Hospital costs and revenue are similar for resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and ST-segment acute myocardial infarction patientsRobert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, Royal Oak, MI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:612-6. 2010
..The objective was to describe financial parameters of care for patients resuscitated from OOHCA...
Cardiac arrest in private locations: different strategies are needed to improve outcomeRobert A Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Resuscitation 58:171-6. 2003
..A tremendous amount of public resources are focused on improving cardiac arrest (OHCA) survival in public places, yet most OHCAs occur in private residences...
- A randomized controlled trial of chest compression only CPR for older adults-a pilot study
Robert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Wayne State University, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Resuscitation 58:177-85. 2003
..Older people are trained infrequently in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), yet are more likely to witness a cardiac arrest. Older people who are CPR trained perform CPR when witnessing a cardiac arrest...
- Estimating cost-effectiveness of mass cardiopulmonary resuscitation training strategies to improve survival from cardiac arrest in private locations
Robert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:420-3. 2004
..Most cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) trainees are young, and most cardiac arrests occur in private residences witnessed by older individuals...
- Potential impact of a targeted cardiopulmonary resuscitation program for older adults on survival from private-residence cardiac arrest
Robert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 W 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:7-12. 2005
..A simultaneous outcome was to estimate the minimal significant survival benefit associated with each of the training programs...
- Does advanced age matter in outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in community-dwelling adults?
R A Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Acad Emerg Med 7:762-8. 2000
..To assess whether advanced age is an independent predictor of survival to hospital discharge in community-dwelling adult patients who sustained an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a suburban county...
- Impact of lay responder actions on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcome
R A Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 4:38-42. 2000
..Little peer-reviewed literature exists regarding the actions of the person who recognized and called 911 at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)...
- Prehospital pain management in children suffering traumatic injury
Robert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, A Wayne State University Affiliated Program, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:40-3. 2005
..Prehospital pain management has become an important emergency medical services (EMS) patient care issue...
- A preliminary study of the reliability of immediate vs. delayed interviews of cardiac arrest witnesses
R A Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 3:110-4. 1999
..Methods to characterize the interval between a collapse from cardiac arrest until a 911 call is made have not yet been developed...
- Prehospital 12-lead ECG: efficacy or effectiveness?
Robert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 10:374-7. 2006
..Previous literature has documented that prehospital 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) decreases the time to reperfusion in patients with an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)...
- Who gets bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a witnessed arrest?
R E Jackson
William Beaumont Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Oak 48073, USA
Acad Emerg Med 4:540-4. 1997
..To identify characteristics associated with provision of bystander CPR in witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases...
- Prehospital clinical findings associated with spinal injury
R M Domeier
St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 1:11-5. 1997
..The objective of this study was to identify clinical findings that are associated with spinal fracture and/or spinal cord injuries in prehospital trauma patients...
- Spinal immobilization in the field: clinical clearance criteria and implementation
D G Hankins
Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Gold Cross Ambulance, Mayo One Helicopter, and Mayo Medical Communications, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 5:88-93. 2001
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- The reliability of prehospital clinical evaluation for potential spinal injury is not affected by the mechanism of injury
R M Domeier
University of Michigan Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency, Ann Arbor, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 3:332-7. 1999
..Maine requires automatic immobilization of patients with "a positive mechanism" clearly capable of producing spinal injury...
- CPR training and CPR performance: do CPR-trained bystanders perform CPR?
Robert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Oak William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:596-601. 2006
..To determine factors associated with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) provision by CPR-trained bystanders and to determine factors associated with CPR performance by trained bystanders...
- Few emergency medical services patients with lower-extremity fractures receive prehospital analgesia
Christine Clara McEachin
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:406-10. 2002
..Previous literature has identified prehospital pain management as an important emergency medical services (EMS) function, and few patients transported by EMS with musculoskeletal injuries receive prehospital analgesia (PA)...
- Current issues in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Michael R Sayre
Department of Emergency Medicine, Bethesda North Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio 45230, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:24-30. 2003
..Therefore, telephone CPR protocols that recommend the immediate initiation of chest compressions may be preferred, particularly for callers who have no previous training in CPR...
- Integration of pre-hospital electrocardiograms and ST-elevation myocardial infarction receiving center (SRC) networks: impact on Door-to-Balloon times across 10 independent regions
Ivan C Rokos
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, UCLA Olive View Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sylmar, California 91342 1495, USA
JACC Cardiovasc Interv 2:339-46. 2009
..The aim of this study was to evaluate the rate of timely reperfusion for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) in regional STEMI Receiving Center (SRC) networks...
- Outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Detroit
Robert B Dunne
Department of Emergency Medicine, Sinai Grace Hospital, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Resuscitation 72:59-65. 2007
..To determine the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate, and prevalence of modifiable factors associated with survival, in Detroit, Michigan, over a 6-month period of time in 2002...
- Acute coronary syndrome: pharmacotherapy
R O'CONNOR
Department of Emergency Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware 19718, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 5:58-64. 2001
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- Emergency medical service providers' experience with family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Scott Compton
Wayne State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, 4201 St Antoine, UHC 6G, Detroit, MI 48201, and William Beaumont Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Oak, United States
Resuscitation 70:223-8. 2006
..To describe emergency medical service providers' experiences with family member presence during resuscitation, and to determine whether those experiences are similar within urban and suburban settings...
- Perceived self-efficacy in performing and willingness to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation in an elderly population in a suburban community
Robert Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Mich, USA
Am J Crit Care 12:65-70. 2003
..CONCLUSION: Adults 56 to 80 years old perceive themselves as able to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and are interested in receiving training...
- Multicenter prospective validation of prehospital clinical spinal clearance criteria
Robert M Domeier
University of Michigan Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, USA
J Trauma 53:744-50. 2002
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- Painful discrimination: the differential use of analgesia in isolated lower limb injuries
Mark J Kozlowski
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, A Wayne State University Affiliated Program, Royal Oak, MI 48067, USA
Am J Emerg Med 20:502-5. 2002
..28 (CI 95% 1.11, 1.48). Patients with fracture were more likely to receive pain, despite reporting identical degree of pain. EPs were more likely to provide analgesia than PAs...
- Delay prior to calling 9-1-1 is associated with increased mortality after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Robert A Swor
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan 48073, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:333-8. 2008
..We sought to characterize the collapse-to-9-1-1 call interval, to evaluate the frequency of pre-9-1-1 delay, and to assess whether delay is associated with decreased survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)...
- Derivation of clinical predictors of failed rescue shock during out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation
James J Menegazzi
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:347-51. 2008
..Failed rescue shocks have been shown to decrease the likelihood of survival in the treatment of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF). Avoidance of failed shocks may improve survival...
- Estimated cost effectiveness of a police automated external defibrillator program in a suburban community: 7 years experience
Christian S Forrer
Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital, 3601 W. 13 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Resuscitation 52:23-9. 2002
..CONCLUSION: Police AED appears to be a cost-effective intervention in these suburban communities which have relatively rapid EMS response intervals...
- Emergency medical services advanced life support response times: lots of heat, little light
Robert A Swor
Acad Emerg Med 9:320-1. 2002
