{"title":"Statement on clinical principles for procedural sedation.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81159,"journal":{"name":"Emergency medicine (Fremantle, W.A.)","volume":"15 2","pages":"205-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22323769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimum standards for transport of critically ill patients.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81159,"journal":{"name":"Emergency medicine (Fremantle, W.A.)","volume":"15 2","pages":"197-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22323767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minimum standards for intrahospital transport of critically ill patients.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81159,"journal":{"name":"Emergency medicine (Fremantle, W.A.)","volume":"15 2","pages":"202-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2003-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22323768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Mountain, George A Jelinek, Debra L O'Brien, Sharyn L Ingarfield, Ian G Jacobs, Dania M Lynch
{"title":"Thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction in Australasia 1999.","authors":"David Mountain, George A Jelinek, Debra L O'Brien, Sharyn L Ingarfield, Ian G Jacobs, Dania M Lynch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To describe revascularization practice for acute myocardial infarction in a sample of Australasian hospitals during 1999.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Survey for the 1999 calendar year.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Hospitals with Australasian College for Emergency Medicine-accredited emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Forty-eight hospitals of 80 surveyed (60%), comprising 15 tertiary and 33 non-tertiary hospitals.</p><p><strong>Main outcome measures: </strong>Time from arrival in emergency department to initiation of thrombolytic therapy, site of therapy, agent used, mortality and intracranial haemorrhage rates.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Approximately 30% of patients with acute myocardial infarction had revascularization therapy. Sixty-two per cent of patients receiving thrombolytics were given this treatment in the emergency department, the remainder in the coronary care unit. Overall median door-to-needle times were 35.0 min emergency department versus 48.3 min coronary care unit. Streptokinase was used for 58.3% of thrombolysis. In-hospital mortality of thrombolysed patients was 6.7% in the emergency department versus 4.3% in the coronary care unit with intracranial haemorrhage rates of 0.8% emergency department and 0.7% coronary care unit.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall times to thrombolysis and outcome rates in this sample were within internationally reported figures. Emergency department times were shorter than in coronary care unit.</p>","PeriodicalId":81159,"journal":{"name":"Emergency medicine (Fremantle, W.A.)","volume":"14 3","pages":"267-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22160007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cannabis and driving: a new perspective.","authors":"Carl J O'Kane, Douglas C Tutt, Lyndon A Bauer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cannabis and driving is an emerging injury-prevention concern. The incidence of driving while affected by cannabis is rising in parallel with increased cannabis use in the community. Younger drivers are at particular risk. Improvements in research methodology, technology and laboratory testing methods have occurred in the last 10 years. These cast doubt on earlier results and conclusions. Studies now show that cannabis has a significant impairing effect on driving when used alone and that this effect is exaggerated when combined with alcohol. Of particular concern is the presence of cannabis as the sole psychoactive drug in an increasing number of road fatalities and the lack of any structural response to this problem. A review of testing methods, laboratory and real driving studies, and recent epidemiological studies is presented. Suggestions for methods of further data collection and future public policy are made.</p>","PeriodicalId":81159,"journal":{"name":"Emergency medicine (Fremantle, W.A.)","volume":"14 3","pages":"296-303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22159965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}