Ausgabe 4/2010
Inhalt (73 Artikel)
Emergency care in India: the building blocks
Imron Subhan, Anunaya Jain
Current challenges in the provision of ambulance services in New Zealand
Sultan Al-Shaqsi
Utilization of a mobile medical van for delivering pediatric care in the bateys of the Dominican Republic
Heather L. Crouse, Charles G. Macias, Andrea T. Cruz, Kim A. Wilson, Susan B. Torrey
A prospective study of tracheal intubation in an academic emergency department in Malaysia
Shahridan Mohd. Fathil, Siti Nidzwani Mohd. Mahdi, Zuraidah Che’Man, Azhana Hassan, Zulkernain Ahmad, Ahmad Khaldun Ismail
Outcomes considered most important by emergency physicians when determining disposition of patients with pulmonary embolism
Christopher Kabrhel, Weston Sacco, Shan Liu, Praveen Hariharan
Evaluating applicants to a new emergency medicine residency program: subjective assessment of applicant characteristics
Steven F. Groke, Troy E. Madsen, Laura Strate, Stuart Knapp, Matt Dawson, Susan Stroud, Stephen Hartsell, Virgil Davis
Perceptions of nurse practitioners by emergency department doctors in Australia
Tracey J. Weiland, Claire Mackinlay, George A. Jelinek
Implementation of crowding solutions from the American College of Emergency Physicians Task Force Report on Boarding
Daniel A. Handel, Adit A. Ginde, Ali S. Raja, John Rogers, Ashley F. Sullivan, Janice A. Espinola, Carlos A. Camargo Jr.
A multi-center study on the attitudes of Malaysian emergency health care staff towards allowing family presence during resuscitation of adult patients
Chew Keng Sheng, Chee Kean Lim, Ahmad Rashidi
Prognostic factors for important clinical outcomes in patients with a severe infection
Charlotte F. J. van Tuijn, Maria Prins, Jan S. Luitse, Suzanne E. Geerlings
Patients with pelvic fracture: what factors are associated with mortality?
Chee Kheong Ooi, Hsin K. Goh, Seow Y. Tay, Dong H. Phua
Mortality and morbidity in children caused by falling televisions: a retrospective analysis of 71 cases
Servan Gokhan, Ozkan Kose, Ayhan Ozhasenekler, Murat Orak, Mehmet Ustundag, Cahfer Guloglu
ECG interpretation skills of South African Emergency Medicine residents
Japie de Jager, Lee Wallis, David Maritz
The use of capnometry to predict arterial partial pressure of CO2 in non-intubated breathless patients in the emergency department
Nik Hisamuddin Nik Ab Rahman, Amiruddin Fairuz Mamat
Pain treatment in post-traumatic hip fracture in the elderly: regional block vs. systemic non-steroidal analgesics
Daniel Godoy Monzón, Jorge Vazquez, José R. Jauregui, Kenneth V. Iserson
Phencyclidine false positive induced by lamotrigine (Lamictal®) on a rapid urine toxicology screen
Matthew J. Geraci, James Peele, Stacey L. McCoy, Brad Elias
Home visits reduce the number of hazards for childhood home injuries in Karachi, Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial
Rifat Rehmani, John C. LeBlanc
Identification of performance indicators for emergency centres in South Africa: results of a Delphi study
David Maritz, Peter Hodkinson, Lee Wallis
Prevalence of undiagnosed hypoxemia in adults and children in an under-resourced district hospital in Zambia
Mark Foran, Roy Ahn, Joseph Novik, Lynda Tyer-Viola, Kennedy Chilufya, Kasseba Katamba, Thomas Burke
Towards systemic sustainable performance of TBI care systems: emergency leadership frontiers
Denis H. J. Caro
Variation in the use of observation status evaluation in Massachusetts acute care hospitals, 2003–2006
Jeremiah D. Schuur, Arjun K. Venkatesh, J. Stephen Bohan
The serotonin syndrome—the need for physician’s awareness
Bhawana Arora, Nirupama Kannikeswaran
Traumatic asphyxia
Yekta Altemur Karamustafaoglu, Ilkay Yavasman, Sevinc Tiryaki, Yener Yoruk
Treatment and prognosis of pyogenic liver abscess
Yu-Jang Su, Yen-Chun Lai, Yu-Chia Lin, Yu-Hang Yeh
Public opinion of a stroke clinical trial using exception from informed consent
Joshua N. Goldstein, Janice A. Espinola, Jonathan Fisher, Daniel J. Pallin, Carlos A. Camargo Jr.
