Submissions from 2021
Remote patient monitoring for ED discharges in the COVID-19 pandemic., Ahmad A. Aalam, Colton Hood, Crystal Donelan, Adam Rutenberg, Erin M. Kane, and Neal Sikka
Feasible and effective use of a simulation-based curriculum for post-graduate emergency medicine trainees in India to improve learner self-efficacy, knowledge, and skills., T Ahluwalia, S Toy, C Gutierrez, K Boggs, and K Douglass
Azithromycin, a questionable treatment for COVID-19., O Belfaqeeh, R N Janapala, J Patel, A Alhashmi, and A Pourmand
Self-prescribing of antibiotics by patients seeking care in Indian emergency departments., Janice Blanchard, Madhumathi Solaipandian, Elina Bevin John, Moin Pandith, Binu Jeo, Sherin Saji, Anil Kumar, Larissa May, Kevin Davey, Katherine Douglass, and Jeffrey Smith
Diminishing disparities in U.S. crisis standards of care: Medical and legal challenges., James G Hodge, Dan Hanfling, John L Hick, and Jennifer L Piatt
The Crisis in Rural America, Megan Hoffer and Aaran Drake
The role of co-administration of magnesium sulfate with QTc-prolonging medications in the emergency department., Megan Hoffer, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Ryan Hodgson, and Ali Pourmand
Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of an Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia., Kristina Jacomino, Sarah E. Frasure, Keith S. Boniface, and Hamid Shokoohi
eFAST exam errors at a level 1 trauma center: A retrospective cohort study., Kiana Khosravian, Keith Boniface, Elizabeth Dearing, Aaran Drake, Kathleen Ogle, Matthew Pyle, and Sarah E. Frasure
Clinical prediction rule for SARS-CoV-2 infection from 116 U.S. emergency departments 2-22-2021., Jeffrey A Kline, Carlos A Camargo, D Mark Courtney, Christopher Kabrhel, Kristen E Nordenholz, Thomas Aufderheide, Joshua J Baugh, David G Beiser, Christopher L Bennett, Joseph Bledsoe, Edward Castillo, Makini Chisolm-Straker, Elizabeth M Goldberg, Hans House, Stacey House, Timothy Jang, Stephen C Lim, Troy E Madsen, Danielle M McCarthy, Andrew Meltzer, Stephen Moore, Craig Newgard, Justine Pagenhardt, Katherine L Pettit, Michael S Pulia, Michael A Puskarich, Lauren T Southerland, Scott Sparks, Danielle Turner-Lawrence, Marie Vrablik, Alfred Wang, Anthony J Weekes, Lauren Westafer, and John Wilburn
A Discreet Wearable IoT Sensor for Continuous Transdermal Alcohol Monitoring-Challenges and Opportunities, Baichen Li, R. Scott Downen, Quan Dong, Nam Tran, Maxine LeSaux, Andrew Meltzer, and Zhenyu Li
Critical care service delivery across healthcare systems in low-income and low-middle-income countries: protocol for a systematic review., Andrew George Lim, Sean Kivlehan, Lia Ilona Losonczy, Srinivas Murthy, Enrico Dippenaar, Richard Lowsby, Marc Li Chuan L C Yang, Michael S Jaung, P Andrew Stephens, Nicole Benzoni, Nana Sefa, Emily Suzanne Bartlett, Brandon Alexander Chaffay, Naeha Haridasa, Bernadett Pua Velasco, Sojung Yi, Caitlin A Contag, Amir Lotfy Rashed, Patrick McCarville, Paul D Sonenthal, Nebiyu Shukur, Abdelouahab Bellou, Carl Mickman, Adhiti Ghatak-Roy, Allison Ferreira, Neill Kj Adhikari, and Teri Reynolds
Resource utilisation among patients with syncope presenting to the emergency department., Kevin Lombardi, Justin Ong, Erin Kane, Bandar Aljohani, Sarah E. Frasure, Khalid Almulhim, and Ali Pourmand
Early palliative intervention in septic patients reduces healthcare utilization, Rita A. Manfredi, Jesus Trevino, Florence Yan, Murwarit Rahimi, Evan Shapiro, Pouya Gharehdaghi, and Ali Pourmand
