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    Academic Emergency Medicine: Volume 17, Issue 6

    575-611, e33-e39, 612-678, e40-e59
    June 2010
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Note from the Editor-in-Chief

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Note from the Editor-in-Chief

David C. Cone MD, 
  • Page: 575
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Progressive Clinical Practice

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Midazolam Versus Diazepam for the Treatment of Status Epilepticus in Children and Young Adults: A Meta-analysis

Jason McMullan MD,  Comilla Sasson MD,  Arthur Pancioli MD,  Robert Silbergleit MD, 
  • Pages: 575-582
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Clinical Investigations

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External Validation of the Clinical Dehydration Scale for Children With Acute Gastroenteritis

Benoit Bailey MD, MSc,  Jocelyn Gravel MD, MSc,  Ran D. Goldman MD,  Jeremy N. Friedman MBChB,  Patricia C. Parkin MD, 
  • Pages: 583-588
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Factors Associated With Positive D-dimer Results in Patients Evaluated for Pulmonary Embolism

Christopher Kabrhel MD, MPH,  D. Mark Courtney MD,  Carlos A. Camargo Jr MD, DrPH,  Michael C. Plewa MD,  Kristen E. Nordenholz MD,  Christopher L. Moore MD,  Peter B. Richman MD, MBA,  Howard A. Smithline MD,  Daren M. Beam,  Jeffrey A. Kline MD, 
  • Pages: 589-597
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Prospective Evaluation of Two Clinical Scores for Acute Asthma in Children 18 Months to 7 Years of Age

Serge Gouin MDCM, FRCPC,  Isabelle Robidas MD, FRCPC,  Jocelyn Gravel MD, FRCPC, MSc (Epid),  Chantal Guimont MD, PhD (Epid),  Dominic Chalut MD, FRCPC, ABP (EM),  Devendra Amre PhD (Epid), 
  • Pages: 598-603
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Randomized Clinical Trial of Propofol Versus Ketamine for Procedural Sedation in the Emergency Department

James R. Miner MD,  Richard O. Gray MD,  Jennifer Bahr MD,  Roma Patel,  John W. McGill MD, 
  • Pages: 604-611
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Measuring Nausea in Emergency Department Patients via the Use of Exploratory Factor Analysis

Robert L. Cloutier MD,  Bret E. Fuller PhD,  Robert G. Hendrickson MD,  Nikolas Jones MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: e33-e39
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Clinical Practice

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Hospital Costs and Revenue Are Similar for Resuscitated Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest and ST-segment Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients

Robert Swor DO,  Victoria Lucia PhD,  Kelly McQueen,  Scott Compton PhD, 
  • Pages: 612-616
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Procainamide and Survival in Ventricular Fibrillation Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest

David T. Markel,  Laura S. Gold MSPH,  Judith Allen MPH,  Carol E. Fahrenbruch MSPH,  Thomas D. Rea MD, MPH,  Mickey S. Eisenberg MD, PhD,  Peter J. Kudenchuk MD, 
  • Pages: 617-623
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Prehospital Ultrasound by Paramedics: Results of Field Trial

William Heegaard MD, MPH,  David Hildebrandt NREMT-P, RN,  David Spear MD,  Kevin Chason DO,  Bret Nelson MD, RDMS,  Jeffrey Ho MD, 
  • Pages: 624-630
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Basic Investigations

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Evaluating Degradation with Fragment Formation of Prehospital Succinylcholine by Mass Spectrometry

Mark A. Merlin DO, EMT-P,  Andreia Marques-Baptista MD,  Hilly Yang PhD,  Pamela Ohman-Strickland PhD,  Christopher Aquina,  Brian Buckley PhD, 
  • Pages: 631-637
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Educational Advances

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Emergency Medicine Clerkship Curriculum: An Update and Revision

David E. Manthey MD,  Douglas S. Ander MD,  David C. Gordon,  Tom Morrissey MD,  Scott C. Sherman MD,  Michael D. Smith MD,  Diane Rimple MD,  Lorraine G. Thibodeau MD,  on behalf of Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM) Curriculum Revision Group , 
  • Pages: 638-643
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Motivations, Job Procurement, and Job Satisfaction Among Current and Former Ultrasound Fellows

