HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Emergency Medicine and Surgery

Emergency Medicine current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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February 2025

Assessment of prognostic scores for emergency department patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Association between emergency medical services intervention volume and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival: a propensity score matching analysis

Emergency department staff compassion is associated with lower fear of enacted stigma among patients with opioid use disorder

Global, regional, and national drowning trends from 1990 to 2021: Results from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease Study

How do emergency departments respond to ambulance pre-alert calls? A qualitative exploration of the management of pre-alerts in UK emergency departments

Implementation of delirium screening in the emergency department: a qualitative study with early adopters

Is emergency doctors’ tolerance of clinical uncertainty on a novel measure associated with doctor well-being, healthcare resource use and patient outcomes?

Managing awake intubation

Managing emergency endotracheal intubation utilizing a bougie

Mass casualty decontamination following a chemical incident: evaluating improvised and interim decontamination protocols in a controlled cross-over volunteer study

Prehospital endotracheal intubation for traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and improved neurological outcomes

Pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria: diagnostic accuracy and impact of COVID-19

Risk-stratification tools for emergency department patients with syncope: a systematic review and meta-analysis of direct evidence for SAEM GRACE

The role of language in hospital admissions: the COVID-19 experience in a safety-net hospital emergency department

Safety of diltiazem for acute management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction in the emergency department

Selective use of positive-pressure ventilation for preoxygenation during air medical rapid sequence intubation

Variation in ambulance pre-alert process and practice: cross-sectional survey of ambulance clinicians

Well-being interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study

What influences ambulance clinician decisions to pre-alert emergency departments: a qualitative exploration of pre-alert practice in UK ambulance services and emergency departments

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Dec-Jan); Annals of Emergency Medicine (Jan); Emergency Medicine Journal (Jan); Journal of Emergency Medicine (Dec); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Dec)

December 2024

Approach to acute dizziness/vertigo in the emergency department: selected controversies regarding specialty consultation

Clinical policy: use of thrombolytics for the management of acute ischemic stroke in the emergency department

Culture of safety in an adult and paediatric emergency department before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Delayed admission of patients with hip fracture from the emergency department is associated with an increased mortality risk and increased length of hospital stay

Delirium detection in the emergency department: a diagnostic accuracy meta-analysis of history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and screening instruments

See also: Risk factors and risk stratification approaches for delirium screening: a Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 systematic review

Diagnostic accuracy of alternative biomarkers for acute aortic syndrome: a systematic review

Discharge instruction comprehension by older adults in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Feasibility of adolescent contraceptive care in the pediatric emergency department

Implementing peer recovery coaches to increase linkages to recovery services among patients with substance use disorders seen in emergency departments

Improving clinician interpretation of emergency skeletal radiographs

Managing the swollen knee in a child

Olanzapine postinjection delirium/sedation syndrome after long-acting olanzapine depot injection presenting to the emergency department: practical guidelines for diagnosis and management

Person-centred decisions in emergency care for older people living with frailty: principles and practice

Precision emergency medicine

Psychometric validation of a patient-reported experience measure for older adults attending the emergency department: the PREM-ED 65 study

Real-world performance of a single-use, analyser-free, molecular point-of-care test for COVID-19 used in the emergency department: results of a prospective trial (ED-POC)

Stroke risk after emergency department treat-and-release visit for a fall

Systematic review of barriers, facilitators, and tools to promote shared decision making in the emergency department

Temperature control parameters are important: earlier preinduction is associated with improved outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Oct-Nov); Annals of Emergency Medicine (Nov-Dec); Emergency Medicine Journal (Nov-Dec); Journal of Infection (Nov); Stroke (Sep-Oct)

October 2024

The AI future of emergency medicine

Clinical policy: critical issues in the evaluation of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with acute blunt trauma

Diagnostic accuracy of D-dimer for acute aortic syndromes: systematic review and meta-analysis

Diagnostic and prognostic value of cardiac troponins in emergency department patients presenting after a fall: a prospective, multicenter study

Effects of mass casualty incidents on anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder among doctors and nurses: a systematic review

Evaluation and management of hypertensive emergency

First do no harm: predicting futility of intervention in geriatric emergency general surgery

A granular view of emergency department length of stay: improving predictive power and extracting real-time, actionable insights

Imaging overuse in the emergency department: the view of radiologists and emergency physicians

Interventions to improve emergency department throughput and care delivery indicators

Major burns in adults: a practice review

Neurological hypertensive emergencies: correlation of blood pressure values with in-hospital outcomes in ischemic stroke

Outcomes of adult patients discharged at scene by emergency medical services

Patient perceptions of behavioral flags in the emergency department: a qualitative analysis

Prevalence and predictors of radiographic pneumonia in children with wheeze

Quality improvement project aiming to reduce inappropriate use of abdominal x-rays in the ED

Racial and socioeconomic disparities evident in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in the emergency department

Reduced noise in the emergency department: the impact on staff well-being and room acoustics

Reducing computed tomography (CT) imaging for adults with minor traumatic brain injuries in the emergency department

Upper limb computed tomography (CT) angiography in the emergency department

Using natural language processing in emergency medicine health service research

The value of an emergency medicine virtual observation unit

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Jul-Sep); American Journal of Surgery, The (Oct); Annals of Emergency Medicine (Aug-Oct); BMJ, The (Jul-Aug); Clinical Radiology (Sep); Emergency Medicine Journal (Aug-Oct); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Jun); European Journal of Radiology (Jul); Public Health (Sep)