Submissions from 2019
Operationalizing Telehealth for Home Dialysis Patients in the United States, Susie Q. Lew and Neal Sikka
Impact of remote biometric monitoring on cost and hospitalization outcomes in peritoneal dialysis, Susie Q. Lew, Neal Sikka, Clinton Thompson, and Manya Magnus
Findings of a national dataset analysis on the visits of homeless patients to US emergency departments during 2005-2015., Kevin Lombardi, J M Pines, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, and Ali Pourmand
Critical care capacity in Haiti: A nationwide cross-sectional survey., Lia I Losonczy, Sean L Barnes, Shiping Liu, Sarah R Williams, Michael T McCurdy, Vivienne Lemos, Jerry Chandler, L Nathalie Colas, Marc E Augustin, and Alfred Papali
Early Impact of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine CDEM/CORD Special Issue in Educational Research & Practice., Jeffrey N. Love, Sally A. Santen, David P. Way, Brendan W. Munzer, Chris Merritt, Douglas S. Ander, and John W. Cyrus
Early Impact of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine CDEM/CORD Special Issue in Educational Research & Practice., Jeffrey N. Love, Sally A. Santen, David P. Way, Brendan W. Munzer, Chris Merritt, Douglas S. Ander, and John W. Cyrus
Emergent endotracheal intubation associated cardiac arrest, risks, and emergency implications., Johnnatan Marin, Danielle Davison, and Ali Pourmand
A mobile prenatal care app to reduce in-person visits: Prospective controlled trial, Kathryn I. Marko, Nihar Ganju, Jill M. Krapf, Nancy D. Gaba, James A. Brown, Joshua J. Benham, Julia Oh, Lorna M. Richards, and Andrew C. Meltzer
Accuracy of Patient Reported Stone Passage for Patients With Acute Renal Colic Treated in the Emergency Department., Andrew C. Meltzer, Pamela Katzen Burrows, Ziya Kirkali, Judd E. Hollander, Michael Kurz, Patrick Mufarrij, Allan B. Wolfson, Cora MacPherson, Scott Hubosky, Nataly Montano, and Stephen V Jackman
Diagnostic Ultrasound Safety Review for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Practitioners., Douglas L. Miller, Alyssa Abo, Jacques S. Abramowicz, Timothy A. Bigelow, Diane Dalecki, Eitan Dickman, John Donlon, Gerald Harris, and Jason Nomura
Optic Nerve Sheath Ultrasonography: Should We Be Using It for Bedside Diagnosis of Increased Intracranial Pressure?, Kathleen Y. Ogle and Resa E. Lewiss
Diagnosis of Traumatic Eye Injuries With Point-of-Care Ocular Ultrasonography in the Emergency Department., Seyedhossein Ojaghihaghighi, Kevin M Lombardi, Steven Davis, Samad S Vahdati, Rana Sorkhabi, and Ali Pourmand
Approach to Complications of Ventricular Assist Devices: A Clinical Review for the Emergency Provider., Dana Perim, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Arcadia Trvalik, and Ali Pourmand
Preparation and response to a targeted automobile ramming mass casualty (TARMAC) attack: An analysis of the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia TARMAC attack, James P. Phillips, Jeffrey S. Young, and William J. Brady
Approach to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Induced Consciousness, an Emergency Medicine Perspective., Ali Pourmand, B Hill, David Yamane, and E Kuhl
The utility of point-of-care ultrasound in the assessment of volume status in acute and critically ill patients., Ali Pourmand, Matthew Pyle, David Yamane, Kazi Sumon, and Sarah E. Frasure
The Controversial Role of Corticosteroids in Septic Shock., Ali Pourmand, Tess Whiteside, David Yamane, Amir Rashed, and Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi
Can Emoji's assess patients' mood and emotion in the emergency department? An emoji based study., A Pourmand, T Quan, S B Amini, and N Sikka
In reply., Joshua Quaas, Turandot Saul, Jonathan Wassermann, and Kevin Davey
Pseudo-pulseless electrical activity in the emergency department, an evidence based approach., J Rabjohns, T Quan, K Boniface, and A Pourmand
Current Approach to Undifferentiated Headache Management in the Emergency Department., Amir Rashed, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, and Ali Pourmand
The Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series (JCTAWS): Integrating disciplines for enhanced capabilities during a complex coordinated attack., Geoffrey L Shapiro, John H Armstrong, Kathryn Roberts, James Gordon, E Reed Smith, Jeffrey Afman, and Scott M Sasser
The Utility and Survivorship of Peripheral Intravenous Catheters Inserted in the Emergency Department., Hamid Shokoohi, Keith S Boniface, Paige Kulie, Andrew Long, and Melissa McCarthy
Development of a nomogram to predict small bowel obstruction using point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency department., Hamid Shokoohi, Keith S. Boniface, Michael A. Loesche, Nicole M. Duggan, and Jordan B. King
Point-of-care Transperineal Ultrasound to Diagnose Abscess in the Emergency Department., Hamid Shokoohi, Matthew Pyle, Sarah E Frasure, Ubah Dimbil, and Ali Pourmand
Assessment of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Training for Clinical Educators in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda., Hamid Shokoohi, Aislynn Raymond, Katelyn Fleming, James Scott, Vanessa Kerry, Tenagne Haile-Mariam, Sadath Sayeed, and Keith S Boniface
Defining emergency telehealth., Neal Sikka, Hartmut Gross, Aditi U. Joshi, Edward Shaheen, Michael J. Baker, Adam Ash, Judd E. Hollander, Dickson S. Cheung, Alexander R. Chiu, Charles B. Wessel, Marcus Robinson, Gregory Lowry, and Francis Xavier Guyette
Virtual Reality-Assisted Pain, Anxiety, and Anger Management in the Emergency Department., Neal Sikka, Liqi Shu, Brandon Ritchie, Richard L Amdur, and Ali Pourmand
Sharing the sidewalk: A case of E-scooter related pedestrian injury., Neal Sikka, C Vila, M Stratton, Mateen Ghassemi, and Ali Pourmand
Tungiasis, a rare case of plantar inflammatory disease, a review of travelers skin lesions for emergency providers., N Sikka, A Siev, R Boyer, and A Pourmand
Sharing the sidewalk: A case of E-scooter related pedestrian injury., N Sikka, C Vila, M Stratton, M Ghassemi, and A Pourmand
Bimodal Release Ondansetron for Acute Gastroenteritis Among Adolescents and Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial., Robert A Silverman, Stacey L House, Andrew C Meltzer, Barry Hahn, Luis M Lovato, Jahn Avarello, Joseph B Miller, Ira N Kalfus, Reza Fathi, Gilead Raday, Terry F Plasse, and Eric C Yan
Professionalism Milestones Assessments Used by Emergency Medicine Residency Programs: A Cross-sectional Survey., Christine R. Stehman, Steven Hochman, Madonna Fernández-Frackelton, Emilio G. Volz, Rui Domingues, Jeffrey N. Love, and William Soares
Ketamine for emergency sedation of agitated patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis., Natalie Sullivan, Chen Chen, Rebecca Siegel, Yan Ma, Ali Pourmand, Nataly Montano, and Andrew Meltzer
Prophylactic antibiotics for anterior nasal packing in emergency department: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinically-significant infections., Quincy K. Tran, Meboob A. Rehan, Daniel J. Haase, Ann Matta, and Ali Pourmand
Barriers to breastfeeding for emergency medicine physicians in the emergency department., Tess Whiteside, Sarah E Frasure, Kat Ogle, and Ali Pourmand
Emergency medicine stakeholder perspectives on value-based alternative payment models: A qualitative study., Austin Wu, Caitlin Carter, and Jesse M Pines
Pediatric urgent care education: a survey-based needs assessment., Xian Zhao, Ioannis Koutroulis, Joanna Cohen, and Deena Berkowitz
Development and Validation of the Pediatric Resuscitation and Escalation of Care Self-Efficacy Scale., Adrian D. Zurca, Nils Olsen, and Raymond Lucas
Submissions from 2018
Simulation-based training in Ebola Personal Protective Equipment for healthcare workers: Experience from King Abdulaziz University Hospital in Saudi Arabia, Jameel Abualenain and M. Al-Alawi
The Effect of Point-of-Care Testing at Triage: An Observational Study in a Teaching Hospital in Saudi Arabia., Jameel Abualenain, Ahd Almarzouki, Rawan Saimaldaher, Mark S Zocchi, and Jesse M Pines
Tranexamic Acid for Prevention and Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage: An Update on Management and Clinical Outcomes., Homa K Ahmadzia, Jaclyn M Phillips, Quinton S Katler, and Andra H James
Perceptions of emergency medicine residents on the quality of residency training in the United States and Saudi Arabia, Ahmad Alam, Mark S. Zocchi, Jesse M. Pines, and +several additional authors