Diversity and Inclusion on General Surgery, Integrated Thoracic Surgery, and Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency Program Websites., Ryan Mortman, Harold A. Frazier, and Yolanda C. Haywood
Detection of adrenal mass during an educational point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency department., Kay Negishi, Jorge Short Apellaniz, Daniel Ratanski, Sarah E. Frasure, Andrew S Liteplo, and Hamid Shokoohi
An international perspective of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation during the COVID-19 pandemic., Justin Ong, Francis O'Connell, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, and Ali Pourmand
Azithromycin for mild-to-moderate COVID-19., Jigar Patel, Ivan Berezowski, Ahmed Abdelmonem, Dania Taylor, and Ali Pourmand
Organizational characteristics: Effect on outcome of ICU COVID-19 patients in Belgium., Jigar Patel, Rajesh Naidu Janapala, Omar Belfaqeeh, Abdulla Alhashmi, and Ali Pourmand
Topical capsaicin for the treatment of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a systematic review and meta-analysis., Ali Pourmand, Gabriel Esmailian, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Owen Lee-Park, and Quincy K Tran
Estimation and Comparison of Current and Future Racial/Ethnic Representation in the US Health Care Workforce., Edward Salsberg, Chelsea Richwine, Sara Westergaard, Maria Portela Martinez, Toyese Oyeyemi, Anushree Vichare, and Candice P. Chen
Hospital encounters for pediatric ingestions before and during the COVID-19 pandemic., Brian R E Schultz, Jennifer A Hoffmann, Cathleen Clancy, and Sriram Ramgopal
Motivational interviewing to treat substance use disorders in the emergency department: A scoping review., Rebecca Siegel, Natalie Sullivan, Andrew A Monte, Nataly Montano Vargas, Ziva D Cooper, Yan Ma, and Andrew C. Meltzer
Layperson Telepresenters: Increasing Capacity for Telehealth in Underserved Communities., Neal Sikka, Davin Combs, Nicole Lum, and Kendrick E Curry
Preventing seizure occurrence following spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage: A systematic review and meta-analysis of seizure prophylaxis., Quincy K Tran, Vera Bzhilyanskaya, Leenah Z Afridi, Mahmood Ahmad, Jamie Palmer, Mehboob A Rehan, Alison Raffman, Asma Rashid, Ashley Menne, and Ali Pourmand
Phenytoin prophylaxis and functional outcomes following spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: A systematic review and meta-analysis., Quincy K Tran, Vera Bzhilyanskaya, Tucker Lurie, Matthew Fairchild, Mehboob A Rehan, Asma Rashid, Elizabeth Powell, and Ali Pourmand
Emergency Department Utilization for Emergency Conditions During COVID-19., Arjun K Venkatesh, Alexander T Janke, Li Shu-Xia, Craig Rothenberg, Pawan Goyal, Aisha Terry, and Michelle Lin
Prevalence of myocardial infarction among patients with chest pain and cocaine use: A systematic review and meta-analysis., Jennifer Wang, Priya S Patel, Sanketh Andhavarapu, Vera Bzihlyanskaya, Eric Friedman, Maniraj Jeyaraju, Jamie Palmer, Alison Raffman, Ali Pourmand, and Quincy K Tran
The effect of team-based care practice on productivity for family physicians., Joel Willis and James F. Cawley
Ensuring Primary Care Diagnostic Quality in the Era of Telemedicine., Joel Steven Willis, Carl Tyler, Gordon D Schiff, and Katherine Schreiner
Submissions from 2020
National trends in chest pain visits in US emergency departments (2006-2016)., Ahmad A. Aalam, Awad Alsabban, and Jesse M Pines
Acute Paraspinal Compartment Syndrome in an Unconscious Patient., Talha Ahmed, Ayesha Safdar, Tamoor Ahmed, Talal Ahmad, and Lia Losonczy
