The Australian Prehospital Emergency Health Research Forum

Australian Environment Forum

1 Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2 Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Sandy, United Kingdom, 3 School of Biological Sciences, Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 4 Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, Universidad de Castilla–La Mancha, Cuidad Real, S...

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11th Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Research Forum

With author permission, seven selected abstracts are printed below and the remainder are published online at www.westjem.org. Objectives: To evaluate emergency medicine (EM) residents' ability to detect ocular pathology using portable ultrasound (US) in a live porcine model. Methods: This was a single-blinded outcome study to determine both the validity of a live porcine model to evaluate ocula...

Prehospital and Emergency Care

Disease or illness can strike at any time. If the condition is acute, or if the injury is life-threatening or limbthreatening, immediate care is needed. These timedependent conditions that affect both adults and children may be due to medical, surgical, or obstetric conditions. They may result from acute injuries or illnesses or from exacerbations of chronic disease. In lowand middle-income cou...

California American College of Emergency Physicians Research Forum Abstracts

Objective: To determine whether it is the direction of the needle bevel, J-tip guidewire, or both that influences the direction of the guidewire in subclavian central line placement. Methods: A total of 1,200 trials were performed using a plastic tubular model simulating the subclavian, IJV, and SCV junction. The trials were divided into six groups: needle bevel pointed upwards with J-tip direc...