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Research Priorities for High-quality Geriatric Emergency Care: Medication Management, Screening, and Prevention and Functional Assessment.

Tags: 2011, Academic Emergency Medicine, Aged, Carpenter Christopher R, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Disease – Prevention and Control, Drug Evaluation – Methods, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Service, Geriatrics, Gerson Lowell W, Ginde Adit A, Health Screening – Methods, Heard Kennon, Lorazepam – Administration and Dosage, Middle Age, Miller Douglas K, NEOMED College of Medicine, Patient Assessment – Methods, Patient Care – Methods, Prescribing Patterns, Stiffler Kirk, Warfarin – Adverse Effects, Wenger Neal S, Wilber Scott T

The Impact of Two Freestanding Emergency Departments on a Tertiary Care Center.

Tags: 2012, Ambulatory Care Facilities – Statistics and Numerical Data, Ambulatory Care Facilities – Utilization, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Service – Administration, Griffin PL, Human, Jouriles NJ, Journal of Emergency Medicine (0736-4679), NEOMED College of Medicine, Patient Admission – Statistics and Numerical Data, Simon EL

Improved auscultation skills in paramedic students using a modified stethoscope.

Efficacy of intravenous lidocaine to reduce pain and distress associated with propofol infusion in pediatric patients during procedural sedation.

BACKGROUND: Research suggests that young children experience an increased incidence and severity of discomfort during propofol infusion. Evaluations of varied interventions to reduce or eliminate this discomfort with adult subjects suggest that…

The Search for a Bridge over Troubled Waters.

Tags: 2013, Cunningham Carol, Department of Emergency Medicine, Drugs, Emergency Medical Services, EMS Insider, Generic – Economics, Government Agencies – Classification, NEOMED College of Medicine, Organizational Compliance, Patient Safety, Pharmaceutical Companies, prehospital care, Prescription – Supply and Distribution, Problem Solving, Scope of Practice

Posted Emergency Department Wait Times Are Not Always Accurate.

Tags: 2013, Academic Emergency Medicine, Analysis of Variance, Cross Sectional Studies, Data Analysis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Descriptive Statistics, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Service, Griffin Peter, Haller Nairmeen Awad, Human, Jouriles Nicholas, NEOMED College of Medicine, Retrospective Design, Simon Erin L, Ufberg Jacob W, Waiting Rooms, Williams Carolyn Jo

Interactive Relationship Between Parent and Child Event Appraisals and Child PTSD Symptoms After an Injury.

Characteristics of Prehospital ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarctions.

Introduction. Despite attention directed at treatment times of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMIs), little is known about the types of STEMIs presenting to the emergency department (ED). Objective. The purpose of this study was to…

Recurrent Sagittal Sinus Thrombosis.

Tags: 2015, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine (00136654), Kovacs Mitch, NEOMED College of Medicine, Orlik Kseniya, Simon Erin L

Rapidly Ascending Weakness in a 22-year-old Man.

Tags: 2015, Adult, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine (00136654), Hypokalemia – Diagnosis, Hypokalemia – Familial and Genetic, Hypokalemia – Therapy, Kovacs Mitch, Male, Muscle Weakness – Etiology, NEOMED College of Medicine, Orlik Kseniya, Paralysis – Familial and Genetic, Simon Erin L, Young Adult

A 48-Year-Old Woman With Acute Abdomen.

Evaluation of Nonpharmacologic Methods of Pain and Anxiety Management for Laceration Repair in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

BACKGROUND. Nonpharmacologic interventions, such as distraction, have been shown to be powerful adjuncts in reducing pain and anxiety in children with both acute and chronic painful conditions. There are no controlled studies evaluating these…

Tags: 2006, Akron Children's Hospital, ANXIETY in children, Children, Christopher Norman C, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, DISTRACTION (Psychology), Fenn Robin, LETTERS to the editor, NEOMED College of Medicine, PAIN in children, Pain Management, PEDIATRIC emergency services, Pediatrics, Reeves Laurie, Sinha Madhumita

Initial physiological responses and perceived hyperarousal predict subsequent emotional numbing in pediatric injury patients.