The relationship between staff teaming models and emergency department efficiency., Khalid N. Almulhim, Robert Shesser, Ali Pourmand, Tess Whiteside, and Erin Kane
Non-respiratory presentations of COVID-19, a clinical review., Marya AlSamman, Amy Caggiula, Sangrag Ganguli, Monika Misak, and Ali Pourmand
Assessment of local health worker attitudes toward international medical volunteers in low- And middle-income countries: A global survey, Crystal Bae, Nehal Naik, Monika Misak, Sean L. Barnes, Avelino C. Verceles, Alfred Papali, Michael T. McCurdy, and Lia I. Losonczy
Isolation, lack of mentorship, sponsorship, and role models, Anita K. Blanchard and Janice C. Blanchard
For Us, COVID-19 Is Personal, Janice Blanchard, Tenagne Haile-Mariam, Natasha N. Powell, Aisha Terry, Malika Fair, Marcee Wilder, Damali Nakitende, Jared Lucas, Griffin L. Davis, and Yolanda Haywood
Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Detection of Hip Effusion and Septic Arthritis in Adult Patients With Hip Pain and Negative Initial Imaging., Keith Boniface, Matthew Pyle, Najlaa Jaleesah, and Hamid Shokoohi
A cruise ship emergency medical evacuation triggered by handheld ultrasound findings and directed by tele-ultrasound, Keith S. Boniface, Neal Sikka, Nicholas Page, Asi Peretz, and Hamid Shokoohi
A comparison of bivalirudin and heparin for patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, Matthew A. Brown, Farzad Najam, Elizabeth S. Pocock, Peter F. Munoz, Katherine A. Farrar, and David P. Yamane
Using ultrasound to teach living anatomy to non-medical graduate students, Theresa R. Bullen, Kirsten Brown, Kathleen Ogle, Yiju Teresa Liu, and Rosalyn A. Jurjus
Medical Student Attitudes toward USMLE Step 1 and Health Systems Science–A Multi-Institutional Survey, J. Bryan Carmody, Lauren M. Green, Patti G. Kiger, Jared D. Baxter, Todd Cassese, Tonya L. Fancher, Paul George, Erin J. Griffin, Yolanda C. Haywood, David Henderson, Nancy A. Hueppchen, David J. Karras, Andrea N. Leep Hunderfund, Janet E. Lindsley, Paul G. McGuire, Mimoza Meholli, Chad S. Miller, Seetha U. Monrad, Kari L. Nelson, Kristin A. Olson, Amit K. Pahwa, Stephanie R. Starr, Allan R. Tunkel, Richard N. Van Eck, Julie H. Youm, Deborah J. Ziring, and Senthil K. Rajasekaran
Postgraduate Diploma in Emergency Medicine in India., Kevin Davey, Narendra Nath Jena, Janice Blanchard, Shweta Gidwani, Jeff Smith, and Kate Douglass
A qualitative study of workplace violence among healthcare providers in emergency departments in India., Kevin Davey, Veda Ravishankar, Nikita Mehta, Tania Ahluwalia, Janice Blanchard, Jeffrey Smith, and Katherine Douglass
The Role of Tranexamic Acid in the Management of an Acutely Hemorrhaging Patient, Steven Davis, Aria Nawab, Christiaan van Nispen, and Ali Pourmand
Moral Injury: The Invisible Epidemic in COVID Health Care Workers., Wendy Dean, Breanne Jacobs, and Rita A. Manfredi
Emergency care for all people—A call for action in Africa, Katherine Douglass, Nino Paichadze, Emmanuel Ankrah Odame, Wilfred Addo, and Adnan A. Hyder
Policy Solutions for Reversing the Color-blind Public Health Response to COVID-19 in the US., Marisa K. Dowling and Robin L Kelly
Policy Solutions for Reversing the Color-blind Public Health Response to COVID-19 in the US., Marisa K. Dowling and Robin L Kelly
United States congressional COVID-19 legislation: Recent laws and future topics, Marisa K. Dowling, Aisha T. Terry, Natalie L. Kirilichin, Jennifer S. Lee, and Janice C. Blanchard
Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19., Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Govind Persad, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, and James P. Phillips
