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Latest (2) Full Text Articles (20)381 Disaster relief in post-earthquake Haiti: Unintended consequences of humanitarian volunteerism Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease , December 9, 2010
382 The Role of the Medical Reserve Corps in Nursing Education Journal of Nursing Education, December 8, 2010
383 An Organized, Comprehensive, and Security-Enabled Strategic Response to the Haiti Earthquake: A Description of Pre-Deployment Readiness Preparation and Preliminary Experience from an Academic Anesthesiology Department with No Preexisting International Disaster Response Program Full Text Anesthesia & Analgesia, December 7, 2010
384 Agent of Opportunity Risk Mitigation: People, Engineering, and Security Efficacy Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, December 7, 2010
385 Fatal train accidents on Europe's railways: 1980–2009 Accident Analysis & Prevention, December 7, 2010
386 Developing National Standards for Public Health Emergency Preparedness With a Limited Evidence Base Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, December 6, 2010
387 A Modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score for Critical Care Triage Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, December 6, 2010
388 Students' Response to Disaster: A Lesson for Health Care Professional Schools Full Text Annals of Internal Medicine, December 2, 2010
389 Anesthetic Practice in Haiti After the 2010 Earthquake Full Text Anesthesia & Analgesia, November 30, 2010
390 Public views of the UK media and government reaction to the 2009 swine flu pandemic Full Text BMC Public Health, November 24, 2010
391 Facing the threat of Influenza Pandemic: Roles of and Implications to General Practitioners Full Text BMC Public Health, November 23, 2010
392 Burn disasters in the middle belt of Ghana from 2007 to 2008 and their consequences Burns, November 12, 2010
393 In the Eye of the Storm: Resilience and Vulnerability Among African American Women in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina Health Care for Women International, November 11, 2010
394 After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Gender Differences in Health and Religiosity in Middle-Aged and Older Adults Health Care for Women International, November 11, 2010
395 Challenges to Older Womens Sense of Self in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Health Care for Women International, November 11, 2010
396 Using reverse triage to create hospital surge capacity: Royal Darwin Hospitals response to the Ashmore Reef disaster Emergency Medicine Journal, November 8, 2010
397 Posttraumatic stress symptom clusters associations with psychopathology and functional impairment Journal of Anxiety Disorders, November 8, 2010
398 Intergenerational transmission of biased information processing in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following displacement after World War II Journal of Anxiety Disorders, November 8, 2010
399 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Outbreak among 15 School-Aged HIV-1–Infected Children Clinical Infectious Diseases, November 3, 2010
400 Understanding the Disaster Experience of Older Adults by Gender: The Experience of Survivors of the 2007 Earthquake in Peru Health Care for Women International, November 2, 2010
Clinical Pearls in Emergency Medicine
- Appendicitis is the most common pediatric gastrointestinal surgical emergency.
- Drug-eluting stent (DES) placement improves revascularization rates without increased 3-year hazard of adverse clinical outcomes among individuals undergoing emergency primary percutaneous coronary intervention due to ST-segment elevation myocardial infarctions (STEMIs).
- Using an accelerated diagnostic protocol (ADP) with Troponin 1 as the sole biomarker may successfully identify low short-term risk of major adverse coronary event (MACE), and decrease observation time among individuals who present to the ER with chest pain.
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Procalcitonin and CRP predict identify high-risk children with appendicitis
As published in Pediatric Emergency Care, procalcitonin and CRP levels discriminate between children admitted with a diagnosis of acute appendicitis who may require closer monitoring. The study involved 111 children who were divided into 2 groups based on intra-operative diagnoses of appendicitis (n=69) and peritonitis (n=42). Patients with peritonitis, who were more likely to have complications and require intensive care unit admission, had significantly higher procalcitonin (0.15 vs. 4.95 ng/ml) and CRP levels (3 vs. 14.3 mg/dl) on admission than patients with appendicitis. Using a cut-off procalcitonin level of 0.18 ng/ml, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for peritonitis were 97%, 80%, 72%, and 89.3%, respectively. Using a cut-off CRP level of 3 mg/dl, the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for peritonitis were 95%, 74%, 68%, and 96.2%, respectively.
Read the article summaryVomiting during acute stroke increases mortality
As published in the Emergency Medicine Journal, patients who vomit during acute strokes have an increased risk of mortality (HR=5.06). Of 1968 stroke patients enrolled in the study, 1349 had cerebral infarctions, 459 had cerebral hemorrhages, and 152 had subarachnoid hemorrhages; 14.5% of all stroke patients vomited during the acute stage of the stroke (cerebral infarction, 8.7%; cerebral hemorrhage, 23.7%; and subarachnoid hemorrhage, 36.8%).
Read the article summaryAssociation between tight glycemic control and hip fracture in diabetics
As published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, patients with T2DM (mean age, 77.3 y; n=932) with a HbA1c < 6% (OR=3.01) or 6.1-7% (OR=2.34) are more likely to sustain a hip fracture than patients with a HbA1c > 8%. All patients had a HbA1c level determined within 3 months preceding the hip fracture. No differences in risk existed between patients treated with oral hypoglycemics or insulin.
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