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Just as Virgil found in ancient Partenope his tomb, just as the poet Ovid is associated with Sulmona, and Petrarch with Arquà, Boccaccio presents Neapolitan landscape and topography as the framework for his personal (auto-)portrait as a literary author.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Giovanni Boccaccio" }, { "word": "Angevin Court" }, { "word": "Italian Literature" } ], "section": "I. Medieval and Renaissance Naples: Forging Neapolitan Identity through History, Literature, Philosophy, and Art", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5h52w8vj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Giancarlo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Alfano", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Seconda Università di Napoli", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-06-24T06:58:10-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-06-24T06:58:10-05:00", "date_published": "2012-12-12T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cisj/article/41139/galley/30771/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43872, "title": "Postpartum Severe Mitral Regurgitation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87f2s6bb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Houman", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Khakpour", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Janki Shah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shah", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-12-10T17:10:17-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43872/galley/32675/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 1935, "title": "Learners’ perceptions of culture in a first-semester foreign language course", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Researchers have voiced concerns about current teaching practices regarding the effective integration of culture within the foreign language curriculum as more than an add-on (Durocher, 2007; Knutson, 2006; Kramsch, 1993; Magnan, 2008; Omaggio Hadley, 2001; Perraudin, & Porfilio, 2011; Schulz, 2007; Wilbur, 2007). This study takes an emic perpective to explore how the experience of a first-semester foreign language course can shape learners’ understanding of culture and perceptions of the interconnection between language and culture.\n \nTwenty-two students, native English speakers, enrolled in four first-semester French courses, were interviewed three times during a semester. The four instructors were interviewed at the end of the semester. Data analysis revealed that a majority of the participants viewed language and culture as separate entities, that they were mainly concerned with linguistic competence and possessed an incomplete understanding of the concept culture. Based on these findings, pedagogical recommendations are discussed to support the development of learners’ understanding of the intrinsic link between language and culture.", "language": "en;fr", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "learners' beliefs" }, { "word": "teaching culture" }, { "word": "interconnection of language and culture" }, { "word": "foreign language learning" }, { "word": "French" }, { "word": "Second Language Acquisition" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73m1p5dx", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Isabelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Drewelow", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Alabama", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-08-05T15:20:10-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-08-05T15:20:10-05:00", "date_published": "2012-12-09T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/1935/galley/1287/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/1935/galley/1288/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/1935/galley/1289/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59024, "title": "Interview with Professor Caroline Kane", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The history of Berkeley Scientific Journal at Cal starts at 1996, when several undergraduates involved in research who wanted to create a new avenue to publish their research. The first faculty sponsor was Professor Caroline Kane, whose passionate support of undergraduate education through the Biology Fellows Program earned her the College of Letters and Science Award for Distinguished Research Mentoring of Undergraduates in 2002. She earned her PhD from UC Berkeley and has studied the mechanisms of genetic expression and regulation. Although she is retired, she is an active emerita who facilitatated BSJ's transition to a DeCal course in the MCB department by signing on as the faculty sponsor.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Interview, RNA Polymerase, Transcription Factor, Advisor, BSJ" }, { "word": "Molecular Biology, Genetics, Education" } ], "section": "Interviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kw872kg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kapil", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gururangan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Sushrita", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Neogi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Prashant", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bhat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jared", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rosen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Jingyan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-03T14:48:12-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-12-03T14:48:12-06:00", "date_published": "2012-12-06T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59024/galley/45066/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7404, "title": "Sedation-assisted Orthopedic Reduction in Emergency Medicine: The Safety and Success of a One Physician/One Nurse Model", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Much of the emergency medical research on sedation-assisted orthopedic reductions has been undertaken with two physicians—one dedicated to the sedation and one to the procedure. Clinical practice in community emergency departments (EDs), however, often involves only one physician, who both performs the procedure and simultaneously oversees the crendentialed registered nurse who administers the sedation medication and monitors the patient. Although the dual-physician model is advocated by some, evidence in support of its superiority is lacking. Methods: In this electronic health records review we describe sedation-assisted closed reductions of major joints and forearm fractures in three suburban community EDs. The type of procedure and sedation medication, need for specialty assistance, success rates, and intervention-requiring adverse events are reported. Results: During the 18-month study period, procedural sedation was performed 457 times on 442 patients undergoing closed reduction for shoulder dislocations (n=111), elbow dislocations (n=29), hip dislocations (n=101), and forearm fractures (n=201). In the vast majority of this cohort (98.4% [435/442]), a single emergency physician simultaneously managed both the procedural sedation and the initial orthopedic reduction without the assistance of a second physician. The reduction was successful or satisfactory in 96.6% (425/435; 95% confidence interval [CI], 95.8-98.8%) of these cases, with a low incidence of intervention-requiring adverse events (2.8% [12/435]; 95% CI, 1.5-4.8%).Conclusion: Sedation-assisted closed reduction of major joint dislocations and forearm fractures can be performed effectively and safely in the ED using a one physician/one nurse model. A policy that requires a separate physician (or nurse anesthetist) to administer medications for all sedation-assisted ED procedures appears unwarranted. Further research is needed to determine which specific clinical scenarios might benefit from a dual-physician approach. [West J Emerg Med.2013;14(1):47-54.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "conscious sedation" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "closed fracture" }, { "word": "dislocations" }, { "word": "Medicine" } ], "section": "Healthcare Utilization", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gj7f1rs", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Vinson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nRoseville, California; The Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Casey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hoehn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-04-09T20:25:40-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-04-09T20:25:40-05:00", "date_published": "2012-12-03T20:17:54-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7404/galley/4388/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43865, "title": "Oral Allergy Syndrome", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r06682n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "S", "last_name": "Morris", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-12-03T16:59:55-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43865/galley/32668/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7633, "title": "2012 Western Regional Emergency Medicine Symposium", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "CAL/AAEM Newsletter", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9fn9x702", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Memmer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Aileen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kurobe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-03T16:11:15-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-12-03T16:11:15-06:00", "date_published": "2012-12-03T16:12:44-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7633/galley/4479/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7632, "title": "Residency and Various Educational Experiences", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "CAL/AAEM Newsletter", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sh4590h", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Deena", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ibrahim", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-03T16:10:05-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-12-03T16:10:05-06:00", "date_published": "2012-12-03T16:12:15-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7632/galley/4478/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7631, "title": "President's Message November 2012", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "CAL/AAEM Newsletter", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1zv737ks", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Trevor", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mills", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-12-03T16:08:54-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-12-03T16:08:54-06:00", "date_published": "2012-12-03T16:11:44-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7631/galley/4477/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43837, "title": "Eosinophilic Esophagitis: An Increasingly Common Cause of Upper GI Disease", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7qm239tj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "S", "last_name": "Morris", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-12-03T15:12:08-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43837/galley/32640/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39296, "title": "Examining the Impact of Religion on Environmentalism 1993-2010: Has the Religious Environmental Movement Made a Difference?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The view that emerged in the social science and religious literature is that Judeo-Christian tradition was in part responsible for the environmental crisis by fostering a \"dominion mandate\" or mastery-over-nature orientation. Despite the growing significance of the environmental movement, most church bodies had not addressed the problem officially until the early 1990s. Several national and faith-based organizations evolved to catalyze interest and organize the movement. This paper examines whether those efforts resulted in a significant change in environmental attitudes, beliefs, or behavior among the religiously involved. Using data from the General Social Survey for 1993, 2000, and 2010, results indicate that the respondents' denominational identification, grouped in terms of its liberal, moderate, or fundamentalist orientation, was weakly but significantly associated with several indicators of environmentalism for all three study years. These associations remain relatively consistent throughout this period, suggesting little change overall in the relationship between religious identification and environmental concern.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Religion" }, { "word": "environment" }, { "word": "religion environmental movement" }, { "word": "sociology" }, { "word": "Environmental Studies" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1z93165n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carl", "middle_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Hand", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Valdosta State University\nValdosta, GA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jessica", "middle_name": "Leigh", "last_name": "Crowe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Georgia Military College\nValdosta, GA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-07-16T12:59:44-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-07-16T12:59:44-05:00", "date_published": "2012-12-02T01:10:25-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39296/galley/29651/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39296/galley/29652/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39296/galley/29653/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 39273, "title": "The Theory of Justice in a Warming Climate", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article test, whether John Rawls´ Theory of Justice is still relevant in a warming climate. The starting point is Finland, which is assumed as a useful example, as many social indicators suggest that Finland is close to a Rawlsian egalitarian standards of distributive justice. The theory is brought to the globalized world of 21st century, by widening the perspective from to a global level.\n \nIt can be argued that economic growth in developed countries benefits people in developing countries, as we can afford to give more development aid. I argue, however, that this has not been large enough to compensate for its the negative side effects, most notably that of a warming climate. Furthermore, the costs of current carbon fueled economic growth favoring present generations in the developed countries will mainly be paid by future generations of the poor in developing countries.