Emergency Evidence Updates – May 2023
Randomised Controlled Trials
Efficacy of Buzzy Device Versus EMLA Cream for Reducing Pain During Needle-Related Procedures in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial Pediatric Emergency Care
Impact of COVID-19-adapted guidelines using different airway management strategies on resuscitation quality in out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest – a randomised manikin study BMC Emergency Medicine
NICE
Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) in children and young people: diagnosis and management NG18
Head injury QS74
Head injury: assessment and early management NG232
Other Guidance/Reports
Helmet Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in the Emergency Department: A Practical Guide Journal of Emergency Nursing
Royal College of Emergency Medicine:
- Position Statement – Emergency CT Scans Requiring IV Iodinated Contrast Agent (May 2023)
- Position Statement – Use of the SNAP Regimen for the Treatment of Paracetamol Toxicity in adults and children (May 2023)
- Position Statement – Recommendations for Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department with Seizures (May 2023)
- Toolkit – Improving Hip Fracture Care & Treatment (May 2023)
- Toolkit – Treatment Tool for Hip Fracture Care (May 2023)
- Guideline – Management of Adolescent/Young Adult Patients in the Emergency Department (May 2023)
Cochrane
Family presence during resuscitation
Risk of thromboembolism in patients with COVID‐19 who are using hormonal contraception
Primary Research
Prehospital
The Value of Outcome Letters for Prehospital Pediatric Care Pediatric Emergency Care
Use of ketamine wafer for pain management by volunteer emergency medical technicians in rural Western Australia Emergency Medicine Australasia
Professional/Workplace
Effect of emergency physician-operated emergency short-stay ward on emergency department stay length and clinical outcomes: a case-control study BMC Emergency Medicine
Evaluation of microMend wound closure device in repairing skin lacerations Emergency Medicine Journal
Implementation of an integrated emergency department acute atrial fibrillation pathway safely reduces cardioversions and hospitalisations: A comparative pre–post study Emergency Medicine Australasia
“You may think that the consultants are great, and they know everything, but they don’t”: exploring how new emergency medicine consultants experience uncertainty Emergency Medicine Journal
Paediatrics
A Simulation Study to Assess Pediatric Emergency Physician Success in Critical Procedures With an Air Purifying Respirator Pediatric Emergency Care
A Summer of Fevers and Fussiness – Eighteen Infants Admitted With Parechovirus Meningitis Pediatric Emergency Care
A Temperature- and Age-Adjusted Shock Index for Emergency Department Identification of Pediatric Sepsis Annals of Emergency Medicine
Atypical Presentation Delays Treatment of Pediatric Testicular Torsion Pediatric Emergency Care
Bronchodilator response by interrupter technique to guide management of preschool wheeze Archives of Disease in Childhood
Childhood/adolescent Sydenham’s chorea in the UK and Ireland: a BPSU/CAPSS surveillance study Archives of Disease in Childhood
Communication Strategies to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Pediatric Urgent Care Centers Pediatric Emergency Care
Development and Internal Validation of a Multivariable Prediction Model to Predict Repeat Attendances in the Pediatric Emergency Department – A Retrospective Cohort Study Pediatric Emergency Care
High-Risk Markers and Infection Rates in Febrile Infants Aged 29 to 60 Days Presenting to an Emergency Department During the COVID-19 Pandemic Pediatric Emergency Care
Nucleated Red Blood Cells Are Predictive of In-Hospital Mortality for Pediatric Patients Pediatric Emergency Care
Social Determinants of Health Are Associated With Visits for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Pediatric Emergency Care
Ten-Year Analysis of Complications Related to Simple Basilar Skull Fractures in Children Presenting to a Trauma Center Pediatric Emergency Care
Validity of the Adrogué-Madias Formula for the Management of Acute Dysnatremias in Critically Ill Children – A Prospective Multicenter Analysis Pediatric Emergency Care
Adults
Multiple trauma in pregnant women: injury assessment, fetal radiation exposure and mortality. A multicentre observational study Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Resuscitation preferences of older acutely admitted medical and mentally competent patients with one and six months follow-up Resuscitation
Resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography in the emergency department: a single-centre case series Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Tenecteplase Versus Alteplase for Acute Stroke: Mortality and Bleeding Complications Annals of Emergency Medicine
The Rapid Arterial oCclusion Evaluation (RACE) scale accuracy for diagnosis of acute ischemic stroke in emergency department – A multicenter study BMC Emergency Medicine
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