Emergency Medicine Journal: 39 (3)

Primary survey

Highlights from this issue (21 February, 2022) Free
Edward Carlton

Crowding

A lay perspective and commentary on the association between delays to patient admission from the emergency department and all-cause 30-day mortality (18 January, 2022) Free
Derek Prentice
Association between delays to patient admission from the emergency department and all-cause 30-day mortality (18 January, 2022)
Simon Jones, Chris Moulton, Simon Swift, Paul Molyneux, Steve Black, Neil Mason, Richard Oakley, Clifford Mann
Relationship between emergency department and inpatient occupancy and the likelihood of an emergency admission: a retrospective hospital database study (4 August, 2021)
Steven Wyatt, Ruchi Joshi, Janet M Mortimore, Mohammed A Mohammed
Older medical outliers on surgical wards: impact on 6-month outcomes (17 June, 2021)
Claire Patry, Anne Perozziello, Clio Pardineille, Christiane Aubert, Pauline de Malglaive, Christophe Choquet, Agathe Raynaud-Simon, Manuel Sanchez
Associations between emergency department crowding and perceptions of interpersonal care in patients presenting with suspected acute coronary syndrome (16 August, 2021)
Nadia A Liyanage-Don, David S Edelman, Bernard P Chang, Katharina Schultebraucks, Anusorn Thanataveerat, Ian M Kronish
Predicting inhospital admission at the emergency department: a systematic review (28 October, 2021)
Anniek Brink, Jelmer Alsma, Lodewijk AAM van Attekum, Wichor M Bramer, Robert Zietse, Hester Lingsma, Stephanie CE Schuit

COVID-19

Lung ultrasound in ruling out COVID-19 pneumonia in the ED: a multicentre prospective sensitivity study (22 December, 2021)
Carmine Cristiano Di Gioia, Nicola Artusi, Giovanni Xotta, Marco Bonsano, Ugo Giulio Sisto, Marzia Tecchiolli, Daniele Orso, Franco Cominotto, Giulia Amore, Stefano Meduri, Roberto Copetti

TBI

Potential of heart fatty-acid binding protein, neurofilament light, interleukin-10 and S100 calcium-binding protein B in the acute diagnostics and severity assessment of traumatic brain injury (16 December, 2021)
Pia Koivikko, Jussi P Posti, Mehrbod Mohammadian, Linnea Lagerstedt, Leire Azurmendi, Iftakher Hossain, Ari J Katila, David Menon, Virginia F J Newcombe, Peter John Hutchinson, Henna-Riikka Maanpää, Jussi Tallus, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Olli Tenovuo, Jean-Charles Sanchez, Riikka S K Takala
Performance of the Hull Salford Cambridge Decision Rule (HSC DR) for early discharge of patients with findings on CT scan of the brain: a CENTER-TBI validation study (27 July, 2021)
Carl Marincowitz, Benjamin Gravesteijn, Trevor Sheldon, Ewout Steyerberg, Fiona Lecky
Survey evaluating clinical equipoise around platelet transfusion after head injury and traumatic intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) in patients on antiplatelet medications (22 June, 2021)
Catherine Ashton, M Laffan, P J Hutchinson, Fiona Lecky, S Ralhan, Jason E Smith, Jonathan P Coles, Simon Stanworth, Nicola Curry

Quality improvement report

Bed downtime: the novel use of a quality metric allows inpatient providers to improve patient flow from the emergency department (16 February, 2021)
Benjamin Bodnar, Erin M Kane, Hetal Rupani, Henry Michtalik, Veena G Billioux, Ashley Pleiss, Linda Huffman, Kimiyoshi Kobayashi, Rohit Toteja, Daniel J Brotman, Carrie Herzke

SONO case series

SONO case series: 39-year-old man with leg swelling and pain (23 November, 2021)
Nancy Anaya, Kavita Gandhi, Sally Graglia

In perspective

What’s in a number? Problems with counting traumatic brain injuries (23 November, 2021)
Benjamin Michael Bloom, Virginia Newcombe, Ian Roberts

Journal update

Journal update monthly top five (21 February, 2022)
Mohammed Hamza, Bassey Ndoma-Egba, David Herlihy, Henrietta Sabbagha, Raja Shahid Ali, Rory O'Brien, Conor Deasy, Gabrielle Prager

