Stratification of sedation risk--a challenge to the sedation continuumSteven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, 11234 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Paediatr Anaesth 21:924-31. 2011
..It is important to clearly delineate this goal now to permit design and initiation of the requisite research...
- Trauma surgery: discipline in crisis
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 53:198-207. 2009
..Implications of these issues for emergency physicians and for trauma care overall are discussed...
- Ketamine and neurotoxicity: clinical perspectives and implications for emergency medicine
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:181-90. 2009
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- Predictors of airway and respiratory adverse events with ketamine sedation in the emergency department: an individual-patient data meta-analysis of 8,282 children
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:158-68.e1-4. 2009
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- Anticholinergics and ketamine sedation in children: a secondary analysis of atropine versus glycopyrrolate
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:157-62. 2010
..The authors contrasted the adverse events noted with use of each of these anticholinergics in a large multicenter observational database of ketamine sedations...
- Implementation of a journal peer reviewer stratification system based on quality and reliability
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 57:149-152.e4. 2011
..We hypothesize that a tiered reviewer stratification system might enable our journal editors to target the bulk of their review invitations to our better reviewers and thus improve our efficiency...
- Predictors of emesis and recovery agitation with emergency department ketamine sedation: an individual-patient data meta-analysis of 8,282 children
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA
Ann Emerg Med 54:171-80.e1-4. 2009
..Ketamine is widely used in emergency departments (EDs) to facilitate painful procedures; however, existing descriptors of predictors of emesis and recovery agitation are derived from relatively small studies...
- Laryngospasm during emergency department ketamine sedation: a case-control study
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 26:798-802. 2010
..The objective of this study was to assess predictors of emergency department (ED) ketamine-associated laryngospasm using case-control techniques...
- Adjunctive atropine is unnecessary during ketamine sedation in children
Lance Brown
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 15:314-8. 2008
..Emergency physicians (EPs) are known to omit this adjunct, so a prospective study to describe the safety profile of this practice was initiated...
- Do the American College of Surgeons' "major resuscitation" trauma triage criteria predict emergency operative management?
Robert Steele
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:1-6. 2007
..We wish to assess whether individual or collective American College of Surgeons' "major resuscitation" criteria accurately identify injured patients who receive emergency operative treatment...
- A comparison of five simplified scales to the out-of-hospital Glasgow Coma Scale for the prediction of traumatic brain injury outcomes
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:968-73. 2006
..The 15-point Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) frequently is used in the initial evaluation of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in out-of-hospital settings. We hypothesized that the GCS might be unnecessarily complex for out-of-hospital use...
- Can the bispectral index monitor the sedation adequacy of intubated ED adults?
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Am J Emerg Med 22:76-82. 2004
..53). BIS is not associated with and did not predict standard measures of sedation adequacy in intubated adults...
- Ketamine-associated vomiting: is it dose-related?
Andrea W Thorp
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Pediatr Emerg Care 25:15-8. 2009
..Vomiting is a common adverse event after emergency department ketamine sedation in children. We sought to determine if the rate of vomiting is dose related to intravenous ketamine...
- Emergency department children are not as sick as adults: implications for critical care skills retention in an exclusively pediatric emergency medicine practice
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, A 108, 11234 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
J Emerg Med 37:359-68. 2009
..These findings may have important implications for ongoing skills retention and proficiency in critical care for practitioners whose ED practice is restricted to representative samples of children...
- Validation of the Simplified Motor Score for the prediction of brain injury outcomes after trauma
Jason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Ann Emerg Med 50:18-24. 2007
..The purpose of this study was to validate the Simplified Motor Score in a large heterogeneous trauma population...
- Interrater reliability of 3 simplified neurologic scales applied to adults presenting to the emergency department with altered levels of consciousness
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:403-7, 407.e1. 2007
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- Clinical practice guideline for emergency department ketamine dissociative sedation in children
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 44:460-71. 2004
..We critically discuss indications, contraindications, personnel requirements, monitoring, dosing, coadministered medications, recovery issues, and future research questions for dissociative sedation...
