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Emergency Medicine Clinical Research Publications

Yealy DM, Adams JG. Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Neurologic Emergencies Interest Group response to the SAEM Board Position on Optimizing Care of the Stroke Patient – In Replay. Acad Emerg Med. 2004 Jan;11(1):118.

Biros MH, Adams JG, Cone DC. Executive summary: disparities in emergency health care. Acad Emerg Med. 2003 Nov;10(11):1153-4.

Adams JG, Chisholm CD; SAEM Board of Directors. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine position on optimizing care of the stroke patient. Acad Emerg Med. 2003 Jul;10(7):805.

Adams JG, Gerson LW. A new model for emergency care of geriatric patients. Acad Emerg Med. 2003 Mar;10(3):271-4.

Collings J. Rosen and Barkin's 5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult 2nd Edition. Bradyarrhythmias. (In press).

Collings J. Rosen and Barkin's 5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult 2nd Edition. Tachyarrhythmias. (In press).

Collings J et al. Difficult Patients in the ED. Article for the Medical Student Section SAEM website

Kline JA, Newgard C, Cowles DN, Jackson RE, Courtney DM. Use of pulse oximetry to predict in-hospital complications in normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism. American Journal of Medicine, September 2003 (in press).

Courtney DM, Blackwell TH, Kline JA. Prospective application of a decision rule by paramedics and emergency physicians to identify pulmonary embolism as cause of arrest in outpatients with pulseless electrical activity. (Abstract) Academic Emergency Medicine, 10(5): 431, May 2003.

Richman PB, Courtney DM, Friese J et. Al. Chest CT angiography to rule out pulmonary embolism frequently reveals clinically significant ancillary findings: a multicenter study of 1025 emergency department patients. (Abstract) Academic Emergency Medicine, 10(5): 564-565, May 2003.

Kline JA, Newgard C, Cowles DN, Jackson RE, Courtney DM. Use of pulse oximetry to predict in-hospital complications in normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism. American Journal of Medicine, 2003 (In review).

Courtney DM, Colucciello SA: Pediatric eye trauma in pediatric emergency medicine: A comprehensive study guide. Strange GR, Ahrens W, Lelyveld S, Schafermeyer R, eds. McGraw-Hill. New York, 2002.

Courtney DM, Crowns KV. Are African American females at increased risk of sudden death from Pulmonary Embolism? (Abstract) Academic Emergency Medicine. 2002 9(5):458-459.

Courtney DM, Watts JA, Kline JA. End tidal CO(2) is reduced during hypotension and cardiac arrest in a rat model of massive pulmonary embolism. Resuscitation. 2002 Apr;53(1):83-91.

Kline JA, Putman M, Courtney DM. Fatal pulmonary embolism immediately after transatlantic air travel to the United States: less than one in a million. Thromb Haemost. 2002 Feb;87(2):342.

Kline JA, Nelson RD, Jackson RE, Courtney DM. Criteria for the safe use of D-dimer testing in emergency department patients with suspected pulmonary embolism: A multicenter US study. Ann Emerg Med. 2002.Feb;39(2):144-52.

Courtney DM, Kline JA. Clinical characteristics of sudden death from massive pulmonary embolism in outpatients. Academic Emergency Medicine, 8:1136-1142, 2001.

Udelson JE, Beshansky JR, Ballin DS, et al (Handler J). Myocardial perfusion imaging for evaluation and triage of patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia: A randomized controlled trial. JAMA. 2002 Dec 4;288(21):2693-700.

Levsky ME, Handler JA, Suarez RD, Esrig ET. False-positive urine beta-HCG in a woman with a tubo-ovarian abscess. J Emerg Med. 2001 Nov;21(4):407-9.

Khare RK, Settimi PD, Bratton SL, Williams DM: Treatment of a Child with Massive Hemoptysis by an Endovascular Stent Graft, In Press, Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

Khare RK, Domeier RM, Frederiksen SM, Welch K: Effect of Age and Mechanism of Injury on Prehospital Clinical Spine Clearance, Abstract, Prehospital Emergency Care. 2004 Jan-Feb; 8(1): 101.

Kowalenko T, Khare RK: Should We Screen for Depression in the Emergency Department? In Press, Academic Emergency Medicine, February 2004.

Chao N, Kyriacou DN, Lenhardt R. Meta-analysis of beta agonist medictions for childhood asthma: a systematic review. (Manuscript in preparation).

Kyriacou DN, Stein A, Yarnold P, Nelson R, Courtney DM, Handler JA, Frerichs RR. Clinical recognition of bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax. (Manuscript in preparation).

Kyriacou DN, Stein A, Yarnold P, Courtney DM, Nelson R. Clinicopathological comparisons of bioterrorism-related and naturally occurring cases of inhalational anthrax. (Manuscript in preparation).

Handel D, Kyriacou DN, Collings J, Stein A, Nelson R. Outpatient follow-up compliance rates of emergency department patients: a comparison of instructional discharge methods. Abstract presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum, Seattle, Washington, October 2002. (Manuscript submitted - Ann Emerg Med).

Kyriacou DN, Frerichs RR. Bioterrorist outbreaks: mathematical model simulations and justification for early warning surveillance in the ED. Abstract presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine National Conference St. Louis, Missouri, May 2002. (Manuscript in preparation).

Lenhardt R, Malone A, Grant EN, Weiss KB. Trends in emergency department asthma care in metropolitan Chicago: results from the Chicago Asthma Surveillance Initiative. Chest. 2003 Nov;124(5):1774-80.

