| | The Department proudly congratulates our faculty and residents on their abstracts acceptances to the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) held in Washington, D.C., May 29-June 1, 2008. Assessment of Emergency Department Team Communication from the Perspective of Age, Race, and Gender, Sarah Donlan, MD Can a poison center overdose guideline safely reduce pediatric ED visits? Colleen Hickey, MD Prospective assessment of the HemosIL HS D-Dimer assay in exclusion of venous thromboembolism, Justin Steinberg, MBA Prospective Multi-Center Analysis of Controversial Predictor Variables for Venous Thromboembolism in a Large Cohort of Symptomatic ED Patients, D. Mark Courtney Prediction of Long-Term Survival From Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Normotensive Patients, D. Mark Courtney, MD The Relationship between Peak ED Boarding Times and Inpatient Bed Availability through Inpatient Discharges, Emilie Powell, MD ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Peter S. Pang, John G.F. Cleland, John R. Teerlink, Sean P. Collins, Christopher J. Lindsell, George Sopko, W. Frank Peacock, Gregg C. Fonarow, Amer Z. Aldeen, J. Douglas Kirk, Alan B. Storrow, Miguel Tavares, Alexandre Mebazaa, Edmond Roland, Barry M. Massie, Alan S. Maisel, Michel Komajda, Gerasimos Filippatos, Mihai Gheorghiade, and for the Acute Heart Failure Syndromes International Working Group
A proposal to standardize dyspnoea measurement in clinical trials of acute heart failure syndromes: the need for a uniform approach
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 1, 2008. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Bennett CL, Silver SM, Djulbegovic B, Samaras AT, Blau CA, Gleason KJ, Barnato SE, Elverman KM, Courtney DM, McKoy JM, Edwards BJ, Tigue CC, Raisch DW, Yarnold PR, Dorr DA, Kuzel TM, Tallman MS, Trifilio SM, West DP, Lai SY, Henke M. Venous thromboembolism and mortality associated with recombinant erythropoietin and darbepoetin administration for the treatment of cancer-associated anemia. JAMA. 2008 Feb 27;299(8):914-24. Review. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Lehrmann JF, Tanabe P, Baumann BM, Jones MK, Martinovich Z, Adams JG. Knowledge translation of the American College of Emergency Physicians clinicalpolicy on hypertension. Acad Emerg Med. 2007 Nov;14(11):1090-6. Epub 2007 Sep 26. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Tanabe P, Myers R, Zosel A, Brice J, Ansari AH, Evans J, Martinovich Z, Todd KH, Paice JA. Emergency department management of acute pain episodes in sickle cell disease. Acad Emerg Med. 2007 May;14(5):419-25. Epub 2007 Mar 26. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Griffith JD, Mycyk MB, Kyriacou DN. Metoclopramide Versus Hydromorphone for the Emergency Department Treatment of Migraine Headache. J Pain. 2007 Nov 2.________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Arozullah AM, Yarnold PR, Bennett CL, Soltysik RC, Wolf MS, Ferreira RM, Lee SY, Costello S, Shakir A, Denwood C, Bryant FB, Davis T. Development and validation of a short-form, rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine. Med Care. 2007 Nov;45(11):1026-33.
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine Research Newsletter is now available for download here. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Congratulations to faculty member Michael Schmidt, MD, and co-author S. Bryant on "Hydrofluoric Acid Burn to Penis" in the 2007 September issue of the Journal of Toxicology-Clinical Toxicology.
Congratulations to faculty members Jill F. Lehrmann, MD, MPH, Paula Tanabe, MD, MPH, RN, and James G. Adams, MD, on publication of "Knowledge Translation of the American College of Emergency Physicians Clinical Policy on Hypertension" currently in press with Academic Emergency Medicine. Other co-authors include: Brigette M. Baumann, MD, MSCE, Molly K. Jones, BS, and Zoran Martinovich, PhD ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Congratulations to Matthew R. Levine, MD, for his presentation, "Clinical Characteristics and Management of Wound Foreign Bodies in the Emergency Department." Dr. Levine presented at this year's Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Midwest Regional Meeting held on Thursday, September 20th, in Detroit, Michigan. Others contributing to the poster were: D. Mark Courtney, Stephen M. Gorman, BS, and Christian F. Young, MD. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Pictured above: Steven Bird, MD; D. Mark Courtney, MD; Edbert Hsu, MD Earlier this year during the 2007 SAEM conference, Dr. D. Mark Courtney was honored with a Young Investigator Award. We are very proud of Dr. Courtney's work. SAEM 2007 Young Investigator award winners are featured on the SAEM homepage. | ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| The Department proudly congratulates our faculty and residents on their abstracts acceptances to the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) 38th Annual Scientific Assembly held in Seattle, WA, October 8-11, 2007. "We are attracting well-deserved national recognition because of our faculty and residents' great work at SAEM and now ACEP," said James G. Adams, MD, chair. "The subsequent manuscript publications will quickly establish everyone as leading thinkers - the need for these individuals and their work is huge."
