The American journal of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study
Exposure and confidence across critical airway procedures in pediatric emergency medicine: An international survey study.
Airway management procedures are critical for emergency medicine (EM) physicians, but rarely performed skills in pediatric patients. Worldwide experience with respect to frequency and confidence in performing airway management skills has not been previously described. ⋯ BMV and ETI were the most commonly performed pediatric airway procedures by emergency medicine physicians, and surgical airways are very infrequent. Supervising airway procedures may serve to maintain procedural confidence for physicians despite infrequent opportunities as the primary proceduralist.
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Multicenter Study
The burden of the pandemic on the non-SARS-CoV-2 emergencies: A multicenter study.
Governments have implemented social distancing interventions to curb the speed of SARS-CoV-2 spread and avoid hospital overload. SARS-CoV-2 social distancing interventions have modified several aspects of society, leading to a change in the emergency medical visit profile. ⋯ The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the non-SARS-CoV-2 emergency profile. The overall number of emergency medical visits has reduced. The mortality of non-SARS-CoV-2 emergencies has not increased in São Paulo.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Frequency of safety net errors in the emergency department: Effect of patient handoffs.
The objective of this study was to determine physician awareness of abnormal vital signs and key clinical interventions (oxygen provision, intravenous access) in the emergency department, and to measure the effect of patient handoffs on this awareness. ⋯ Emergency physicians make frequent errors regarding awareness of their patients' vital signs, oxygen and vascular status and patient handoffs are associated with an increased frequency of such errors.
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Multicenter Study
Association of air temperature with pediatric intussusception in northeastern China: A 10-year retrospective study.
The aim of this study was to determine whether an association existed between intussusception and air temperature. ⋯ Monthly PPI cases were positively associated with monthly mean temperature in Shenyang. The incidence of intussusception shows a seasonal trend, with a peak in summer (May to July).