Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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To describe the epidemiology of snowmobile injuries in Utah. ⋯ By combining ED, inpatient, and death certificate data sets, probabilistic linkage provides a comprehensive description of snowmobile-related injuries and a baseline evaluation of morbidity, mortality, and financial burden.
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Mental health aspects of emergency medical services for children: summary of a consensus conference.
To address the mental health needs of children involved in emergency medical services (EMS). ⋯ Ecological changes in emergency departments, such as linkages to mental health follow-up services, training of EMS providers and mental health professionals, and focused research that provides an empirical basis for practice, are necessary components for improving current standards of health care.
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Comparative Study
Neurotensin analog NT69L induces rapid and prolonged hypothermia after hypoxic ischemia.
To determine whether the neurotensin analog NT69L, administered systemically, could induce mild brain hypothermia after asphyxial cardiac arrest (ACA) in rats. ⋯ NT69L induced rapid and prolonged mild brain hypothermia after ACA in this rat model and reduced neurological deficits.
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Editorial Comment
Rising to the challenge of family-centered care in emergency medicine.
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Comparative Study
Rochester, New York: a decade of emergency department overcrowding.
Overcrowding is common in emergency departments (EDs) throughout the United States. The history of ED overcrowding in Rochester, New York, is notable due to its unique health care system that introduced the concepts of managed care as early as the 1950s. An effect of this system was to intentionally restrict resources and allow the issue of access to limit utilization. Overcrowding in EDs was severe in the late 1990s-2000, and became an accepted local standard of care. ⋯ Emergency department overcrowding is the end result of a variety of factors that must be addressed system-wide.