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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 Contribution

  • ·Preventive effects of motorcycle helmets on intracranial injury and mortality from severe road traffic injuries

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    Sola Kim, Young Sun Ro, Sang Do Shin, Kyoung Jun Song, Ki Jeong Hong, Joo Jeong

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  • ·Efficacy of corticosteroid treatment for severe community-acquired pneumonia: A meta-analysis

    Pagina :179-184

    Wei-Fang Wu, Qiang Fang, Guo-Jun He

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  • ·Integrating heart rate variability, vital signs, electrocardiogram, and troponin to triage chest pain patients in the ED

    Pagina :185-192

    Jeffrey Tadashi Sakamoto, Nan Liu, Zhi Xiong Koh, Dagang Guo, Micah Liam Arthur Heldeweg, Janson Cheng Ji Ng, Marcus Eng Hock Ong

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  • ·The occurrence of aspiration pneumonia after emergency endotracheal intubation

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    Brian E. Driver, Lauren R. Klein, Alexandra L. Schick, Matthew E. Prekker, Robert F. Reardon, James R. Miner

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  • ·Effects of intravenous administration of fentanyl and lidocaine on hemodynamic responses following endotracheal intubation

    Pagina :197-201

    Amir Masoud Hashemian, Hamid Zamani Moghadam Doloo, Maziar Saadatfar, Roya Moallem, Maryam Moradifar, Raheleh Faramarzi, Mohammad Davood Sharifi

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  • ·Anti-inflammatory and organ protective effect of insulin in scalded MODS rats without controlling hyperglycemia

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    Zhongzhen Zhu, Tian Hu, Zhanke Wang, Jin Wang, Rui Liu, Qianyong Yang, Xiaoyun Zhang, Yuanyuan Xiong

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  • ·Variation in the evaluation of testicular conditions across United States pediatric emergency departments

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    Lois K. Lee, Michael C. Monuteaux, Joel D. Hudgins, John J. Porter, Susan C. Lipsett, Florence Bourgeois, Bartley G. Cilento, Mark I. Neuman

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  • ·The impact of CT head scans on ED management and length of stay in bizarre behavior patients

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    P. Ng, M. McGowan, M. Goldstein, C.D. Kassardjian, B.D. Steinhart

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  • ·Predictors for under-prescribing antibiotics in children with respiratory infections requiring antibiotics

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    Aaron E. Kornblith, Jahan Fahimi, Hemal K. Kanzaria, Ralph C. Wang

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  • ·The effect of high-flow nasal cannula in reducing the mortality and the rate of endotracheal intubation when used before mechanical ventilation compared with conventional oxygen therapy and noninvasive positive pressure ventilation. A systematic review and meta-analysis

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    Yue-Nan Ni, Jian Luo, He Yu, Dan Liu, Bin-Miao Liang, Zong-An Liang

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  • ·Utilization of ultrasound for the evaluation of small bowel obstruction: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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    Michael Gottlieb, Gary D. Peksa, Ananda Vishnu Pandurangadu, Damali Nakitende, Sukhjit Takhar, Raghu R. Seethala

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  • ·Age is related to neurological outcome in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) receiving therapeutic hypothermia (TH)

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    Se Jong Oh, Jin Joo Kim, Jae Ho Jang, In Cheol Hwang, Jae Hyuk Woo, Yong Su Lim, Hyuk Jun Yang

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  • ·The effect of team-based CPR on outcomes in out of hospital cardiac arrest patients: A meta-analysis

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    Sola Kim, Ki Ok Ahn, Seungmin Jeong

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  • ·Prevalence of pulmonary embolism in patients presenting to the emergency department with syncope

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    Alison Frizell, Nicole Fogel, Jacob Steenblik, Margaret Carlson, Joseph Bledsoe, Troy Madsen

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  • ·Validation of the criteria for early critical care resource use in assessing the effectiveness of field triage

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    Ki Ok Ahn, Sang Chul Kim, Ju Ok Park, Sang Do Shin, Kyoung Jun Song, Ki Jeong Hong

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  • ·The impact of IV alteplase on long-term patient survival: The Georgia Coverdell acute stroke registry's experience

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    Moges S. Ido, Michael R. Frankel, Ike S. Okosun, Richard B. Rothenberg

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  • ·A role of the endothelial nitric oxide system in acute renal colic caused by ureteral stone

