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  1. The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) now recommends therapeutic hypothermia (TH) (33°C for 12-24 hours) as soon as possible for patients who remain comatose after resuscitation from sho...

    Authors: Conor Deasy, Stephen Bernard, Peter Cameron, Ian Jacobs, Karen Smith, Cindy Hein, Hugh Grantham and Judith Finn

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:17

    Content type: Study protocol

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  2. Emergency departments across the globe follow a triage system in order to cope with overcrowding. The intention behind triage is to improve the emergency care and to prioritize cases in terms of clinical urgency.

    Authors: Ramesh P Aacharya, Chris Gastmans and Yvonne Denier

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:16

    Content type: Debate

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  3. Many health care disciplines use evidence-based decision making to improve patient care and system performance. While the amount and quality of emergency medical services (EMS) research in Canada has increased...

    Authors: Jan L Jensen, Ian E Blanchard, Blair L Bigham, Katie N Dainty, Doug Socha, Alix Carter, Lawrence H Brown, Alan M Craig, Andrew H Travers, Ryan Brown, Ed Cain and Laurie J Morrison

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:15

    Content type: Study protocol

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  4. Persistent musculoskeletal pain and psychological sequelae following minor motor vehicle collision (MVC) are common problems with a large economic cost. Prospective studies of pain following MVC have demonstra...

    Authors: Timothy F Platts-Mills, Lauren Ballina, Andrey V Bortsov, April Soward, Robert A Swor, Jeffrey S Jones, David C Lee, David A Peak, Robert M Domeier, Niels K Rathlev, Phyllis L Hendry and Samuel A McLean

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:14

    Content type: Study protocol

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  5. Emergency departments are medical treatment facilities, designed to provide episodic care to patients suffering from acute injuries and illnesses as well as patients who are experiencing sporadic flare-ups of ...

    Authors: Rahim Moineddin, Christopher Meaney, Mohammad Agha, Brandon Zagorski and Richard Henry Glazier

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:13

    Content type: Research article

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  6. Withdrawing and withholding life-support therapy (WH/WD) are undeniably integrated parts of medical activity. However, Emergency Department (ED) might not be the most appropriate place to give end-of life (EOL...

    Authors: Nada Damghi, Jihane Belayachi, Badria Aggoug, Tarek Dendane, Khalid Abidi, Naoufel Madani, Aicha Zekraoui, Abdellatif Benchekroun Belabes, Amine Ali Zeggwagh and Redouane Abouqal

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:12

    Content type: Research article

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  7. Professionalism development is influenced by the informal and hidden curriculum. The primary objective of this study was to better understand this experiential learning in the setting of the Emergency Departme...

    Authors: Aaron W Bernard, Matthew Malone, Nicholas E Kman, Jeffrey M Caterino and Sorabh Khandelwal

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:11

    Content type: Research article

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  8. Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma is a relatively rare but potentially disabling disease. Prompt timely surgical management may promote recovery even in severe cases.

    Authors: Leandro U Taniguchi, Felix H Pahl, José ED Lúcio, Roger S Brock, Marcos QT Gomes, Tarso Adoni, Victor CC Fiorini, Rodrigo C Carvalho, Eli F Evaristo, Eduardo G Mutarelli and Guilherme Schettino

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:10

    Content type: Case report

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  9. Acute chest pain is a frequently occurring symptom in patients with medical emergencies and imposes potentially life threatening situations outside hospitals. Little is known about the epidemiology of patients...

    Authors: Robert Anders Burman, Erik Zakariassen and Steinar Hunskaar

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:9

    Content type: Research article

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  10. Rapid and safe airway management has always been of paramount importance in successful management of critically ill and injured patients in the emergency department. The purpose of our study was to determine s...

    Authors: Hassan Soleimanpour, Changiz Gholipouri, Jafar Rahimi Panahi, Mohammad Reza Afhami, Rouzbeh Rajaei Ghafouri, Samad EJ Golzari, Maryam Soleimanpour and Robab Mehdizadeh Esfanjani

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:8

    Content type: Research article

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  11. In Australia approximately 25% of Emergency Department (ED) attendances are via ambulance. ED overcrowding in Australia, as in many countries, is common. Measures to reduce overcrowding include the provision o...