An argument for the conservative management of small traumatic pneumathoraces in populations with high prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis: an evidence-based review of the literature
Zachary D. Tebb, Brad Talley, Marlow Macht, David Richards
Acute wound management: revisiting the approach to assessment, irrigation, and closure considerations
Bret A. Nicks, Elizabeth A. Ayello, Kevin Woo, Diane Nitzki-George, R. Gary Sibbald
Systematic review of emergency department central venous and arterial catheter infection
Christopher H. LeMaster, Ashish T. Agrawal, Peter Hou, Jeremiah D. Schuur
Pseudoaneurysm of the superficial femoral artery detected by emergency medicine bedside ultrasound
Firat Bektas, Secgin Soyuncu
Delayed intrathyroidal hematoma causing respiratory distress after a seemingly benign fall: a case report
Lucas B. Chartier, Joel P. Turner
Pneumomediastinum from nasal insufflation of cocaine
Brian T. Kloss, Claire E. Broton, Elliot Rodriguez
Spinal cord toxoplasmosis as an unusual presentation of AIDS: case report and review of the literature
Carlos Garcia-Gubern, Carmen R. Fuentes, Lissandra Colon-Rolon, Daniel Masvidal
Etoricoxib-induced life-threatening hyperkalemia and acute kidney dysfunction against the background of telmisartan and a low sodium diet
Swagata Tripathy, Suresh Chandra Dash
Myopericarditis diagnosed by a 64-slice coronary CT angiography "triple rule out" protocol
Kevin M. Takakuwa, Bon S. Ku, Ethan J. Halpern
Diffuse ST segment depression from hypothermia
Hao Wang, Joseph Hollingsworth, Simon Mahler, Thomas Arnold
Perforated Meckel diverticulum
Brian T. Kloss, Claire E. Broton, Anne Marie Sullivan
Myocardial infarction with unusual presentation of otalgia: a case report
Sorour Amirhaeri, Donnie Spencer
A delayed diagnosis: stridor secondary to hypocalcemia
Fatih Büyükcam, Feruza Turan Sönmez, Hayriye Şahinli
Nitroglycerin-induced migraine type headache: bilaterally visible temporal arteries
Firat Bektas, Secgin Soyuncu
Tracheoesophageal fistula
Joye Varghese, Vallath Balakrishnan, Venkadeswaran Narayanan
Facial diplegia and deafness following a fall
Shiv Saidha, Noel Fanning, Timothy J. Counihan
Gallbladder infarction and liver abscess formation following right hepatic artery chemoembolization for metastatic neuroendocrine tumor
Christopher Sampson, Ryan Petersen
Hematocolpos secondary to imperforate hymen
Brian T. Kloss, Nicholas E. Nacca, Richard M. Cantor
Epidural hematoma following spinal cord stimulator implant
Brian T. Kloss, Anne Marie Sullivan, Elliot Rodriguez
A pulsatile swelling on the left forearm
Takashi Shiga, Ayman Yassa, Kika Dudiak, Annie Sadosty
Vomiting in a 22-day-old firstborn male
Brian T. Kloss, Shaheena R. Patierno
Early recognition and management of Lyme carditis
Pholaphat Charles Inboriboon
Isolated uvular angioedema: Quincke’s disease
Yunsur Cevik, Sevilay Vural, Cemil Kavalci
Thrombophilia in hyperhomocysteinemia
Vishal Sharma, Mukul P. Agarwal, Subhash Giri, Srimanta K. Sahu, Ujjawal Roy
Acute maxillary sinusitis detected by bedside emergency department ultrasonography
Firat Bektas, Secgin Soyuncu, Ozlem Yigit
Ventricular tachycardia secondary to a submitral left ventricular aneurysm diagnosed in emergency department—a case report from Oman
Mamatha Rao, Prashanth Panduranga, Mohammed Mukhaini
Transscaphoid perilunate dislocation
Brian T. Kloss, Shaheena R. Patierno, Anne Marie Sullivan
Pneumocephalus as a complication of esophageal carcinoma
Takahiro Shimizu, Yoshiaki Tokuyama, Kana Shimomura, Toshikazu Hirayama, Tatsuhiro Arai, Takeharu Enomoto, Kazuhiro Miura, Takehito Otsubo, Yasuhiro Hasegawa
Uterine arterio-venous malformation
Maxence Dorez, Jérôme Delotte, Sébastien Novellas, Patrick Chevallier, André Bongain
Dural arteriovenous fistula post sinus thrombosis in puerperium
Jose Manuel Pumar, Ramón Garcia-Dorrego, Maria I. Pardo, Alicia Vazquéz-Martin, Paula Sucasas
Fractured penis in a patient taking sildenafil and warfarin
Nicholas E. Nacca, Brian T. Kloss
Incarceration of a paraoesophageal hiatus hernia
Keith Siau, Arun Khanna, Taiceer Abdul-Wahab
Group B streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis from a decubitus ulcer
Brian T. Kloss, Claire E. Broton, Elliot Rodriguez
Orbital compartment syndrome from retrobulbar hemorrhage
Brian T. Kloss, Rahul Patel
Midgut volvulus in a 4-year-old male
Brian T. Kloss, Rahul Patel, Jennifer Mackey
A patient with fever, chest pain and a rapidly changing chest X-ray
Bas de Groot, Daan Brand, Tessel N. E. Vossenberg, Andrea Warnemunde
Teaching about disasters in medical education: the need for international collaboration
Samy A. Azer