Sohil Pothiawala, Amila Punyadasa, Kenneth Heng, Rabind Charles, Christopher Wong
{"title":"23 minutes-Reflecting on a Sunday morning tennis game turned into a life-saving ordeal.","authors":"Sohil Pothiawala, Amila Punyadasa, Kenneth Heng, Rabind Charles, Christopher Wong","doi":"10.1111/acem.15039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142492701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andreia B Alexander, Megan Palmer, Dajanae Palmer, Katie Pettit
{"title":"\"Showing up to the conversation\": Qualitative reflections from a diversity, equity, and inclusion book club with emergency medicine leadership.","authors":"Andreia B Alexander, Megan Palmer, Dajanae Palmer, Katie Pettit","doi":"10.1111/acem.15034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in health care fosters many positive outcomes including improved patient care. DEI initiatives are often created by or require buy-in from departmental leaders with low DEI literacy. Book clubs are one way to develop DEI literacy. The purpose of this paper is to describe how leaders in the department of emergency medicine (DEM) process the information gained from reading a DEI book through discussion in a book club setting and explore how participation enhances their DEI literacy and fosters self-reflection.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a qualitative exploratory study based on a constructivist approach. Data were analyzed by four researchers using inductive thematic analysis techniques.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Sixty-eight leaders within the DEM participated in 11 book clubs. Nine themes were identified (examination of privilege, initial reaction to discussion about racism, discomfort, worry, self-reflection, release, role recognition, readiness, and education). After prompted examination of their own privilege participants moved through a model of perceived readiness to act. Participants started with feeling paralyzed by the work's enormity or becoming defensive. They then moved toward discomfort with discussions of racism and systemic racism and progressed to discussions around worrying that they were contributing to noninclusive environments. After a period of self-reflection, participants tended to release their paralysis, push aside their defensiveness, accept the role of discomfort, and express the importance of education on these issues. Participants then recognized their role in creating inclusive environments and started discussing what they can do about it, which, for many, was to show up to the conversation. An underlying driver of movement through this model was the education that was provided through the book.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>By addressing privilege and systemic inequities through the reflective practice and dialogue of a book club, participants demonstrated a growing commitment and perceived readiness to advancing inclusive practices within medicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142455475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thierry Pelaccia, Jonathan Sherbino, Peter Wyer, Geoff Norman
{"title":"Diagnostic reasoning and cognitive error in emergency medicine: Implications for teaching and learning.","authors":"Thierry Pelaccia, Jonathan Sherbino, Peter Wyer, Geoff Norman","doi":"10.1111/acem.14968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.14968","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Accurate diagnosis in emergency medicine (EM) is high stakes and challenging. Research into physicians' clinical reasoning has been ongoing since the late 1970s. The dual-process theory has established itself as a valid model, including in EM. It is based on the distinction between two information-processing systems. System 1 rapidly generates one or more diagnostic hypotheses almost instantaneously, driven by experiential knowledge, while System 2 proceeds more slowly and analytically, applying formal rules to arrive at a final diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We reviewed the literature on dual-process theory in the fields of cognitive science, medical education and emergency medicine.</p><p><strong>Results and conclusion: </strong>The literature reflects two prominent interpretations regarding the relationship between the fast and slow phases and these interpretations carry very different implications for the training of clinical learners. One interpretation, prominent in the EM community, presents it as a \"check-and-balance\" framework in which most diagnostic error is caused by cognitive biases originating within System 1. As a result, EM residents are frequently advised to deploy analytical (System 2) strategies to correct such biases. However, such teaching approaches are not supported by research into the nature of diagnostic reasoning. An alternative interpretation assumes a harmonious relationship between Systems 1 and 2 in which both fast and slow processes are driven by underlying knowledge that conditions performance and the occurrence of errors. Educational strategies corresponding to this alternative have not been explored in the EM literature. In this paper, we offer proposals for improving the teaching and learning of diagnostic reasoning by EM residents.</p>","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142455477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From diagnostic errors to diagnostic excellence in emergency care: Time to flip the script.","authors":"Prashant Mahajan","doi":"10.1111/acem.15033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15033","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142455480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elin Moltubak, Kalle Landerholm, Marie Blomberg, Roland E Andersson