The present study tested the hypothesis that acute posttraumatic hyperarousal would lead to the development of emotional numbing (EN) symptoms in a pediatric injury population. Eighty-two youths aged 8–18 years were recruited from the emergency…

Tags: 2006, Akron Children's Hospital, Avoidance (Psychology), CHILDREN'S accidents, CHILDREN'S injuries, Christopher Norman C, Delahanty Douglas L, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, DEPRESSION in children, EMOTIONS (Psychology), HEART beat, HOSPITAL emergency services, Journal of Traumatic Stress, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nugent Nicole R, POST-traumatic stress disorder, Urine

Emergency medical service and in-hospital vital signs as predictors of subsequent PTSD symptom severity in pediatric injury patients.

Background: The present study investigated the extent to which heart rate (HR) levels soon after a traumatic event predicted posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity assessed 6 weeks and 6 months later in child trauma victims. Methods:…

Tags: 2006, Akron Children's Hospital, CARDIOVASCULAR diseases, Christopher Norman C, Delahanty Douglas L, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, HEART beat, Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, JUVENILE diseases, MEDICAL emergencies, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nugent Nicole R, PEDIATRIC trauma centers, POST-traumatic stress disorder

Brief Report: The Impact of Maternal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Child Gender on Risk for Persistent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Child Trauma Victims.

Objective To longitudinally examine the impact of maternal posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (PTSS) on child adjustment following a child's traumatic injury, focusing on child gender differences. Methods Forty-one child traumatic injury victims…

Tags: 2007, Akron Children's Hospital, Children, Christopher Norman C, Delahanty Douglas L, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, NEOMED College of Medicine, NEUROSES, Ostrowski Sarah A, POST-traumatic stress disorder, STRESS (Psychology), TRAUMATIC neuroses

Parental Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms as a Moderator of Child's Acute Biological Response and Subsequent Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Pediatric Injury Patients.

Objective To examine how parental responses following pediatric injury may influence their child's posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). Methods Heart rate (HR) from 82 pediatric injury patients was measured during emergency medical services (EMSs)…

Tags: 2007, Akron Children's Hospital, Children, Christopher Norman C, Delahanty Douglas L, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, NEOMED College of Medicine, NEUROSES, Nugent Nicole R, Ostrowski Sarah, Parents, POST-traumatic stress disorder, STRESS (Psychology)

Acute child and mother psychophysiological responses and subsequent PTSD symptoms following a child's traumatic event.

This study examined the relationship between acute cortisol responses to trauma and subsequent PTSD symptoms (PTSS) in children and their biological mothers. Urinary cortisol levels were assessed in 54 children aged 8–18 upon admission to a level-1…

Tags: 2007, Akron Children's Hospital, Children, Christopher Norman C, Delahanty Douglas L, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Hydrocortisone, Journal of Traumatic Stress, MENTAL depression, Mothers, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ostrowski Sarah A, POST-traumatic stress disorder, Research, STATISTICAL sampling, Trauma Centers, Urine, van Dulmen Manfred HM

Pediatric Urolithiasis: Clinical Predictors in the Emergency Department.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify factors that predict the presence of urolithiasis detected with unenhanced computed tomography (UCT) in children. METHODS: A retrospective study of all subjects \textless21 years of age who…

Tags: 2009, Akron Children's Hospital, BLADDER stones, CHILDREN'S hospitals, Christopher Norman C, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, DISEASE risk factors, HEMATURIA in children, LOGISTIC regression analysis, McMahon Daniel R, NEOMED College of Medicine, PEDIATRIC diagnosis, Pediatrics, Persaud Andre C, Stevenson Michelle D, Tomography, Urinalysis, URINARY calculi – Diagnosis

The efficacy of early propranolol administration at reducing PTSD symptoms in pediatric injury patients: A pilot study.

Initial research supports the use of propranolol to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); research has not examined pharmacological prevention for children. Twenty-nine injury patients (ages 10–18 years old) at risk for PTSD were randomized…

The Impact of Caregiver Distress on the Longitudinal Development of Child Acute Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Pediatric Injury Victims.

Objective The present study prospectively examined the development of child PTSD symptoms (PTSS) and the impact of caregiver PTSS on child PTSS following injury. Methods One hundred and eighteen ED patients and their caregivers were interviewed…

Tags: 2011, Akron Children's Hospital, Analysis of Variance, CHILD health services, CHILDREN'S injuries, Christopher Norman C, Ciesla Jeffrey A, Delahanty Douglas L, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Irish Leah, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Lee Timothy J, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ostrowski Sarah A, POST-traumatic stress disorder in children, Psychology, STRUCTURAL equation modeling, VARIATION in child development

Quality assurance in emergency medical service systems.