Best Evidence Topic reports

Towards evidence-based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (21 February, 2022)
Kerstin de Witt
BET 1: should Colles’ fractures be splinted in a long or short arm cast? (21 February, 2022)
Sophie Ramsden, Lauren Beals

Global emergency highlights

Abstracts from International Emergency Medicine Journals (21 February, 2022)
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Abstracts

867 Prognostic accuracy of triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19 in a pre-hospital setting: an observational cohort study (21 February, 2022) Free
Carl Marincowitz, Laura Sutton, Tony Stone, Richard Campbell, Richard Pilberry, Benjamin Thomas, Steve Goodacre
745 Thunderclap headache syndrome presenting to the emergency department: an international multicentre observational cohort study (21 February, 2022) Free
Tom Roberts, Daniel Horner, Kevin Chu, Martin Than, Anne-Maree Kelly, HEADStudy Investigators
803 Characteristics of patients with COVID-19 undergoing CT pulmonary angiography in the emergency department: a retrospective observational study (21 February, 2022) Free
Annabel Rogers, Jonathan Brend, Dominic Pitt, Amelia Parker
808 Changing nature of major trauma from 2000 to 2019 in England and Wales: observational registry study (21 February, 2022) Free
Thomas Shanahan, Michael Tomkins, Omar Bouamra, Antoinette Edwards, Dhushy Surendra Kumar, Timothy Coats, Fiona Lecky
834 Comparative analysis of major incident triage tools in children – a UK population-based analysis (21 February, 2022) Free
James Vassallo, Saisakul Chernbumroong, Nabeela Malik, Yuanwei Xu, Damian Keene, George Gkoutos, Mark Lyttle, Jason Smith
822 Mortality in adolescent trauma: a comparison of children’s, mixed and adult major trauma centres (21 February, 2022) Free
Jordan Evans, Hannah Murch, Roisin Begley, Damian Roland, Mark Lyttle, Omar Bouamra, Stephen Mullen
784 The landscape of paediatric procedural sedation in UK & Irish emergency departments; a PERUKI study (21 February, 2022) Free
Dani Hall, Tadgh Moriarty, Ronan O’Sullivan, Carol Blackburn, Damian Roland, Stuart Hartshorn, Shrouk Messahel, Mark D Lyttle
853 Mission to mars: using story art to ease anxiety and improve empathy in a children’s emergency department (CED) (21 February, 2022) Free
Navin Leanage, Esther Netto, Jonathan Acheson
762 Introducing a brief intervention to identify and provide guidance to overweight and obese children attending the emergency department (21 February, 2022) Free
Megan Mackenzie, Amutha Anpananthar, Helen Nightingale
819 What can you teach in 15 minutes? A pilot study of ‘just-in-time’ teaching in a paediatric emergency department (21 February, 2022) Free
Patrick Tomlinson
1134 A comparison of the aerogen vibrating mesh nebuliser versus a standard jet nebuliser to deliver bronchodilators in moderate to severe asthma in the emergency department (21 February, 2022) Free
Mohamed Abdalla, Samer ElKhodiar, Fabiola Sevilla Perez, Rebecca Wong, Helena Austin, Clovis Rau, Michael Patterson, Bobby Garcia, Tania Leal, Ciara Murphy, Tuckey Ceris, Harriet Walton
984 Evaluation of the effectiveness of a Welsh Physician Response Unit (PRU) at reducing ED footfall; identifying the rates and reasons for ED attendance after discharge at the scene by a PRU
(21 February, 2022) Free
Fiona Andrew, Kosta Morley
1032 Mobile phones for homeless patients in the emergency department, a lifeline to connect with vital support services during the COVID-19 pandemic (21 February, 2022) Free
Simone Herrmann, Hooi-Ling Harrison, Sophie Parkinson, Hannah Russell
842 Multi-centre implementation of the SNAP Protocol for paracetamol overdose – fewer anaphylactoid reactions and shortened length of stay (21 February, 2022) Free
Roshan Joseph, William Manning, Muniswamy Hemavathi, Richard Austin
965 Accuracy of emergency (999) telephone triage for predicting adverse outcomes in suspected COVID-19: an observational cohort study (21 February, 2022) Free
Carl Marincowitz, Peter Bath, Madina Hasan, Tony Stone, Richard Campbell, Richard Pilberry, Janette Turner, Benjamin Thomas, Steve Goodacre
1116 Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound for COVID-19: a meta-analysis of 19 studies including 3954 patients (21 February, 2022) Free