{"title":"Response to Letter to the Editor.","authors":"Elin Moltubak, Kalle Landerholm, Marie Blomberg, Roland E Andersson","doi":"10.1111/acem.15036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142455481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pierre Catoire, Brian Driver, Matthew E Prekker, Yonathan Freund
{"title":"Effect of administration sequence of induction agents on first-attempt failure during emergency intubation: A Bayesian analysis of a prospective cohort.","authors":"Pierre Catoire, Brian Driver, Matthew E Prekker, Yonathan Freund","doi":"10.1111/acem.15031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15031","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Emergency tracheal intubation is associated with a risk of clinical adverse events, including the risk of first-attempt failure. Induction agents usually include a sedative and a neuromuscular blocking agent (i.e., paralytic). Whether the order of administration (i.e., sedative vs. paralytic given first) is associated with first-attempt failure or adverse events is unknown.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study analyzed data from a single-center prospective cohort collected from 2021 to 2024 at Hennepin County Medical Center, which included all patients undergoing orotracheal intubation in the emergency department. Patients with no detail on administration sequence order were excluded. A Bayesian logistic regression analysis was used to measure the effect of drug sequence order (sedative first vs. paralytic first). The primary outcome was first-attempt failure. The key secondary outcome was peri-intubation hypoxemia (SpO<sub>2</sub> < 90%). We estimated the odds ratio (OR), 95% credible interval (CrI), and the probability that the OR was inferior to 1 (existence of an effect) and inferior to 0.9 (significant effect). Frequentist analysis and reanalysis with various priors were performed as sensitivity analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 2216 patients were included for analysis. The most frequently used sedative and paralytic agents were etomidate (88.9%) and rocuronium (77.8%), respectively. The paralytic was given first to 56.6% of the patients. After adjustment for age, sex, body mass index, and sedative and paralytic agents, the OR for a paralytic-first strategy for first-attempt failure was 0.73 (95% CrI 0.46-1.02). The probability that the OR was less than 1 was estimated at 95.7% and less than 0.9 at 87.6%. There was a 33.5% and 8.0% probability that administering the paralytic first resulted in an OR < 1 and OR < 0.9 for the risk of hypoxemia, respectively. Sensitivity analyses were consistent with the main results.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this Bayesian analysis a paralytic-first drug sequence was associated with reduced first-attempt failure during emergency tracheal intubation.</p>","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142455478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rama A Salhi, Keith E Kocher, Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen, Rishi Khakhkhar, Melis Lydston, Jody A Vogel, Kori S Zachrison
{"title":"Precision emergency medicine in health care delivery and access: Framework development and research priorities.","authors":"Rama A Salhi, Keith E Kocher, Margaret Greenwood-Ericksen, Rishi Khakhkhar, Melis Lydston, Jody A Vogel, Kori S Zachrison","doi":"10.1111/acem.15028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The integration of precision emergency medicine (EM) into our conceptualization of the health care system affords the opportunity to improve health care access, delivery, and outcomes for patients. As part of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Consensus Conference, we conducted a rapid literature review to characterize the current state of knowledge pertaining to the intersection of precision EM (defined as the use of big data and technology to deliver acute care for individual patients and their communities) with health care delivery and access. We then used our findings to develop a proposed conceptual model and research agenda.