Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2022
Preventable presentations of older adults to emergency departments: General practitioners' perspectives.
To describe general practitioners' (GP) perspectives of older patients presenting to the ED, reasons they would refer to the ED and how they utilise community services to help manage older adults. ⋯ GPs reported they would have been able to manage a significant proportion of older adults who presented to the ED in the community without referring to the ED. Severe and acute illness requiring urgent evaluation and intervention was the main reason GPs would refer to the ED.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2022
Sports-related ocular injuries at a tertiary eye hospital in Australia: A 5-year retrospective descriptive study.
To describe the demographics and outcomes of sports-related ocular injuries in an Australian tertiary eye hospital setting. ⋯ The top three ocular injury causing sports were soccer, AFL and basketball. The most frequent injury was traumatic hyphaema. Projectiles posed the greatest risk.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2022
Randomized Controlled Trial Observational StudyContinued opioid use following an emergency department presentation for low back pain.
To investigate the proportion of patients with low back pain who receive an opioid analgesic prescription on hospital discharge, the proportion using opioid analgesics 4 weeks after discharge, and to identify predictors of continued opioid analgesic use at 4 weeks after an ED presentation in opioid-naïve patients. ⋯ About one-third of patients who present to the ED with low back pain receive an opioid analgesic prescription on discharge and are taking an opioid analgesic 4 weeks later. These findings justify future research to identify strategies to reduce the risk of long-term opioid use in patients who present to the ED with low back pain.