    Authors: Glenn Arendts, Moira Sim, Steven Johnston and Richard Brightwell

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:7

    Content type: Study protocol

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  12. Peritraumatic psychological- and sensory impressions in victims of civilian accidents are only partly understood. This study scrutinizes the level and duration of perceived psychological threat at scene of injury

    Authors: Laila Skogstad, Erlend Hem, Leiv Sandvik and Øivind Ekeberg

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:6

    Content type: Research article

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  13. Only 1-3% of ischemic stroke patients receive thrombolytic therapy. Provider barriers to adhering with guidelines recommending tPA delivery in acute stroke are not well known. The main objective of this study ...

    Authors: William J Meurer, Jennifer J Majersik, Shirley M Frederiksen, Allison M Kade, Annette M Sandretto and Phillip A Scott

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:5

    Content type: Research article

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  14. A standard of prehospital care for patients presenting with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) includes prehospital 12-lead and advance Emergency Department notification or prehospital bypass t...

    Authors: Laurie J Morrison, Valeria E Rac, James M Bowen, Brian Schwartz, Tyrone Perreira, Welson Ryan, Cathy Zahn, Rishab Chadha, Alan Craig, Daria O'Reilly and Ron Goeree

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:4

    Content type: Study protocol

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  15. The Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is a well recognized and validated triage system that prioritizes patient care by severity of illness. The aim of this study was to describe the...

    Authors: Naser B Elkum, CarolAnne Barrett and Hisham Al-Omran

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:3

    Content type: Research article

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  16. Envenomation by crotaline snakes (rattlesnake, cottonmouth, copperhead) is a complex, potentially lethal condition affecting thousands of people in the United States each year. Treatment of crotaline envenomat...

    Authors: Eric J Lavonas, Anne-Michelle Ruha, William Banner, Vikhyat Bebarta, Jeffrey N Bernstein, Sean P Bush, William P Kerns II, William H Richardson, Steven A Seifert, David A Tanen, Steve C Curry and Richard C Dart

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:2

    Content type: Research article

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  17. Canadian Emergency Medical Services annually transport 1.3 million patients with potential neck injuries to local emergency departments. Less than 1% of those patients have a c-spine fracture and even less (0....

    Authors: Christian Vaillancourt, Manya Charette, Ann Kasaboski, Justin Maloney, George A Wells and Ian G Stiell

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2011 11:1

    Content type: Study protocol

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  18. Road traffic injuries are a major global public health problem. Improvements in pre-hospital trauma care can help minimize mortality and morbidity from road traffic injuries (RTIs) worldwide, particularly in l...

    Authors: Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Marie Hasselberg, Hamidreza Khankeh, Davoud Khorasani-Zavareh and Eva Johansson

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:20

    Content type: Research article

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  19. In patients with clinically suspected appendicitis, imaging is needed to substantiate the clinical diagnosis. Imaging accuracy of ultrasonography (US) is suboptimal, while the most accurate technique (CT) is a...

    Authors: Marjolein MN Leeuwenburgh, Wytze Laméris, Adrienne van Randen, Patrick MM Bossuyt, Marja A Boermeester and Jaap Stoker

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:19

    Content type: Study protocol

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  20. Acute low back pain is a very common symptom and reason for many medical consultations. In some unusual circumstances it could be linked to a rare aetiology.

    Authors: Corina M Duja, Christophe Berna, Stéphane Kremer, Claude Géronimus, Jacques Kopferschmitt and Pascal Bilbault

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:18

    Content type: Case report

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  21. Efficient management of major incidents involves triage, treatment and transport. In the absence of a standardised interdisciplinary major incident management approach, the Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation d...

    Authors: Marius Rehn, Jan E Andersen, Trond Vigerust, Andreas J Krüger and Hans M Lossius

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:17

    Content type: Research article

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  23. Cardiac toxicity due to ingestion of oleander plant seeds in Sri Lanka and some other South Asian countries is very common. At present symptomatic oleander seed poisoning carries a mortality of 10% in Sri Lank...

    Authors: Indika Gawarammana, Fahim Mohamed, Steven J Bowe, Ashoka Rathnathilake, Shantha K Narangoda, Shifa Azher, Andrew H Dawson and Nick A Buckley

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:15

    Content type: Study protocol

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  24. Acute behavioural disturbance (ABD) is an increasing problem in emergency departments. This study aimed to determine the impact of a structured intramuscular (IM) sedation protocol on the duration of ABD in th...

