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| Comilla SassonSummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Denver Country: USA Publications
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The changing landscape of america's health care system and the value of emergency medicineComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:1204-11. 2012....
Association of neighborhood characteristics with bystander-initiated CPRComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
N Engl J Med 367:1607-15. 2012..For persons who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the probability of receiving bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may be influenced by neighborhood characteristics...- Identifying high-risk geographic areas for cardiac arrest using three methods for cluster analysisComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:139-46. 2012.... - Chest compressions before defibrillation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trialsPascal Meier
University of Michigan Medical Center, Cardiovascular Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
BMC Med 8:52. 2010..The aim of this meta-analysis is to evaluate the beneficial effect of chest compression-first versus defibrillation-first on survival in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest... - Examining the contextual effects of neighborhood on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitationComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado, Leprino Office Building, 12401 E 17th Avenue, B215, Denver, CO 80045, United States
Resuscitation 82:674-9. 2011..To understand the association between neighborhood and individual characteristics in determining whether or not bystanders perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)... - A qualitative study to identify barriers to local implementation of prehospital termination of resuscitation protocolsComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 2:361-8. 2009..Public policies and local perceptions may serve as barriers or facilitators to implementing national TOR guidelines at the local level... - Increasing hospital volume is not associated with improved survival in out of hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac etiologyMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
Resuscitation 83:862-8. 2012..We analyzed the relationship between survival and hospital volume among patients suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)... - Comparison of enhanced targeted rapid HIV screening using the Denver HIV risk score to nontargeted rapid HIV screening in the emergency departmentJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Ann Emerg Med 61:353-61. 2013..Our goal was to compare targeted rapid HIV screening using the Denver HIV Risk Score to nontargeted rapid HIV screening in an urban emergency department (ED) and urgent care... - Emergency physician perspectives on child passenger safety: a national survey of attitudes and practicesMichelle L Macy
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Acad Pediatr 12:131-7. 2012..To understand attitudes and self-reported practices of pediatric and general emergency physicians regarding child passenger safety... - Derivation and validation of the Denver Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) risk score for targeted HIV screeningJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Mail Code 0108, Denver, CO 80204, USA
Am J Epidemiol 175:838-46. 2012..63, 1.47) (n = 24/2,431), 1.59% (95% CI: 1.02, 2.36) (n = 24/1,505), and 3.59% (95% CI: 2.73, 4.63) (n = 57/1,588), respectively. The risk score accurately categorizes patients into groups with increasing probabilities of HIV infection... - Practice variability among the EMS systems participating in Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES)Prasanthi Govindarajan
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Avenue, L 126, Mail Code 0208, San Francisco, CA 94143 0208, USA
Resuscitation 83:76-80. 2012..To describe the demographic, organizational and provider characteristics of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agencies participating in the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES)... - A qualitative study to understand barriers to implementation of national guidelines for prehospital termination of unsuccessful resuscitation effortsComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 14:250-8. 2010..However, local emergency medical services (EMS) implementation of these guidelines has been nonuniform... - Potentially inappropriate medication utilization in the emergency department visits by older adults: analysis from a nationally representative sampleWilliam J Meurer
Department of Emergency Medicine, The University of Michigan Medical School, and the Center for Statistical Consultation and Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:231-7. 2010..The objectives were to determine the frequency of administration of potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) to older emergency department (ED) patients and to examine recent trends in the rates of PIM usage... - Payer status, race/ethnicity, and acceptance of free routine opt-out rapid HIV screening among emergency department patientsJeffrey Sankoff
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Am J Public Health 102:877-83. 2012..We estimated associations between payer status, race/ethnicity, and acceptance of nontargeted opt-out rapid HIV screening in the emergency department (ED)... - In-hospital cardiac arrest: impact of monitoring and witnessed event on patient survival and neurologic status at hospital dischargeWilliam J Brady
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA 22908 0309, USA
Resuscitation 82:845-52. 2011..In-hospital cardiac arrest is a significant public health problem with a low probability of patient survival to hospital discharge... - Validation of rules to predict emergent surgical intervention in pediatric trauma patientsDowin H Boatright
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO
J Am Coll Surg 216:1094-1102.e6. 2013..Our goal was to validate this rule and to compare it with the American College of Surgeons' Major Resuscitation Criteria (MRC)... - Females of childbearing age have a survival benefit after out-of-hospital cardiac arrestM Austin Johnson
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA Electronic address
Resuscitation 84:639-44. 2013..We hypothesized that younger females (aged 12-49years) would be independently associated with increased survival after OHCA when compared to other age and sex groups... - Prehospital termination of resuscitation in cases of refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrestComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
JAMA 300:1432-8. 2008..Identifying patients in the out-of-hospital setting who have no realistic hope of surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest could enhance utilization of scarce health care resources... - Carpooling and booster seats: a national survey of parentsMichelle L Macy
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Pediatrics 129:290-8. 2012..Booster seat use among school-aged children has been consistently lower than national goals. In this study, we sought to explore associations between parental experiences with booster seats and carpooling... - Validation and refinement of a rule to predict emergency intervention in adult trauma patientsJason S Haukoos
Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, 777 Bannock Street, Denver, CO 80206, USA
Ann Emerg Med 58:164-71. 2011..Our goal was to validate this rule in an adult trauma population and to compare it with the American College of Surgeons' major resuscitation criteria...