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "https://escholarship.org/terms" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "John Rawls" }, { "word": "theory of justice, climate change, economic growth, developing countries" }, { "word": "philosophy" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/38m9n5kn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kunnas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stirling Management School - Economics\nUniversity of Stirling\nFK9 4LA Scotland. UK", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-22T07:44:54-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-22T07:44:54-05:00", "date_published": "2012-12-01T23:10:17-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "other", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39273/galley/29634/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/egj/article/39273/galley/29635/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59022, "title": "Berkeley Scientific Journal, Volume 16, Issue 2, Save or Destroy", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Save, Destroy" } ], "section": "Cover", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89t1g6md", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Matt", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Miranda", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Victoria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nguyen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-29T14:31:11-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-29T14:31:11-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-29T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59022/galley/45064/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 59023, "title": "Table of Contents", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "contents" } ], "section": "Contents", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9bs963g2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Victoria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nguyen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Matt", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Miranda", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-29T14:32:44-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-29T14:32:44-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-29T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_bsj/article/59023/galley/45065/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7626, "title": "Masthead November 2012", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Masthead", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8br3m4zm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Western Journal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Emergency Medicine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-28T17:24:40-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-28T17:24:40-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-28T17:25:49-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7626/galley/4476/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7625, "title": "Table of Contents November 2012", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Table of Contents", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kr5818x", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Western Journal", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Emergency Medicine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-28T17:23:49-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-28T17:23:49-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-28T17:25:22-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7625/galley/4475/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7428, "title": "Holiday Plants with Toxic Misconceptions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Several plants are used for their decorative effect during winter holidays. This review exploresthe toxic reputation and proposed management for exposures to several of those, namelypoinsettia (\nEuphorbia pulcherrima\n), English holly (\nIlex aquifolium\n), American holly (Ilex opaca),bittersweet (\nSolanum dulcamara\n), Jerusalem cherry (\nSolanum pseudocapsicum\n), Americanmistletoe (\nPhoradendron serotinum\n), and European mistletoe (\nViscum album\n). [West J Emerg Med.2012;13(6):538-542]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Poinsettia, Holly, Bittersweet, Jerusalem Cherry, Mistletoe" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "toxicology" } ], "section": "Toxicology", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0q1973x2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Zabrina", "middle_name": "N", "last_name": "Evens", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Regions Hospital Toxicology Education and Clinical Services, St. Paul, Minnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Stellpflug", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Regions Hospital Toxicology Education and Clinical Services, St. Paul, Minnesota; Hennepin Regional Poison Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-02T21:46:46-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-05-02T21:46:46-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-28T15:50:16-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7428/galley/4395/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 4539, "title": "Shenhur, Temple of", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The Roman Period temple of Isis at Shenhur was built and decorated during the reign ofAugustus (30 BCE – 14 CE) through that of Trajan (98 – 117 CE). The site of Shenhur islocated between two major cult centers, Koptos and Thebes, in Upper Egypt. While boththeological systems were influential at Shenhur, the temple was mainly influenced by that ofKoptos; the structure’s decoration thus constituted an important part of the regional culttopography. Excavations in and around the temple have revealed that a colonnade was added to itsexterior during the reign of Tiberius or later, and that the structure was used as a habitationduring the fifth to seventh centuries CE.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "temple" }, { "word": "Roman Period" }, { "word": "architecture" }, { "word": "Archaeology" }, { "word": "Religion" }, { "word": "Arts and Humanities" } ], "section": "Geography", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hc3t8dh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Marleen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "De Meyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Katholieke Universiteit Leuven", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Martina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Minas-Nerpel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Swansea", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-03-05T19:08:42-06:00", "date_accepted": "2009-03-05T19:08:42-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-27T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/4539/galley/2650/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43812, "title": "An Unusual Cause of Recurrent Hematuria in a Geriatric Patient", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1297q92x", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maija", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sanna", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-11-26T20:53:40-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43812/galley/32616/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 4717, "title": "Slavery and Servitude", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While various forms of coercion to labor and restriction of individual freedom did exist throughoutEgyptian history, slavery is rather defined by economic than by legal indicators. Some literary textspresent figures of slaves, called Hm (“laborer”) or bAk (“servant”). The documentary evidence ismultifaceted: during the Old Kingdom, very large segments of the population were drawn to corvéework, exemption for religious service and even upward mobility being possible, while foreignprisoners of war were clearly enslaved (sqr-anx). With the emergence of new social elites, Egyptiantexts from the early Middle Kingdom onward display a more distinct consciousness of the differencebetween “free” people, even if at the lower level of the social ladder (nDs), and “servants” (Hm,bAk), conscripts (Hsb), and fugitives (tSj), true slavery being presumably confined to foreignprisoners. The New Kingdom, with its relentless military operations, is the epoch of large-scaleforeign slavery, but also of local—owned or rented—servitude, both of which had becomeeconomically indispensable, adoption of a slave being a common practice leading to “free” status(nmHj). During the first millennium BCE, references to slavery become rare and are superseded byvarious forms of voluntary servitude caused by economic dearth or religious commitment. “Slavery”in the legal, inherited sense of the term unfolds in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period and is basedon capture in war, on purchase in the slave market, and on the enslavement of debtors.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "debt" }, { "word": "slave" }, { "word": "servant" }, { "word": "ownership" }, { "word": "social relations" }, { "word": "prisoner of war" }, { "word": "Arts and Humanities" } ], "section": "Individual and Society", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mx2073f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Antonio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Loprieno", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Basel", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2009-03-30T10:17:23-05:00", "date_accepted": "2009-03-30T10:17:23-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-21T03:33:25-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/4717/galley/2661/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43802, "title": "A Patient with Q Fever Endocarditis Versus Libman Sacks Endocarditis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5wp300t9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Marian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kaldas", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Janki", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shah", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-11-20T20:31:54-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43802/galley/32606/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7282, "title": "Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in Fatal Toxic Exposures: A Poison Center’s Review", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Self-exposure is a leading method for suicide both in the United States and worldwide and thus is a major preventable public health issue. Surrogate decision makers are tasked with making medical decisions for the patient while keeping the patient’s wishes in mind. Decisions related to code status become more complicated when the patient’s situation is the result of a suicidal act. The objectives were to 1) determine how frequently Do Not Resuscitate orders (DNR orders) are placed for the intentionally self-exposed (ISE) patient using the Regional Poison Control Center (RPCC) data, and 2) identify if DNR orders in intentionally self-exposed patients were placed before or afterdevelopment of poor prognostic signs.\nMethods: We analyzed all exposure-related deaths reported to the RPCC from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2010. We reviewed data for the following: exposure intent, exposure substance, outcome, age, code status, date of DNR/withdrawal of care order, previous suicide attempts, and poor prognostic signs.\nResults: Of the 476 total deaths, nearly half were the result of an intentional self-exposure (n= 235; 49.4%). Most deaths, when code status was reported, had advanced cardiac life support, or “fullcodes” (n=131; 55.6%). Of the total deaths with a DNR or withdrawal of care order (n=104), over half were from an ISE (n=55; 52.9%). A higher percentage of the ISEs had a DNR order/withdrawal of careorder; however, it was not a statistically significant difference OR 1.23 (95% CI 0.64, 2.37). Regardless of intent, patients treated as full codes were on average 19.5 years younger than the DNR orders group. Only 2 DNR orders were placed prior to development of poor prognostic signs. Unintentional self-exposures consumed a mean of 1.4 substances (range 1 to 4). ISEs consumed a mean of 2.3 substances (range 1 to 19).\nConclusion: People are often asked to make life-and-death decisions for a loved one. The nature of the exposure can complicate the issue if the exposure has an antidote or is known to have a limited effect. Further study is needed to assess the extent of these cases and to identify optimal management guidelines or policy to aid both the medical teams caring for these patients and the surrogate decision makers. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(3):294-297.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "DNR" }, { "word": "Code Status" }, { "word": "Medicine" }, { "word": "Ethics" } ], "section": "Poisoning", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5817d1bg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Dilani", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Weerasuriya", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sophia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sheikh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Georgia Poison Control Center , Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brent", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Morgan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Georgia Poison Control Center , Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-01-04T16:28:17-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-01-04T16:28:17-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-20T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7282/galley/4344/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19149, "title": "Accuracy of Handheld Point-of-Care Fingertip Lactate Measurement in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Early recognition of elevated lactate levels in sepsis may hasten the detection of those patients eligible for aggressive resuscitation. Point-of-care (POC) testing is now increasingly available for use in the emergency department (ED). We examined the accuracy and time-saving effect of a handheld POC device for the measurement of fingertip and whole blood lactate as compared with reference laboratory testing in critically ill ED patients.\nMethods: A convenience sample of adult ED patients receiving serum lactate testing was prospectively enrolled at an urban, tertiary care US hospital. Consenting patients underwent fingertip POC lactate measurement with a portable device and simultaneous whole blood sampling for analysis by both the POC device and standard laboratory analyzer (‘‘reference method’’). Lactate measurements were compared by intraclass correlation (ICC) and Bland and Altman plots. Differences in time to test result were compared by paired t test.\nResults: Twenty-four patients, 19 (79%) with sepsis and 21 (88%) with lactate levels below 4 mmol/L, were included from April 2005 to May 2005. Fingertip POC and whole blood POC lactate measurements each correlated tightly with the reference method (ICC ¼ 0.90 and ICC ¼ 0.92, respectively). Mean time between obtaining fingertip lactate samples and whole blood reference lactate samples was 8 6 13 minutes. Mean time between obtaining POC and reference laboratory lactate results was 65 minutes (95% confidence interval, 30–103).\nConclusion: Fingertip POC lactate measurement is an accurate method to determine lactate levels in infected ED patients with normal or modestly elevated lactate values and significantly decreases time to test results. These findings should be verified in a larger, more critically ill, ED population. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):58-62.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "lactate" }, { "word": "Point-of-Care Systems" }, { "word": "sepsis" }, { "word": "emergency services" }, { "word": "Severity Screening" }, { "word": "Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3676306n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Gaieski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Byron", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Drumheller", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Munish", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Goyal", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Washington Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Barry", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Fuchs", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine,\nDivision of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Frances", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Shofer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zogby", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine,\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-01-11T10:55:13-06:00", "date_accepted": "2011-01-11T10:55:13-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T13:46:46-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19149/galley/9490/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19176, "title": "Evaluation of a New Nonnvasive Device in Determining Hemoglobin Levels in Emergency Department Patients", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction\n: The Masimo Radical-7 Pulse CO-Oximeter is a medical device recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration that performs noninvasive oximetry and estimated venous or arterial hemoglobin measurements. A portable, noninvasive device that rapidly measures hemoglobin concentration could be useful in both austere and modern hospital settings. The objective of this study is to determine the degree of variation between the device’s estimated hemoglobin measurement and the actual venous hemoglobin concentration in undifferentiated emergency department (ED) patients.\n \nMethods\n: We conducted a prospective, observational, cross-sectional study of adult patients presenting to the ED. The subjects consisted of a convenience sample of adult ED patients who required a complete blood count as part of their care in the ED. A simultaneous probe hemoglobin was obtained and recorded.\n \nResults\n: Bias between probe and laboratory hemoglobin measurements was _0.5 (95% confidence interval,_0.8 to_0.1) but this was not statistically significant from 0 (t 0.05,124¼0.20, P . 0.5). The limits of agreement were _4.7 and 3.8, beyond the clinically relevant standard of equivalency of 6 1 g/dL.\n \nConclusion\n: These data suggest that noninvasive hemoglobin determination is not sufficiently accurate for emergency department use. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(3):283–286.