Creation and Implementation of an Outpatient Pathway for Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department Setting: Results of an Expert Panel., Christopher W Baugh, Carol L Clark, Jason W Wilson, Ian G Stiell, Abraham G Kocheril, Krista K Luck, Troy D Myers, Charles V Pollack, Steven K Roumpf, Gery F Tomassoni, James M Williams, Brian B Patel, Fred Wu, and Jesse M Pines
National trends in stroke and TIA care in U.S. emergency departments and inpatient hospitalizations (2006-2014)., Islam I Bedaiwi, Sukayna Z Alfaraj, and Jesse M Pines
Acute Cardiac Air Embolism, Leslie Billello, Brian Gacioch, and James P. Phillips
State Variation in Opioid Treatment Policies and Opioid-Related Hospital Readmissions., Janice Blanchard, Audrey J Weiss, Marguerite L Barrett, Kimberly W McDermott, and Kevin C Heslin
Ultrasound-guided intravenous access in adults using SonoStik, Keith S Boniface, Maxine A LeSaux, Sohaib Mandoorah, Amit Patel, Kai L Neander, and Hamid Shokoohi
The Global Health Service Partnership's point-of-care ultrasound initiatives in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda., Keith S Boniface, Aislynn Raymond, Katelyn Fleming, James Scott, Vanessa B Kerry, Tenagne Haile-Mariam, Sadath Sayeed, and Hamid Shokoohi
Assessing the CT Findings and Clinical Course of ED Patients with First-Time Versus Recurrent Acute Pancreatitis., Maryam Boumezrag, Sormeh Harounzadeh, Hamza Ijaz, Angeline Johny, Lorna Richards, Yan Ma, Maxine A Le Saux, Paige Kulie, Caitlin Davis, and Andrew C Meltzer
Ketamine in the Prehospital Environment: A National Survey of Paramedics in the United States., Daniel M Buckland, Remle P Crowe, Rebecca E Cash, Stephen Gondek, Patrick Maluso, Sarah Sirajuddin, E Reed Smith, Paul Dangerfield, Geoff Shapiro, Christopher Wanka, Ashish R Panchal, and Babak Sarani
Provider and Practice Factors Associated With Emergency Physicians' Being Named in a Malpractice Claim., Jestin N Carlson, Krista M Foster, Jesse M Pines, Christopher K Corbit, Michael J Ward, Muhammad Zia Hydari, and Arvind Venkat
In reply., Jestin N Carlson, Arvind Venkat, and Jesse M Pines
Hospital Strategies for Reducing Emergency Department Crowding: A Mixed-Methods Study., Anna Marie Chang, Deborah J Cohen, Amber Lin, James Augustine, Daniel A Handel, Eric Howell, Hyunjee Kim, Jesse M Pines, Jeremiah D Schuur, K John McConnell, and Benjamin C Sun
Research Priorities for Physician Wellness in Academic Emergency Medicine: Consensus from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Wellness Committee., Arlene S Chung, Matthew L Wong, Leon D Sanchez, Dave W Lu, Rita A Manfredi, Hannah Mishkin, Sheryl Heron, and Andra L Blomkalns
Application of the Canadian Computed Tomography Head Rule to Patients With Minimal Head Injury., Kevin Davey, Turandot Saul, Geoffrey Russel, Jonathan Wassermann, and Joshua Quaas
Optimal Implementation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the Emergency Department, Joshua Elder, Garrett DePalma, and Jesse M. Pines
Thoracic Lymph Node Map App Review., Andres Elovic and Ali Pourmand
Using an Alumni Survey to Target Improvements in an Emergency Medicine Training Programme., Theodore Gaeta, Gowtham Mahalingam, Matthew Pyle, Aaron Dam, and Annette Visconti
Brief, Web-based Education Improves Lay Rescuer Application of a Tourniquet to Control Life-threatening Bleeding, Craig A Goolsby, Kandra Strauss-Riggs, Victoria Klimczak, Kelly Gulley, Luis Rojas, Cassandra Godar, Sorana Raiciulescu, Arthur L Kellermann, and Thomas D. Kirsch
Stop the Bleed Education Consortium: Education program content and delivery recommendations, Craig Goolsby, Lenworth Jacobs, Richard C Hunt, Eric Goralnick, Eunice M Singletary, Matthew J Levy, Jeffrey M Goodloe, Jonathan L Epstein, Kandra Strauss-Riggs, Samuel R Seitz, Jon R Krohmer, Ira Nemeth, Dennis Wayne Rowe, Richard N Bradley, Mark L Gestring, and Thomas D. Kirsch
Post-Mortem Evaluation of Potentially Survivable Hemorrhagic Death in a Civilian Population, Craig Goolsby, Elizabeth Rouse, Luis Rojas, Eric Goralnick, Matthew J Levy, Thomas Kirsch, Alexander L Eastman, Arthur Kellermann, Kandra Strauss-Riggs, and Nicole Hurst
