{"title":"Global Funding Models: A Canadian Context.","authors":"Shawn Mondoux","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.05.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.05.028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":"35 1","pages":"599-600"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142486355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When ECG Leads Lead Us Astray.","authors":"José Nunes de Alencar","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.06.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":"18 1","pages":"579-582"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142486357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Older Woman With Months of Shoulder Pain.","authors":"Christina L Shenvi","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.05.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.05.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":"67 1","pages":"585-586"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142486281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samantha Camp,Quincy K Tran,Gillian Cooper,Yiting Lin,Daniel J Haase,Ali Pourmand
{"title":"Comments on \"Right Ventricular 'Bubble Time' to Identify Patients With Right Ventricular Dysfunction\".","authors":"Samantha Camp,Quincy K Tran,Gillian Cooper,Yiting Lin,Daniel J Haase,Ali Pourmand","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.05.029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.05.029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":"2 1","pages":"601-602"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142486356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Does an Emergency Department Visit Cost?: November 2024 Annals of Emergency Medicine Journal Club.","authors":"Katie M Lebold,Michelle P Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.07.027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.07.027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":"33 1","pages":"596-598"},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142486359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing Awake Intubation.","authors":"Benjamin J Sandefur, Brian E Driver, Brit Long","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.07.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.07.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142543349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tranexamic Acid for Children With Traumatic Brain Injuries: Progress Made and Important Evidence Gaps.","authors":"Nathan Kuppermann, Daniel K Nishijima","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142543350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Adult Patients With Spontaneous Cervical Artery Dissection, Is Anticoagulation Associated With Reduced Risk of Ischemic Stroke When Compared With Antiplatelet Therapy?","authors":"Steven Walton,Michael Gottlieb,Brit Long","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142490550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Regina Royan, Iyanuoluwa Ayodele, Brian Stamm, Brooke Alhanti, Kevin N Sheth, Peter Pruitt, Brian C Mac Grory, William J Meurer, Shyam Prabhakaran
{"title":"Door-in-Door-Out Times at Referring Hospitals and Outcomes of Hemorrhagic Stroke.","authors":"Regina Royan, Iyanuoluwa Ayodele, Brian Stamm, Brooke Alhanti, Kevin N Sheth, Peter Pruitt, Brian C Mac Grory, William J Meurer, Shyam Prabhakaran","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Study objective: </strong>Interhospital transfer is often required in the care of patients with hemorrhagic stroke. Guidelines recommend a door-in-door-out (DIDO) time of ≤120 minutes at the transferring emergency department (ED); however, it is unknown whether DIDO times are related to clinical outcomes of hemorrhagic stroke.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Retrospective, observational cohort study using US registry data from Get With The Guidelines-Stroke participating hospitals. Patients include those aged ≥18 years with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) or subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) who were transferred from the ED to a Get With The Guidelines participating receiving hospital from January 1, 2019, to July 31, 2022. The primary outcome was ordinal discharge modified Rankin scale (mRS) score and secondary outcomes included dichotomous discharge mRS, ability to ambulate independently at discharge, and inhospital mortality at the receiving hospital.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In all, 19,708 ICH and 7,757 patients with SAH were included. For patients with ICH, an increasing DIDO time was associated with greater odds of mRS 0 to 3 versus 4 to 6 at discharge in the unadjusted analyses (DIDO 91 to 180 minutes, odds ratio [OR] 1.15 [1.04 to 1.27]; DIDO 181 to 270 minutes, OR 1.51 [1.33, 1.71]; DIDO >270 minutes, OR 1.83 [1.58, 2.11]; versus DIDO ≤90 minutes). In the adjusted analyses, no associations were observed. Similar results were seen for mRS at discharge in patients with SAH. In both patients with ICH and SAH, longer DIDO times were associated with greater odds of independent ambulation at discharge and lower odds of inhospital mortality in the unadjusted analyses. After adjustment, the effect sizes of these associations were reduced, with some of the results based on quartiles becoming statistically nonsignificant.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings suggest that EDs currently expedite the transfer of the sickest patients; however, prospective studies and more granular data are needed to understand the impact of early treatment and timing of transfer for patients with hemorrhagic stroke.</p>","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142493628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maeve Muldowney, Catherine R Counts, Madison C Maider, Sam R Sharar, Andrew M McCoy, Rajen Nathwani, Jessica J Wall, Killian Pache, Charles Maynard, Thomas D Rea, Peter J Kudenchuk, Michael R Sayre
{"title":"A Comparison of Ketamine to Midazolam for the Management of Acute Behavioral Disturbance in the Out-of-Hospital Setting.","authors":"Maeve Muldowney, Catherine R Counts, Madison C Maider, Sam R Sharar, Andrew M McCoy, Rajen Nathwani, Jessica J Wall, Killian Pache, Charles Maynard, Thomas D Rea, Peter J Kudenchuk, Michael R Sayre","doi":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.09.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Study objective: </strong>Acute behavioral disturbance is characterized by altered mental status and psychomotor agitation. Pharmacological sedation may be required, risking potential respiratory compromise. We compared the need for emergent airway support following administration of midazolam or ketamine to treat acute behavioral disturbance in the out-of-hospital setting.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this retrospective cohort study of patients with acute behavioral disturbance in an urban emergency medical service system between 2017 and 2021, we compared the likelihood of out-of-hospital advanced airway management following administration of midazolam or ketamine. Advanced airway management was defined as out-of-hospital endotracheal intubation or supraglottic airway insertion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 376 eligible patients, the median age was 35, and 78% were men. The most common etiologies of acute behavioral disturbance were substance use (51%), trauma (18%), and presumed postictal agitation (11%). In all, 162 patients (43%) initially received midazolam and 214 (57%) ketamine. The frequency of advanced airway management was similar between these respective groups (12% [n=19] versus 11% [n=24], difference 0.5%, 95% CI -6.0% to 7.0%). Adjusted for potential confounders, the odds of receiving advanced airway management did not differ between midazolam and ketamine (aOR 1.02, 95% CI 0.44 to 2.38), and no differences were observed in emergency department intubation rates (14% in midazolam recipients, 11% for ketamine) or overall mortality (2% in midazolam recipients, 1% for ketamine).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In this cohort study of patients with acute behavioral disturbance, emergent airway support and other outcomes did not differ following out-of-hospital treatment with midazolam or ketamine.</p>","PeriodicalId":8236,"journal":{"name":"Annals of emergency medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142456763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}