Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2006
Comparative StudyVariability in agreement between physicians and nurses when measuring the Glasgow Coma Scale in the emergency department limits its clinical usefulness.
To assess the interrater reliability of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) between nurses and senior doctors in the ED. ⋯ Although the level of agreement for GCS scores was generally high, a significant proportion of patients had GCS scores which differed by two or more points. This degree of disagreement indicates that clinical decisions should not be based solely on single GCS scores.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2006
Practice GuidelineCompressions: Australian Resuscitation Council Guideline 2006.
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Despite widespread use of methoxyflurane as an inhaled analgesic by ambulance services in Australia there are no published data as to its use pattern, efficacy and safety in the prehospital setting. We set out to characterize methoxyflurane use in children in the prehospital setting. ⋯ In the present paediatric case series methoxyflurane appears to be an efficacious analgesic with a low adverse events profile. In young children in particular it can briefly lead to deep sedation.