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions" }, { "word": "Equipment and Supplies" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sx773px", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tristan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Knutson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Della-Giustina", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Tomich", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brandon", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Wills", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Department of Emergency Medicine, Richmond, Virginia; Virginia Poison Center, Richmond, Virginia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Emily", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Leurssen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Tacoma, Washington", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Penny", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Reynolds", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Department of Emergency Medicine, Richmond, Virginia", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-02-25T14:46:14-06:00", "date_accepted": "2011-02-25T14:46:14-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T13:44:34-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19176/galley/9497/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19335, "title": "Impact of Emergency Department Management of Atrial Fibrillation on Hospital Charges", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Emergency Department (ED) cardioversion (EDCV) and discharge of patients with recent onset atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter (AF) has been shown to be a safe and effective management strategy. This study examines the impact of such aggressive ED management on hospital charges.Methods: A random sample of 300 AF patients were identified from an ED electronic data base and screened for timing of onset of their symptoms. Patients were considered eligible for EDCV if either nursing or physician notes documented an onset of symptoms less than 48 hours prior to ED presentation and the patient was less than 85 years of age. An explicit chart review was then performed to determine patient management and disposition. Cardioversion attempts were defined as ED administration of procainamide, flecainide, propafenone, ibutilide, amiodarone or direct current cardioversion (DCCV). Total hospital charges for each patient were obtained from the hospital billing office. Differences across medians were analyzed utilizing through Wilcoxon rank sum tests and chi square. Results: A total of 51 patients were included in the study. EDCV was attempted on 24 (47%) patients, 22 (92%) were successfully cardioverted to normal sinus rhythm (NSR). An additional 12 (23%) spontaneously converted to NSR. Twenty (91%) of those successfully cardioverted were discharged from the ED along with 4 (33%) of those spontaneously converting. Pharmacologic cardioverson was attempted in six patients and was successful in three (50%), one after failed DCCV attempt. Direct current cardioversion was attempted in 21 (88%) and was successful in 19 (90%), two after failed pharmacologic attempts. Median charges for patients cardioverted and discharged from the ED were $5,460 (IQR $4,677-$6,190). Median charges for admitted patients with no attempt at cardioversion were $23,202 (IQR $19,663-$46,877). Median charges for patients whose final ED rhythm was NSR were $5,641 (IQR $4,638-$12,339) while for those remaining in AF median charges were $30,299 (IQR $20,655 - $69,759).Conclusion: ED cardioversion of recent onset AF patients results in significant hospital savings. [West J Emerg Med 2013;14(1):55-57.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "atrial fibrillation" }, { "word": "cardioversion" }, { "word": "hospital costs" }, { "word": "cardiology" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Healthcare Utilization", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gk6c9qp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alfred", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sacchetti", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Our Lady of Lourdes Medicine Center, Camden, New Jersey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Williams", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Our Lady of Lourdes Medicine Center, Camden, New Jersey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Levi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Our Lady of Lourdes Medicine Center, Camden, New Jersey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Devender", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Akula", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Our Lady of Lourdes Medicine Center, Camden, New Jersey", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-09-13T12:52:19-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-09-13T12:52:19-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T01:36:11-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19335/galley/9564/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19353, "title": "Variation in Specialists’ Reported Hospitalization Practices of Children Sustaining Blunt Abdominal Trauma", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Children with blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) are often hospitalized despite no intervention. We identified factors associated with emergency department (ED) disposition of children with BAT and differing computed tomography (CT) findings.\nMethods: We surveyed pediatric and general emergency physicians (EPs), pediatric and trauma surgeons regarding care of two hypothetical asymptomatic patients: a 9-year-old struck by a slow-moving car (Case 1) and an 11-month-old who fell 10 feet (Case 2). We presented various abdominal CT findings and asked physicians about disposition preferences. We evaluated predictors of patient discharge using multivariable regression analysis, adjusting for hospital and ED characteristics, and clinician experience. Pediatric EPs served as the reference group.\nResults: Of 2,003 eligible surveyed, 636 (32%) responded. For normal CTs, 99% would discharge in Case 1 and 88% in Case 2. Prominent specialty differences included: for trace intraperitoneal fluid (TIF), 68% would discharge in Case 1 and 57% in Case 2. Patients with TIF were less likely to be discharged by pediatric surgeons (Case 1: OR 0.52, 95% CI 0.32, 0.82; Case 2: OR 0.49, 95% CI 0.30, 0.79). Patients with renal contusions were less likely to be discharged by pediatric surgeons (Case 1: OR 0.55, 95% CI 0.32, 0.95) and more likely by general EPs (Case 1: OR 1.83, 95% CI 1.25, 2.69; Case 2: OR 2.37, 95% CI 1.14, 4.89).\nConclusion: Substantial variation exists between specialties in reported hospitalization practices of asymptomatic children after abdominal trauma with minor CT findings. Better evidence is needed to guide disposition decisions. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):37-46.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Blunt abdominal trauma" }, { "word": "pediatric" }, { "word": "Hospitalization" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Practice Variability", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9dn6w5p6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Peter", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Sokolove", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kuppermann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California; University of California Davis, Department of Pediatrics, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cheryl", "middle_name": "W.", "last_name": "Vance", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California; University of California Davis, Department of Pediatrics, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Moon", "middle_name": "O.", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Beth", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Morris", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Holmes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-10-09T13:56:26-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-10-09T13:56:26-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T01:30:31-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19353/galley/9573/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19365, "title": "Variation in Specialists’ Reported Hospitalization Practices of Children Sustaining Blunt Head Trauma", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Questions surround the appropriate emergency department (ED) disposition of children who have sustained blunt head trauma (BHT). Our objective was to identify physician disposition preferences of children with blunt head trauma (BHT) and varying computed tomography (CT) findings.\nMethods: We surveyed pediatric and general emergency physicians (EP), pediatric neurosurgeons (PNSurg), general neurosurgeons (GNSurg), pediatric surgeons (PSurg) and trauma surgeons regarding care of two hypothetical patients: Case 1: a 9-year-old who fell 10 feet and Case 2: an 11-month-old who fell 5 feet. We presented various CT findings and asked physicians about disposition preferences. We evaluated predictors of patient discharge using multivariable regression analysis adjusting for hospital and ED characteristics and clinician experience. Pediatric EPs served as the reference group.\nResults: Of 2,341 eligible surveyed, 715 (31%) responded. Most would discharge children with linear skull fractures (Case 1, 71%; Case 2, 62%). Neurosurgeons were more likely to discharge children with small subarachnoid hemorrhages (Case 1 PNSurg OR 6.87, 95% CI 3.60, 13.10; GNSurg OR 6.54, 95% CI 2.38, 17.98; Case 2 PNSurg OR 5.38, 95% CI 2.64, 10.99; GNSurg OR 6.07, 95% CI 2.08, 17.76). PSurg were least likely to discharge children with any CT finding, even linear skull fractures (Case 1 OR 0.14, 95% CI 0.08, 0.23; Case 2 OR 0.18, 95% CI 0.11, 0.30). Few respondents (<6%) would discharge children with small intraventricular, subdural, or epidural bleeds.\nConclusion: Substantial variation exists between specialties in reported hospitalization practices of neurologically-normal children with BHT and traumatic CT findings. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):29-36.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "blunt head trauma" }, { "word": "pediatric" }, { "word": "Hospitalization" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "pediatrics" } ], "section": "Practice Variability", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2b4313b7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Cheryl", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Vance", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Pediatrics, Davis, California; University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Moon", "middle_name": "O", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "F", "last_name": "Holmes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Peter", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Sokolove", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Palchak", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Beth", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Morris", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kuppermann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, Davis, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-10-22T10:57:40-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-10-22T10:57:40-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T01:26:17-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19365/galley/9578/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19298, "title": "The Treatment of Cutaneous Abscesses: Comparison of Emergency Medicine Providers' Practice Patterns", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objectives: Cutaneous abscesses are commonly treated in the emergency department (ED). Although incision and drainage (I&D) remains the standard treatment, there is little high quality evidence to support additional interventions such as pain control, type of incision, and use of irrigation, wound cultures, and packing. Although guidelines exist to support clinician management of abscesses, they do not clearly specify these additional interventions. This study sought to describe the ED treatments administered to adults with uncomplicated superficial cutaneous abscesses, defined as purulent lesions requiring incision and drainage, that could be managed in an ED or outpatient setting.\nMethods: Four hundred and seventy four surveys were distributed to 15 EDs across the United States. Participants were queried about their level of training and practice environment as well as specific questions regarding their management of cutaneous abscesses in the ED.\nResults: In total, 350 providers responded to the survey (74%). One hundred eighty nine respondents (54%) were attending physicians, 135 (39%) were residents and 26 (7%) were mid-level providers. Most providers (76%) used narcotics for pain management, 71% used local anesthetic over the roof of the abscess, and 60% used local anesthetic in a field block for pain control. Only 48% of responders routinely used irrigation after I&D. Eighty-five percent of responders used a linear incision to drain the abscess and 91% used packing in the wound cavity. Thirty two percent routinely sent wound cultures and 17% of providers routinely prescribed antibiotics. Most providers (73%) only prescribed antibiotics if certain historical factors or physical findings were present on exam. Antibiotic treatment, if used, favored a combination of 2 or more drugs to cover both Streptococcus and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcal aureus (47%). Follow up visits were most frequently recommended at 48 hours unless wound was concerning and required closer evaluation.\nConclusion: Variability exists in the treatment strategies for abscess care. The majority of providers used narcotic analgesics in addition to local anesthetic, linear incisions, and packing. Most providers did not irrigate, order wound cultures, or routinely prescribe oral antibiotics unless specific risk factors or physical signs were present. Limited evidence is available at this time to guide these treatment strategies. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):23–28.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "abscess" }, { "word": "incision and drainage" }, { "word": "MRSA" }, { "word": "Guidelines" }, { "word": "Bacterial Infections and Mycoses" }, { "word": "Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases" } ], "section": "Practice Variability", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/76x7z0hw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gillian", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Schmitz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California at San Diego, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tress", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Goodwin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Washington Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Adam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Singer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stony Brook University and Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Chad", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Kessler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bruner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Naval Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Portsmouth, Virginia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Hollynn", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Larrabee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "West Virginia University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Larissa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "May", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "D.", "last_name": "Luber", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Department of Emergency Medicine, Houston, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Justin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Williams", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rahul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bhat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Washington Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington, DC", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-07-18T23:30:38-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-07-18T23:30:38-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T01:22:01-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19298/galley/9546/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19241, "title": "The Impact of Emergency Physician Turnover on Planning for Prospective Clinical Trials", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Emergency physician (EP) turnover is a significant issue that can have strong economic impact on hospital systems, as well as implications on research efforts to test and improve clinical practice. This work is particularly important to researchers planning randomized trials directed toward EPs because a large degree of turnover within a physician group would attenuate the effectiveness of the desired intervention. We sought to determine the incidence and factors associated with EP workforce changes.\nMethods: In an attempt to determine EP turnover and workforce change, data from the INSTINCT (INcreasing Stroke Treatment through INterventional behavior Change Tactics) trial were used. The INSTINCT trial is a prospective, cluster-randomized, controlled trial evaluating a targeted behavioral intervention to increase appropriate use of tissue plasminogen activator in acute ischemic stroke. Individual EPs staffing each of the study hospitals were identified at baseline and 18 months. Surveys were sent to EPs at both intervals. Models were constructed to investigate relationships between physician/hospital characteristics and workforce change.