Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2015
Mechanisms, injuries and helmet use in cyclists presenting to an inner city emergency department.
The objectives of the present study were to describe the injury profiles of cyclists presenting to an ED and determine the risk of significant head injury associated with bicycle helmet use. ⋯ Head injuries were common after inner city cycling incidents. The use of helmets was associated with a reduction in significant head injury.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2015
Staff perceptions of palliative care in a public Australian, metropolitan emergency department.
The primary aim was to investigate staff experiences and attitudes towards palliative care provision in a public metropolitan ED. ⋯ Our study suggests that overall ED staff were confident regarding symptom management in palliative care. Cancer diagnoses were overrepresented in both the top five causes of death and conditions most appropriate for a palliative approach, suggesting that staff might underestimate the role of a palliative approach in non-cancer diagnoses. Areas suggested for further education include communication and ethical issues surrounding end-of-life care.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2015
FOAMSearch.net: A custom search engine for emergency medicine and critical care.
The number of online resources read by and pertinent to clinicians has increased dramatically. However, most healthcare professionals still use mainstream search engines as their primary port of entry to the resources on the Internet. These search engines use algorithms that do not make it easy to find clinician-oriented resources. ⋯ Using Google™ algorithms, it searches a vetted list of >300 blogs, podcasts, wikis, knowledge translation tools, clinical decision support tools and medical journals. Utilisation has increased progressively to >3000 users/month since its launch in 2011. Further study of the role of CSEs to find medical resources is needed, and it might be possible to develop similar CSEs for other areas of medicine.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2015
Model to predict inpatient mortality from information gathered at presentation to an emergency department: The Triage Information Mortality Model (TIMM).
To derive and validate a mortality prediction model from information available at ED triage. ⋯ The model successfully predicts inpatient mortality from information available at the point of triage in the ED.