Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2024
ReviewReview article: Telehealth in Emergency Medicine in Australasia: Advantages and barriers.
The COVID-19 pandemic catapulted Telehealth to the forefront of Emergency Medicine (EM) as an alternative way of assessing and managing patients. This challenged the traditional idea that EM can only be practised within brick-and-mortar EDs. Many Emergency Physicians may find the idea of practising Telehealth in Emergency Medicine (TEM) confronting, particularly in the absence of training and clear practice guidelines. The purpose of the present paper is to describe the current use of TEM in Australasia, and outline the advantages and barriers in adopting this practice domain.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2024
ReviewReview article: Abdominal pain and diabetes mellitus in the emergency department.
This manuscript seeks to describe diagnostic considerations in individuals with diabetes mellitus presenting to the ED with abdominal pain. It highlights the importance of early investigation with computerised tomography to differentiate aetiologies that compel early surgical intervention from those which may be treated conservatively.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2024
Multicenter StudyManagement of primary spontaneous pneumothorax: Did practice change after a landmark multicentre study?
To compare management of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) before and after the completion of multicentre study which showed non-inferiority of conservative compared to interventional treatment for PSP. ⋯ Intervention for management of PSP is less frequent, suggesting adoption and implementation of best evidence.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2024
Refining ambulance clinical response models: The impact on ambulance response and emergency department presentations.
The ambulance service in Victoria, Australia implemented a revised clinical response model (CRM) in 2016 which was designed to increase the diversion of low-acuity Triple Zero (000) calls to secondary telephone triage and reduce emergency ambulance dispatches. The present study evaluates the influence of the revised CRM on emergency ambulance response times and ED presentations. ⋯ The revised CRM was associated with improved Code 1 response time performance. However, there was no improvement in response times for high acuity patients, and no change in the proportion of callers presenting to ED.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2024
Implementation of an eFAST guideline and teaching to improve documentation practices and saving of ultrasound images.
To investigate whether implementation of a hospital-based Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (eFAST) guideline and teaching improved documentation and saving of images. ⋯ Developing an eFAST Standard of Care Guideline and education was associated with improvements in documentation and saving of images to ultrasound machines.