\nResults: A total of 278 EPs were identified at baseline. Surveys were sent to all EPs at baseline and 18 months with a response rate of 72% and 74%, respectively. At 18 months, 37 (15.8%) had left their baseline hospital and 66 (26.3%) new EPs were working. Seven EPs switched hospitals within the sample. The total number of EPs at 18 months was 307, a 10.8% overall increase. Among the 24 hospitals, 6 had no EP departures and 5 had no new arrivals. The median proportion of EP workforce departing by hospital was 16% (interquartile range [IQR] ¼ 4%–25%; range ¼ 0%–73%), and the median proportion added was 21% (IQR ¼ 7%–41%; range ¼ 0%–120%). None of the evaluatedcovariates investigating relationships between physician/hospital characteristics and workforce change were significant.\nConclusion: EP workforce changes over an 18-month period were common. This has implications for emergency department directors, researchers, and individual EPs. Those planning research involvinginterventions upon EPs should account for turnover as it may have an impact when designing clinical trials to improve performance on healthcare delivery metrics for time-sensitive medical conditions suchas stroke, acute myocardial infarction, or trauma. [West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(1):16–22.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Hospital-Physician Relations" }, { "word": "Cohort studies" }, { "word": "Health Care Surveys" }, { "word": "Health and Medical Administrative Services" } ], "section": "Population Health Research Design", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pd8503j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "William", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Meurer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ann\nArbor, Michigan; University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Neurology, Ann Arbor,\nMichigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cemal", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Sozener", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Zhenzhen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Xu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Shirley", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Frederiksen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Allison", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Kade", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Olgren", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Saint Mary’s Healthcare, Department of Emergency Medicine, Grand Rapids, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sanford", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Vieder", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Botsford Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Farmington Hills, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Kalbfleish", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillip", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Scott", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-05-16T11:47:33-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-05-16T11:47:33-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T01:19:52-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19241/galley/9522/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7243, "title": "Emergency Department Crowding is Associated with Reduced Satisfaction Scores in Patients Discharged from the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Emergency department (ED) crowding has been shown to negatively impact patient outcomes. Few studies have addressed the effect of ED crowding on patient satisfaction. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of ED crowding on patient satisfaction in patients discharged from the ED.\n \nMethods: We measured patient satisfaction using Press-Ganey surveys returned by patients that visited our ED between August 1, 2007 and March 31, 2008. We recorded all mean satisfaction scores and obtained mean ED occupancy rate, mean EDWIN score and hospital diversion status over each 8-hour shift from data archived in our electronic tracking board. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis was calculated to determine the effect of ED crowding and hospital diversion status on the odds of achieving a mean satisfaction score ≥85, which was the patient satisfaction goal set forth by our ED administration.\n \nResults: A total of 1591 surveys were returned over the study period. Mean satisfaction score was 77.6 (SD±16) and mean occupancy rate was 1.23 (SD±0.31). The likelihood of failure to meet patient satisfaction goals was associated with an increase in average ED occupancy rate (OR 0.32, 95% CI 0.17 to 0.59, P<0.001) and an increase in EDWIN score (OR 0.05, 95% CI 0.004 to 0.55, P=0.015). Hospital diversion resulted in lower mean satisfaction scores, but this was not statistically significant (OR 0.62, 95% CI 0.36 to 1.05). In multivariable analysis controlling for hospital diversion status and time of shift, ED occupancy rate remained a significant predictor of failure to meet patient satisfaction goals (OR 0.34, 95% CI 0.18 to 0.66, P=0.001).\n \nConclusions: Increased crowding, as measured by ED occupancy rate and EDWIN score, was significantly associated with reduced patient satisfaction. Although causative attribution was limited, our study suggested yet another negative impact resulting from ED crowding. [West J Emerg Med.2013;14(1):11-15.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "patients satisfaction" }, { "word": "emergency" }, { "word": "crowding" }, { "word": "administration" }, { "word": "Medical" }, { "word": "health sciences" } ], "section": "Emergency Department Access", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ks6092b", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karis", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Tekwani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oak Lawn, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Yaniv", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kerem", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Chicago Medical Center, Section of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Chintan", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Mistry", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oak Lawn, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Sayger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oak Lawn, Illinois", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Erik", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Kulstad", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oak Lawn, Illinois", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-11-27T13:06:27-06:00", "date_accepted": "2011-11-27T13:06:27-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-17T01:05:45-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7243/galley/4331/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19143, "title": "Perceptions of Emergency Department Crowding in Pennsylvania", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: The state of emergency department (ED) crowding in Pennsylvania has not previously been reported.\nMethods: We assessed perceptions of ED crowding by surveying medical directors/chairs from Pennsylvania EDs in the spring of 2008.\nResults: A total of 106 completed the questionnaire (68% response rate). A total of 83% (86/104) agreed that ED crowding was a problem; 26% (27/105) reported that at least half of admitted patients boarded for more than 4 hours. Ninety-eight percent (102/104) agreed that patient satisfaction suffers during crowding and 79% (84/106) stated that quality suffers. Sixty-five percent (68/105) reported that crowding had worsened during the past 2 years. Several hospital interventions were used to alleviate crowding: expediting discharges, 81% (86/106); prioritizing ED patients for inpatient beds, 79% (84/ 106); and ambulance diversion, 55% (57/105). Almost all respondents who had improved ED operations reported that it had reduced crowding.\nConclusion: ED crowding is a common problem in Pennsylvania and is worsening in the majority of hospitals, despite the implementation of a variety of interventions. [West J EmergMed. 2013;14(1):1–10.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "emergency" }, { "word": "crowding" }, { "word": "overcrowding" }, { "word": "Pennsylvania" }, { "word": "interventions" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Emergency Department Access", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d91b6r1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jesse", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Pines", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "George Washington University Medical Center, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy, Washington, DC", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Joshua", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Isserman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Kelly", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Albert Einstein Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-01-01T21:43:31-06:00", "date_accepted": "2011-01-01T21:43:31-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-15T14:54:35-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19143/galley/9489/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7418, "title": "Letter to the Editor", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "None.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Agitation, antipsychotic, benzodiazepines, excited delirium, ketamine" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "toxicology" } ], "section": "Discourse on Integrating Emergency Care and Population Health", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gm874n6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hannah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hays", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Heath", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Jolliff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Marcel", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Casavant", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-04-26T20:14:22-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-04-26T20:14:22-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T18:48:09-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7418/galley/4391/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7357, "title": "Letter to the Editor", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "n/a", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "abuse" }, { "word": "retinal hemorrhge" }, { "word": "subdural hemorrhage" }, { "word": "Medicine" } ], "section": "Discourse on Integrating Emergency Care and Population Health", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0tf5r4kc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Horace", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Gardner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "318 Oklahoma Road, Manitou Springs, CO 80829", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-02T16:07:53-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-02T16:07:53-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T18:42:52-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7357/galley/4370/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19062, "title": "Factors Affecting Candidate Placement on an Emergency Medicine Residency Program’s Rank Order List", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Several factors influence the final placement of a medical student candidate on anemergency medicine (EM) residency program’s rank order list, including EM grade, standardized letterof recommendation, medical school class rank, and US Medical License Examination (USMLE) scores.We sought to determine the correlation of these parameters with a candidate’s final rank on a residencyprogram’s rank order list.\nMethods: We used a retrospective cohort design to examine 129 candidate packets from an EMresidency program. Class ranks were assessed according to the instructions provided by the students’medical schools. EM grades were scored from 1 (honors) to 5 (fail). Global assessments noted on the standardized letter of recommendation (SLOR) were scored from 1 (outstanding) to 4 (good). USMLEscores were reported as the candidate’s 3-digit scores. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient wasused to analyze data.\nResults: Electronic Residency Application Service packets for 127/129 (98.4%) candidates wereexamined. The following parameters correlated positively with a candidate’s final placement on therank order list: EM grade, q¼0.379, P , 0.001; global assessment, q¼0.332, P , 0.001; and classrank, q¼0.234, P¼0.035. We found a negative correlation between final placement on the rank orderlist with both USMLE step 1 scores, q¼0.253, P¼0.006; and USMLE step 2 scores, q¼0.348, P¼0.004.\nConclusion: Higher scores on EM rotations, medical school class ranks, and SLOR globalassessments correlated with higher placements on a rank order list, whereas candidates with higherUSMLE scores had lower placements on a rank order list. However, none of the parameters examined correlated strongly with ultimate position of a candidate on the rank list, which underscores that otherfactors may influence a candidate’s final ranking. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):458–462.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Standardized Letter of Recommendation" }, { "word": "Medical School Class Rank" }, { "word": "Residency" } ], "section": "Work Force Education", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/89c022hn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Breyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Christiana Care Health System, Department of Emergency Medicine, Newark, Delaware; Denver Health Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Denver, Colorado; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Annie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sadosty", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Biros", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Minnesota, Department of Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis,\nMinnesota", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-08-01T20:07:35-05:00", "date_accepted": "2010-08-01T20:07:35-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T18:36:18-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19062/galley/9473/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7372, "title": "Electrocardiogram changes in thyrotoxic periodic paralysis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) attacks are characterized as recurrent, transient episodes of muscle weakness that range from mild weakness to complete flaccid paralysis. Episodes of weakness are accompanied by hypokalemia, which left untreated can lead to life-threatening arrhythmias (6). In this case study, we followed a patient’s potassium levels analyzing how they correlate with electrocardiogram changes seen while treating his hypokalemia and ultimately his paralysis. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):512-513]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "thyrotoxicosis" }, { "word": "Hypokalemia" }, { "word": "second degree heart block" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d16p1q9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lopez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD, MBA\nLos Angeles County–USC Medical Center, USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "O.", "last_name": "Henderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County–USC Medical Center, USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-12T12:12:53-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-12T12:12:53-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T18:19:58-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7372/galley/4374/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7260, "title": "Unusual Cause of Cardiac Compression in a Trauma Patient: Cystic Thymoma", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):527-528]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "cystic thymoma" }, { "word": "thymic cysts" }, { "word": "Trauma" }, { "word": "Medicine" }, { "word": "radiology" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9g33611k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sahin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bozok", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rize University Faculty of Medicine, Rize Research and Training Hospital, Rize,Turkey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Özcan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "YavaŞİ", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rize State Hospital, Rize,Turkey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Gokhan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ilhan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Rize University Faculty of Medicine, Rize Research and Training Hospital, Rize,Turkey", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ali", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gurbuz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Katip Celebi University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-12-10T19:37:10-06:00", "date_accepted": "2011-12-10T19:37:10-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T18:17:44-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7260/galley/4338/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19198, "title": "Grade III or Grade IV Hypertensive Retinopathy with Severely Elevated Blood Pressure", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Hypertensive retinopathy describes a spectrum of retinal changes in patients with elevated blood pressure (BP). It is unknown why some patients are more likely to develop acute ocular end-organ damage than others with similar BP. We examined risk factors for grade III/IV hypertensive retinopathy among patients with hypertensive urgency in the emergency department (ED) and compared healthcare utilization and mortality between patients with and without grade III/IVhypertensive retinopathy.