Ashley Matthies, Michael Trauer, Karl Chopra, Robert Jarman
1060 All-cause presentations to emergency facilities in low-income and low-middle income Sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review (21 February, 2022) Free
Sarah Richardson, Tonny Luggya, Alasdair Gray, Liz Grant
1042 Improving the accuracy of frontline clinicians in detecting SARS-COV-2 on chest X-rays using a bespoke virtual training platform (21 February, 2022) Free
Jasdeep Bahra, Sarim Ather, Sarah Wilson, Liza Keating, Divyansh Gulati, Abhishek Banerji, Fergus Gleeson, Alex Novak
787 Evaluation of the role of anal tone and perianal sensation examination in the assessment of suspected cauda equina syndrome (21 February, 2022) Free
Carlos Curtis Lopez, Andrew Berg, Bethan Clayton, Irfan Siddique, Roberto Carrasco, Daniel Horner, Michelle Angus
1078 The prognostic accuracy of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in COVID-19 patients (21 February, 2022) Free
Mustafa Eid
1148 Harnessing a student network to support validation of the patient reported experience measure for over 65s attending the ED (PREM-ED 65+): Initial findings from a novel collaborative project (21 February, 2022) Free
Blair Graham, Jason Smith, Pam Nelmes, Jos Latour
755 Research priorities for prehospital care of older patients with injuries: scoping review (21 February, 2022) Free
Naif Harthi, Steve Goodacre, Fiona Sampson, Rayan Alharbi
833 Using the GEMLR as a proxy for global health engagement of emergency care practitioners (21 February, 2022) Free
Anisa Jafar, Gabrielle Prager, Pete Jones, Claire Bromley, Harriet Kennedy, Haarith Ndiaye, Jack Ingham
791 The EDCO study: screening patients for unintentional carbon monoxide exposure in emergency department patients (21 February, 2022) Free
Heather Jarman, Richard Atkinson, Desislava Baramova, Tom Quinn
1114 Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio: An added outcome predictor in spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (21 February, 2022) Free
KT Arun
981 Dose the D-dimer test has a role in the diagnosis of cerebral vein thrombosis? A systematic review (21 February, 2022) Free
Ahmed Kassem, Thirumoothy Kumar, Mohammed Seif Mohammed
798 Accuracy of telephone triage for predicting adverse outcomes in suspected COVID-19: an observational cohort study (21 February, 2022) Free
Carl Marincowitz, Steve Goodacre, Tony Stone, Richard Campbell, Madina Hasan, Benjamin Thomas, Janette Turner, Richard Pilberry, Fiona Bell
1147 Prehospital oral trans-mucosal fentanyl citrate: preliminary experience and possible implications for civilian mass casualty response (21 February, 2022) Free
Luca Carenzo, Adam McDonald, Gareth Grier
774 Survey to investigate the current use of pre-hospital blood product by air ambulance services in the United Kingdom (21 February, 2022) Free
James Mercer
809 Survey of current and former academic clinical fellows in emergency medicine in the UK (21 February, 2022) Free
Thomas Shanahan, Liam Barrett, Richard Body, Virginia Newcombe, Rebecca Fish, Anisa Jafar
781 Drone delivered defibrillators (The 3D Project): a simulation study (21 February, 2022) Free
Christopher M Smith, Anthony Sheehan, Nigel Rees, Carl Powell
775 Assessment of headache in the emergency department to rule out subarachnoid haemorrhage: a systematic review of diagnostic accuracy (21 February, 2022) Free
Ros Wade, Matthew Walton, Melissa Harden, Robert Hodgson, Alison Eastwood, James Storey, Taj Hassan
1074 Ottawa Ankle rules cannot be safely used to rule out ankle fractures in patients who present ≥10 days post-injury (21 February, 2022) Free
Richard Anderson, Amy Green, Rhianna Davies, Lindsey Dew, Mark Harrison
943 Creating and employing an admission bloods based diagnostic aide for COVID-19 to assist cohort-based isolation strategies (21 February, 2022) Free
Jacob Baker, Sara Day, Adrian Marsh
875 Does fibrinogen concentrate improve outcomes in major traumatic haemorrhage? A systematic review (21 February, 2022) Free
David Bentley, Alena Bentley, Susan Brundage, Jacqueline Rappoport
1023 Improving diagnosis and appropriate specialty referral with a syncope pathway (21 February, 2022) Free
