Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2005
Boarder belly: splenic injuries resulting from ski and snowboarding accidents.
Snowboarding has increased in popularity worldwide, with an associated increase in injuries suffered by its participants with a significant proportion of these injuries being severe. We sought to understand the risk of sustaining a splenic injury in snowboarders as compared to skiers, and whether there are noteworthy differences in their characteristics at hospital admission. ⋯ The risk of sustaining an injury of the spleen resulting from blunt abdominal trauma while snowboarding is significantly greater than the risk while downhill skiing. Male snowboarders have a significantly higher risk of splenic injury than female snowboarders. In the majority of cases, snowboarders sustained their injuries as a result of falls or jumps.
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2005
Challenges in arranging interhospital transfers from a small regional hospital: an observational study.
To describe the process of interhospital transfer from a small regional hospital ED. ⋯ There is wide variation in the time taken and the number of phone calls to arrange an interhospital transfer, with some patient groups requiring more effort to organize a transfer.
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Emerg Med Australas · Apr 2005
The status of emergency medicine in Makira Ulawa Province, Solomon Islands.
This Perspective reports on the challenges that face a solo doctor in a provincial hospital in the Solomon Islands following the civil disturbances of 1998-2003. The Health Service is seriously constrained by a paucity of funding, supplies and personnel. ⋯ Further training of nurses, midwives and doctors is required. Emergency medicine, as a generalist discipline, provides a foundation to improve the delivery of care to the acutely ill and injured in these circumstances.