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| Abhinav ChandraSummaryAffiliation: Duke University Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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An observation unit may help improve an institution's Press Ganey satisfaction scoreAbhinav Chandra
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Crit Pathw Cardiol 10:104-6. 2011..The impact of an emergency department observation unit (EDOU) on patient satisfaction has not been reported to date. We hypothesize that an EDOU has a positive impact on patient satisfaction results as measured by PG surveys...- A multicenter analysis of the ED diagnosis of pneumoniaAbhinav Chandra
Department of Emergency Medicine Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710, USA
Am J Emerg Med 28:862-5. 2010.... - An analysis of the Association of Society of Chest Pain Centers Accreditation to American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction guideline adherenceAbhinav Chandra
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Ann Emerg Med 54:17-25. 2009..The secondary objective is to describe the clinical outcomes and the association with accreditation... - BNP-mediated vasodilatation for dialysis-dependent patient with acute heart failure syndrome in the emergency departmentAbhinav Chandra
Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Ren Fail 30:45-50. 2008..Further trials are required to test this hypothesis... - Emergency physician high pretest probability for acute coronary syndrome correlates with adverse cardiovascular outcomesAbhinav Chandra
Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Acad Emerg Med 16:740-8. 2009..The authors sought to evaluate the predictive value of unstructured physician estimate of risk for ACS in emergency department (ED) patients without obvious initial evidence of a cardiac event... - The rapid impact on mortality rates of a dedicated care team including trauma and emergency physicians at an academic medical centerCharles J Gerardo
Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
J Emerg Med 40:586-91. 2011..Whereas the presence of trauma teams has been associated with improved trauma patient outcomes, the specific components, including the role of emergency medicine (EM)-trained, board-certified emergency physicians, have not been defined... - Utility of observation units for young emergency department chest pain patientsSora Ely
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
J Emerg Med 44:306-12. 2013..The utility of routine observation for cardiac testing in low-risk young adult patients has been questioned... 
Untreated hypercholesterolemia in an emergency department chest pain observation unit populationAbhinav Chandra
Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:699-702. 2002....- Impact of renal dysfunction on acute coronary syndrome evaluation in observation unit patientsAlexander T Limkakeng
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3096, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Am J Emerg Med 28:658-62. 2010..The objective of this study was to document the prevalence of renal dysfunction and assess the association between renal impairment and abnormal cardiac evaluation in observation unit (OU) patients... - Cardiac evaluation for structural abnormalities may not be required in patients presenting with syncope and a normal ECG result in an observation unit settingKenton L Anderson
Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Ann Emerg Med 60:478-84.e1. 2012..The primary aim of this study is to determine the utility of structural analysis of the heart in syncope patients who are being managed in an observation unit and have a normal ECG result... 
Unsuspected pulmonary embolism in observation unit patientsAlexander T Limkakeng
Duke University Medical Center, Division of Emergency Medicine, Durham, NC
West J Emerg Med 10:130-4. 2009..The role of observation units in the diagnosis of PE has not been studied. We hypothesized that there was a small but significant rate of unsuspected PE in our observation unit population...- Left ventricular dysfunction screening in hypertensive patients with N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide and electrocardiogramAlexander T Limkakeng
Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Am J Emerg Med 30:214-7. 2012..Our objective was to determine the diagnostic accuracies of electrocardiogram (ECG) and N-terminal Pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (pro-BNP) for left ventricular hypertrophy individually and in combination in hypertensive ED patients... - Challenges in enrollment of minority, pediatric, and geriatric patients in emergency and acute care clinical researchSeth W Glickman
Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Ann Emerg Med 51:775-780.e3. 2008..The objective of this study is to assess how emergency clinical care and research processes, informed consent, and patient demographic factors (age, sex, and ethnicity/race) affect enrollment and consent in clinical research in the ED... - Is the initial diagnostic impression of "noncardiac chest pain" adequate to exclude cardiac disease?Chadwick D Miller
Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1089, USA
Ann Emerg Med 44:565-74. 2004..In patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with an initial diagnostic impression of noncardiac chest pain, we determine the 30-day incidence of adverse cardiac events and characteristics associated with those events... - Prospective multicenter study of quantitative pretest probability assessment to exclude acute coronary syndrome for patients evaluated in emergency department chest pain unitsAlice M Mitchell
Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC 28323-2861, USA
Ann Emerg Med 47:447. 2006.... - Chronic kidney disease in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromesJin H Han
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Am J Med 119:248-54. 2006..We examined the treatment and outcomes of patients with both non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes and moderate to severe chronic kidney disease... - The relationship of intraocular pressure to intracranial pressureMatthew K Lashutka
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Ann Emerg Med 43:585-91. 2004..0, 95% confidence interval 0.93 to 1.0) CONCLUSION: Abnormal intraocular pressure as measured with the handheld tonometer is an excellent indicator of abnormal intracranial pressure in patients with known intracranial pathology... - Can electrocardiographic criteria predict adverse cardiac events and positive cardiac markers?Andra L Blomkalns
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH45267 0769, USA
Acad Emerg Med 10:205-10. 2003..The authors hypothesized that specific ECG findings, other than those previously identified in higher-risk populations, would be predictive of cardiac outcomes and positive cardiac markers...