- A comparison of the Glasgow Coma Scale score to simplified alternative scores for the prediction of traumatic brain injury outcomes
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 45:37-42. 2005
..We hypothesized that the GCS might be unnecessarily complex and that a simpler scoring system might demonstrate similar accuracy in the prediction of traumatic brain injury outcomes...
- Fasting and emergency department procedural sedation and analgesia: a consensus-based clinical practice advisory
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:454-61. 2007
..It is expected that emergency physicians will at times appropriately deviate from it according to individualized judgment and unique clinical circumstances...
- Can the bispectral index monitor quantify altered level of consciousness in emergency department patients?
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:175-9. 2003
..They compared the BIS score with the Glasgow Coma Scale score (GCS) in emergency department (ED) patients with ALOC...
- Exhaled nitric oxide levels during acute asthma exacerbation
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, CA, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:579-86. 2005
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- Barriers to propofol use in emergency medicine
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 52:392-8. 2008
..This article details the evidence and politics underlying this area of controversy, the nature and authority of hospital-wide sedation policies, and discussion of the most common criticisms of emergency department use of propofol...
- Ventilatory response during dissociative sedation in children-a pilot study
Grace Kim
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:140-5. 2003
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- Clinical practice guideline for emergency department ketamine dissociative sedation: 2011 update
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 57:449-61. 2011
..We critically discuss indications, contraindications, personnel requirements, monitoring, dosing, coadministered medications, recovery issues, and future research questions for ketamine dissociative sedation...
- Interrater reliability of Glasgow Coma Scale scores in the emergency department
Michelle R Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 43:215-23. 2004
..We determined the interrater reliability of the GCS between emergency physicians when adult patients with altered levels of consciousness are assessed...
- Pulmonary aspiration risk during emergency department procedural sedation--an examination of the role of fasting and sedation depth
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:35-42. 2002
..The article discusses the implications in the areas of training and preparedness, monitoring, and research for the emergency physician practicing PSA...
- Incidence and severity of recovery agitation after ketamine sedation in young adults
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, CA 92354, USA
Am J Emerg Med 23:142-4. 2005
..The nature of such reactions has not been previously described in young adults, and accordingly we wished to quantify the incidence and severity of recovery agitation after ketamine sedation in patients aged 16 to 21 years...
- Is there evidence to support the need for routine surgeon presence on trauma patient arrival?
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA, USA
Ann Emerg Med 47:405-11. 2006
..Individual trauma centers should be permitted the flexibility necessary to perform such research and to use such findings to refine and focus their secondary triage criteria...
- A study of the Bispectral Index Monitor during procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 41:234-41. 2003
..We hypothesized that bispectral index monitoring would reliably correlate with traditional definitions of sedation depth in emergency department patients undergoing procedural sedation and analgesia...
- Retrograde endotracheal intubation: an investigation of indications, complications, and patient outcomes
Michelle Gill
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, CA 92354, USA
Am J Emerg Med 23:123-6. 2005
..We found that although REI was attempted for trauma and non-trauma-related respiratory compromise, it was associated with multiple complications, and successful in only 4 of 8 cases...
- Pediatric wound triage protocols
Steven M Green
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Loma Linda University Medical Center A-108 and Children's Hospital, 11234 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 42:25-6. 2003
- High yield criteria for obtaining non-trauma chest radiography in the adult emergency department population
Steven G Rothrock
Department of Emergency Medicine, Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, Florida 32806, USA
J Emerg Med 23:117-24. 2002
..If prospectively validated, these criteria may permit clinicians to confidently reduce the number of radiographs in this population...
- Ginkgo biloba and acetazolamide prophylaxis for acute mountain sickness: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Tony Chow
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children s Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Arch Intern Med 165:296-301. 2005
..We performed a randomized, placebo-controlled trial of acetazolamide vs Ginkgo biloba for AMS prophylaxis...
- Intravenous epinephrine in asthma? A word of caution
Steven M Green
Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children's Hospital, Loma Linda, CA 92354, USA
Ann Emerg Med 41:712-3. 2003
