The latest emergency medicine articles

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Emergency medicine latest

• Double sequential defibrillation for out-of-hospital refractory ventricular fibrillation: A scoping review.16th January 2020
  Double sequential defibrillation (DSD) has been proposed as a viable treatment option for patients in refractory ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VF/pVT) out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). However, currently there … Read more
• Kinesiotaping for isolated rib fractures in emergency department.16th January 2020
  Rib fractures, which are among the most common injuries in blunt thoracic trauma, are usually encountered in Emergency Departments. Kinesiotape (KT) is a drug-free elastic therapeutic tape used … Read more
• Evaluation of the Ottawa 3DY as a screening tool for cognitive impairment in older emergency department patients.16th January 2020
  This study sought to evaluate the implementation of the Ottawa 3DY Tool, a simple screening instrument for cognitive impairment, by front-line ED clinicians.We conducted a prospective cohort study … Read more
• Decision fatigue in the Emergency Department: How does emergency physician decision making change over an eight-hour shift?16th January 2020
  We examined emergency physician disposition decisions and computed tomography (CT) ordering as markers of decision fatigue over an eight-hour shift.Administrative database analysis of patients presenting to an academic, … Read more
• Dysnatremias in emergency patients with acute kidney injury: A cross-sectional analysis.15th January 2020
  We aimed to investigate the prevalence, risk factors and outcome of hypo- and hypernatremia in emergency patients with acute kidney injury (AKI).In this cross-sectional analysis all emergency patients … Read more

Paediatric emergency medicine

• Delayed adenosine therapy is associated with the refractory supraventricular tachycardia in children.3rd December 2019
  To study the association of time intervals on adenosine therapy with the occurrence of refractory supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) in children.We reviewed 334 episodes of presumed SVT requiring adenosine … Read more
• Inter-rater reliability in a bespoke scoring tool: the Paediatric Observation Priority Score.27th November 2019
  Inter-rater reliability (IRR) is rarely determined for scoring systems used to recognise deterioration in children. Thus, the primary objective of this study was to determine the IRR of … Read more
• Big problems in little patients: Nationwide blunt cerebrovascular injury outcomes in the pediatric population.29th October 2019
  Blunt cerebrovascular injuries (BCVI) are uncommon but potentially devastating. The epidemiology, outcomes, and screening criteria are well described in adults, but data in pediatric patients are extremely limited. … Read more
• BET 1: Efficacy of different techniques using a metered-dose inhaler with Spacer to relieve symptoms in children with acute asthma.24th October 2019
  Abstract: A shortcut review was carried out to establish which inhaler with spacer technique provides the greatest improvement in symptoms in children with acute asthma. Four relevant papers … Read more
• Analysis of Blunt Cerebrovascular Injury in Pediatric Trauma.19th October 2019
  Abstract: Blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI) occurs in <1% of pediatric patients. The two principal screening criteria for BCVI in children are the Utah and McGovern Score with motor … Read more

Sports injury

• Right Care, Right Place, Right Time: The CMS Innovation Center Launches the Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport Model.1st November 2019
  Click here to read the full article @ Annals of Emergency Medicine
• Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality among Former Professional Soccer Players.22nd October 2019
  Neurodegenerative disorders have been reported in elite athletes who participated in contact sports. The incidence of neurodegenerative disease among former professional soccer players has not been well characterized.We … Read more
• The impact of closing emergency departments on mortality in emergencies: an observational study.9th October 2019
  Abstract: In England the demand for emergency care is increasing, while there is also a staffing shortage. This has implications for quality of care and patient safety. One … Read more
• Physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical services augment ground ambulance paediatric airway management in urban areas: a retrospective cohort study.5th October 2019
  Abstract: Paediatric intubation is a high-risk procedure for ground emergency medical services (GEMS). Physician-staffed helicopter EMS (PS-HEMS) may bring additional skills, drugs and equipment to the scene including … Read more
• PREHOSPITAL PLASMA IN INJURED PATIENTS IS ASSOCIATED WITH SURVIVAL PRINCIPALLY IN BLUNT INJURY: RESULTS FROM TWO RANDOMIZED PREHOSPITAL PLASMA TRIALS.17th September 2019
  Abstract: Recent evidence demonstrated that prehospital plasma in patients at risk of hemorrhagic shock was safe for ground transport and resulted in a 28-day survival benefit for air … Read more

Trauma

• Automatic acoustic gunshot sensor technology’s impact on trauma care.15th December 2019
  As cities nation-wide combat gun violence, with less than 20% of shots fired reported to police, use of acoustic gunshot sensor (AGS) technology is increasingly common. However, there … Read more
• Prevalence, documentation, and communication of incidental findings in focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examinations.15th December 2019
  As the focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination becomes increasingly ubiquitous in the emergency department (ED), a parallel increase in incidental findings can also be expected. … Read more
• Blunt chest trauma in the elderly: an expert practice review.14th December 2019
  Trauma in the elderly (>65 years) is an increasingly common presentation to the ED. A fall from standing height is the most common mechanism after which such patients … Read more
• Efficacy of the presence of an emergency physician in prehospital major trauma care: Randomised control trial results are needed!8th December 2019
  Click here to read the full article @ The American journal of emergency medicine
• Early Single-Dose Treatment with Exosomes Provides Neuroprotection and Improves Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity in Swine Model of Traumatic Brain Injury and Hemorrhagic Shock.6th December 2019
  Administration of human mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-derived exosomes can enhance neurorestoration in models of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and hemorrhagic shock (HS). The impact of early treatment with … Read more