Application of Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Family Medicine Physicians for Abdominopelvic and Soft Tissue Assessment., Sarah E. Frasure, Elizabeth Dearing, Morgan Burke, Maria Portela, and Ali Pourmand
Perspective article for European Journal of Emergency Medicine: emergency medicine in India., Shweta Gidwani and Narendra Nath Jena
Defining a Research Agenda for Layperson Prehospital Hemorrhage Control: A Consensus Statement., Eric Goralnick, Chibuike Ezeibe, Muhammad Ali Chaudhary, Justin McCarty, Juan P Herrera-Escobar, Tomas Andriotti, Elzerie de Jager, Daniel Ospina-Delgado, Craig Goolsby, Richard Hunt, Joel S Weissman, Adil Haider, Lenworth Jacobs, Erin Andrade, Jeremy Brown, Eileen M Bulger, Frank K Butler, David Callaway, Edward J Caterson, Niteesh K Choudhry, Michael R Davis, Alex Eastman, Brian J Eastridge, Jonathan L Epstein, Conor L Evans, Marianne Gausche-Hill, Mark L Gestring, Scott A Goldberg, Dan Hanfling, John Bradley Holcomb, Carl-Oscar Jonson, David R King, Sean Kivlehan, Russ S Kotwal, Jon R Krohmer, Nomi Levy-Carrick, Matthew Levy, Joan José Meléndez Lugo, David P Mooney, Matthew D Neal, Robert Niskanen, Patrick O'Neill, Habeeba Park, Peter T Pons, Erik Prytz, Todd E Rasmussen, Michael A Remley, Robert Riviello, Ali Salim, Stacy Shackelfold, E Reed Smith, Ronald M Stewart, Mamta Swaroop, Kevin Ward, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Molly P Jarman, and Gezzer Ortega
Interdisciplinary approach to enhance trauma residents education of Extended-Focused Assessment for Sonography in Trauma in the emergency department, Rachel M. Haney, Sally Graglia, Jessica Schleifer, April Mendoza, Sarah E. Frasure, Hamid Shokoohi, Calvin Huang, and Andrew S. Liteplo
Operation Navajeevan: A Public-Private Partnership Model for Disaster Relief in Kozhikode, India., Sonia Haris, Venugopalan Poovathumparambil, Naveen Anaswara, Samantha Noll, Aditi Ghatak-Roy, Nicholas Dreyer, Nehal Naik, Katherine Douglass, Janice Blanchard, and Kevin Davey
Moral Distress During COVID19: Residents in Training are at High Risk, Breanne Jacobs and Rita A. Manfredi
Predictors of Quality Improvement in Pediatric Asthma Care., Sunitha Kaiser, Nisha Gupta, Joanne Mendoza, Gabriella Azzarone, Kavita Parikh, Joanne Nazif, and Adithya Cattamanchi
Targeted Screening for HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Eligibility in Two Emergency Departments in Washington, DC, Paige Kulie, Amanda D. Castel, Zhaonian Zheng, Natasha N. Powell, Aneil Srivastava, Sandhya Chandar, and Melissa L. McCarthy
Double sequential external defibrillation, Vishak Kumar, David Yamane, Bandar Aljohani, Awad Alsabban, and Ali Pourmand
An unusual cause of chest pain in a 33 year old male: neurofibromatosis, John Lafleur and Adam Rutenberg
Equity: European Journal of Emergency Medicine reflects forward., Resa E. Lewiss, Kathleen Y. Ogle, and Yonathan Freund
Telehealth awareness in a US urban peritoneal dialysis clinic: From 2018 to 2019, Susie Q. Lew and Neal Sikka
Academic career roles and responsibilities, Ray Lucas
Engagement and Workplace Satisfaction of Emergency Medicine Faculty in the United States, Raymond Lucas, Valerie Dandar, and James Scott
We are All Leaders: Introducing Self-Leadership Concepts Through the Lens of Improving Diversity in the Health Care Workforce, Raymond Lucas, Pooja Kothari, Clydell Adams, Latanya Jones, Valerie N. Williams, and John Paul Sánchez
