Sommario

• • ·Masthead

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• Original Contributions

  • ·The impact of overcrowding on the bacterial contamination of blood cultures in the ED

    Pagina :839-845

    Ching-Chi Lee, Nan-Yao Lee, Ming-Che Chuang, Po-Lin Chen, Chia-Ming Chang, Wen-Chien Ko

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  • ·Recipients of hyperbaric oxygen treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning and exposure circumstances

    Pagina :846-851

    Jacquelyn H. Clower, Neil B. Hampson, Shahed Iqbal, Fuyuen Y. Yip

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa
  • ·Risk factors and outcome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia among adults visiting the ED

    Pagina :852-860

    Ching-Chi Lee, Chung-Hsun Lee, Ming-Yuan Hong

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  • ·Comprehensive pain management protocol reduces children's memory of pain at discharge from the pediatric ED

    Pagina :861-871

    Patrick J. Crocker, Eric Higginbotham, Benjamin T. King, Diane Taylor, Truman J. Milling

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  • ·Sublingual tissue perfusion improves during emergency treatment of acute decompensated heart failure

    Pagina :872-880

    Christopher J. Hogan, Kevin R. Ward, Douglas S. Franzen, Bipin Rajendran, Leroy R. Thacker

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  • ·Diagnosis of pneumonia in the ED has poor accuracy despite diagnostic uncertainty

    Pagina :881-885

    Rishi Sikka, Laura H. Tommaso, Carleen Kaucky, Erik B. Kulstad

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  • ·Answering the myth: use of emergency services on Friday the 13th

    Pagina :886-889

    Bruce M. Lo, Catherine M. Visintainer, Heidi A. Best, Hind A. Beydoun

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  • ·Gender and stress test use in an ED chest pain unit

    Pagina :890-895

    Anthony Napoli, Esther K. Choo

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  • ·Venous vs arterial blood gases in the assessment of patients presenting with an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Pagina :896-900

    Peter McCanny, Kath Bennett, Paul Staunton, Geraldine McMahon

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  • ·Pralidoxime inhibits paraoxon-induced depression of rocuronium-neuromuscular block in a time-dependent fashion

    Pagina :901-907

    Eichi Narimatsu, Tomohisa Niiya, Kazunobu Takahashi, Masanori Yamauchi, Michiaki Yamakage

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  • ·Increased ?-glutamyl transferase levels predict early mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism

    Pagina :908-915

    Ali Zorlu, Hasan Yucel, Gokhan Bektasoglu, Kenan Ahmet Turkdogan, Umut Eryigit, Savas Sarikaya, Meltem Refiker Ege, Izzet Tandogan, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

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• Editorial

  • ·Risk stratification in acute pulmonary embolism: what does ?-glutamyl transferase add?

    Pagina :916-918

    Kristen E. Nordenholz

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• Brief Reports

  • ·Blunt diaphragmatic rupture - a rare but challenging entity in thoracoabdominal trauma

    Pagina :919-924

    I-Ming Kuo, Chien-Hung Liao, Ming-Che Hsin, Shih-Ching Kang, Shang-Yu Wang, Chun-Hsiang Ooyang, Jen-Feng Fang

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  • ·Trepopnea may explain right-sided pleural effusion in patients with decompensated heart failure

    Pagina :925

    Bruno Schneider de Araujo, Roberta Reichert, Diego André Eifer, Stephan A. Soder, Manoel B. Schmiedel dos Santos, Nadine Clausell, Luís Beck-da-Silva

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  • ·Therapeutic hypothermia induction via an esophageal route—a computer simulation

    Pagina :932-935

    Vytautas Vaicys, Antone Eason, Jay D. Schieber, Erik B. Kulstad

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  • ·Noninvasive detection of elevated intracranial pressure using a portable ultrasound system

    Pagina :936-941

    Bertrand Prunet, Yves Asencio, Guillaume Lacroix, Ambroise Montcriol, Arnaud Dagain, Jean Cotte, Pierre Esnault, Henry Boret, Eric Meaudre, Eric Kaiser

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  • ·Antimicrobial resistance in uncomplicated urinary tract infections in 3 California EDs

    Pagina :942-949

    Shannon E. Moffett, Bradley W. Frazee, John C. Stein, Bahar Navab, Judy Maselli, Sukhjit S. Takhar, Ralph Gonzales

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  • ·Reversal of quetiapine-induced altered mental status with physostigmine: a case series

    Pagina :950-953

    Jon B. Cole, Samuel J. Stellpflug, Heather Ellsworth, Carson R. Harris

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  • ·The inability of emergency physicians to adequately clinically estimate the underlying hemodynamic profiles of acutely ill patients

    Pagina :954-960

    Richard M. Nowak, Ayan Sen, Audwin J. Garcia, Heidi Wilkie, James J. Yang, Michael R. Nowak, Michele L. Moyer

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• Clinical Notes

  • ·Medical consultations and the sharing of medical images involving spinal injury over mobile phone networks

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    Michal Filip, Petr Linzer, Filip Šámal, Ji?í Tesa?, Roman Herzig, David Školoudík

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• Reviews

  • ·2010: the emergency medical services literature in review

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    Benjamin J. Lawner, Jose Victor Nable, William J. Brady

    
  • ·Imported malaria: an update

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    Eric J. Nilles, Paul M. Arguin

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  • ·A systematic review of nicardipine vs labetalol for the management of hypertensive crises

    Pagina :981-993

    W. Frank Peacock, Daniel E. Hilleman, Phillip D. Levy, Denise H. Rhoney, Joseph Varon

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• Diagnostics

  • ·A new electrocardiographic criteria for emergent reperfusion therapy

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    Jacob R. Hennings, Francis M. Fesmire

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• Correspondence

  • ·Therapeutic hypothermia and effects on coagulopathy

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    Narat Srivali, Saeed Ahmed, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, Daych Chongnarungsin

    
  • ·When health care priorities are unclear: Do we obtain organs or try to save lives?

