Ausgabe 1/2011
Inhalt (75 Artikel)
Air ambulance services in the Arctic 1999-2009: a Norwegian study
Jan Norum, Trond M Elsbak
Emergency department patient satisfaction survey in Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz, Iran
Hassan Soleimanpour, Changiz Gholipouri, Shaker Salarilak, Payam Raoufi, Reza Gholi Vahidi, Amirhossein Jafari Rouhi, Rouzbeh Rajaei Ghafouri, Maryam Soleimanpour
Bilateral hemotympanum as a result of spontaneous epistaxis
Vural Fidan, Kemal Ozcan, Filiz Karaca
Current methods of diagnosis and treatment of scaphoid fractures
Steven J Rhemrev, Daan Ootes, Frank JP Beeres, Sven AG Meylaerts, Inger B Schipper
Alcohol-related hypoglycemia in rural Uganda: socioeconomic and physiologic contrasts
Heather Hammerstedt, Stacey L Chamberlain, Sara W Nelson, Mark C Bisanzo
Effect of civil war on medical education in Liberia
Kathryn R Challoner, Nicolas Forget
Phytocontact dermatitis due to Ranunculus arvensis mimicking burn injury: report of three cases and literature review
Sami Akbulut, Heybet Semur, Ozkan Kose, Ayhan Ozhasenekler, Mustafa Celiktas, Murat Basbug, Yusuf Yagmur
Idiopathic adult intussusception
Sanooj Soni, Philip Moss, Thiagarajan Jaiganesh
Unusual source of tachycardia in an adolescent
Marvin B Mata, Brian T Kloss, Jennifer A Campoli, Karen Teelin
Pneumothorax and subcutaneous emphysema secondary to blunt chest injury
Jahan Porhomayon, Ralph Doerr
Erratum to: 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
Exertional heat stroke in a marathon runner with extensive healed deep burns: a case report
Puneet Seth, Poh Juliana
Gas gangrene and osteomyelitis of the foot in a diabetic patient treated with tea tree oil
Derek R Cooney, Norma L Cooney
Massive acute colonic pseudo-obstruction successfully managed with conservative therapy in a patient with cerebral palsy
Derek R Cooney, Norma L Cooney
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy vs acute myocardial infarction: diagnostic utility of subtle ECG differences
Asma Saba Syed, Umair Khalid
Abdominal imaging utilization in the emergency department: trends over two decades
Ali S Raja, Koenraad J Mortele, Richard Hanson, Aaron D Sodickson, Richard Zane, Ramin Khorasani
Impact of additional module training on the level of basic life support knowledge of first year students at the University of Maribor
Damjan Lešnik, Bojan Lešnik, Jerneja Golub, Miljenko Križmarić, Štefan Mally, Štefek Grmec
Acute severe non-traumatic muscle injury following reperfusion surgery for acute aortic occlusion: case report
Joseph Y Ting, Arash Dehdary
A unique cause of hemoperitoneum: spontaneous rupture of a splenic hemangiopericytoma
Picozzi Stefano Carlo Maria, Massimo Mauri, Luca Carmignani
Abdominal pain with a twist
Rachael Mathews, Sam Thenabadu, Thiagarajan Jaiganesh
The prevalence of polypharmacy in elderly attenders to an emergency department - a problem with a need for an effective solution
Ashis Banerjee, David Mbamalu, Sayed Ebrahimi, Arshad Ali Khan, Toong Foo Chan
Angioplasty in acute middle cerebral artery stroke due to atrial fibrillation selected by CT perfusion: a case report
Andrea Saletti, Ilaria Morghen, Luca Finessi, Enrico Fainardi
Characteristics and predictors of readiness to quit among emergency medical patients presenting with respiratory symptoms
Beth C Bock, Ernestine Jennings, Bruce M Becker, Robert Partridge, Raymond S Niaura
Emphysematous cystitis with clinical subcutaneous emphysema
Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek, Helen Blake, Anand Mehta
The effects of publishing emergency department wait time on patient utilization patterns in a community with two emergency department sites: a retrospective, quasi-experiment design
Bin Xie, Sabrina Youash
Alcohol use disorders in the emergency ward: choice of the best mode of assessment and identification of at-risk situations
