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  1. This study was designed to evaluate emergency physician success and satisfaction using a video-assisted semi-rigid fiberoptic stylet, the Clarus Video System (CVS), during a simulated difficult airway scenario.

    Authors: Derek R Cooney, Norma L Cooney, Harry Wallus and Susan Wojcik
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:24
  2. Intimate partner violence (IPV) occurs throughout the world, and has both short- term and long- term negative health effects. Little is know about the prevalence of IPV in patients presenting to Emergency Depa...

    Authors: Kendra P Parekh, Stephan Russ, David A Amsalem, Navindranauth Rambaran, Shannon Langston and Seth W Wright
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:23
  3. Few emergency department (ED) evaluations on acute lung injury (ALI) have been carried out; hence, we sought to describe a cohort of hospitalized ED patients at risk for ALI development.

    Authors: Peter C Hou, Marie-Carmelle Elie-Turenne, Aya Mitani, Jonathan M Barry, Erica Y Kao, Jason E Cohen, Gyorgy Frendl, Ognjen Gajic and Nina T Gentile
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:22
  4. Emergency department (ED) visits in the US have risen dramatically over the past 2 decades. In order to meet the growing demand, mid-level providers (MLPs) – both physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitio...

    Authors: David F M Brown, Ashley F Sullivan, Janice A Espinola and Carlos A Camargo Jr
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:21
  5. In The Netherlands, mainly inexperienced physicians work in the ED on all shifts, including the evening and night shifts, when no direct supervision is available. In 2004 a report of the Dutch Health Care Insp...

    Authors: David E Ikkersheim and Harm van de Pas
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:20
  6. Several studies have been conducted on managing migraine headaches and developing effective medications for decreasing migraine-associated pain.

    Authors: Hassan Soleimanpour, Aliakbar Taheraghdam, Rouzbeh Rajaei Ghafouri, Ali Taghizadieh, Karim Marjany and Maryam Soleimanpour
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:19
  7. Because of the increasing age of the population, critical care and emergency medicine physicians have seen an increased number of critically ill patients over the last decade. Moreover, the trend of hospital c...

    Authors: Jahan Porhomayon, Gino Zadeii, Samuel Congello and Nader D Nader
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:18
  8. We wished to compare the San Francisco Syncope Rule (SFSR), Evaluation of Guidelines in Syncope Study (EGSYS) and the Osservatorio Epidemiologico sulla Sincope nel Lazio (OESIL) risk scores and to assess their...

    Authors: Kamil Kayayurt, Haldun Akoglu, Onder Limon, Asım Oktay Ergene, Ozcan Yavasi, Serdar Bayata, Nergiz Vanden Berk and Erden Erol Unluer
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:17
  9. Conventionally, a nebulized short-acting β-2 agonist like salbutamol is often used as the reliever in acute exacerbations of asthma. However, recent worldwide respiratory outbreaks discourage routine use of ne...

    Authors: Keng Sheng Chew, Hamizah Kamarudin and Che Wan Hashim
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:16
  10. Migration is a rare complication of venticuloperitoneal shunts and is thought to be associated with the "memory" of the plastic tubing and the windlass effect of neck flexion and extension. The purpose of this...

    Authors: Brian T Kloss, David M Hart and LaLainia Secreti
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:15
  11. Intraorbital foreign bodies are frequently the result of high-velocity injuries with varying clinical presentations. The resultant diagnosis, management, and outcome depend on the type of foreign body present,...

    Authors: Craig N Czyz, Thomas P Petrie, Jonathan D Harder, Kenneth V Cahill and Jill A Foster
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:14
  12. An effective international response to a disaster requires cooperation and coordination with the existing infrastructure. In some cases, however, international relief efforts can compete with the local work fo...

    Authors: Rohini J Haar, Sassan Naderi, John R Acerra, Maxwell Mathias and Kumar Alagappan
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:13
  13. Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome ( PRES) can present with focal neurologic deficits, mimicking a stroke and can often represent a diagnostic challenge when presenting atypically. A high degree of susp...

    Authors: Vishnumurthy Shushrutha Hedna, Latha Ganti Stead, Sharathchandra Bidari, Akhil Patel, Amareshwari Gottipati, Christopher G Favilla, Arash Salardini, Aunali Khaku, Diana Mora, Ajay Pandey, Het Patel and Michael F Waters
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:12
  14. Malaria is endemic to Indonesia. However, there are few prevalence data available from Aceh Province because of the long-standing separatist conflict and decentralization of the public health system. The Mento...