    Pagina :1001-1003

    Iván Ortega Deballon, David Rodríguez-Arias Vailhen, Edurne de la Plaza Horche

     
  • ·Comment on “Lipid 20% emulsion ameliorates the symptoms of olanzapine toxicity in a 4-year-old”

    Pagina :1003-1004

    Gheshlaghi Farzad

    
  • ·Time to individualize duration of parenteral anticoagulation in pulmonary thromboembolism?

    Pagina :1004-1006

    Goran P. Koracevic

    
  • ·Hyperalgesic acetabular fracture treated by transversus abdominis plane block in the ED

    Pagina :1006-1007

    Ingrid Millot, David Plancade, Julien Nadaud, Sophie Cottez, Elodie Schaeffer, Nicolas Gagnon, Jean-Christophe Favier, Christian Landy

     
  • ·Nine modalities to report d-dimer concentration: how many is too many?

    Pagina :1007-1008

    Goran P. Koracevic

    
  • ·Comment on “Hyperacute rejection from a donor who died of carbamate intoxication—a case report”

    Pagina :1008-1009

    Gheshlaghi Farzad

    
  • ·Hyperacute rejection from a donor died from carbamate intoxication

    Pagina :1009-1010

    Yi-Hsin Chan, Pao-Hsien Chu

    

• American Journal of Emergency Medicine Electronic-Extra Pages (Full text articles available online at www.ajemjournal.com)

  • ·What is the significance of a previous molar pregnancy?

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    Nancy Lutwak, Curt Dill

     
  • ·Pseudoaortic dissection

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    Ken-Hing Tan, Shih-Yu Ko, Sun-Li Chou

     
  • ·Lipid 20% emulsion ameliorates the symptoms of olanzapine toxicity in a 4-year-old

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    Russell K. McAllister, Carrie D. Tutt, Christopher S. Colvin

    
  • ·Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in maternal arrhythmic cardiogenic shock

    Pagina :1012.e3

    Shyh-Shyong Sim, Hao-Chang Chou, Juin-Wei Chen, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma

     
  • ·Purpura fulminans caused by community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Pagina :1013.e1

    Casimir J. Fitzgerald, Thomas V. Pranikoff, Gregory A. Ross, Steven Mou, Laurence B. Givner, Avinash K. Shetty

     
  • ·Lower limb myalgias in a man who used to “climb the stairs”: an atypical abdominal aortic aneurysm

    Pagina :1013.e5

    Giuseppina Patrizia Dognini, Gianluca Cadeo, Luigi Dolcino, Lodovico Gilardoni, Enrico Stringhi, Franco Forloni

     
  • ·Emergency cricothyrotomy for trismus caused by instantaneous rigor in cardiac arrest patients

    Pagina :1014.e1

    Jae Hee Lee, Koo Young Jung

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  • ·Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for refractory, life-threatening, and herpes simplex virus 1–induced acute respiratory distress syndrome. Our experience and literature review

    Pagina :1014.e3

    Massimo Bonacchi, Gabriella Di Lascio, Guy Harmelin, Andrea Pasquini, Adriano Peris, Guido Sani

     
  • ·Association of mechanical chest compression and prehospital thrombolysis

    Pagina :1015.e1

    Hichem Chenaitia, Marc Fournier, Jean Paul Brun, Pierre Michelet, Jean Pierre Auffray

    
  • ·Resolution of left ventricular thrombus with lepirudin after failed treatment with heparin

    Pagina :1015.e3

    Andrei D. Margulescu, Alan G. Fraser

     
  • ·Volar subluxation of the metacarpal-phalangeal joint: a case report

    Pagina :1016.e1

    Matthew J. Pirotte, James Saucedo, Danielle McCarthy

     
  • ·Myelopathy and polyneuropathy caused by nitrous oxide toxicity: a case report

    Pagina :1016.e3

    Chih-kang Hsu, Yue-quen Chen, Vei-zen Lung, Sheng-Chuan His, Huan-Chu Lo, Hann-Yeh Shyu

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  • ·Successful extracorporeal membrane oxygenation treatment for pheochromocytoma-induced acute cardiac failure

    Pagina :1017.e1

    Ghassam Sojod, Michele Diana, James Wall, Jacopo D'Agostino, Didier Mutter, Jacques Marescaux

     
  • ·Delayed subdural hematoma after receiving enoxaparin for prevention of thromboembolic events from high-risk surgery

    Pagina :1017.e5

    Randall N. Willard, Antonio E. Muñiz, Francis Chuidian

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  • ·The introduction of public access defibrillation to a university community: The University of Virginia Public Access Defibrillation Program

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    Peter Whitney-Cashio, Melissa Sartin, William J. Brady, Kelly Williamson, Kostas Alibertis, Gilbert Somers, Robert E. O'Connor

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