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    Emre Bulbul, Elif Funda Sener, Nahide Ekici Gunay, Bahadir Taslidere, Elif Taslidere, Serhat Koyuncu, Nurullah Gunay

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  • ·Incidence and risk factors of delayed intracranial hemorrhage in the emergency department

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    Byunghyun Kim, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Joonghee Kim, Tackeun Kim, Kyuseok Kim, Heeyoung Lee, Soyeon Ahn, Yoo Hwan Jo, Jae Hyuk Lee, Ji Eun Hwang

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  • ·Prevalence and predictors associated with severe pulmonary hypertension in COPD

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    Mitra Samareh Fekri, Mehdi Torabi, Sara Azizi Shoul, Moghaddameh Mirzaee

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• Brief Reports

  • ·High rate of isolated right ventricular dysfunction in patients with non-significant CT pulmonary angiography

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    Frances M. Russell, Jeffrey A. Kline, Timothy Lahm

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  • ·An exploratory study of IV metoclopramide + diphenhydramine for acute post-traumatic headache

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    Benjamin W. Friedman, Kayla Babbush, Eddie Irizarry, Deborah White, E. John Gallagher

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  • ·Impact of an emergency medicine pharmacist on initial antibiotic prophylaxis for open fractures in trauma patients

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    Somer Harvey, A. Brad Hall, Kayla Wilson

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  • ·Implications of iodinated contrast media extravasation in the emergency department

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    Jonathan D. Sonis, Ravi V. Gottumukkala, McKinley Glover, Brian J. Yun, Benjamin A. White, Mannudeep K. Kalra, Alexi Otrakji, Ali S. Raja, Anand M. Prabhakar

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  • ·Syncope on presentation is a surrogate for submassive and massive acute pulmonary embolism

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    Hesham R. Omar, Mehdi Mirsaeidi, Michael B. Weinstock, Garett Enten, Devanand Mangar, Enrico M. Camporesi

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• Reviews

  • ·Factors associated with imaging overuse in the emergency department: A systematic review

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    Monica Tung, Ritu Sharma, Jeremiah S. Hinson, Stephanie Nothelle, Jean Pannikottu, Jodi B. Segal

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  • ·The use of intranasal analgesia for acute pain control in the emergency department: A literature review

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    Billy Sin, Jennifer Wiafe, Christine Ciaramella, Luis Valdez, Sergey M. Motov

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• Correspondence

  • ·Potential pros and cons of the kinect-based real-time audiovisual feedback device during in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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    Je Hyeok Oh

    
  • ·Reply to letter, “Potential pros and cons of the Kinect-based real-time audiovisual feedback device during in-hospital CPR”

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    Jen-Chun Wang, Wen-I Liao, Shih-Hung Tsai

    
  • ·Predicting 72-hour emergency department revisits: Methodological issues

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    Erfan Ayubi, Saeid Safiri

    
  • ·Model performance and variable selection method - A reply to the reader

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    Gene Pellerin, Kelly Gao, Laurence Kaminsky

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  • ·Autonomic imbalance in sepsis

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    Funda Sungur Biteker, Bülent Özlek, O?uzhan Çelik, Eda Özlek, Cem Çil, Volkan Do?an, Murat Biteker

    
  • ·The interplay between autonomic imbalance, cardiac dysfunction, and blood pressure variability in sepsis

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    Jacob E. Nouriel, James H. Paxton

    
  • ·Bias in the measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter

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    Hooman Hossein-Nejad, Maryam Bahreini, Fatemeh Rasooli

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  • ·R-EME: RTLS-event mapping engine applications in emergency medicine

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    Heather A. Heaton, David M. Nestler, Annie T. Sadosty, Vickie K. Ernste, Andy Boggust, Casey M. Clements, Gomathi Marisamy, Kyle R. Koenig, Kalyan S. Pasupathy, Thomas R. Hellmich

    
  • ·Emergency department crowding and sepsis

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    Funda Sungur Biteker, Eda Özlek, O?uzhan Çelik, Bülent Özlek, Murat Biteker

    
  • ·Blood culture contamination and ED overcrowding. Is there a connection?