    Authors: David Muriuki, Sigrid Hahn, Braden Hexom and Richard Allan
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:11
  15. Accidental hypothermia is defined as an unintentional decrease in body temperature to below 35°C, and cases in which temperatures drop below 28°C are considered severe and have a high mortality rate. This stud...

    Authors: Keigo Sawamoto, Katsutoshi Tanno, Yoshihiro Takeyama and Yasufumi Asai
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:9
  16. We report a case of profound neurologic and cardiovascular manifestations of tricyclic antidepressant intoxication following self-poisoning with multiple pharmaceuticals including amitriptyline in excess of 43...

    Authors: Martyn Harvey and Grant Cave
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:8
  17. A 41-year-old man suffered hypothermic cardiac arrest after water immersion and was transported to our university hospital by ambulance helicopter for rewarming on cardiopulmonary bypass. He resumed spontaneou...

    Authors: Eckhard Mark, Olaf Jacobsen, Astrid Kjerstad, Torvind Naesheim, Rolf Busund, Ramez Bahar, Jon Kjetil Jensen, Per Kristian Skorpen and Lars J Bjertnaes
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:7
  18. The Manchester Triage System is commonly used as the triage system in emergency departments of the UK. As per the Manchester Triage System, patients presenting with retention of urine to the accident and emerg...

    Authors: Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul Soni, Tun Oo, Peter Hughes, Gurpreet Singh and Kamesh Pulya
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:6
  19. Capsaicin, one of the major active components of cayenne pepper pills, is an over-the-counter substance with sympathomimetic activity used commonly by young individuals for weight loss. Here we report the case...

    Authors: Ozgur Sogut, Halil Kaya, Mehmet Tahir Gokdemir and Yusuf Sezen
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:5
  20. Emergency medicine physicians are often faced with the challenging task of differentiating true acute ischemic strokes from stroke mimics. We present a case that was initially diagnosed as acute stroke. Howeve...

    Authors: Waldo R Guerrero, Haitham Dababneh and Stephan Eisenschenk
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:4
  21. To assess relationships between blood pressure hemodynamic measures and outcomes after acute ischemic stroke, including stroke severity, disability and death.

    Authors: Latha Ganti Stead, Sailaja Enduri, M Fernanda Bellolio, Anunaya R Jain, Lekshmi Vaidyanathan, Rachel M Gilmore, Rahul Kashyap, Amy L Weaver and Robert D Brown Jr
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:3
  22. It is important to have a venous line in cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) patients as an emergency treatment measure in prehospital settings, but establishment of a peripheral venous line is difficult in such pati...

    Authors: Kenji Isayama, Toshio Nakatani, Masanobu Tsuda and Akihiko Hirakawa
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:2
  23. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a clinicopathological disorder characterised by vascular amyloid deposition initially in leptomeningeal and neocortical vessels, and later affecting cortical and subcortical regi...

    Authors: Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek, Nandita K Parmar, Norah-Hager Sadek, Sanjana Jaiganesh, Samer Elkhodair and Thiagarajan Jaiganesh
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2012 5:1
  24. A recent important global meeting to set the international action agenda concerning non-communicable diseases (NCDs) failed to draw substantial attention from the emergency medical and surgical community. Advo...

    Authors: Nicholas Risko, Emilie JB Calvello, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Mayur Narayan and Jon Mark Hirshon
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:75
  25. We present the case of a patient who attempted to perform a type of body modification known as "pearling" or "genital beading" while in prison. This patient unfortunately caused severe trauma to his penis, req...

    Authors: David P Nguyen, Bobby K Desai and Michael Falgiani
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:74
  26. As portability and durability improve, bedside, clinician-performed ultrasound is seeing increasing use in rural, underdeveloped parts of the world. Physicians, nurses and medical officers have demonstrated th...

    Authors: Stephanie Sippel, Krithika Muruganandan, Adam Levine and Sachita Shah
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:72
  27. Mortality from pulmonary embolism (PE) in pregnancy might be related to challenges in targeting the right population for prevention. Such targeting could help ensure that the correct diagnosis is suspected and...

    Authors: Sergio Fasullo, Giorgio Maringhini, Gabriella Terrazzino, Filippo Ganci, Salvatore Paterna and Pietro Di Pasquale
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:69
  28. Abdominal computed tomography scan (CT) is the preferred radiographic study for the diagnosis of appendicitis in the United States, while radiologist-operated ultrasound (US) is often used in Israel. This comp...