Titles and authors for the 2007 ACEP conference (presenters are bolded): Is Female Gender Associated with Emergency Department Delays to Diagnosis of Appendicitis in the CT-Era?
Sarah Donlan, Mark B. Mycyck Cost Analysis of CT Coronary Angiography in Observation Unit Patients after Positive or Indeterminate Stress Tests
Rahul K. Khare, Emilie S. Powell, Todd A. Lee, Arjun K. Venkatesh, D. Mark Courtney The Cost of Unnecessary Cardiac Catheterization: Creating a Case for Better Evaluation of Low Risk Chest Pain Patients
Rahul K. Khare, Arjun K. Venkatesh, Emilie S. Powell, Todd A. Lee, D. Mark Courtney Using Computer Simulation to Evaluate the Effect of Point-of-Care Testing on Emergency Department Patient Flow
Rahul K. Khare, Emilie S. Powell, Martin Lucenti, Gilles Reinhardt Using Computer Simulation as an ED Operations Tool and Research Resource
Rahul K. Khare, Emilie S. Powell, Martin Lucenti, Gilles Reinhardt ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
The Department commends research faculty member Paul Yarnold, PhD, for his contributions to biostatistics. Dr. Yarnold will be giving a presentation at the Join Biostatistics/Bioinformatics Meeting on Friday, July 20, 2007 at 9:30 am on "The use of hierarchically optimal classification tree analysis in medical research: The first decade." The meeting will take place at 676 North Saint Clair, Suite 1200, Conference Room 1206. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| D. Robert Rodgers, MD, has earned a top 50 abstracts ranking for Effect of Didactic and Simulation Teaching on Healthcare Providers Knowledge of Chemical Terror Agent Exposure Management. The abstract was submitted to MEMC IV which will take place on September 15-19, 2007, in Sorrento, Italy. Congratulations, Dr. Rodgers! ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Dr. Courtney will be presenting findings from his work on pretest probability and diagnostic test assessment at the 21st annual meeting of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis(ISTH) in Geneva Switzerland, July 8th 2007. The ISTH is an international society with members from more than 70 countries. Its objectives are to foster and advance science relating to the important medical problems of thrombosis and abnormalities of hemostasis and vascular biology; to provide a forum for discussion of these problems; to encourage research on these problems by scientists of the several relevant disciplines and to foster the diffusion and exchange of ideas through scientific meetings and publications. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| In May 2007, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine will recognize Dr. Mark Courtney with the Young Investigator Award. This annual award is given to three people each year and recognizes investigators from across the entire specialty who have demonstrated promise and distinction in their emergency medicine research careers. The purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage emergency physicians/scientists of junior academic rank who have a demonstrated commitment to research as evidenced by academic achievement and qualifications. Dr. Courtney will receive this award at the business meeting of the Society on Friday May 18th at 3pm. |
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| | The Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, 3rd annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day is being held on Wednesday March 7, 2007 in the Atrium of the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, 303 E. Superior St. The department has a particularly strong showing this year with multiple EM resident and faculty submissions. Please click here for more information about the Lewis Landsberg Research Day at FSM. http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/research-general/research-day/callforabstracts.htm ___________________________________________________________________________ The Department will be hosting the Illinois College of Emergency Physicians (ICEP) annual Spring Symposium on March 14, 2007 in the Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Feinberg Pavilion, Conference Room A. In addition to several national presentations, there will also be the annual resident research forum and competition where original abstracts and posters from residents across the state of Illinois will be presenting. The Department is pleased to have 4 abstracts in this year's competition. For more detail please click here. For more information about the ICEP symposium and registration please click here: www.icep.org |
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| Please note the recent multicenter study published in Journal of Pain by Drs. Knox Todd, Paula Tanabe et al "Pain in the Emergency Department: Results of the Pain and Emergency Medicine Initiative (PEMI) Multicenter Study." Their main conclusion, "ED pain intensity is high, analgesics are underutilized, and delays to treatment are common." "Despite efforts to improve pain management practice, oligoanalgesia remains a problem for emergency medicine." This is excellent research that identifies and highlights the suboptimal management of pain in EDs. Congratulations Dr. Tanabe! Link to Article (PDF) |
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