[Analgesia in the emergency medical service: comparison between tele-emergency physician and call back procedure with respect to application safety, effectiveness and tolerance].
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DOI: 10.1007/s00101-019-00661-0
Abstract: BACKGROUND Acute pain is a common reason for calling emergency medical services (EMS) and can require medication depending on the pain intensity. German EMS personnel feel strong pressure to reduce a patient's pain but are restricted by… read more here.
Keywords: emergency physician; emergency; call back; analgesia ... See more keywords
[Implications of prehospital estimation of trauma patients for the treatment pathway-An evaluation of the TraumaRegister DGU®].
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DOI: 10.1007/s00101-021-01001-x
Abstract: BACKGROUND In the prehospital acute treatment phase of severely injured patients, the stabilization of the vital parameters is paramount. The rapid and precise assessment of the injuries by the emergency physician is crucial for the… read more here.
Keywords: treatment; emergency physician; emergency; severity ... See more keywords
A Call to Restore Your Calling: Self-Care of the Emergency Physician in the Face of Life-Changing Stress: Part 5 of 6: Physician Burnout.
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DOI: 10.1097/pec.0000000000002025
Abstract: This fifth article in our series focuses on burnout in practicing pediatric emergency medicine physicians. As opposed to a general review of burnout, we address understudied and undervalued risk factors, drivers, and individual- and organizational-level… read more here.
Keywords: care; medicine; emergency; life changing ... See more keywords
Association Between Emergency Physician Length of Stay Rankings and Patient Characteristics
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DOI: 10.1111/acem.14064
Abstract: Emergency physicians are commonly compared by their patients’ length of stay (LOS). We test the hypothesis that LOS is associated with patient characteristics and that accounting for these features impacts physician LOS rankings. read more here.
Keywords: association emergency; patient characteristics; physician length; emergency physician ... See more keywords
Emergency physician stressors, concerns, and behavioral changes during COVID‐19: A longitudinal study
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DOI: 10.1111/acem.14219
Abstract: The objective was to provide a longitudinal assessment of anxiety levels and work and home concerns of U.S. emergency physicians during the COVID‐19 pandemic. read more here.
Keywords: stressors concerns; emergency physician; concerns behavioral; physician stressors ... See more keywords
Mapping emergency physician reasoning for adhering to evidence‐based pulmonary embolism testing
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DOI: 10.1111/acem.14476
Abstract: Guidelines for diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE) recommend bedside risk stratification, for example the Wells score and D- dimer testing. Whereas a negative D- dimer test excludes PE in patients with low pretest probability (Wells score… read more here.
Keywords: pulmonary embolism; mapping emergency; physician reasoning; embolism ... See more keywords
Point of no return: COVID-19 and the U.S. healthcare system: An emergency physician’s perspective
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc5354
Abstract: In medicine, we examine our errors closely. Since the publication of “To Err is Human” by the Institute of Medicine at the end of the last century, patient safety and quality are priorities ( 1… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; healthcare system; emergency physician; health ... See more keywords
Diagnostic Agreement between Prehospital Emergency and In-Hospital Physicians
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DOI: 10.1155/2019/3769826
Abstract: Background The aim of the study was to determine the diagnostic agreement between the discharge diagnosis and the suspected diagnosis by the prehospital emergency physician and to run a sensitivity analysis of the most common… read more here.
Keywords: agreement; diagnosis; emergency physician; diagnostic agreement ... See more keywords