Levine MR, Yarnold PR, Michelson EA. A training program in portable fluoroscopy for the detection of glass in soft tissues. Acad Emerg Med. 2002 Aug;9(8):858-62.

Gray RO, Mathews JJ. Hypertension. Rosen's Emergency Medicine. Concepts and Clinical Practice, 5th ed. Marx, et al. Mosby, Inc., Vol 2, 2002:1158-71.

Mathews JJ. Tetanus. Emergency Medicine Secrets, 3rd ed. Markovchick and Pons. Hanley & Belfus. 2002:261-3.

Rosenbloom M, Medical error reduction and personal digital assistants (PDAs). Journal Internat Pediatrics 2003 18(2): 203-211.

Tanabe P, Steinmann R, Kippenhan M, Stehman C, & Beach C. (In press, June 2004). Undiagnosed Hypertension in the ED Setting – An Unrecognized Opportunity for Emergency Nurses. Journal of Emergency Nursing.

Tanabe P, Steinmann R, Anderson J, Johnson D, Metcalf S, and Ring-Hurn E. (In press). Factors affecting pain scores during female urethral catheterization. Acad Emerg Med.

Tanabe P, Ferket K, Thomas R, Paice J, Marcantonio R. The effect of standard care, ibuprofen, and distraction on pain relief and patient satisfaction in children with musculoskeletal trauma. J Emerg Nurs. 2002 Apr;28(2):118-25.

Tanabe P, Kyriacou DN, Garland F. Factors affecting the risk of blood bank specimen hemolysis. Acad Emerg Med, 2003 Aug;10(8):897-900.

Tanabe P, You must brace for change in ED pain management. ED Nursing, 2002 6(1);8-9.

Tanabe P, Thomas R, Paice J, Spiller M, Marcantonio R. The effect of standard care ibuprofen, and music on pain relief and patient satisfaction in adults with musculoskeletal trauma. J Emerg Nurs. 2001 Apr;27(2):124-31.

Zakarija A, Bandarenko N, Pandey DK, Auerbach A, Raisch D, Kim B, Kwaan H, McKoy J, Schmitt B, Davidson C, Yarnold PR, Gorelick P, Bennett CL. Clopidogrel-associated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP): An update of pharmacovigilance efforts conducted by independent researchers, pharmaceutical suppliers, and the Food and Drug Administration. Stroke. 2004 Feb;35(2):533-7. Epub 2004 Jan 05.

Moran JV, Conley DB, Grammer LC, Haines GK, Kern RC, Yarnold PR, Tripathi A, Harris KE, Ditto AM. Specific inflammatory cell types and disease severity as predictors of post-surgical outcomes in patients with chronic sinusitis. Allergy and Asthma Proceedings. Allergy Asthma Proc. 2003 Nov-Dec;24(6):431-6.

Arozullah AM, Parada J, Bennett CL, Deloria-Knoll M, Chmiel JS, Phan L, Yarnold PR. A rapid staging system for predicting mortality from HIV-associated community-acquired pneumonia. Chest 2003;123:1151-60.

Malik A, Saltoun CA, Yarnold PR, Grammer LC. Prevalence of obstructive airways disease in the Disadvantaged elderly of Chicago. Allergy and Asthma Proceedings. In Press.

Sureka A, Deloria-Knoll M, Chmiel JS, Phan L, Lyons TM, Ali S, Parada LP, Yarnold PR, Weinstein RA, DeHovitz JA, Jacobson JM, Goetz MB, Campo RE, Berland B, Bennett CL, Uphold CR. HIV-related pneumonia care in older patients hospitalized in the early HAART era. AIDS Patient Care and STDs. In Press.

Green D, Hartwig D, Chen D, Soltysik RC, Yarnold PR. Spinal cord injury risk assessment for thromboembolism (SPIRATE Study). American Journal of Physical Med Rehabil. 2003 Dec;82(12):950-6.

Batra PS, Kern RC, Yarnold PR, Tripathi A, Conley DB, Ditto AM, Haines GK, Grammer LC. Outcome analysis of endoscopic sinus surgery in patients with nasal polyps and asthma. Laryngoscope 2003;113:1703-1706.

Grammer LC, Zeiss CR, Yarnold PR, Shaughnessy MA. Human leucocyte antigens (HLA) and trimellitic anhydride (TMA) immunologic lung disease. Respiratory Medicine 2002;18:473-477.

Grammer LC, Harris KE, Yarnold PR. Effect of respiratory protective devices on development of antibody and occupational asthma to an acid anhydride. Chest. 2002 Apr;121(4):1317-22.

Palmer JN, Conley BD, Dong RG, Ditto AM, Yarnold PR, Kern RC. Efficacy of endoscopic sinus surgery in the management of patients with asthma and chronic sinusitis. Am J Rhinol. 2001 Jan-Feb;15(1):49-53.

Kim B, Lyons TM, Parada JP, Uphold CR, Yarnold PR, Hounshell JB, Sipler AM, Goetz MB, DeHovitz JA, Weinstein RA, Campo RE, Bennett CL. HIV-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in older patients hospitalized in the early HAART era. J Gen Intern Med. 2001 Sep;16(9):583-9.

Curtis JR, Yarnold PR, Schwartz DN, Weinstein RA, Bennett CL. Improvements in outcomes of acute respiratory failure for patients with HIV-related Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2000;162:393-398.

 

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