\nMethods: A preplanned subanalysis of patients who presented to a university hospital ED with diastolic BP 120 mmHg and who enrolled in the Fundus Photography versus Ophthalmoscopy Trial Outcomes in the ED study was performed. Bilateral nonmydriatic ocular fundus photographs, vital signs, and demographics were obtained at presentation. Past medical history, laboratory values, healthcare utilization, and mortality were ascertained from medical record review at least 8 months after initial ED visit.\nResults: Twenty-one patients with diastolic BP 120 mmHg, 7 of whom (33%) had grade III/IV hypertensive retinopathy, were included. Patients with retinopathy were significantly younger than those without (median 33 vs 50 years, P ¼ 0.02). Mean arterial pressure (165 vs 163 mmHg) was essentially equal in the 2 groups. Patients with retinopathy had substantially increased but nonsignificant rates of ED revisit (57% vs 29%, P ¼ 0.35) and hospital admission after ED discharge (43% vs 14%, P ¼ 0.28). One of the patients with retinopathy died, but none without.\nConclusion: Younger patients may be at higher risk for grade III/IV hypertensive retinopathy among patients with hypertensive urgency. Chronic compensatory mechanisms may have not yet developedin these younger patients. Alternatively, older patients with retinopathy may be underrepresented secondary to increased mortality among these patients at a younger age (survivorship bias). Further research is needed to validate these preliminary findings. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):529–534.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "malignant hypertension" }, { "word": "ophthalmology" }, { "word": "non-mydriatic fundus photography" }, { "word": "Cardiovascular Diseases" }, { "word": "Community Health and Preventive Medicine" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Burden of Chronic Disease", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8600p503", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amanda", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Henderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "BS\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Valérie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Biousse", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, Georgia\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nancy", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Newman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, Georgia\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Atlanta, Georgia\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Neurological Surgery, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cédric", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lamirel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Wright", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Beau", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Bruce", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD, MS\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Atlanta, Georgia\nEmory University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Atlanta, Georgia", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-03-28T13:26:51-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-03-28T13:26:51-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T18:14:31-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19198/galley/9504/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7284, "title": "Subdural Empyema Presenting with Seizure, Confusion, and Focal Weakness", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While sinusitis is a common ailment, intracranial suppurative complications of sinusitis are rare and difficult to diagnose and treat. The morbidity and mortality of intracranial complications of sinusitis have decreased significantly since the advent of antibiotics, but diseases such as subduralempyemas and intracranial abscesses still occur, and they require prompt diagnosis, treatment, and often surgical drainage to prevent death or long-term neurologic sequelae. We present a case of an immunocompetent adolescent male with a subdural empyema who presented with seizures,confusion, and focal arm weakness after a bout of sinusitis. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):509-511]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Empyema, sinusitis, magnetic resonance imaging" }, { "word": "neurosurgery" }, { "word": "Infectious disease" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8679j0d3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "I", "last_name": "Bruner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Lanny", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Littlejohn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Amy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pritchard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "DO\nDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-01-08T01:43:32-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-01-08T01:43:32-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T18:01:09-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7284/galley/4345/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19342, "title": "Asterixis as a Presentation of Cerebellar Ischemic Stroke", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Asterixis is not yet considered a common neurological sign of cerebellum infarction, and the pathogenic mechanism for asterixis remains elusive. We report a 58-year-old male with moderate hypertension who presented to our emergency department for acute headache in both cervical and occipital regions of the left side. About 2 hours later the patient developed ipsilateral asterixis in the upper left limb; 3 days later the asterixis disappeared. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain disclosed cerebellarinfarctions at the left superior cerebellar artery. In conclusion, we observed that a transitory asterixis associated with ipsilateral headache can be an initial clinical manifestation of ipsilateral cerebellar infarctions in the superior cerebellar artery area. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):507-508]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "asterixis" }, { "word": "acute cerebellar ischemic stroke" }, { "word": "man" }, { "word": "Health Professions and Related Programs" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gn0s5hc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Antonio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Siniscalchi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nDepartment of Neurology, “Annunziata” Hospital, Cosenza, Italy\nDepartment of Neuroradiology, “Annunziata” Hospital, Cosenza, Italy", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Luca", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gallelli", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD, PhD\nDepartment of Neurology, “Annunziata” Hospital, Cosenza, Italy Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University Magna Grecia of Catanzaro, Regional Pharmacovigilance Center, Mater Domini University Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy.", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Olindo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Di Benedetto", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nDepartment of Neuroradiology, “Annunziata” Hospital, Cosenza, Italy", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Giovambattista", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "De Sarro", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nDepartment of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University Magna Grecia of Catanzaro, Regional Pharmacovigilance Center, Mater Domini University Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy.", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-09-21T05:54:38-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-09-21T05:54:38-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:59:04-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19342/galley/9568/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19210, "title": "Severe Neck Pain with Fever: Is it Meningitis?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A 58-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department with complaints of severe neck pain. He admitted to drug use but denied using intravenous (IV) drugs. On exam, he had a fever of 100.7 F, positive Kernig’s sign, and normal neurologic exam. The patient was suspected to have bacterial meningitis and was started on IV antibiotics. The next day the patient developed decreased hand grip. Magnetic resonance imaging of the spine the next day showed a soft-tissue mass impinging on the spinal canal. The patient was subsequently taken to the operating room where the epidural abscess was drained. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):505–506.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Epidural abscess" }, { "word": "Cervical Spine" }, { "word": "meningitis" }, { "word": "case report" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99388999", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Angela", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McCormick", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Resurrection Medical Center, Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Chicago,\nIllinois", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-04-11T10:06:09-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-04-11T10:06:09-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:53:58-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19210/galley/9511/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7366, "title": "Sonographic Consensual Pupillary Reflex", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Patients suffering from severe orbital trauma are at risk for numerous complications, including orbital compartment syndromes. This can result in an afferent pupillary defect, which must be evaluated for on physical examination. Unfortunately, these at-risk patients are often challengingto examine properly due to surrounding edema. Point-of-care ultrasonography can be used as an adjunct to the standard examination in this situation. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):524]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Pupillary Assessment, Emergency Medicine, Trauma, Ultrasound" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine, Emergency Ultrasound" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xj2c666", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wiswell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nMayo Clinic, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Venkatesh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bellamkonda-Athmaram", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nMayo Clinic, Department of Emergency Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-08T03:42:45-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-08T03:42:45-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:38:48-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7366/galley/4372/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7331, "title": "Bladder Bulge: Unifying Old and New Sonographic Bladder Wall Abnormalities in Ureterolithiasis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "As long as CT remains the first line imaging modality in suspected ureterolithiasis, emergency physicians will continue to perform the majority of renal colic ultrasound studies in a search for hydronephrosis. Hydronephrosis, however, is not always present and emergency physicians may not find it as useful as would be expected. Through this case series of seven patients, we present what we believe to be commonly present and easily acquired sonographic bladder wall findings in ureterolithiasis. These abnormalities are not routinely taught in emergency ultrasound and have not been reported in the emergency medicine literature. One variant, in fact, may be a novel finding unto itself. Due to their similar appearance, we propose to unify these findings under the name “bladder bulge.” This sign can be seen on axial views as an inward bulging or focal thickening of the bladder wall on the affected side, at the uretovesical junction. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):517-523]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasononography, sonography, ultrasound, renal colic, ureterolithiasis, nephrolithiasis, bladder" }, { "word": "Emergency medicine, urology, diagnostic imaging,ultrasonography" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3c43t6mr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bomann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "DO\nWellington Regional Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Seman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "BSc, MBBS\nWellington Regional Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Darrell", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sutijono", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nKaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Santa Clara, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Bridget", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rogers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nUniversity of Colorado, Department of Radiology, Denver, Colorado", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-02-07T05:45:58-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-02-07T05:45:58-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:36:27-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7331/galley/4361/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7432, "title": "Pulmonary Hypertension, Hemoptysis and an Echocardiographic Finding of a Ventricular Septal Defect", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this case presentation, a patient who presented to the Emergency Department with hemoptysis and shortness of breath was found to have a ventricular septal defect and right ventricular strain on bedside ultrasound. This case leads to a discussion of Eisenmenger Syndrome, a potentially ominous development in a patient with these clinical and ultrasound findings. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):516]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasound, echocardiography, ventricular septal defect, Eisenmenger Syndrome" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2gm8q7px", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Olaes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County+USC Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County+USC Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County+USC Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-04T05:01:59-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-05-04T05:01:59-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:32:20-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7432/galley/4398/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7429, "title": "Ultrasound Diagnosis of Urethral Calculi", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This images case demonstrates the utility of bedside focused ultrasound performed by the Emergency Physician in making the accurate diagnosis of an impacted urethral stone. