All Articles tagged emergency medicine

• Articles
  September 09, 2024 EDT
  Bridging Innovation and Clinical Insights: Reflections on Healthcare Research and Emergency Medicine
  Francis O. AkenamiRana IsmailAndrea Amalfitano

  Bridging Innovation and Clinical Insights: Reflections on Healthcare Research and Emergency Medicine

• Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
  February 24, 2022 EDT
  Quality Improvement Intervention associated with Improved Lung Protective Ventilation Settings in an Emergency Department
  David H. HeimbergZachary IllgWilliam D. Corser

  Patients requiring endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation in the emergency department (ED) are critically ill, and their ventilator management is crucial for their subsequent clinical outcomes

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• Original Contribution
  February 24, 2022 EDT
  Racial Variations in Emergency Department Management of Chest Pain in a Community-based Setting
  Elisabeth GreenbergElle SchultzEmily CobbShelia PhilpottMegan SchraderJessi Parker

  Prior research has demonstrated the existence of complex racial variations in health care, specifically in what tests are ordered (or accepted by patients) during evaluation and treatment of cardiac disease

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• Original Contribution
  April 13, 2021 EDT
  Implementation of a Rapid Post-Code Debrief Quality Improvement Project in a Community Emergency Department Setting
  Tomasz PrzednowekCamille StaceyKatherine BairdRobert NolanJesse KellarWilliam D. Corser

  Emergency Department staff have stated that they would like to be provided a formal debriefing model after “code blue” and similar events, few EDs have such protocols in place.

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• Original Contribution
  April 13, 2021 EDT
  Maternity Experiences and Perceptions of Emergency Medicine Physicians
  Lindsey McDonaldZachary IllgAgata DowSatheesh Gunaga

  This study investigated a sample of female EM physicians' current perceptions and experiences regarding breastfeeding practices and identified modifiable work-place factors affecting their decision to wean.

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• Original Contribution
  June 08, 2020 EDT
  Approach to Formalized Ultrasound Credentialing in a Community Hospital Health System with both Academic and Non-Academic Clinical Settings
  Jeremy LongStefan MeyeringTimothy Scheel

  As an attempt to standardize credentialing practice and determine need for additional training thresholds, the authors endeavored to perform a skills assessment utilizing written and clinical based practical assessments

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• Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
  March 04, 2019 EDT
  Ensuring Patient Safety in Emergency Peripheral Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Blocks: An Evaluation of a Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Initiative
  Daniel J. WahlAndrew J. ButkiNikolai ButkiSamuel J. Wisniewski

  During the past two decades, bedside ultrasound has revolutionized the practice of emergency medicine.

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• Brief Report
  April 27, 2018 EDT
  Ripping the Myth: Patients’ Symptomatic Descriptions of Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection
  Meghna NagabhushanJames Webley

  The objective of this retrospective project was to assess the frequency with which patients presenting to an emergency department had used the descriptive terms “ripping” and “tearing”.

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• Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
  February 02, 2017 EDT
  Trauma Dictations in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement/Patient Safety Project
  Eric W. TothKristopher RichardsonCourtney BerryNikolai Butki

  Trauma patients frequently represent a unique and challenging patient population in emergency medicine care settings. The policy of the McLaren Oakland Emergency Department (ED) is to have the...

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• Original Contribution
  October 24, 2016 EDT
  The Relationship between In-Training Examinations and Simulation Assessments in an Emergency Medicine Residency Program
  Sheri L. ClarkeAli Eydgahi

  The relationship between in-training examinations and simulation assessments in an emergency medicine residency program...

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• Brief Report
  October 24, 2016 EDT
  Billing Implications of Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians’ Laceration Length Estimates
  Joseph ShererRoya CaloiaWilliam D. CorserKevin Tishkowski

  Lacerations are a common occurrence in urgent care and emergency room settings. The types of lacerations repaired in these settings range from superficial and linear to deep and stellate.

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