Articles: emergency-medicine.
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Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · Jun 2024
Lessons learned during the sliding gantry CT implementation in a trauma suite.
Early detection of bleeding is important for managing trauma cases in the emergency department (ED). Several trauma suites are equipped with computed tomography (CT) scanners to reduce the time to CT. In the last decade, sliding gantry CT has been implemented in trauma suites, highlighting conventional techniques' advantages. We investigated the change in the time to CT and the challenges faced during the implementation. ⋯ We have demonstrated a decrease in the time to CT with the implementation of a sliding gantry CT. However, due to a higher number of cable management problems in the routine use group, we recommend regular refresher team training with routine use.
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Editorial Review
Global emergency medicine: four part series on best practices : Paper 1: Introduction and overview of global emergency medicine.
The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians' (CAEP) Global Emergency Medicine committee presents a four-part series that builds upon the Academic Symposium recommendations from the CAEP 2018 meeting (Collier et al. in CJEM 21(5):600-606, 2019). This series presents best practices and offers practical tools for the development and practice of Global EM. ⋯ International efforts, initiatives, and organizations relating to public health and humanitarian response are introduced. Other key aspects of Global EM are explored in papers 2-4 including: developing partnerships, supporting centers of research and practice, and education and training.
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Since Canada eased pandemic restrictions, emergency departments have experienced record levels of patient attendance, wait times, bed blocking, and crowding. The aim of this study was to report Canadian emergency physician burnout rates compared with the same physicians in 2020 and to describe how emergency medicine work has affected emergency physician well-being. ⋯ We found very high burnout levels in emergency physician respondents that have increased since 2020.