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):515]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Ultrasound, kidney stone, urethral stones, urethra" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/574218jm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Peabody", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-03T23:59:43-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-05-03T23:59:43-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:30:28-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7429/galley/4396/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19371, "title": "Thyroid Evaluation in a Patient with Thyrotoxicosis with Bedside Ultrasound", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):514]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "emergency ultrasound" }, { "word": "hyperthyroid" }, { "word": "thyrotoxicosis" }, { "word": "Thyroid Ultrasound" }, { "word": "Allied Health Diagnostic, Intervention, and Treatment Professions" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4358c5hd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Matthew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hankerson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nUniversity of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Dina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Seif", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tom", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Philips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-11-02T00:21:28-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-11-02T00:21:28-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:28:07-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19371/galley/9579/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7458, "title": "One in a Million: A Case of Arm and Leg Pain and Deformity", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):503-504]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Emergency Medicine, Radiography, Melorheostosis" }, { "word": "Medicine, Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5717766j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Matthew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Silver", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nKaiser Permanente, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cyril", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Thomas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MS, PA-C\nKaiser Permanente, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Erica", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Montgomery", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "PA-S\nUniversity of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-24T17:53:14-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-05-24T17:53:14-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:25:49-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7458/galley/4409/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7466, "title": "An Uncommon Case of Abdominal Pain: Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is a rare cause of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting that may be undiagnosed in patients presenting to the emergency department (ED). We report a 54-year-old male presenting to a community ED with abdominal pain and the subsequent radiographic findings.The patient’s computed tomgraphy (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis demonstrates many of the hallmark findings consistent with SMA syndrome, including; compression of the duodenum between the abdominal aorta and superior mesenteric artery resulting in intestinal obstruction, dilation of the left renal vein, and gastric distension. Patients diagnosed with SMA syndrome have a characteristically short distance between the superior mesenteric artery and the aorta (usually 2–8 mm) in contrast to healthy patients (10–34 mm). Our patient’s aortomesenteric distance was measured to be approximately 4 mm. Furthermore, the measured angle between the superior mesenteric artery and the aorta is reduced in patients withSMA syndrome from a normal range of 28°–65° to a measurement between 6°–22°. Our patient’s aortomesenteric angle was difficult to measure secondary to poor sagittal reconstructions, but appears to be approximately 30°. Following radiographic evidence suggesting SMA syndrome together with our patient’s constellation of presenting symptoms, a diagnosis of SMA syndrome was made and the patient was admitted to the general surgery service. However, our patient decided to leave against medical advice owing to improvement of his symptoms following the emptying of two liters of gastric contents via nasogastric tube evacuation. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):501-502]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "superior mesenteric artery syndrome" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8dv821bv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Brent", "middle_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Felton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "DO\nMichigan State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lansing, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Josh", "middle_name": "Michael", "last_name": "White", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nMichigan State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lansing, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "Allen", "last_name": "Racine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nMichigan State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lansing, Michigan", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-06-05T12:47:30-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-06-05T12:47:30-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:22:59-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7466/galley/4413/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7367, "title": "Purple Urine Bag Syndrome", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):499-500]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "urine" }, { "word": "UTI" }, { "word": "foley care" }, { "word": "education" }, { "word": "Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2wv7r13h", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Pauline", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Meekins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nMedical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Amy", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Ramsay", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nMedical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "P", "last_name": "Ramsay", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD, JD\nMedical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-12T10:06:13-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-12T10:06:13-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:19:04-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7367/galley/4373/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7338, "title": "What’s Eating Your Wishbone? Sternoclavicular Septic Arthritis with Osteomyelitis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This manuscript describes the presentation of a patient with sternoclavicular joint infection, with a brief discussion on the diagnosis and treatment of this rare septic arthritis. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):497-498]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "sternoclavicular septic arthritis" }, { "word": "sternoclavicular osteopmyelitis" }, { "word": "Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f835135", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeri", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Rose", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "DO \nJPS Health Network, Department of Emergency Medicine, Fort Worth, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Roberts", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nCHRISTUS Spohn Hospital-Memorial, Department of Emergency Medicine \nCorpus Christi, Texas", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Simmons", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital-Memorial, Corpus Christi, Texas", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-02-27T22:39:04-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-02-27T22:39:04-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:17:12-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7338/galley/4362/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7288, "title": "Left Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We present a case of acute appendicitis from mobile cecum presenting with left upper quadrant abdominal pain. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):495-496]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8cd761fd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sean Patrick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nordt", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD, PharmD\nUniversity of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bowns", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Julieta", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moran", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "H.", "middle_name": "Brendan", "last_name": "Kelleher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Stuart", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Swadron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nUniversity of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-01-10T13:53:17-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-01-10T13:53:17-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:11:19-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7288/galley/4347/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7398, "title": "Chief Complaint: Right Hip Pain", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A interesting case and image of a 50-year-old woman with a history of non-insulin diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) who presented to the emergency department with right hip pain for one week and the subsequent findings. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):494]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Immunocompromised, Diabetes, Spinal Epidural Abscess" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Infectious disease" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4tj4d51f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shankar", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "LeVine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nAlameda County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakland, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Caitlin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bailey", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nAlameda County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakland, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Arun", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nagdev", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nAlameda County Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Oakland, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-04-01T20:47:59-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-04-01T20:47:59-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T17:07:24-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7398/galley/4385/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7401, "title": "Definitely NOT Just Another Hernia", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):492-493]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Bladder herniation" }, { "word": "Scrotal Cystocele" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6ff9q71r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Hipskind", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nKaweah Delta Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Visalia, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mike", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Burg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nKaweah Delta Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Visalia, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-04-06T20:10:16-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-04-06T20:10:16-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:58:25-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7401/galley/4387/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7393, "title": "Bilateral Thalamic Infarction", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):491]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Central Venous Thrombosis" }, { "word": "Medicine" }, { "word": "Neurology" }, { "word": "emergency" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t82r7r9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Geukens", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nUniversité catholique de Louvain, Cliniques St Luc, Intensive Care, Brussels, Belgium", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thierry", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Duprez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nUniversité catholique de Louvain, Cliniques St Luc, Neuroradiology, Brussels, Belgium", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Philippe", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hantson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD, PhD\nUniversité catholique de Louvain, Cliniques St Luc, Intensive Care, Brussels, Belgium", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-30T08:43:55-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-30T08:43:55-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:55:08-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7393/galley/4384/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7380, "title": "Unusual Presentation of Toxoplasma Gondii Encephalitis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We report a case of altered mental status secondary to acute Toxoplasma Gondii encephalitis. The patient had no medical or surgical history and presented with acute onset of lethargy with no clear precipitant. A physical exam revealed no focal neurological deficits and a subsequent medicalworkup revealed multiple intracranial lesions with a biopsy confirming the diagnosis of \nToxoplasma Gondii\n encephalitis in the setting of newly diagnosed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A literature review revealed that this is a unique case of toxoplasmic encephalopathy in the United States in a previously undiagnosed HIV positive patient presenting to an emergency department. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):488-490]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "AIDS" }, { "word": "HIV" }, { "word": "Toxoplasma Gondii" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0749g3jr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Caleb", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Davis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Henry Ford Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit, Michigan", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jacob", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Manteuffel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Henry Ford Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Detroit, Michigan", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-03-21T21:30:18-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-03-21T21:30:18-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:41:35-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7380/galley/4377/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19323, "title": "Takayasu’s Arteritis- An Unusual Cause of Stroke in a Young Patient", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We describe the case of a 28-year-old-male with no significant medical history who presented with right-sided hemiparesis, bruits over the carotid and subclavian arteries and an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Imaging studies revealed a middle cerebral artery thrombus and inflammatory changes of the carotid and subclavian arteries and aorta. The diagnosis of Takayasu’s arteritis was made and the patient was started on steroids and immunomodulators with good clinical response. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):484-487]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "takayasu arteritis" }, { "word": "takayasu's arteritis" }, { "word": "stroke" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Neurology" }, { "word": "radiology" }, { "word": "rheumatology" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rn0q9mh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Matthew", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Silver", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente, San Diego Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-08-18T15:37:06-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-08-18T15:37:06-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:39:21-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19323/galley/9557/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19336, "title": "Persistent Hiccups as a Rare Presenting Symptom of Pulmonary Embolism", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening condition that may present as dyspnea, chest pain,cough or hemoptysis, but often occurs without symptoms. It is not typically associated with hiccups.Hiccups are generally self-limiting benign contractions of the diaphragm that may be associatedwith medications or food but may also be symptomatic of serious disease when persistent. Wereport 3 cases of PE presenting as persistent hiccups. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):479-483]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Hiccup" }, { "word": "pulmonary embolus" }, { "word": "Other Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment" } ], "section": "Diagnostic Acumen", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mn9685q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Getaw worku", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hassen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Westchester County, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mona", "middle_name": "Milkha", "last_name": "Singh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Westchester County, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Hossein", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kalantari", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Westchester County, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Selamawit", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yemane-Merriwether", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Westchester County, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ferrante", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Westchester County, New York", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ronald", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shaw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Westchester County, New York", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-09-13T13:35:23-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-09-13T13:35:23-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:36:30-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19336/galley/9565/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19253, "title": "Current Trends in the Management of Difficult Urinary Catheterizations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Routine urinary catheter placement may cause trauma and poses a risk of infection. Male catheterization, in particular, can be difficult, especially in patients with enlarged prostate glands orother potentially obstructive conditions in the lower urinary tract. Solutions to problematic urinary catheterization are not well known and when difficult catheterization occurs, the risk of failedcatheterization and concomitant complications increase. Repeated and unsuccessful attempts aturinary catheterization induce stress and pain for the patient, injury to the urethra, potential urethralstricture requiring surgical reconstruction, and problematic subsequent catheterization. Improperinsertion of catheters also can significantly increase healthcare costs due to added days ofhospitalization, increased interventions, and increased complexity of follow-up evaluations. Improved techniques for catheter placement are essential for all healthcare personnel involved in themanagement of the patient with acute urinary retention, including attending emergency physicians whooften are the first physicians to encounter such patients. Best practice methods for blind catheter placement are summarized in this review. In addition, for progressive clinical practice, an algorithm forthe management of difficult urinary catheterizations that incorporates technology enabling directvisualization of the urethra during catheter insertion is presented. This algorithm will aid healthcare personnel in decision making and has the potential to improve quality of care of patients. [West J EmergMed. 2012;13(6):472–478.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Acute Urinary Retention" }, { "word": "BPH" }, { "word": "benign prostatic hyperplasia" }, { "word": "bladder neck obstruction" }, { "word": "catheterization" }, { "word": "false passage" }, { "word": "Quality of Life" }, { "word": "urethral obstruction" }, { "word": "urinary catheterization" }, { "word": "urinary incontinence" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Procedural Safety", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0114p0n5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Willette", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Riverside Methodist Hospital, Mid-Ohio Emergency Services, LLC, Columbus, Ohio", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Coffield", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Temple Clinic, Temple, Texas", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-05-27T19:29:17-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-05-27T19:29:17-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:32:17-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19253/galley/9530/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19122, "title": "Family History is a Predictor for Appendicitis in Adults Presenting to the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: A family history of appendicitis has been reported to increase the likelihood of thediagnosis in children and in a retrospective study of adults. We compare positive family history with thediagnosis of acute appendicitis in a prospective sample of adults.\nMethods: We conducted a prospective observational study of a convenience sample of 428 patients.We compared patients with surgically proven appendicitis to a group without appendicitis. The latterwere further grouped by their presenting symptoms: those presenting with a chief complaint ofabdominal pain and those with other chief complaints. Participants answered questions regarding theirfamily history of appendicitis. Family history was then compared for the appendicitis group versus thenonappendicitis group as a whole, and then versus the subgroup of patients without appendicitis butwith abdominal pain. The primary analysis was a v2 test of proportions and the calculation of odds ratio(OR) for the relationship between final diagnosis of appendicitis and family history.\nResults: Of 428 patients enrolled, 116 had appendicitis. Of those with other diagnoses, 158 hadabdominal pain and 154 had other complaints. Of all patients with appendicitis, 37.9% (confidence interval [CI]=29.1–46.8) had positive family history. Of those without appendicitis, 23.7% (CI=19.0–28.4) had positive family history. In the subgroup without appendicitis but with abdominal pain, 25.9%(CI=19.1–32.8) had positive family history. Both comparisons were significant (P=0.003; OR=1.97;95% CI=1.2–3.1; and P=0.034; OR=1.74; 95% CI=1.04–2.9, respectively). By multivariate logisticregression analysis across the full sample, family history was a significant independent predictor (P=0.011; OR = 1.883) of appendicitis.\nConclusion: Adults presenting to the emergency department with a known family history ofappendicitis are more likely to have this disease than those without. [West J Emerg Med.2012;13(6):468–471.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "appendicitis" }, { "word": "Family History" }, { "word": "abdominal pain" }, { "word": "Clinical Epidemiology" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Gastroenterology" }, { "word": "Surgery" } ], "section": "Medical Decision Making", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zf1h82p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Drescher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hartford Hospital/University of Connecticut, Division of Emergency Medicine, Hartford, Connecticut", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Shannon", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marcotte", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Connecticut Integrated Residency in Emergency Medicine, Hartford, Connecticut", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Grant", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "St Mary’s Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Waterbury, Connecticut", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ilene", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Staff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Hartford Hospital, Department of Research Administration, Hartford, Connecticut", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-11-29T12:08:22-06:00", "date_accepted": "2010-11-29T12:08:22-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:30:02-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19122/galley/9484/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19337, "title": "How Long Are Patients Willing to Wait in the Emergency Department Before Leaving Without Being Seen?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: Our goal was to evaluate patients’ threshold for waiting in an emergency department(ED) waiting room before leaving without being seen (LWBS). We analyzed whether willingness towait was influenced by perceived illness severity, age, race, triage acuity level, or insurance status.\nMethods: We conducted this survey-based study from March to July 2010 at an urban academicmedical center. After triage, patients were given a multiple-choice questionnaire, designed toascertain how long they would wait for medical care. We collected data including age, gender, race,insurance status, and triage acuity level. We looked at the association between willingness to waitand these variables, using stratified analysis and logistic regression.\nResults: Of the 375 patients who were approached, 340 (91%) participated. One hundred seventyone(51%) were willing to wait up to 2 hours before leaving, 58 (17%) would wait 2 to 8 hours, and110 (32%) would wait indefinitely. No association was found between willingness to wait and race,gender, insurance status, or perceived symptom severity. Patients willing to wait >2 hours tended tobe older than 25, have higher acuity, and prefer the study site ED.\nConclusion: Many patients have a defined, limited period that they are willing to wait for emergencycare. In our study, 50% of patients were willing to wait up to 2 hours before leaving the ED withoutbeing seen. This result suggests that efforts to reduce the percentage of patients who LWBS mustfactor in time limits. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):463-467]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Wait Time" }, { "word": "emergency department" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Emergency Department Access", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3f76719z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sanober", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Shaikh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Jerrard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Witting", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Winters", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "N", "last_name": "Brodeur", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-09-14T09:12:31-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-09-14T09:12:31-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:28:08-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19337/galley/9566/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 19341, "title": "Does Targeted Education of Emergency Physicians Improve Their Comfort Level in Treating Psychiatric Patients?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Introduction: We determined if targeted education of emergency physicians (EPs)regarding the treatment of mental illness will improve their comfort level in treatingpsychiatric patients boarding in the emergency department (ED) awaiting admission.\nMethods: We performed a pilot study examining whether an educational interventionwould change an EP’s comfort level in treating psychiatric boarder patients (PBPs). Weidentified a set of psychiatric emergencies that typically require admission or treatmentbeyond the scope of practice of emergency medicine. Diagnoses included majordepression, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, generalanxiety disorder, suicidal ideation, and criminal behavior. We designed equivalentsurveys to be used before and after an educational intervention. Each survey consistedof 10 scenarios of typical psychiatric patients. EPs were asked to rate their comfort levelsin treating the described patients on a visual analogue scale. We calculated summaryscores for the non intervention survey group (NINT) and intervention survey group (INT)and compared them using Student’s t-test.\nResults: Seventy-nine percent (33/42) of eligible participants completed the preinterventionsurvey (21 attendings, 12 residents) and comprised the NINT group. Fiftyfivepercent (23/42) completed the post-intervention survey (16 attendings, 7 residents)comprising the INT group. A comparison of summary scores between ‘NINT’ and ‘INT’groups showed a highly significant improvement in comfort levels with treating thepatients described in the scenarios (P = 0.003). Improvements were noted on separateanalysis for faculty (P = 0.039) and for residents (P = 0.012). Results of a sensitivityanalysis excluding one highly significant scenario showed decreased, but still importantdifferences between the NINT and INT groups for all participants and for residents, butnot for faculty (all: P = 0.05; faculty: P = 0.25; residents: P = 0.03).\nConclusion: This pilot study suggests that the comfort level of EPs, when asked to treatPBPs, may be improved with education. We believe our data support further study of thisidea and of whether an improved comfort level will translate to a willingness to treat.[West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):453-457]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "emergency" }, { "word": "psychiatric" }, { "word": "Boarder" }, { "word": "patient" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions" } ], "section": "Work Force Education", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4jv0t90w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Reetta", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Marciano", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Maryland, Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore, Maryland", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Diana", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Mullis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Edward", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Jauch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christine", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Carr", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Larry", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Raney", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Renee'", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Martin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brenda", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Walker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Saef", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Medical University of South Carolina, Division of Emergency Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2011-09-16T16:12:00-05:00", "date_accepted": "2011-09-16T16:12:00-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T16:12:50-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/19341/galley/9567/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 7431, "title": "Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPS) Migration to the Heart Diagnosed by Emergency Department Ultrasound", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A 57-year-old man presented to our emergency department with altered mental status. He had a past medical history significant for cirrhosis and previous placement of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). On cardiac auscultation, a new heart murmur and an unexpected degree of cardiac ectopy were noted. On the 12-lead electrocardiogram, the patient was noted to have multiple premature atrial contractions, corroborating the irregular heart rhythm on physicalexam. A focused bedside emergency ultrasound of the heart was then performed. This exam revealed an apparent foreign body in the right atrium. It appeared as if the patient’s TIPS had migrated from the heart into the right atrium. This case, as well as the literature describing thisunusual complication of TIPS placement, is reviewed in this case report. [West J Emerg Med. 2012;13(6):525-526]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY-NC 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ultrasound, liver, TIPS,cardiac echocardiography, cardiac ectopy" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Technology in Emergency Care", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/69d3j4q9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carlan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wendler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jan", "middle_name": "Marie", "last_name": "Shoenberger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mailhot", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Phillips", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Perera", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MD\nLos Angeles County + University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine, Los Angeles, California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-05-04T01:50:16-05:00", "date_accepted": "2012-05-04T01:50:16-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-14T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/7431/galley/4397/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5144, "title": "Failure to Find Proboscis Conditioning in One-Day Old Africanized Honey Bees (\nApis Mellifera L.