    Authors: Leonie A Calver, Michael A Downes, Colin B Page, Jenni L Bryant and Geoffrey K Isbister

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:14

    Content type: Research article

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  25. Acute poisonings are common and are treated at different levels of the health care system. Since most fatal poisonings occur outside hospital, these must be included when studying characteristics of such death...

    Authors: Mari A Bjornaas, Brita Teige, Knut E Hovda, Oivind Ekeberg, Fridtjof Heyerdahl and Dag Jacobsen

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:13

    Content type: Research article

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  26. Many Finnish emergency departments (ED) serve both primary and secondary health care patients and are therefore referred to as combined emergency departments. Primary care specialists are responsible for the i...

    Authors: Jarmo Kantonen, Johanna Kaartinen, Juho Mattila, Ricardo Menezes, Mia Malmila, Maaret Castren and Timo Kauppila

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:12

    Content type: Research article

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  27. The Bonfils intubating fiberscope has a limited upward tip angle of 40° and requires retromolar entry into the hypopharynx. These factors may make its use less desirable when managing the difficult airway beca...

    Authors: Ben H Boedeker, Mary A Barak-Bernhagen, David J Miller, Thomas A Nicholas IV, Andrew Linnaus and WB Murray

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:11

    Content type: Research article

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  28. It is thought that a good survival rate of patients with acute liver failure can be achieved by establishing an artificial liver support system that reliably compensates liver function until the liver regenera...

    Authors: Shinju Arata, Katsuaki Tanaka, Kazuhisa Takayama, Yoshihiro Moriwaki, Noriyuki Suzuki, Mitsugi Sugiyama and Kazuo Aoyagi

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:10

    Content type: Research article

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  29. Pulse oximetry is routinely used to continuously and noninvasively monitor arterial oxygen saturation (SaO2) in critically ill patients. Although pulse oximeter oxygen saturation (SpO2) has been studied in severa...

    Authors: Ben J Wilson, Hamish J Cowan, Jason A Lord, Dan J Zuege and David A Zygun

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:9

    Content type: Research article

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  30. Acute lung injury (ALI) is an example of a critical care syndrome with limited treatment options once the condition is fully established. Despite improved understanding of pathophysiology of ALI, the clinical ...

    Authors: Sweta J Thakur, Cesar A Trillo-Alvarez, Michael M Malinchoc, Rahul Kashyap, Lokendra Thakur, Adil Ahmed, Martin K Reriani, Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba, Jeff A Sloan and Ognjen Gajic

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:8

    Content type: Study protocol

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  31. Mercury poisoning can occur as a result of occupational hazard or suicide attempt. This article presents a 36-year-old case admitted to emergency department (ED) due to exposure to metallic mercury.

    Authors: Sezgin Sarikaya, Ozgur Karcioglu, Didem Ay, Aslı Cetin, Can Aktas and Mustafa Serinken

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:7

    Content type: Case report

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  32. To determine the advanced life support procedures provided by an Emergency Medical Service (EMS) and a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) for vitally compromised children. Incidence and success rate o...

    Authors: Bastiaan M Gerritse, Annelies Schalkwijk, Ben J Pelzer, Gert J Scheffer and Jos M Draaisma

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:6

    Content type: Research article

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  33. Primary care doctors on-call in the emergency primary health care services in Norway are, together with the ambulances, the primary resources for handling emergencies outside hospitals. There is a lack of reli...

    Authors: Erik Zakariassen and Steinar Hunskaar

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:5

    Content type: Research article

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2012 12:5

  34. Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), a chronic disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of vomiting, is frequently unrecognized and is associated with high utilization of emergency department (ED) services.

    Authors: Thangam Venkatesan, Sally Tarbell, Kathleen Adams, Jennifer McKanry, Trish Barribeau, Kathleen Beckmann, Walter J Hogan, Nilay Kumar and BUK Li

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:4

    Content type: Research article

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  35. The incidence of methanol (CH3OH) intoxication differs enormously from country to country. Methanol intoxication is extremely rare in the Dutch population. Even a low dose can already be potentially lethal. Patie...

    Authors: Jelle L Epker and Jan Bakker

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:3

    Content type: Case report

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  36. Many emergency ambulance calls are for older people who have fallen. As half of them are left at home, a community-based response may often be more appropriate than hospital attendance. The SAFER 1 trial will ...