James H. Moak MD, RDMS,  Romolo J. Gaspari MD, RDMS,  Chris C. Raio MD, RDMS,  Kimberly W. Hart MA,  Christopher J. Lindsell PhD, 
  • Pages: 644-648
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Commentaries

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Risk Ratios and Odds Ratios for Common Events in Cross-sectional and Cohort Studies

Scott T. Wilber MD, MPH,  Rongwei Fu PhD, 
  • Pages: 649-651
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Special Contributions

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Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population

M. Kit Delgado MD,  Adit A. Ginde MD, MPH,  Daniel J. Pallin MD, MPH,  Carlos A. Camargo Jr MD, DrPH, 
  • Pages: 652-658
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Research Methods & Statistics

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Step-forward Randomization in Multicenter Emergency Treatment Clinical Trials

Wenle Zhao PhD,  Jody Ciolino MS,  Yuko Palesch PhD, 
  • Pages: 659-665
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Brief Reports

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Cricothyrotomy Technique Using Gum Elastic Bougie Is Faster Than Standard Technique: A Study of Emergency Medicine Residents and Medical Students in an Animal Lab

Chandler Hill MD,  Robert Reardon MD,  Scott Joing MD,  Dan Falvey,  James Miner MD, 
  • Pages: 666-669
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Patterns of Use of Topical Skin Adhesives in the Emergency Department

Adam J. Singer MD,  Mira Kinariwala,  Roy Lirov,  Henry C. Thode Jr. PhD, 
  • Pages: 670-672
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Augmentation of the Cooling Capacity of Refrigerated Fluid by Minimizing Heat Gain of the Fluid Using a Simple Method of Cold Insulation

Byung Kook Lee MD, PhD,  Kyung Woon Jeung MD, PhD,  Seung Cheol Lee MD,  Yong Il Min MD, PhD,  Hyun Ho Ryu MD,  Mu Jin Kim MD,  Hyoung Youn Lee MD,  Tag Heo MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 673-675
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Reflections

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Bridge Over the River Cry

Jonathan Singer MD, 
  • Page: 648
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Thanks to Peer Reviewers, 2009

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Thanks to Peer Reviewers, 2009

  • Pages: 676-678
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Dynamic Emergency Medicine

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Anterior Shoulder Dislocation: The Scapular Manipulation Technique

Brandon C. Tudor MD,  Rachel E. Norris MA, MD,  Ernest E. Wang MD, 
  • Page: e40
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Soft Tissue Ultrasound and the Comet Tail Artifact

William T. Hosek MD,  John Gullett MD, 
  • Pages: e41-e42
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Emergency Ultrasound Diagnosis of a Pseudoaneurysm Associated With an Arteriovenous Fistula

Faizan H. Arshad MD,  Darrell Sutijono MD,  Christopher L. Moore MD, 
  • Pages: e43-e45
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Kinetic Echography in the Evaluation of Retinal Detachment

Elizabeth J. Rubano MD,  Kaedrea A. Jackson MD, MPH,  Michael B. Stone MD, RDMS, 
  • Pages: e46-e47
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Electrical Alternans: An Echocardiographic Visual Reference

Craig A. Sisson MD, 
  • Pages: e48-e49
  • First Published: 02 June 2010

Media Reviews

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Clinical Emergency Medicine Casebook

Michael A. Bohrn MD, 
  • Page: e50
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Evidence-Based Diagnosis

Abhinav Chandra, 
  • Page: e51
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Natural Disasters and Public Health: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma

Kathleen Cowling DO,  Dalkeith Tucker DO, 
  • Pages: e52-e53
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Hardwood-Nuss’ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, Fifth Edition

Michelle McLean MD, EMT-P,  Tiffany Weiss-Feldkamp DO, 
  • Pages: e54-e55
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Critical Care Ultrasonography

Lisa D. Mills MD, 
  • Page: e56
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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10 Minute ENT Consult

Stephanie J. Duggan MD, 
  • Pages: e57-e58
  • First Published: 02 June 2010
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Guidelines for Trauma Quality Improvement Programmes

James Mlejnek MD,  Christa Persyn MD, 
  • Page: e59
  • First Published: 02 June 2010