Development of a telehealth intervention to promote care-seeking among transgender women of color in Washington, DC, Manya Magnus, Elizabeth Edwards, Aurnell Dright, Leandrea Gilliam, Angela Brown, Matthew Levy, Neal Sikka, Marc Siegel, Vittoria Criss, Christopher Chauncey Watson, Edwards Machtinger, and Irene Kuo
Characteristics of mycoplasma genitalium urogenital infections in a diverse patient sample from the United States: Results from the aptima mycoplasma genitalium evaluation study (AMES), Lisa E. Manhart, Charlotte A. Gaydos, Stephanie N. Taylor, Rebecca A. Lillis, Edward W. Hook, Jeffrey D. Klausner, Carmelle V. Remillard, Melissa Love, Byron McKinney, Damon K. Getman, Anitra Beasley, Steven Chavoustie, Douglas Denham, Julie Dombrowski, Michael Dunn, Christopher Emery, Wayne Harper, Christopher Jones, Clifford Kinder, Michael Lyons, Joseph Miller, Mobeen Rathore, Robert Shesser, Dane Shipp, Timothy Spurrell, Wayne Trout, and Kimberly Ann Workowski
The Impact of Hyperoxia in the Critically Ill Patient: A Review of the Literature., Jacob Martin, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, and Ali Pourmand
Latent Class Analysis to Represent Social Determinant of Health Risk Groups in the Medicaid Cohort of the District of Columbia., Melissa L. McCarthy, Zhaonian Zheng, Marcee E. Wilder, Angelo Elmi, Paige Kulie, Samuel Johnson, and Scott L Zeger
Pharmacotherapy in COVID-19; A narrative review for emergency providers., Nikita Mehta, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Nour Alkindi, and Ali Pourmand
Pharmacotherapy in COVID-19; A narrative review for emergency providers., Nikita Mehta, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Nour Alkindi, and Ali Pourmand
Sex-based pharmacotherapy in acute care setting, a narrative review for emergency providers., Nikita Mehta, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Caroline Schulman, Francis O'Connell, and Ali Pourmand
Absence of QT prolongation after administration of a 24-mg bimodal-release ondansetron pill (RHB-102), Joseph Miller, Stacey House, Luis Lovato, Andrew Meltzer, Barry Hahn, Jahn Avarello, Terry Plasse, Ira Kalfus, Reza Fathi, and Robert Silverman
The effect of platelet transfusion on functional independence and mortality after antiplatelet therapy associated spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage: A systematic review and meta-analysis., Nicholas A Morris, Nikhil Patel, Samuel M Galvagno, Emilie Ludeman, Gary T Schwartzbauer, Ali Pourmand, and Quincy K Tran
Patients Presenting with Bull-related Injuries to a Southern Indian Emergency Department, Subhathra Nagarajan, Narendra Nath Jena, Kevin Davey, Katherine Douglas, Jeffrey Smith, and Janice Blanchard
Emergency department approach to gastric tube complications: A case report and review of the literature., Francis O'Connell, Justin Ong, Crystal Donelan, and Ali Pourmand
Application of termination of resuscitation rules during the COVID-19 pandemic by emergency medical service., Francis O'Connell, Peter Sweetser, Theodore Quan, and Ali Pourmand
Point-of-care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Bilateral Patellar Tendon Rupture., Kathleen Ogle, Sohaib Mandoorah, Matthew Fellin, Hamid Shokoohi, William Probasco, and Keith Boniface
On first-pass, twitter response is inferior to expectations., K Ogle, C Roche, and A Pourmand
In reply., Seyedhossein Ojaghihaghighi, Samad S. Vahdati, Rana Sorkhabi, Kevin M. Lombardi, Steven Davis, and Ali Pourmand
How to stop the dying, as well as the killing, in a terrorist attack., Claire L. Park, Matthieu Langlois, E Reed Smith, Matt Pepper, Michael D Christian, Gareth E Davies, and Gareth R Grier
Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19. Reply., Govind Persad, James Phillips, and Ezekiel J Emanuel
Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19. Reply., Govind Persad, James Phillips, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Report from the COVID-19 Virtual Summit,, James P. Phillips, Luca Ragazzoni, W Greg Burel, Frederick M Burkle, and Mark Keim
Emergency department approach to spirituality care in the era of COVID-19, Ayal Pierce, Megan Hoffer, Bridget Marcinkowski, Rita A Manfredi, and Ali Pourmand
Lack of Telemedicine Training in Academic Medicine: Are We Preparing the Next Generation?, Ali Pourmand, Mateen Ghassemi, Kazi Sumon, Saeid B. Amini, Colton Hood, and Neal Sikka
Patterns of benzodiazepine administration and prescribing to older adults in U.S. emergency departments., Ali Pourmand, Kevin M. Lombardi, Jeffrey Roberson, and Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi
Point of care ultrasound and ocular injuries: A case of lens dislocation and a comprehensive review of the literature., Matthew Pyle, Christina Gallerani, Christopher Weston, Sarah E. Frasure, and Ali Pourmand
Prognostic utilization of models based on the APACHE II, APACHE IV, and SAPS II scores for predicting in-hospital mortality in emergency department., Zahra Rahmatinejad, Fariba Tohidinezhad, Hamidreza Reihani, Fatemeh Rahmatinejad, Ali Pourmand, Ameen Abu-Hanna, and Saeid Eslami
Non-evidenced based treatment: An unintended cause of morbidity and mortality related to COVID-19., Hamidreza Reihani, Mateen Ghassemi, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Bandar Aljohani, and Ali Pourmand
Exploration of the Influential Factors on Adherence to Occupational Therapy in Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Qualitative Study., Leeba Rezaie and Sadiqa Kendi
The role of social cognition skills and social determinants of health in predicting symptoms of mental illness, Hernando Santamaría-García, Sandra Baez, Carlos Gómez, Odir Rodríguez-Villagra, David Huepe, Maria Portela, Pablo Reyes, Joel Klahr, Diana Matallana, and Agustin Ibanez
Video capsule endoscopy for upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis., Nidhi Shah, Chen Chen, Nataly Montano, David Cave, Rebecca Siegel, Nina T. Gentile, Alexander T. Limkakeng, Anita B. Kumar, Yan Ma, and Andrew C. Meltzer
Utility of the DIVA score for experienced emergency department technicians., Haroon Shaukat, Beemnet Neway, Kristen Breslin, Ar'Reon Watson, Kelly Poe, Keith Boniface, and Joanna S Cohen
Photocatalytic graphitic carbon nitride-chitosan composites for pathogenic biofilm control under visible light irradiation., Hongchen Shen, David P Durkin, Ashlee Aiello, Tara Diba, John Lafleur, Jason M. Zara, Yun Shen, and Danmeng Shuai
Shifting attention to an undervalued asset; the emergency department technician., Robert Shesser, Mateen Ghassemi, Emily Sun, Amy Keim, Alex Marchak, and Ali Pourmand
Utility of point-of-care ultrasound in patients with suspected diverticulitis in the emergency department., Hamid Shokoohi, Sigrid Nasser, Matthew Pyle, James P. Earls, Andrew Liteplo, and Keith Boniface
Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter Measured by Point-of-Care Ultrasound and MRI, Hamid Shokoohi, Matthew Pyle, Evan Kuhl, Michael A. Loesche, Aakshit Goyal, Maxine A. LeSaux, Keith S. Boniface, and M. Reza Taheri
A Novel Approach to Establish and Enhance Event Reporting Systems Among Resident Physicians, Saud Siddiqui, Johnnatan Marin, Genevieve Kupsky, Theodore Quan, Sarah E. Frasure, Neal Sikka, and Ali Pourmand