Charlotte Richoux, Isabelle Ferrand, Enrique Casalino, Benoit Fleury, Christine Ginsburg, Michel Lejoyeux
Troponin utilization in patients presenting with atrial fibrillation/flutter to the emergency department: retrospective chart review
Nazanin Meshkat, Emily Austin, Rahim Moineddin, Hamidreza Hatamabadi, Behzad Hassani, Ali Abdalvand, Amanda Marcuzzi
Datura stramonium L. poisoning in a geophagous child: a case report
Asma Bouziri, Asma Hamdi, Aida Borgi, Sarra Bel Hadj, Zohra Fitouri, Khaled Menif, Nejla Ben Jaballah
A retrospective evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting
Shaheem De Vries, Lee A Wallis, David Maritz
Accidental organophosphate insecticide intoxication in children: a reminder
Willemijn van Heel, Said Hachimi-Idrissi
Respiratory distress and chest pain: a perforated peptic ulcer with an unusual presentation
David I Bruner, Corey Gustafson
Admission hypo- or hyperthermia and survival after trauma in civilian and military environments
Charles E Wade, José Salinas, Brian J Eastridge, John G McManus, John B Holcomb
Albuterol enantiomer levels, lung function and QTc interval in patients with acute severe asthma and COPD in the emergency department
Kwang Choon Yee, Glenn A Jacobson, Richard Wood-Baker, E Haydn Walters
"Case files from the University of Florida: When an Earache is more than an Earache": A case report
Bobby K Desai, Thomas Walls
Value of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein in low risk chest pain observation unit patients
Deborah B Diercks, J Douglas Kirk, Seif Naser, Samuel Turnipseed, Ezra A Amsterdam
Dealing with the difficult student in emergency medicine
Sarah E Ronan-Bentle, Jennifer Avegno, Cullen B Hegarty, David E Manthey
Treatments for reversing warfarin anticoagulation in patients with acute intracranial hemorrhage: a structured literature review
Brett F Bechtel, Timothy C Nunez, Jennifer A Lyon, Bryan A Cotton, Tyler W Barrett
Characterizing emergency departments to improve understanding of emergency care systems
Anne P Steptoe, Blanka Corel, Ashley F Sullivan, Carlos A Camargo Jr
A five-year retrospective review of snakebite patients admitted to a tertiary university hospital in Malaysia
Keng Sheng Chew, Heng Wei Khor, Rashidi Ahmad, Nik Hisamuddin Nik Abdul Rahman
The new wave: time to bring EEG to the emergency department
Samah G Abdel Baki, Ahmet Omurtag, André A Fenton, Shahriar Zehtabchi
Folic acid use in pregnant patients presenting to the emergency department
Jacob Steenblik, Erika Schroeder, Burke Hatch, Steven Groke, Camille Broadwater-Hollifield, Michael Mallin, Matthew Ahern, Troy Madsen
Ting JY: Letter to the Editors: The potential role of prehospital thrombolysis and time-critical stroke transfers in the northern Norway aeromedical retrieval system
Jan Norum
A brachialis muscle rupture diagnosed by ultrasound; case report
Titus JA Schönberger, Miranda F Ernst
The efficacy and value of emergency medicine: a supportive literature review
C James Holliman, Terrence M Mulligan, Robert E Suter, Peter Cameron, Lee Wallis, Philip D Anderson, Kathleen Clem
Letter to the editors: the potential role for prehospital thrombolysis and time-critical stroke transfers in the northern Norway aeromedical retrieval system; In response to: Norum J, Elsbak TM: Air ambulance services in the Arctic: a Norwegian study. Int J Emerg Med 2011, 4:1
Joseph Y Ting
Epidemiology of major incidents: an EMS study from Pakistan
Hunniya Waseem, Luca Carenzo, Junaid Razzak, Rizwan Naseer
Technology-assisted education in graduate medical education: a review of the literature
Sharhabeel Jwayyed, Kirk A Stiffler, Scott T Wilber, Alison Southern, John Weigand, Rudd Bare, Lowell W Gerson
Auricular squamous cell carcinoma
Brian Kloss, Jeff Lapoint, Katherine Dougher
Prognostic utility of the acute cardiac ischemia time-insensitive predictive instrument (ACI-TIPI)