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We completed a rapid review of the existing literature on the utilization of big data and technology to ensure and enhance access to acute/unscheduled care for individual patients and their communities. Literature searches were conducted using Ovid MEDLINE, Embase.com, Cochrane CENTRAL via Ovid, and ClinicalTrials.gov in January 2023. Using the identified articles, we determined core domains, developed a framework to guide the conceptualization of precision EM in health care delivery and access, and used these to identify a research agenda.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 815 studies identified for initial screening, 60 underwent full-text review by our technical expert panel and 21 were included in the evaluation. Core domains identified included expedited/personalized prehospital care, delivery to the right level of care, personalized ED care, alternatives to ED care/post-ED care, prediction tools for system readiness, and creation of equitable systems of care. A research agenda with four priority research questions was defined following identification of the core domains.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Precision EM includes consideration of the health care delivery system as a mechanism for improving access to emergency care using data-driven strategies. This provides a unique opportunity to use data and technology to advance systems of care while also centering patients, communities, and equity in these advances.</p>","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142387135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kellyn Engstrom, Fernanda Bellolio, Molly Moore Jeffery, Sara C Sutherland, Kayla P Carpenter, Gia Jackson, Kristin Cole, Victor Chedid, Caroline J Davidge-Pitts, Kharmene L Sunga, Cesar Gonzalez, Caitlin S Brown
{"title":"Disparities in pain management among transgender patients presenting to the emergency department for abdominal pain.","authors":"Kellyn Engstrom, Fernanda Bellolio, Molly Moore Jeffery, Sara C Sutherland, Kayla P Carpenter, Gia Jackson, Kristin Cole, Victor Chedid, Caroline J Davidge-Pitts, Kharmene L Sunga, Cesar Gonzalez, Caitlin S Brown","doi":"10.1111/acem.15027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals have a gender identity or expression that differs from the sex assigned to them at birth. They are an underserved population who experience health care inequities. Our primary objective was to identify if there are treatment differences between TGD and cisgender lesbian/gay/bisexual/queer (LGBQ) or heterosexual individuals presenting with abdominal pain to the emergency department (ED).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Retrospective observational cohort study of patients ≥12 years of age presenting to 21 EDs within a health care system with a chief complaint of abdominal pain between 2018 and 2022. TGD patients were matched 1:1:1:1 to cisgender LGBQ women and men and cisgender heterosexual women and men, respectively. Propensity score matching covariates included age, ED site, mental health history, and gastrointestinal history. The primary outcome was pain assessment within 60 min of arrival. The secondary outcome was analgesics administered in the ED.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified 300 TGD patients, of whom 300 TGD patients were successfully matched for a total cohort of 1300 patients. The median (IQR) age was 25 (20-32) years and most patients were treated in a community ED (58.2%). There was no difference between groups in pain assessment within 60 min of arrival (59.0% TGD vs. 63.2% non TGD, p = 0.19). There were no differences in the number of times pain was assessed (median [IQR] 2 [1-3] vs. 2 [1-4], p = 0.31) or the severity of pain between groups (5.5 [4-7] vs. 6 [4-7], p = 0.11). TGD patients were more likely to receive nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (32.0% vs. 24.9%, p = 0.015) and less likely to receive opioids than non-TGD patients (24.7% vs. 36.9%, p = <0.001). TGD and nonbinary patients, along with LGBQ cisgender women (24.7%) and heterosexual cisgender women (34%), were less likely to receive opioids than LGBQ cisgender men (54%) and heterosexual cisgender men (42.3%, p < 0.01).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There was no difference in frequency of pain assessment, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation. More cisgender men, compared to TGD and cisgender women, received opioids for their pain.</p>","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142370714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel Cafferty, Mairead Dillon, Brittany Goldwater, Maya Haasz, Bruno Anthony, Sean T O'Leary, Lilliam Ambroggio
{"title":"Youth perceptions of electronic suicide screening in the pediatric emergency department.","authors":"Rachel Cafferty, Mairead Dillon, Brittany Goldwater, Maya Haasz, Bruno Anthony, Sean T O'Leary, Lilliam Ambroggio","doi":"10.1111/acem.15029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.15029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7105,"journal":{"name":"Academic Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142370715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}