    Authors: Helen Snooks, Wai-Yee Cheung, Jacqueline Close, Jeremy Dale, Sarah Gaze, Ioan Humphreys, Ronan Lyons, Suzanne Mason, Yasmin Merali, Julie Peconi, Ceri Phillips, Judith Phillips, Stephen Roberts, Ian Russell, Antonio Sánchez, Mushtaq Wani…

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:2

    Content type: Study protocol

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  37. Although congestive heart failure (CHF) patients typically present with abnormal auscultatory findings on lung examination, respiratory sounds are not normally subjected to additional analysis. The aim of this...

    Authors: Zhen Wang, Brigitte M Baumann, Karen Slutsky, Karen N Gruber and Smith Jean

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2010 10:1

    Content type: Research article

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  38. Traumatic ruptures of the esophagus are relatively rare. This condition is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Most traumatic ruptures occur after motor vehicle accidents.

    Authors: Mark van Heijl, Teun P Saltzherr, Mark I van Berge Henegouwen and J Carel Goslings

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:24

    Content type: Case report

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  40. Teamwork is important for patient care and outcome in emergencies. In rural areas, efficient communication between rural hospitals and regional trauma centers optimise decisions and treatment of trauma patient...

    Authors: Stein R Bolle, Frank Larsen, Oddvar Hagen and Mads Gilbert

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:22

    Content type: Research article

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  41. Utilizing a computer algorithm, information from calls to an ambulance service was used to calculate the risk of patients being in a life-threatening condition (life threat risk), at the time of the call. If t...

    Authors: Kenji Ohshige, Chihiro Kawakami, Shunsaku Mizushima, Yoshihiro Moriwaki and Noriyuki Suzuki

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:21

    Content type: Research article

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  43. More than one-third of US adults 65 and over fall every year. These falls may cause serious injury including substantial long-term morbidity (due declines in activities of daily living) and death. The emergenc...

    Authors: Jeffrey M Caterino, Rowan Karaman, Vinay Arora, Jacqueline L Martin and Brian C Hiestand

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:19

    Content type: Research article

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  44. Providing a secured airway is of paramount importance in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Although intubating the trachea is yet seen as gold standard, this technique is still reserved to experienced healthcare ...

    Authors: Johannes Bickenbach, Gereon Schälte, Stefan Beckers, Michael Fries, Matthias Derwall and Rolf Rossaint

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:18

    Content type: Research article

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  45. The scope of practice of paramedics in Canada has steadily evolved to include increasingly complex interventions in the prehospital setting, which likely have repercussions on clinical outcome and patient safe...

    Authors: Jan L Jensen, Pat Croskerry and Andrew H Travers

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:17

    Content type: Study protocol

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  46. Several studies on patient safety have shown that a substantial number of patients suffer from unintended harm caused by healthcare management in hospitals. Emergency departments (EDs) are challenging hospital...

    Authors: Marleen Smits, Peter P Groenewegen, Danielle RM Timmermans, Gerrit van der Wal and Cordula Wagner

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:16

    Content type: Research article

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  47. Intracranial bleeding (IB) is a common and serious consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI). IB can be classified according to the location into: epidural haemorrhage (EDH) subdural haemorrhage (SDH) intrap...

    Authors: Pablo Perel, Ian Roberts, Omar Bouamra, Maralyn Woodford, Jane Mooney and Fiona Lecky

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:15

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Cardiac arrest victims most often collapse at home, where only a modest proportion receives life-saving bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. As many as 40% of all sudden cardiac arrest victims have agonal ...

    Authors: Christian Vaillancourt, Jan L Jensen, Jeremy Grimshaw, Jamie C Brehaut, Manya Charette, Ann Kasaboski, Martin Osmond, George A Wells and Ian G Stiell

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:14

    Content type: Study protocol

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  49. In 2000, the United States Food and Drug Administration approved Crotalidae Polyvalent Immune Fab (Ovine) (hereafter, FabAV), "for the management of patients with minimal to moderate North American Crotalid en...

    Authors: Eric J Lavonas, Tammi H Schaeffer, Jamie Kokko, Sara L Mlynarchek and Gregory M Bogdan

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:13

    Content type: Research article

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  50. Previous studies from the USA have shown that acute nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) in low risk emergency department (ED) patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS) can be of clinical val...

    Authors: Jakob L Forberg, Catarina E Hilmersson, Marcus Carlsson, Håkan Arheden, Jonas Björk, Krister Hjalte and Ulf Ekelund

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2009 9:12

    Content type: Research article

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