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    Anish K. Agarwal, David F. Gaieski

    
  • ·Comparison of different methods of size classification of primary spontaneous pneumothorax

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    Giulia Montanari, Daniele Orso, Nicola Guglielmo, Roberto Copetti

     
  • ·Clinical evaluation and management of acute corrosive poisoning in adult patients - A ten year experience

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    A. Chibishev, C. Bozinovska, R. Gulabovski

    
  • ·Trends in opioid prescribing before and after implementation of an emergency department opioid prescribing policy

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    Francesca L. Beaudoin, Adam Janicki, Wanting Zhai, Esther K. Choo

     
  • ·Targeted end point of CVP of 15 mm Hg would be better than that of 12 mm Hg in the patients with mechanical ventilation

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    Xianshi Zhou, Zhongde Zhang, Jun Li, Ye Ye, Guanghua Tang, Banghan Ding

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  • ·RTS and RTS-A have equal value in mortality prediction of patients with severely trauma

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    Di Hao, Hai Hu, Liyuan Peng, Maoni Zeng, Peng Yao, Jie Zhao, Yu Cao

     
  • ·The evaluation of the Clarus® Levitan fibre-optic stylet in a simulated cervical spine immobilisation

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    Dawid Aleksandrowicz, Tomasz Gaszy?ski

    
  • ·What's the evidence for apnoeic oxygenation during intubation? Who, where and when

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    Ruan Vlok, Matthew Binks, Thomas Melhuish, Rhys Holyoak, Leigh White

    
  • ·Predictive factors of negative appendectomy in children

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    M. Zouari, I. Abid, M. Ben Dhaou, H. Louati, M. Jallouli, R. Mhiri

    
  • ·Should patients with traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest be transferred?

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    Chun-Kai Chen, Chien-Chin Hsu, Kuo-Tai Chen

     
  • ·Consideration of atrial arrhythmias associated with cardiac tamponade and pericarditis

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    Satish Maharaj, Julio Perez-Downes, Karan Seegobin, Simone Chang

    

• Corrigendum

  • ·Corrigendum to “Remote management of low- to intermediate-risk chest pain: a case series” (Am J Emerg Med [2017])

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    Alexander Chiu, Kathleen Shumaker, Christopher del Corral, Blessy George, Michael Kasper, Marie-Carmelle Elie-Turenne, Preeti Jois, Daniel Dipsia, Meaghan Donnelly, Lauren Sidow, Caroline Chau, Adam Ash

    

• Case Reports

  • ·Blunt traumatic axillary artery truncation, in the absence of associated fracture

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    Emily Bokser, William Caputo, Barry Hahn, Josh Greenstein

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  • ·Primary Adrenal Failure in the Emergency Department

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    Al Giwa

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  • ·A tick-acquired red meat allergy

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    Joe Kevin Khoury, Neil Christian Khoury, Deborah Schaefer, Anup Chitnis, Getaw Worku Hassen

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  • ·Metformin intoxication: Vasopressin's key role in the management of severe lactic acidosis

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    Francesca Galiero, Giovanni Consani, Gianni Biancofiore, Stefano Ruschi, Francesco Forfori

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  • ·Nondisplaced pubic ramus fracture associated with exsanguination and death

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    Chana Rich, James Rayner, Neha Raukar

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  • ·Chest pain as a manifestation of hypokalemia in a pediatric patient

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    Jonathan S. Schiffman

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  • ·Primary aortoesophageal fistula: A fatal outcome

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    Yang Yang, Die Hu, Daoquan Peng

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  • ·ECMO used successfully in a near fatal case of opioid-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome

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    Karen Greenberg, Benjamin Kohl

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  • ·Fulminant adrenergic myocarditis complicated by pulmonary edema, cardiogenic shock and cardiac arrest

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    Pawel Rostoff, Bohdan Nessler, Patrycja Pikul, Karolina Golinska-Grzybala, Tomasz Miszalski-Jamka, Jadwiga Nessler

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  • ·Improving the neurological prognosis following OHCA using real-time evaluation of cerebral tissue oxygenation

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    Yasuaki Koyama, Yoshiaki Inoue, Shuhei Hisago, Aiki Marushima, Keiichi Hagiya, Yuichiro Yamasaki, Yuki Enomoto, Nobutake Shimojo, Satoru Kawano, Taro Mizutani

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  • ·Cardiac arrest associated with aortic valve regurgitation

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    Hyun Suk Chai, Suk Woo Lee, Jung Soo Park, Sang Chul Kim, Ji Han Lee, Hoon Kim

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  • ·The “Spiked Helmet” sign - A potential relationship to Takotsubo cardiomyopathy

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    Fuad Samadov, Emil Gasimov, Farid Aliyev, Elnur Isayev

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