EMS quality assurance programs can help guarantee that the provision of prehospital care is medically accountable. The establishment and management of such a program, although time consuming, are critically important. It is essential that the medical…

Tags: *Quality Assurance, 1990, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Services/*standards, Emergency medicine clinics of North America, Health Care, Medical Audit, NEOMED College of Medicine, Polsky S S, Retrospective Studies, Risk Management, United States, Weigand J V

Toxic streptococcal syndrome.

The streptococcal toxic shocklike syndrome is a recently recognized, multisystem disorder that shares many of the features of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome, but is caused by toxins elaborated by group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus. We describe…

Tags: 1990, Adult, Annals of emergency medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Diagnosis, Differential, Emergency Service, Female, Fontanarosa P B, Gallo U E, Hospital, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pharyngitis/*complications, Septic/blood/*diagnosis/etiology, Shock, Sinusitis/*complications, Streptococcal Infections/*complications, Streptococcus pyogenes

Locked-in syndrome: report of a case.

Locked-in syndrome is a unique clinical condition associated with ventral pontine lesions. The locked-in state is characterized by tetraplegia and mutism with maintenance of alertness as well as vertical eye movements and eye blinking, by which…

Tags: *Quadriplegia/diagnosis, 1989, Coma/diagnosis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Diagnosis, Differential, Fontanarosa P B, Gallo U E, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Prognosis, The American journal of emergency medicine

Adult epiglottitis.

Adult epiglottitis (or "supraglottitis") is an uncommon but increasingly recognized entity. Though prior studies emphasized the fulminant nature of the disease, recent evidence suggests that epiglottitis in adults may follow a relatively less severe…

Tags: *Epiglottitis/diagnosis/therapy, *Laryngitis/diagnosis/therapy, 1989, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Department of Emergency Medicine, Female, Fontanarosa P B, Goldman G E, Haemophilus Infections/diagnosis/therapy, Haemophilus influenzae, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Polsky S S, The Journal of emergency medicine

Use of Fine-scale Geospatial Units and Population Data to Evaluate Access to Emergency Care.

Introduction: Time to facility is a crucial element in emergency medicine (EM). Fine-scale geospatial units such as census block groups (CBG) and publicly available population datasets offer a low-cost and accurate approach to modeling geographic…

Erratum: this article corrects: "correlation of the NBME advanced clinical examination in EM and the national EM M4 exams".

[This corrects the article on p. 138 in vol. 16, PMID: 25671023.].

Tags: 2015, Beeson Michael, Credentialing Examinations, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Heitz Corey, Hiller Katherine, House Joseph, Lawson Luan, Miller Emily S, Morrissey Thomas, NEOMED College of Medicine, Poznanski Stacey, The western journal of emergency medicine, Wald David

Correlation of the NBME advanced clinical examination in EM and the national EM M4 exams.

INTRODUCTION: Since 2011 two online, validated exams for fourth-year emergency medicine (EM) students have been available (National EM M4 Exams). In 2013 the National Board of Medical Examiners offered the Advanced Clinical Examination in Emergency…

Improving bariatric patient transport and care with simulation.

INTRODUCTION: Obesity is prevalent in the United States. Obese patients have physiologic differences from non-obese individuals. Not only does transport and maintenance of these patients require use of specialized equipment, but it also requires a…

Tags: 2014, Ahmed Rami A, Airway Management, Airway Management – Education, Allied Health Personnel/*education, Analysis of Covariance, Bariatric Patients, Bhalla Mary Colleen, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation/education, Catheterization, Celik Dan H, Control Group, Department of Emergency Medicine, Education, Educational, Educational Measurement, Emergency Medical Technicians – Education, Emergency Medicine, Equipment and Supplies, Firefighters, Gable Brad D, Gardner Aimee K, Health Knowledge – Evaluation, Human, Humans, Infusions, Intraosseous/methods, Manikins, Medical, Models, NEOMED College of Medicine, Obesity – Surgery, Obesity/*therapy, Patient Care, Peripheral/methods, Simulations, Technology, The western journal of emergency medicine, Transportation of Patients – Methods, Transportation of Patients/*methods/standards, trauma, United States

Characterization of Older Emergency Department Patients Admitted to Psychiatric Units.