Richard Biggers, Aidan McIvor, Matthew J Reed, Ishwinder Thethy, Martyna Wojtowicz
766 How emergency physicians make their careers sustainable on the shop-floor and away from it: results from an ethnographic and interview-based study (21 February, 2022) Free
Daniel Darbyshire
748 SECUre -a multicenter survey of the safety of emergency care in UK emergency departments (21 February, 2022) Free
Lynsey Flowerdew, Michelle Tipping
1107 Real-world deployment of point-of-care SARS-CoV-2 testing in the emergency department admission pathway can support the safe, accurate and rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 (21 February, 2022) Free
Ramith Gunawardena, Blair Merrick, Holly Gettings, Sam Douthwaite, Gaia Nebbia, Kay Webber, Jonathan Edgeworth, Rahul Batra, Hooi-Ling Harrison
752 External validation of a novel TRIP (Cast) score to identify patients at risk of venous thromboembolism after temporary immobilisation for lower limb injury (21 February, 2022) Free
Daniel Horner, Stephanie Howard, Michael Campbell, James Collins
1048 Incidence of hyperoxia in traumatically injured patients receiving pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia: a 5-year retrospective analysis (21 February, 2022) Free
Patricia Leitch, Anthony Hudson, Jo Griggs, Ewoud ter Avest, Renate Stolmeiger, Richard Lyon
871 Virtual platforms for learning: balancing pandemic needs springboards future educational success (21 February, 2022) Free
Tim Mossad
1117 Early and delayed traumatic intracranial bleeding in the anticoagulated head injured patient: a systematic review and meta-analysis (21 February, 2022) Free
Gavin O’Neill
947 The ‘silent video’ as a training aid for emergency department major incident management (21 February, 2022) Free
Supathum Paranamana, Damian Roland, Tim Coats
925 Management of older major trauma patients: the impact on mortality since implementation of dedicated guidelines (21 February, 2022) Free
Stephen Park, Derek Hicks, Andrea Smith, Hannah Kosuge, Elaine Cole, Adam Woodgate
1087 A service evaluation of the impact of e-scooters on emergency departments in Bristol (The SEED Study) (21 February, 2022) Free
Sara Qandil, Thomas Roberts, Thomas Dickinson, Carl Robinson, Millie Watkins, Emily Aubrey, Emma Dulac, Henry Willis, Andy Lockyer, Mark Lyttle, Edward Carlton
1062 Disease burden, acuity and patient management in emergency care presentations to Ugandan facilities (21 February, 2022) Free
Sarah Richardson, Tonny Luggya, Alasdair Gray, Liz Grant
892 Treatment variables associated with outcome in emergency department suspected sepsis (21 February, 2022) Free
Narani Sivayoham, Lesley Blake, Shafi Tharimoopantavida, Saad Chughtai, Adil Hussain, Andrew Rhodes
780 Treatment of life-threatening digoxin toxicity with digoxin immune fab antibody: findings from the UK DigiFab^®patient registry
(21 February, 2022) Free
Emma Thomas, Sam Tomlinson, Siwan Thomas, Suzanne Ward, Claire Daugherty, Eva Gallardo, Christon Hill
750 Is higher-level trauma centre care associated with better outcomes in patients injured by low-energy trauma? A systematic review (21 February, 2022) Free
Michael Tonkins, Daniel Bradbury, Paul Bramley, Lisa Sabir, Anna Wilkinson, Fiona Lecky
797 Diurnal trends in medical student first responder availability and demand (21 February, 2022) Free
Adam Watson

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Man with blurry vision following fever (8 May, 2022)
Ching Hsiung Chang, Chi-Tung Peng, Chi-Wei Chen
Unilateral perirobital swelling (21 February, 2022)
Geng Ju Tuang, Farah Dayana Zahedi, Poh Ling Lim

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March 2022 - Volume 39 - 3

Primary survey

Crowding

COVID-19

TBI

Quality improvement report

SONO case series

In perspective

Journal update

Best Evidence Topic reports

Global emergency highlights

Abstracts

Image challenges

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March 2022 - Volume 39 - 3

Primary survey

Crowding

COVID-19

TBI

Quality improvement report

SONO case series

In perspective

Journal update

Best Evidence Topic reports

Global emergency highlights

Abstracts

Image challenges

Issue Information