    Authors: Betzalel Reich, Todd Zalut and Scott G Weiner
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:68
  29. Cardiac biomarkers may be invaluable in establishing the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the ED setting.

    Authors: Nik Hisamuddin NAR and Ahmad Suhailan M
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:67
  30. Abdominal pain is a common complaint among emergency department patients, making it essential to identify those with life-threatening etiologies. We report on the rare finding of atraumatic transvaginal bowel ...

    Authors: Luan Lawson, Leigh Patterson and Kelly Carter
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:66
  31. Pituitary apoplexy is an uncommon but life-threatening condition that is often overlooked and underdiagnosed. We report a 45-year-old man who presented to our emergency department with a sudden onset headache,...

    Authors: Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek, Stephen Gregory and Thiagarajan Jaiganesh
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:63
  32. Patients with acute stroke are often transferred to tertiary care centers for advanced interventional services. We hypothesized that the presence of a proximal cerebral artery occlusion on CT angiography (CTA)...

    Authors: Lisa E Thomas, Joshua N Goldstein, Reza Hakimelahi, Yuchiao Chang, Albert J Yoo, Lee H Schwamm and R Gilberto Gonzalez
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:62
  33. Environmental electrical injuries (electrical burns and lightning) are relatively common and are estimated to result in more than 3,000 admissions to specialized burn units each year here in the US. Lightning ...

    Authors: Bobby K Desai and Rita Fairclough
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:60
  34. Back pain is a significant cause of disability in the community, but the impact on Emergency Departments (EDs) has not been formally studied. Patients with back pain often require significant time and resource...

    Authors: Michael T Lovegrove, George A Jelinek, Nicholas P Gibson and Ian G Jacobs
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:59
  35. Dehydration due to acute gastroenteritis is one of the leading causes of mortality in children worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) scale, the Gorelick scale, and the Clinical Dehydration Scale (CDS)...

    Authors: Kimberly Pringle, Sachita P Shah, Irenee Umulisa, Richard B Mark Munyaneza, Jean Marie Dushimiyimana, Katrina Stegmann, Juvenal Musavuli, Protegene Ngabitsinze, Sara Stulac and Adam C Levine
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:58
  36. Fever is a common presenting complaint in the developing world, but there is a paucity of literature to guide investigation and treatment of the adult patient presenting with fever and no localizing symptoms.

    Authors: Sudhagar Thangarasu, Piruthiviraj Natarajan, Parivalavan Rajavelu, Arjun Rajagopalan and Jeremy S Seelinger Devey
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:57
  37. Internal carotid intracranial aneurysms are a relatively rare form of intracranial aneurysm that presents with diplopia, retro-orbital pain and unilateral headaches. The symptoms are progressive and the diagno...

    Authors: Brian T Kloss, Rahul Patel and Anne Marie Sullivan
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:56
  38. Air ambulance service in Norway has been upgraded during the last years. European regulations concerning pilots' working time and new treatment guidelines/strategies have called for more resources.

    Authors: Jan Norum and Trond M Elsbak
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:55
  39. N-acetylcysteine is used to treat acetaminophen toxicity and is available in both intravenous and oral formulations. Our report describes a patient treated with intravenous N-acetylcysteine for acetaminophen t...

    Authors: Andrew R Elms, Kelly P Owen, Timothy E Albertson and Mark E Sutter
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:54
  40. Studies have shown that vein size is an important predictor of successful ultrasound-guided vascular access. The objective of this study is to evaluate maneuvers designed to increase basilic vein size, which c...

    Authors: Simon A Mahler, Greta Massey, Liliana Meskill, Hao Wang and Thomas C Arnold
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:53
  41. Studies on computer-aided instruction and web-based learning have left many questions unanswered about the most effective use of technology-assisted education in graduate medical education.

    Authors: Sharhabeel Jwayyed, Kirk A Stiffler, Scott T Wilber, Alison Southern, John Weigand, Rudd Bare and Lowell W Gerson
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:51
  42. Squamous cell carcinoma is a common cancer to the head and neck region that is typically diagnosed when it is 2 cm in size. This case report illustrates a patient who had neglected an auricular carcinoma for o...

    Authors: Brian Kloss, Jeff Lapoint and Katherine Dougher
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:50

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