Disaster Response 2.0: Noncommunicable Disease Essential Needs Still Unmet, Rebecca B Horn and Thomas D. Kirsch
Exploring the attitudes & practices of shared decision-making for CT scan use in emergency department patients with abdominal pain., Hamza Ijaz, Christopher Wong, Jennifer Weaver, Trudy Mallinson, Lorna Richards, Maxine A. Le Saux, Haijun Wang, Yan Ma, and Andrew C. Meltzer
The 2018 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference: Aligning the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Research Agenda to Reduce Health Outcome Gaps., Paul Ishimine, Kathleen Adelgais, Isabel Barata, Jean Klig, Maybelle Kou, Prashant Mahajan, Chris Merritt, Michael J Stoner, Robert Cloutier, Rakesh Mistry, and Kurt R Denninghoff
The Complex Association of Race/Ethnicity With Pain Treatment Quality in an Urban Medical Center With 2 Pediatric Emergency Departments., Erika M Kipping and James M Chamberlain
Multidisciplinary Difficult Airway Course: An Essential Educational Component of a Hospital-Wide Difficult Airway Response Program., W Robert Leeper, Elliott R Haut, Vinciya Pandian, Sajan Nakka, Jeffrey Dodd-O, Nasir Bhatti, Elizabeth A Hunt, Mustapha Saheed, Nicholas Dalesio, Adam Schiavi, Christina Miller, Thomas D. Kirsch, and Lauren Berkow
Machine-Learning-Based Electronic Triage More Accurately Differentiates Patients With Respect to Clinical Outcomes Compared With the Emergency Severity Index., Scott Levin, Matthew Toerper, Eric Hamrock, Jeremiah S Hinson, Sean Barnes, Heather Gardner, Andrea Dugas, Bob Linton, Thomas Kirsch, and Gabor Kelen
Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Test to Diagnose Infectious Diarrhea in the Emergency Department., Annabel Li, Sarah Tran, Haijun Wang, Maxine LeSaux, Yan Ma, and Andrew C Meltzer
Leadership Development Programs at Academic Health Centers: Results of a National Survey., Raymond Lucas, Ellen F Goldman, Andrea R Scott, and Valerie Dandar
Trends in the Contribution of Emergency Departments to the Provision of Hospital-Associated Health Care in the USA., David Marcozzi, Brendan Carr, Aisha Liferidge, Nicole Baehr, and Brian Browne
Opioid Administration and Prescribing in Older Adults in U.S. Emergency Departments (2005-2015)., Erin M Marra, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Peter Mullins, and Jesse M Pines
Use of Ultrasound in the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Respiratory Emergencies: What is the Evidence?, A Maxwell and A Abo
Trends in and predictors of hydromorphone administration in US emergency departments (2007-2014)., Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Diana Ladkany, Peter M Mullins, Sergey Motov, Jeanmarie Perrone, Lewis S Nelson, and Jesse M Pines
Effect of Tamsulosin on Passage of Symptomatic Ureteral Stones: A Randomized Clinical Trial., Andrew C Meltzer, Pamela Katzen Burrows, Allan B Wolfson, Judd E Hollander, Michael Kurz, Ziya Kirkali, John W Kusek, Patrick Mufarrij, Stephen V Jackman, and Jeremy Brown
Is Early Goal-Directed Therapy or Standard Therapy More Effective in Decreasing Mortality Among Patients With Sepsis?, Melinda J Morton Hamer and Sara K Faught
Avalanche Safety Practices Among Backcountry Skiers and Snowboarders in Jackson Hole in 2016., Ty B Nichols, Alana C Hawley, William R Smith, Albert R Wheeler, and Scott E McIntosh
Factors Important to Top Clinical Performance in Emergency Medicine Residency: Results of an Ideation Survey and Delphi Panel., Jesse M Pines, Sukayna Alfaraj, Sonal Batra, Caitlin Carter, Nisha Manikoth, Colleen N Roche, James Scott, and Ellen F Goldman
Measurement Under the Microscope: High Variability and Limited Construct Validity in Emergency Department Patient-Experience Scores., Jesse M Pines, Pooja Penninti, Sukayna Alfaraj, Jestin N Carlson, Orion Colfer, Christopher K Corbit, and Arvind Venkat
The Accuracy of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Detecting Small Bowel Obstruction in Emergency Department, Ali Pourmand, Ubah Dimbil, A. Drake, and Hamid A. Shokoohi
The Evolving Landscape of Acute Pain Management in the Era of the Opioid Crisis., Ali Pourmand, Gregory Jasani, Courtney Shay, and Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi
Caring for VIPs in the emergency department: Are they VIPs or patients?, Ali Pourmand, Maxine LeSaux, Jesse M Pines, and Robert Shesser
Segway® Personal Transporter-Related Injuries: A Systematic Literature Review and Implications for Acute and Emergency Care., Ali Pourmand, Jen Liao, Jesse M Pines, and Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi
Targeted Glycemic Control for Adult Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in the Acute Care Setting., Ali Pourmand, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, Amy Caggiula, Aria Nawab, Christopher Payette, and Samuel Johnson
Social Media and Suicide: A Review of Technology-Based Epidemiology and Risk Assessment., Ali Pourmand, Jeffrey Roberson, Amy Caggiula, Natalia Monsalve, Murwarit Rahimi, and Vanessa Torres-Llenza
Biphasic anaphylaxis: A review of the literature and implications for emergency management., Ali Pourmand, Chelsea Robinson, Wahab Syed, and Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi
Pulmonary Embolism Among Patients With Acute Exacerbation Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Implications For Emergency Medicine., Ali Pourmand, Hannah Robinson, Maryann Mazer-Amirshahi, and Jesse M Pines
Impact of Asynchronous Training on Radiology Learning Curve among Emergency Medicine Residents and Clerkship Students., Ali Pourmand, Christina Woodward, Hamid Shokoohi, Jordan B King, M Reza Taheri, Jackson King, and Christopher Lawrence
Priorities to Overcome Barriers Impacting Data Science Application in Emergency Care Research., Michael A Puskarich, Clif Callaway, Robert Silbergleit, Jesse M Pines, Ziad Obermeyer, David W Wright, Renee Y Hsia, Manish N Shah, Andrew A Monte, Alexander T Limkakeng, Zachary F Meisel, and Phillip D Levy
Predictive performance of the SOFA and mSOFA scoring systems for predicting in-hospital mortality in the emergency department., Zahra Rahmatinejad, Hamidreza Reihani, Fariba Tohidinezhad, Fatemeh Rahmatinejad, Samira Peyravi, Ali Pourmand, Ameen Abu-Hanna, and Saeid Eslami
Enhanced Point-of-Care Ultrasound Applications by Integrating Automated Feature-Learning Systems Using Deep Learning., Hamid Shokoohi, Maxine A LeSaux, Yusuf H Roohani, Andrew Liteplo, Calvin Huang, and Michael Blaivas
The utility of point-of-care ultrasound in targeted automobile ramming mass casualty (TARMAC) attacks., Hamid Shokoohi, Ali Pourmand, Keith Boniface, Rebecca Allen, Bruno Petinaux, Babak Sarani, and James P Phillips
Early Point-of-Care Testing at Triage Reduces Care Time in Stable Adult Emergency Department Patients., Adam J Singer, Merry Taylor, Deborah LeBlanc, Kristen Meyers, Karol Perez, Henry C Thode, and Jesse M Pines
Time to perforation for button batteries lodged in the esophagus, P Soto, N Reid, and Toby L. Litovitz
Erratum: This Article Corrects: "Systemwide Clinical Ultrasound Program Development: An Expert Consensus Model"., Robert Strony, Jennifer R Marin, John Bailitz, Anthony J Dean, Mike Blaivas, Vivek Tayal, Chris Raio, Rachel Liu, Aimee Woods, Michael Zwank, Matthew Fields, Alyssa Abo, Stan Wu, Tarina Kang, Teresa Liu, Megan Leo, Courtney Smalley, Jerry Chiricolo, Mikaela Chilstrom, and Resa E Lewiss
Vitamin C: The next step in sepsis management?, J Teng, A Pourmand, and M Mazer-Amirshahi
Reducing mortality in near-hanging patients with a novel early management protocol: A prospective cohort study in India., Muralitharan Tharmarajah, Hamza Ijaz, Mimi Vallabhai, Narendra Nath Jena, Maxine LeSaux, Jeffrey P Smith, Chen Chen, Yan Ma, Katherine A Douglass, and Andrew C Meltzer
Interphysician Differences in Emergency Department Length of Stay, S Traub, S Saghafian, K Judson, C Russi, B Madsen, Jesse M. Pines, and +several additional authors
Complex systems thinking in emergency medicine: A novel paradigm for a rapidly changing and interconnected health care landscape., Matthew A Widmer, R Chad Swanson, Brian J Zink, and Jesse M Pines
Identifying Gaps and Launching Resident Wellness Initiatives: The 2017 Resident Wellness Consensus Summit., Fareen Zaver, Nicole Battaglioli, William Denq, Anne Messman, Arlene Chung, Michelle Lin, and Emberlynn L Liu