http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Japanese researchers have developed a computer program which may be able tell from an emergency call if you are about to die. Research published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine shows that a computer algorithm is able to predict the patient's risk of dying at the time of the emergency call. http://www.physorg.com/news175328694.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:40:02 EST news175328694 The costs of drinking and driving are all too apparent, with alcohol involved in 41 percent of all motor vehicle crash fatalities in 2006. In addition to the mortality and morbidity associated with drinking and driving, the economic impact of alcohol impaired driving is considerable, estimated at $51 billion, with medical costs accounting for 15 percent of that figure. Now a new study from the Injury Prevention Center at Rhode Island Hospital has found that even minimally injured alcohol-impaired drivers account for higher emergency department (ED) costs than other drivers. http://www.physorg.com/news173966264.html Medicine & Health Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:58:23 EST news173966264 (PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, Yale University researchers document a disturbing lack of consistency among U.S. hospitals in how quickly they treat patients in emergency rooms. Furthermore, some hospitals were least able to provide timely care to the sickest patients. The study appears online early in Annals of Emergency Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news173637912.html Medicine & Health Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:00:06 EST news173637912 (PhysOrg.com) -- An 11year national analysis at Children's Hospital Boston shows that side effects or accidental overdoses of medications are a common complication of outpatient care in children, generating more than half a million additional visits per year, particularly in children age 4 and younger. Findings are reported in the October issue of Pediatrics. http://www.physorg.com/news173377334.html Medicine & Health Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:50:05 EST news173377334 Virtually anyone has the skills to safely insert a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) to keep a patient's airway open during resuscitation, and medical expertise isn't required - perhaps just a familiarity with ER, House or Grey's Anatomy. A study, published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine, also found that just two hours of training was enough to make first-responders faster and more efficient during these highly critical situations. http://www.physorg.com/news172818661.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:11:24 EST news172818661 Sixty percent of the causes of unintended incidents in the emergency department that could have compromised patient safety are related to human failures, according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Emergency Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news172434463.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:28:08 EST news172434463 There are an estimated 7.6 million alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits each year in the country. A first step in identifying an alcohol problem is screening all ED patients utilizing two well-researched screening tests. Once identified, one technique that has proven successful is motivationally-based brief interviews focused on reducing alcohol use. The research to date, however, has been focused on an academic medical environment and not within the more common environment of the community hospital ED, where 56 percent of all ED visits occur. http://www.physorg.com/news170332477.html Medicine & Health Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:00:01 EST news170332477 All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor's touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that. http://www.physorg.com/news169833592.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:50:02 EST news169833592 Children with arm fractures fared as well with ibuprofen to control their pain as acetaminophen with codeine, according to a new study by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Children's Research Institute. http://www.physorg.com/news169790761.html Medicine & Health Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:16:12 EST news169790761 An initiative is underway to improve emergency medical care for Illinois' youngest patients. Loyola University Health System (LUHS), in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Public Health and other area hospitals, has established a process to support facilities in managing critically ill and injured children across Illinois. This process is outlined in the latest issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news169479934.html Medicine & Health Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:00:02 EST news169479934 Simulating medical scenarios helps medical students learn and retain vital information, according to a new study done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news166772299.html Medicine & Health Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:39:09 EST news166772299 You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes. http://www.physorg.com/news165689018.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:50:01 EST news165689018 Appendicitis is the most common childhood surgical emergency, but the diagnosis can be challenging, especially in children, often leading to either unnecessary surgery in children without appendicitis, or a ruptured appendix and serious complications when the condition is missed. Now, emergency medicine physicians and scientists at the Proteomics Center at Children's Hospital Boston demonstrate that a protein detectable in urine might serve as a "biomarker" for appendicitis. Their report was published online June 23 by the Annals of Emergency Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news164962748.html Medicine & Health Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:00:19 EST news164962748 June 04, 2009 - Patients with heart attacks and other forms of chest pain are three to five times more likely to experience serious complications after hospital admission when they are treated in a crowded emergency department (ED), according to a new study published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine. The authors say that this dramatic difference in rates of serious complications underscores the need for action on the part of hospital administrators, policymakers and emergency physicians to find solutions to what has been termed "a national public health problem." More than six million patients per year come to U.S. emergency departments with chest pain. http://www.physorg.com/news163335676.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:01:36 EST news163335676 Physicians teaching at medical schools and doctors who have just completed their first year out of medical school disagree about which procedures are necessary to learn before graduating, according to a new survey done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news160056379.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:06:58 EST news160056379 People who suffer cardiac arrests and then receive coronary angiography are twice as likely to survive without significant brain damage compared with those who don't have the procedure, according to a study by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine researchers. The study, published in the May/June issue of the Journal of Intensive Care Medicine and now available online, showed that patient outcomes improved with coronary angiography, an imaging procedure that shows how blood flows through the heart, regardless of certain clinical and demographic factors that influenced who received the procedure. http://www.physorg.com/news157726880.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:02:09 EST news157726880 Many doctors don't offer emergency contraception pills to adolescents who may benefit from them during emergency department visits because of misinformation about how the medicine works, according to a study by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. http://www.physorg.com/news155480396.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:00:31 EST news155480396 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you think that you are allergic to penicillin, ask yourself this: How do you know? http://www.physorg.com/news154893468.html Medicine & Health Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:58:09 EST news154893468 Two-thirds of patients referred for psychiatric services following an emergency room visit are likely to reach only an answering machine when they call for help, compared to about 20 percent of patients calling medical clinics with physical symptoms. Only 10 percent of all calls to mental health clinics in nine U.S. cities resulted in an appointment scheduled within two weeks, according to a new University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news154779867.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:24:51 EST news154779867 A new study examining the aftereffects of a chlorine gas disaster in a South Carolina town gives larger metropolitan areas important insight into what to expect and how to prepare emergency response systems for an accidental or terrorist release of the potentially deadly gas. The study is now available in the January 2009 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news149769639.html Medicine & Health Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:40:39 EST news149769639 Excessive police violence is evident in the types of injury and trauma emergency care doctors are treating in the US, indicates research published in Emergency Medicine Journal. http://www.physorg.com/news149311183.html Medicine & Health Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:19:43 EST news149311183 The number of physicians with board certification in emergency medicine is unlikely to meet the staffing needs of U.S. emergency departments in the foreseeable future, if ever; according to a study from a research team based at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In the December issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, the investigators report finding that staffing every emergency department with board-certified emergency physicians does not appear to be feasible, given their projections for the field. http://www.physorg.com/news148736550.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:42:30 EST news148736550 When patients are discharged from the emergency department, their recovery depends on carefully following the doctors' instructions for their post care at home. Yet a vast majority of patients don't fully understand what they are supposed to do, and most are not even aware of the chasm in their understanding. http://www.physorg.com/news135518489.html Medicine & Health Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:01:29 EST news135518489 Every year, more than 115 million patients enter emergency rooms at hospitals around the nation. And more than three-quarters of them leave with an impression of what happened - or what should happen next - that doesn't match what their emergency care team would want. http://www.physorg.com/news135423920.html Medicine & Health Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:45:20 EST news135423920