BACKGROUND: Many older patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with psychiatric complaints require admission to geropsychiatric units (GPUs). The medical evaluation needed prior to this is not understood. Our goal was to understand ED…

Tags: 2015, Chen Oriana, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Frey Jennifer A, Geriatric, Journal of clinical medicine research, Kohli Erol, NEOMED College of Medicine, Psychiatry, screening, Stiffler Kirk A

Predictors of Clinically Significant Echocardiography Findings in Older Adults with Syncope: A Secondary Analysis.

BACKGROUND: Syncope is a common reason for visiting the emergency department (ED) and is associated with significant healthcare resource utilization. OBJECTIVE: To develop a risk-stratification tool for clinically significant findings on…

Does functional decline prompt emergency department visits and admission in older patients?

BACKGROUND: Older patients may visit the emergency department (ED) when their illness affects their function. OBJECTIVES: To quantify the function of older ED patients, to assess whether functional decline (FD) had occurred, and to determine whether…

Screening for adolescent depression in a pediatric emergency department.

OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of depressive symptoms in adolescents presenting to the emergency department (ED) and to describe their demographics and outcomes compared with adolescents endorsing low levels of depressive symptoms. METHODS:…

Tags: *Adolescent Behavior, 2006, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Adolescent, Adult, Age Distribution, Akron Children's Hospital, Alexander Heather, Christopher Norman C, Comorbidity, Cross-Sectional Studies, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Depression/classification/*diagnosis/*epidemiology, Emergency Service, Female, Fenn Robin L, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data, Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data, Humans, Logistic Models, Luxmore Brett, Male, Mass Screening/*instrumentation/*statistics & numerical data, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ohio/epidemiology, Patient Participation/statistics & numerical data, Pediatrics/*statistics & numerical data, Prevalence, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Scott Emily Gale, Transportation of Patients/statistics & numerical data, Wounds and Injuries/epidemiology

Characteristics of emergency medicine program directors.

OBJECTIVES: To characterize emergency medicine (EM) program directors (PDs) and compare the data, where possible, with those from other related published studies. METHODS: An online survey was e-mailed in 2002 to all EM PDs of programs that were…

An evaluation of two screening tools for cognitive impairment in older emergency department patients.

OBJECTIVES: Screening for cognitive impairment in older emergency department (ED) patients is recommended to ensure quality care. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) may be too long for routine ED use. Briefer alternatives include the Six-Item…

Reclining chairs reduce pain from gurneys in older emergency department patients: a randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVES: Pain related to the gurney is a frequent complaint of older emergency department (ED) patients. The authors hypothesized that these patients may have less pain and higher satisfaction if allowed to sit in a reclining hospital chair.…

Tags: *Emergency Service, *Wheelchairs, 2005, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Aged, Blanda Michelle, Burger Barbara, Department of Emergency Medicine, Female, Gerson Lowell W, Hospital, Humans, Male, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pain Measurement, Pain/*prevention & control, Patient Satisfaction, Prospective Studies, Wilber Scott T

Emergency department use and barriers to wellness: a survey of emergency department frequent users.

BACKGROUND: There is no common understanding of how needs of emergency department (ED) frequent users differ from other patients. This study sought to examine how to best serve this population. Examinations of why ED frequent users present to the ED,…

Tags: *Activities of Daily Living, 2010, 80 and over, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Academic Medical Centers, Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Allen Kyle R, Blanda Michelle, Bone/physiopathology/therapy, Clinical Assessment Tools, Comorbidity, Confidence Intervals, Department of Emergency Medicine, Descriptive Statistics, Emergency Care – In Old Age, Emergency Patients – In Old Age, Emergency Service, Family, Female, Fisher's Exact Test, Fractures, Functional Status – In Old Age, Geriatric Assessment, Geriatric Functional Assessment, Gerson Lowell W, Health Resource Utilization – In Old Age, Hospital/*statistics & numerical data, Hospitals, Human, Humans, Logistic Models, Logistic Regression, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mental Status Schedule, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nonpenetrating – In Old Age, Nonpenetrating/*physiopathology/*therapy, OARS Multidimensional Functional Assessment Questionnaire, Odds Ratio, Ohio, Outcome Assessment, Outpatients, P-Value, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Questionnaires, Record Review, ROC Curve, Scales, Summated Rating Scaling, Surveys and Questionnaires, T-Tests, Teaching, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, Wilber Scott T, Wounds

DNAR does not equate to "do not care".

Tags: *Resuscitation Orders, 2008, Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Attitude to Death, Blanda Michelle, Decision Making, Department of Emergency Medicine, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Physician's Role, Terminal Care/*ethics

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