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The golden hour: scientific fact or medical "urban legend"?E B Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, and the Center for Transportation Injury Research CenTIR, Buffalo, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 8:758-60. 2001..It remains unclear whether objective data exist. This article discusses a detailed literature and historical record search for support of the "golden hour" concept. None is identified...
Conducting retrospective emergency medical services researchE Brooke Lerner
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Emergency Medicine, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:S48-51. 2002
Can paramedics safely treat and discharge hypoglycemic patients in the field?E Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
Am J Emerg Med 21:115-20. 2003..These patients generally preferred discharge without transportation to an ED...
Automated external defibrillator (AED) utilization rates and reasons fire and police first responders did not apply AEDsE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:378-82. 2002..To determine the rate at which fire and police first responders (FRs) apply automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and to ascertain reasons for not applying them...
Application of clinical criteria for ordering radiographs to detect cervical spine fracturesRonald M Moscati
Department of Emergency Medicine, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY 14215, USA
Am J Emerg Med 25:326-30. 2007..The aim of the study was to determine if spinal-immobilized patients met clinical criteria for x-rays and which clinical criteria were associated with cervical fractures...
Implementation of research in the out-of-hospital settingE Brooke Lerner
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Emergency Medicine, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:S24-7. 2002
Prehospital care research--the basicsDavid C Cone
Yale University School of Medicine, Section of Emergency Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519-1315, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:S2-8. 2002
Emergency physician practices and requirements regarding the medical screening examination of psychiatric patientsKerry B Broderick
Emergency Department, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Acad Emerg Med 9:88-92. 2002..To describe the testing requirements and practices of emergency physicians (EPs) when conducting a medical screening examination of psychiatric patients...
Economic value of out-of-hospital emergency care: a structured literature reviewE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Ann Emerg Med 47:515-24. 2006..The objective of this study is to conduct a structured review of published economic evaluations of out-of-hospital emergency care to assess its economic value...
Cardiac arrests in skilled nursing facilities: continuing room for improvement?Manish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 7:350-4. 2006..To characterize the care received by skilled nursing facility (SNF/NF) patients suffering cardiac arrest and to evaluate the outcome of SNF/NF patients experiencing cardiac arrest...
A comprehensive framework for determining the cost of an emergency medical services systemE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Ann Emerg Med 49:304-13. 2007..This framework can be used to standardize the calculation of EMS system costs to a community. Standardizing the calculation of EMS cost will allow for comparisons of costs between studies, communities, and interventions...
SSM study & statistical significanceLawrence H Brown
JEMS 31:16; author reply 16. 2006
An emergency medical services program to promote the health of older adultsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:956-62. 2006..To evaluate the feasibility and effect of an emergency medical services (EMS) program that screened, educated, and referred older adults with unmet needs...
Cardiac arrests in skilled nursing facilities: continuing room for improvement?Manish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:e27-31. 2007..To characterize the care received by skilled nursing facility (SNF/NF) patients suffering cardiac arrest and to evaluate the outcome of SNF/NF patients experiencing cardiac arrest...
Blast-related injuries from terrorism: an international perspectiveE Brooke Lerner
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 11:137-53. 2007..This article describes these experiences and provides a summary of common findings that can be used by others in preparing for and responding to civilian casualties resulting from the detonation of explosive devices...
The epidemiology of emergency medical services use by older adults: an analysis of the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care SurveyManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 14:441-7. 2007..To characterize older adult emergency department (ED) visits arriving by emergency medical services (EMS) and to identify factors associated with those patient visits...
Cardiac arrest patients rarely receive chest compressions before ambulance arrival despite the availability of pre-arrival CPR instructionsE Brooke Lerner
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, United States
Resuscitation 77:51-6. 2008....
Guidelines for prehospital management of traumatic brain injury 2nd editionNeeraj Badjatia
Columbia University Medical Center, Neurological Institute, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:S1-52. 2008
Description and evaluation of a pilot physician-directed emergency medical services diversion control programManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
Acad Emerg Med 13:54-60. 2006..To describe the characteristics and feasibility of a physician-directed ambulance destination-control program to reduce emergency department (ED) overcrowding, as measured by hospital ambulance diversion hours...
The effect of an 18-hour electrical power outage on an urban emergency medical services systemDavid A Rand
Empress Emergency Medical Services, Yonkers, New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:391-7. 2005..Such a patient population might benefit, for example, from home deliveries of portable oxygen tanks or from the creation of temporary facilities that provide a climate-controlled environment and electrically powered medical devices...
Law Enforcement Agency Defibrillation (LEA-D): proceedings of the National Center for Early Defibrillation Police AED Issues ForumVincent N Mosesso
National Center for Early Defibrillation, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:273-82. 2002..It is time for law enforcement agency defibrillation to become the rule, not the exception...
Law Enforcement Agency Defibrillation (LEA-D): position statement and best practices recommendations from the National Center for Early DefibrillationMary M Newman
National Center for Early Defibrillation, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 6:346-7. 2002
Out-of-hospital do-not-resuscitate orders by primary care physiciansE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
J Emerg Med 23:425-8. 2002..A majority felt intubation, mechanical ventilation, and cardioversion should not be performed for noncardiac arrest DNR patients with an indication, but not in cardiac arrest...
A survey of first-responder firefighters' attitudes, opinions, and concerns about their automated external defibrillator programE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:120-4. 2003..To identify barriers to first-responder automated external defibrillator (AED) use by determining firefighter attitudes, opinions, and concerns about their AED program...
The time first-response fire fighters have to initiate care in a midsize cityE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
J Emerg Med 25:171-4. 2003..Utilization of densely staged first-response fire apparatus in a midsize city may be appropriate because firefighters frequently arrive before ambulances and may have adequate time to initiate lifesaving interventions...
Derivation of emergency medical services dispatch codes associated with low-acuity patientsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:434-9. 2003..To identify emergency medical services (EMS) dispatch codes associated with basic life support (BLS) level of prehospital care, a proxy for low illness acuity...
A comparison of first-responder automated external defibrillator (AED) application rates and characteristics of AED trainingE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 7:453-7. 2003..To determine whether there were associations between the characteristics of first-responder automated external defibrillator (AED) training and AED application rates...
Linkages of acute care and emergency medical services to state and local public health programs: the role of interactive information systems for responding to events resulting in mass injuryE Brooke Lerner
Christiana Care Health System, Newark, Delaware 19718, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 8:237-53. 2004
Identification of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest clusters using a geographic information systemE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 655, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
Acad Emerg Med 12:81-4. 2005....
Linkages of acute care and EMS to state and local public health programs: application to public health programsE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, and the Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Preparedness, University of Rochester, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 46542, USA
J Public Health Manag Pract 11:291-7. 2005..The relevancy of these findings to public health, as well as the benefits from development of an interoperable infrastructure to public health, will be opined...
Validation of using EMS dispatch codes to identify low-acuity patientsManish N Shah
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 9:24-31. 2005..To validate the predictive ability of previously derived emergency medical services (EMS) dispatch codes to identify patients with low-acuity illnesses...
Mass casualty triage: an evaluation of the data and development of a proposed national guidelineE Brooke Lerner
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Disaster Med Public Health Prep 2:S25-34. 2008..It incorporates aspects from all of the existing triage systems to create a single overarching guide for unifying the mass casualty triage process across the United States...