Jonathan S Ilgen, Alex F Manini, Udo Hoffmann, Vicki E Noble, Ediza Giraldez, Supapan Nualpring, J Stephen Bohan
Meningeal carcinomatosis diagnosed during stroke evaluation in the emergency department
Derek R Cooney, Norma L Cooney
Changing patterns in diagnostic strategies and the treatment of blunt injury to solid abdominal organs
Cornelis H van der Vlies, Dominique C Olthof, Menno Gaakeer, Kees J Ponsen, Otto M van Delden, J Carel Goslings
Can we make the basilic vein larger? maneuvers to facilitate ultrasound guided peripheral intravenous access: a prospective cross-sectional study
Simon A Mahler, Greta Massey, Liliana Meskill, Hao Wang, Thomas C Arnold
Air ambulance flights in northern Norway 2002-2008. Increased number of secondary fixed wing (FW) operations and more use of rotor wing (RW) transports
Jan Norum, Trond M Elsbak
Fatal myocardial infarction associated with intravenous N-acetylcysteine error
Andrew R Elms, Kelly P Owen, Timothy E Albertson, Mark E Sutter
A protocol for the emergency department management of acute undifferentiated febrile illness in India
Sudhagar Thangarasu, Piruthiviraj Natarajan, Parivalavan Rajavelu, Arjun Rajagopalan, Jeremy S Seelinger Devey
Intracranial internal carotid aneurysm causing diplopia
Brian T Kloss, Rahul Patel, Anne Marie Sullivan
Comparing the accuracy of the three popular clinical dehydration scales in children with diarrhea
Kimberly Pringle, Sachita P Shah, Irenee Umulisa, Richard B Mark Munyaneza, Jean Marie Dushimiyimana, Katrina Stegmann, Juvenal Musavuli, Protegene Ngabitsinze, Sara Stulac, Adam C Levine
A case of a speech impediment following a near lightning strike
Bobby K Desai, Rita Fairclough
Analysis of 22,655 presentations with back pain to Perth emergency departments over five years
Michael T Lovegrove, George A Jelinek, Nicholas P Gibson, Ian G Jacobs
Visual diagnosis: Enucleation status post gunshot wound to the head: A visual diagnosis/case report
Bobby Desai, Benjamin Mahon
CT angiography predicts use of tertiary interventional services in acute ischemic stroke patients
Lisa E Thomas, Joshua N Goldstein, Reza Hakimelahi, Yuchiao Chang, Albert J Yoo, Lee H Schwamm, R Gilberto Gonzalez
Pituitary apoplexy can mimic acute meningoencephalitis or subarachnoid haemorrhage
Ahmed-Ramadan Sadek, Stephen Gregory, Thiagarajan Jaiganesh
Bilateral pyosalpinx in a peripubescent female with Hirschsprung's disease: a case report
Bobby Desai, Timothy Ward
Gastrointestinal decontamination in the acutely poisoned patient
Timothy E Albertson, Kelly P Owen, Mark E Sutter, Andrew L Chan
Transvaginal evisceration progressing to peritonitis in the emergency department: a case report
Luan Lawson, Leigh Patterson, Kelly Carter
An international evaluation of ultrasound vs. computed tomography in the diagnosis of appendicitis
Betzalel Reich, Todd Zalut, Scott G Weiner
Evaluation of the diagnostic indices and clinical utility of qualitative cardiodetect® test kit in diagnosis of ami within 12 hours of onset of chest pain in the emergency department
Nik Hisamuddin NAR, Ahmad Suhailan M
Thrombolysis for massive pulmonary embolism in pregnancy: a case report
Sergio Fasullo, Giorgio Maringhini, Gabriella Terrazzino, Filippo Ganci, Salvatore Paterna, Pietro Di Pasquale
Adequately assessing dehydration: A holy grail of paediatric emergency medicine
Damian Roland, Colin Clarke, Meredith Borland, Elaine Pascoe
Visual diagnosis: Rectal foreign body: A primer for emergency physicians
Bobby Desai
Visual Diagnosis: Pearling: a case study
David P Nguyen, Bobby K Desai, Michael Falgiani
Including emergency and acute care as a global health priority
Nicholas Risko, Emilie JB Calvello, Sarah Stewart de Ramirez, Mayur Narayan, Jon Mark Hirshon
Review article: Use of ultrasound in the developing world
Stephanie Sippel, Krithika Muruganandan, Adam Levine, Sachita Shah