Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2019
The World Health Organization trauma checklist versus Trauma Team Time-out: A perspective.
Time-out protocols have reportedly improved team dynamics and patients' safety in various clinical settings - particularly in the operating room. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced a Trauma Care checklist, which outlines steps to follow immediately after the primary and secondary surveys and prior to the team leaving the patient. ⋯ The WHO Trauma Care checklist, while likely to be successful in reducing errors of omission related to hospital admission, may be limited in its ability to reduce errors that occur in the initial 30 min of trauma reception - when most of the life-saving decisions are made. To address this limitation a Trauma Team Time-out protocol is proposed for initial trauma resuscitation, targeting the critical first 30 min of hospital reception.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2019
Letter Review Case ReportsLiraglutide toxicity presenting to the emergency department: A case report and literature review.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2019
Enhancing intern emergency medicine education using a combined didactic and web-based learning curriculum: The EDGE programme.
To assess the effectiveness of an education programme that integrates web-based learning into classroom sessions. ⋯ This blended curriculum that integrates a web-based resource into classroom learning shows promise in enhancing intern emergency medicine education.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2019
Observational StudyRetrospective descriptive observational study of patients who presented to an Australian hospital emergency department with neck soft tissue injury.
To describe clinical presentation and management of neck soft tissue injury in an Australian ED. ⋯ There is large practice variation in management of neck soft tissue injury in ED. Over half of the patients received CT scans with modest yield. Opioids were commonly used both in ED and on discharge. There is need for a standard management plan to be developed for patients presenting with acute neck soft tissue injury.