Background: Implementation of multifaceted interventions typically involves many diverse elements working together in interrelated ways, including intervention components, implementation strategies, and features of local ...
Hickman, Susan E.; Miech, Edward J.; Stump, Timothy E.; Fowler, Nicole R.; Unroe, Kathleen T.(Oxford Academic, 2020-11-23)
Background and objectives: To identify the implementation barriers, facilitators, and conditions associated with successful outcomes from a clinical demonstration project to reduce potentially avoidable hospitalizations ...
Acute pulmonary embolism is the third most common cause of cardiovascular death. Pulmonary embolism increases right ventricular afterload, which causes right ventricular failure, circulatory collapse and death. Most ...
Russell, Frances M.; Rutz, Matt; Rood, L. Ken; McGee, Justin; Sarmiento, Elisa J.(eScholarship, 2020-03)
Introduction: Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTI) occur along a continuum from cellulitis to abscess. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is effective in differentiating between these two diagnoses and guiding acute ...
Antohi, Elena-Laura; Ambrosy, Andrew P.; Collins, Sean P.; Ahmed, Ali; Iliescu, Vlad Anton; Cotter, Gad; Pang, Peter S.; Butler, Javed; Chioncel, Ovidiu(Wolters Kluwer, 2019-03)
Background: Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is the most common presenting phenotype of acute heart failure (AHF). The main goal of this article was to review the contemporary management strategies in these patients ...
Chioncel, Ovidiu; Collins, Sean P.; Ambrosy, Andrew P.; Pang, Peter S.; Radu, Razvan I.; Ahmed, Ali; Antohi, Elena-Laura; Masip, Josep; Butler, Javed; Iliescu, Vlad Anton(Wolters Kluwer, 2019-03)
Background: Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a life-threatening state of tissue hypoperfusion, associated with a very high risk of mortality, despite intensive monitoring and modern treatment modalities. The present review aimed ...
Pressler, Susan J.; Jung, Miyeon; Lee, Christopher S.; Arkins, Thomas P.; O'Donnell, Daniel; Cook, Ryan; Bakoyannis, Giorgos; Newhouse, Robin; Gradus-Pizlo, Irmina; Pang, Peter S.(Elsevier, 2020-09)
BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) necessitates frequent transport by emergency medical services (EMS), but few studies have been conducted to evaluate predictors of EMS use and of multiple EMS transports that are amenable to ...
Introduction: The morbidity and mortality (M&M) conference has long been a part of the education of residents of all specialties in the United States, yet its structure is variable across training programs. Recent literature ...
A 25-year-old previously healthy female presented to the emergency department (ED) with 5 days of rash, fevers, shortness of breath, and generalized weakness. She had presented to another ED 4 days previously and noted ...
This article provides an overview of issues facing medical students in such key areas as communication, preclinical and clinical education, increased isolation, disruption to time-based curricula, inequities in virtual ...
Russell, Frances M.; Zakeri, Bita; Herbert, Audrey; Ferre, Robinson M.; Leiser, Abraham; Wallach, Paul M.(Wolters Kluwer, 2021-11)
Purpose:
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the current state of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) integration in undergraduate medical education (UME) at MD-granting medical schools in the United States.
Method: ...
Objectives Accurate estimation of the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection based on bedside data alone has importance to Emergency Department (ED) operations and throughput. The 13 item CORC (COVID [or coronavirus] Rule-out Criteria) ...
House, Hans R.; Vakkalanka, J. Priyanka; Behrens, Nathan G.; Haan, Jessica De; Halbur, Christopher R.; Harrington, Elaine M.; Patel, Pooja H.; Rawwas, Lulua; Camargo, Carlos A.; Kline, Jeffrey A.(Wiley, 2021-09)
Objective Facilities that process and package meat for consumer sale and consumption (meatpacking plants) were early sites of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks. The aim of this study was to characterize the ...
Thomas, Anthony V.; Lin, Kevin P.; Stillson, John E.; Bunch, Connor M.; Speybroeck, Jacob; Wiarda, Grant; Al-Fadhl, Hamid; Gillespie, Laura; Zamlut, Mahmud; Fulkerson, Daniel H.; Khan, Rashid Z.; Kwaan, Hau C.; Walsh, Mark M.(Hindawi, 2021-08-03)
One of the complications of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is hypercoagulability. For this reason, patients presenting with COVID-19 are often put on therapeutic or intermediate anticoagulation upon ...
Harrison, Nicholas E.; Ehrman, Robert R.; Curtin, Andrea; Gorelick, Damon; Hill, Alex B.; Brennan, Erin; Dunne, Robert(AMA, 2021-08-20)
Importance Emergency department (ED) and emergency medical services (EMS) volumes decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the amount attributable to voluntary refusal vs effects of the pandemic and public health ...
Bennett, Christopher L.; Ogele, Emmanuel; Pettit, Nicholas R.; Bischof, Jason J.; Meng, Tong; Govindarajan, Prasanthi; Camargo, Carlos A., Jr.; Nordenholz, Kristen; Kline, Jeffrey A.(Wolters Kluwer, 2021-08-31)
Background: There is a need to characterize patients with HIV with suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARs-CoV-2).
Setting: Multicenter registry of patients from 116 emergency departments in 27 ...
Background Mandates to social distance and “shelter in place” during the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the exploration of new academic content delivery methods. Digital communication platforms (DCP; e.g., Zoom) were widely ...
Introduction
In the USA, many emergency departments (EDs) have established protocols to treat patients with newly diagnosed deep vein thrombosis (DVT) as outpatients. Similar treatment of patients with pulmonary embolism ...