Abstracts in Urgent Care: June, 2009
Incidence of AMI in Patients with Syncope Key point: In a cohort study of nearly 1,500 patients presented without ST-segment elevation. Citation: McDermott D, Quinn JV, Murphy CE. Acute myocardial infarction in patients with syncope. CJEM. 2009; 11: 156-160. Which patients with syncope require hospital admission? To answer this question, researchers studied the incidence of acute myocardial infarction within 30 days of presentation in a cohort of 1,474 consecutive emergency department patients who presented with …
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May 2009
Abstracts in Urgent Care: April, 2009
Should the Elbow Extension Test Be Used to Rule Out Bony Injury? Key point: Full elbow extension had a negative predictive value for fracture of 98.4% in adults and 95.8% in children. Citation: Appelboam A, Reuben AD, Benger JR, et al. Elbow extension test to rule out elbow fracture: Multicentre, prospective validation and observational study of diagnostic accuracy in adults and children. BMJ. 2008; 337: a2428. The objective of this study was to determine whether …
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Abstracts in Urgent Care: January 2009
Who Needs a Blood Culture in the ED? Key point: Use of a prediction rule might reduce use of cultures in low-risk patients. Citation: Shapiro NI, Wolfe RE, Wright SB, et al. Who needs a blood culture? A prospectively derived and validated prediction rule. J Emerg Med. 2008; 35(3): 255-264. Although blood cultures often are obtained for patients in the emergency department, little evidence is available to guide patient selection for such testing. Currently, general …
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