured both by arterial blood gas (ABG) analyzers and central laboratory auto-analyzers (AA), but a significant time gap exists between the availability of both these results, with the...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:91 -
Portomesenteric air from acute necrotizing appendicitis
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:90 -
Correlations between capnographic waveforms and peak flow meter measurement in emergency department management of asthma
The usual method for initial assessment of an acute asthma attack in the emergency room includes the use of peak flow measurement and clinical parameters. Both methods have their own disadvantages such as poor...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:88 -
Thiopentone sedation for sedation of acutely agitated, violent, intoxicated patients: Evaluation of 2 cases
Two cases of violent, drug-intoxicated patients who presented considerable problems in management, and were resistant to standard sedative agents, are described. Effective and safe sedation, without the need f...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:85 -
The design and pilot of a translation aid to help ED clinicians enhance communication with the Portuguese-speaking patient
Language barriers hinder health care delivery in settings with culturally diverse populations. Interventions to accommodate non-English-speaking patients have been shown to shorten length of stay and reduce no...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:81 -
Improved care of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in two academic emergency departments
Although several chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) practice guidelines have been published, there is sparse data on the actual emergency department (ED) management of acute exacerbation of COPD (AEC...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:89 -
A comparison of emergency department utilization by elderly and younger adult patients presenting to three hospitals in Hong Kong
The elderly population is increasing in absolute and relative terms in most developed countries, and this is protected to have a major impact on the delivery of health care, particularly acute and emergency se...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:87 -
Subtalar dislocation: rare and often forgotten
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:86 -
Comparison of the characteristics and outcome among patients suffering from out-of-hospital primary cardiac arrest and drowning victims in cardiac arrest
In 2003, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) published the Recommended Guidelines for Uniform Reporting of Data from Drowning: the “Utstein style” (“Utstein Style for Drowning,” USFD) ...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:84 -
A dusky hand—expect the unexpected
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:83 -
Efficacy and compliance of a prehospital spinal immobilization guideline
Prehospital spinal immobilization criteria are useful in identifying those at risk for spinal fractures, while reducing the number of patients unnecessarily immobilized. The use of immobilization criteria, wit...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:82 -
Demographics of toxic exposures presenting to three public hospital emergency departments in Singapore 2001–2003
The demographics of poisoned patients and the circumstances of toxic exposure have not been evaluated in Singapore for the last 10 years.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:80 -
Comment on Grmec et al.: A treatment protocol including vasopressin and hydroxyethyl starch solution is associated with increased rate of return of spontaneous circulation in blunt trauma patients with pulseless electrical activity
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2009 2:79 -
Ultrasound in emergency medicine: a colorful future in black and white
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:78 -
The current state of hospital-based emergency medicine in Germany
Germany has a long tradition of having physicians, often anesthesiologists with additional training in emergency medicine, deliver prehospital emergency care. Hospital-based emergency medicine in Germany also ...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:76 -
Does implementation of a paediatric asthma clinical practice guideline worksheet change clinical practice?
Despite the development of evidence-based practice guidelines in many countries for asthma treatment in children, there is limited evidence that using such guidelines improves patient care.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 2:63 -
Introduction of a portable ultrasound unit into the health services of the Lugufu refugee camp, Kigoma District, Tanzania
Diagnostic imaging services are scarce in much of the developing world. Ultrasound is a low-cost, safe, and widely applicable imaging modality.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:74 -
Diospyrobezoar: an uncommon cause of obstructive ileus
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:71 -
In-process modification yields improved teaching outcomes for international emergency medicine
To determine if on-going modification of an international teaching course in emergency medicine will improve audience perception and receptivity.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:64 -
A treatment protocol including vasopressin and hydroxyethyl starch solution is associated with increased rate of return of spontaneous circulation in blunt trauma patients with pulseless electrical activity
Survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) using standard vasopressor therapy is disappointing. Vasopressin is a potent vasopressor that could become a useful therapeutic alternative in the treatment o...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:73 -
Use of ultrasound by emergency medical services: a review
Prehospital ultrasound has been deployed in certain areas of the USA and Europe. Physicians, emergency medical technicians, and flight nurses have utilized a variety of medical and trauma ultrasound assessment...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:75 -
The willingness of final year medical and dental students to perform bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in an Asian community
Despite the importance of early effective chest compressions to improve the chance of survival of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victim, it is still largely unknown how willing our Malaysian population is t...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:70 -
A national Internet survey on rapid sequence intubation patterns from Turkey
To determine which specialty was performing rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in the emergency departments and to determine drug preferences of emergency physicians during RSI in Turkey.
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:69 -
Board review course effect on resident in-training examination
The in-training examination is a national and yearly exam administered by the American Board of Emergency Medicine to all emergency medicine residents in the USA. The purpose of the examination is to evaluate ...
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:68 -
Primary pyomyositis caused by ca-MRSA
Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2008 1:67
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