\n) and in Adult Uruçu Honey Bees (\nMelipona Scutellaris\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The proboscis extension reflex was used to investigate behavior modification in one day old Africanized honey bees and in adult Uruçu honey bees. Experiments were designed to investigate classical conditioning, pseudoconditioning, and central excitatory state. Additional experiments examined the suitability of the proboscis extension reflex to serve as a feeding assay were carried out on Urugu. The results indicated no classical conditioning and no pseudoconditioning in young Africanized bees or in the adult Uruçu. A large central excitatory effect was observed in young Africanized bees, but only a small effect was observed in Urugu. The proboscisextension reflex could be used as an assay to test the suitability of artificial diets in Uruçu.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "failure" }, { "word": "Proboscis" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "One-Day" }, { "word": "Old Africanized" }, { "word": "Adult" }, { "word": "Uruçu" }, { "word": "Honey" }, { "word": "bees" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5tj6f734", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Charles", "middle_name": "I", "last_name": "Abramson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Italo", "middle_name": "S", "last_name": "Aquino", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sherrill", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Stone", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T17:24:24-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T17:24:24-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T17:24:33-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5144/galley/3024/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5143, "title": "Song Structure and Function of Mimicry in the Australian Magpie (\nGymnorhina tibicen\n): Compared to Lyrebird (\nMenura ssp.\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper compares two species of songbird with the aim of elucidating the function of song and also of mimicry. It attempts to understand why some birds mimic and takes as examples the lyrebird (\nMenura sp.\n) and the Australian magpie (\nGymnorhina tibicen\n). Mimicry by the magpie and its development has been recorded and analysed. The results show that magpies mimic in the wild and they do so mimicking species permanently settled in their own territory. So far 15 types of mimicry have been identified. One handraised Australian magpie even developed the ability to vocalise human language sounds, words and phrases. Results show that mimicry is interspersed into their own song at variable rates, not in fixed sequences as in lyrebirds. In one case it was possible to show an extremely high retention rate of learned material and a high plasticity for learning. Spectrogram comparisons of sequences of mimicry with the calls of the original species, and comparison of magpiemimicry with lyrebird mimicry is made. Both species may justifiably vie for theposition of the foremost songbirds of Australia, and both are territorial, yet the function,structure and development of song are different in the two species. It is argued thatpossible functions of mimicry are related not only to social organisation but also to theniche each species occupies. Territoriality may go some way to explaining thecomplexity of song but not necessarily the different functions of mimicry or the varyingdegrees of complexity of communication. We need to ask what conditions may fosterdevelopment of complex communication patterns in avian species.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "song" }, { "word": "structure" }, { "word": "bird" }, { "word": "Songbird" }, { "word": "function" }, { "word": "mimicry" }, { "word": "Australia" }, { "word": "Magpie" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/356357r0", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gisela", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kaplan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T17:13:47-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T17:13:47-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T17:20:45-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5143/galley/3023/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5142, "title": "Studies of Temperament in Simian Primates with Implications for Socially Mediated Learning", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The functions of social learning concern the acquisition of skills and information that enable individuals to adjust competently to their environments. However, individuals differ in the extents to which they cope with, maintain and create social and other environmental opportunities. Hence, it is relevant to consider dispositions of individuals interactively - as with emotion, attention and activity; to emphasise self regulatory behaviour, as with selective attention towards or away from environmental conditions. These propensities facilitate positive and negative responses that are associated with the uptake and use of skill and information from other individuals. In these regards, the study of temperament has fertile but mainly unexplored potential. Examples are given from studies of simian primates in which differences in temperament have predictive implications for social learning. When relatively fearful animals confront challenging situations, they are likely to avoid them and become physiologically disturbed. Less fearful and active animals interact more, and in emotionally more positive ways with other individuals. They are more likely to maintain closer physical proximity to others, to attend more to what they are doing and where. Hence, they have greater chances of facilitating advantageous responses - as in feeding strategies. In the acquisition of social skills, less fearful animals engage in play activities more than relatively fearful animals. Such interactions facilitate thedevelopment of information about other individuals, and the quality of social behaviour that is developed. These examples show the value of an integrative approach to behavioural studies - in which behaviour is considered with other biological systems.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Studies" }, { "word": "Temperament" }, { "word": "Simian" }, { "word": "primates" }, { "word": "Implication" }, { "word": "Socially" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7373v9g2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hilary", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Box", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T17:09:06-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T17:09:06-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T17:09:17-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5142/galley/3022/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5141, "title": "Naturalistic Approaches to Orangutan Intelligence and the Question of Enculturation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Field studies have been, and continue to be, important contributors to the understanding of great ape cognition-especially with regard to questions of cognitiveecology or the key cognitive challenges in the evolution of primate intelligence. Theyare also critical to resolving a current debate, whether human enculturation boosts great apes' cognition, because only studies of problem-solving in feral contexts can resolve the question of whether abilities are higher in enculturated than non-enculturated great apes. To this debate, this paper offers findings from observational field studies on freeranging rehabilitant orangutans' cognitive capabilities, as revealed in their food processing and arboreal positioning, and on the possible social transmission of that expertise. These findings are combined with published findings on wild and enculturated great apes as a basis for assessing the effects of human enculturation on great ape cognition. This assessment joins several others in showing that free-ranging great apes independently achieve cognition of the same order of complexity as enculturated great apes, in concluding that claims for the effects of human enculturation are likely inflated, and in suggesting that the basis for the effectiveness of human enculturation is that great apes normally \"enculturate\" themselves.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "primate" }, { "word": "Naturalistic" }, { "word": "Approach" }, { "word": "Orangutan" }, { "word": "Intelligence" }, { "word": "Question" }, { "word": "enculturation" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9cj9c3b7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Anne", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Russon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T17:06:54-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T17:06:54-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T17:07:04-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5141/galley/3021/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5139, "title": "Book Review -- Politics and People in Ethology: Personal Reflections on the Study of Animal Behavior", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "by Peter H. Klopfer, Lewisburg, PA: BucknellUniversity Press, 1999.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "book" }, { "word": "review" }, { "word": "Politic" }, { "word": "people" }, { "word": "Ethology" }, { "word": "Study" }, { "word": "Animal" }, { "word": "Behavior" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2s360580", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nancy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Innis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:53:05-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:53:05-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:53:16-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5139/galley/3018/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5138, "title": "Decision-Making and Turn Alternation in Pill Bugs (\nArmadillidium Vulgare\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Twelve pill bugs (\nArmadillidium vulgare, Isopoda, Cmstacean\n) were examined in 200 successive T-mazes. When obstacles are present, A. vulgare tend to move by means of turn alternation, which is generally considered an innate adaptive behavior. With a decrease in air moisture, the bugs have a tendency to increase their turn alternation rate. However, in such long successive T-mazes as in this study, continued turn alternation should actually accelerate the bugs' desiccation. This fact implies that turn alternation cannot always work adaptively. In this trade-off situation, while three individuals kept turn alternation at a high rate (1) and four at a low rate, (2), the other five spontaneously increased the rate of turn alternation and then decreased it (3). This instability of turn alternation in group (3) is interpreted as resulting not from stochastic factors but rather from the bugs' own decision-making, and seems to be anescape behavior used to get out of the experimental apparatus. In order to verify thedecision-making hypothesis, all animals were subsequently tested in another successive T-maze apparatus, where the ends of the chosen alleys were shut, i.e., with 50 successive blind alleys. In this situation, while individuals of groups (1) and (2) continued to wander inside the apparatus, those of group (3) found a vertical roughwall, climbed it, and escaped from the apparatus in the middle of the experiment. Mostof the unexercised individuals in the control experiment did not show climbingbehavior", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "decision-making" }, { "word": "Turn" }, { "word": "Alternation" }, { "word": "Pill" }, { "word": "Bug" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1wn9s57r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tohru", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moriyama", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:50:49-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:50:49-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:50:59-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5138/galley/3017/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5137, "title": "The Function and Significance of Inter-Species Acoustic Cues in the Transformation of Budgerigar (\nMelopsittacus Undulatus\n) Sounds Into \"Speech\"", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Analysis of speech-imitation sounds produced by pet budgerigars (Melopsittacus imdulatus) reveals a consistent focus on acoustic components of speech which have counterparts in the species-specific vocalizations of budgerigars. These budgerigar vocalizations include whistle sequences (which, with their rapid glides in pitch contour, need only slight modification to constitute a second-formant representation of speech), the contact call (which is acoustically similar to the secondformant transition of high front vowels), and sounds with harmonic spectra (which can be modified to represent the formant structure of certain vowels). This transformation of species-specific sounds into speech-imitation sounds by focusing on shared acoustic features prompts the hypothesis that, with the appropriate social stimulation, pet budgerigars perceive human speech as modified budgerigar sounds. The hypothesis is supported by the fact that the shared acoustic features are particularly important cues in the perception of species-specific communication sounds by both humans and budgerigars. Such inter-species vocal communication cues, having a common origin somewhere in vertebrate phylogeny. would help to explain the many reported examples of human-like speech perception by nonhuman vertebrates. The shared neural mechanisms which correspond to these shared acoustic patterns could constitute a phylogenetically conservative level of auditory perception which is communication sound-specific but not species-specific.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Communication" }, { "word": "function" }, { "word": "Significance" }, { "word": "Inter-Species" }, { "word": "Acoustic" }, { "word": "Cues" }, { "word": "transformation" }, { "word": "Budgerigar" }, { "word": "Sound" }, { "word": "Speech" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gx3n666", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jim", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sclan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:47:17-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:47:17-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:47:32-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5137/galley/3016/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5136, "title": "Factors Associated with Exploration in Marmosets: Age, Gender and Hand Preference", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Age, hand preference and gender are shown to be associated with exploration behaviour performed by Callithrix jaccfius, depending on the context in which the marmosets are tested. When each marmoset was tested alone in a novel environment, hand preference had a significant effect on exploration: right-handed marmosets explored more actively than left-handed ones. This difference is probably related to hemispheric specialisation for processing novel stimuli and controlling emotional responses. Age and gender were found to have no significant effect onexploration in this context. When the marmosets were tested in the social groups and by placing novel objects in their home cages, both hand preference and age influenced approach and interaction with the stimuli, but again gender had no significant effect. Solving a novel problem in the home cage was influenced only by age, or related social dominance, and not by gender or hand preference. The implications of these results to behaviour of wild marmosets and other species are discussed.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Factor" }, { "word": "Exploration" }, { "word": "Marmoset" }, { "word": "Age" }, { "word": "gender" }, { "word": "HAND" }, { "word": "preference" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7x66m0mq", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "L", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Rogers", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:36:21-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:36:21-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:36:32-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5136/galley/3015/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5135, "title": "Intra-and Inter-Specific Social Learning of a Novel Food Task in Two Species of Tamarin", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Intra- and inter-specific social learning was investigated in two species ofNew World monkey, the saddle-backed tamarin {Saguinus fuscicoUis) and the redbellied tamarin {S. labiatus), which form stable and permanent mixed-species troops in the wild. We explored whether improved food acquisition, through social learning, is a potential advantage of mixed-species troop formation by allowing a pair of naive observers to watch a pair of trained demonstrators complete a novel foraging task. The aims of the study were (a) to determine if individuals succeeded at the task more quickly after having observed demonstrators, (b) to investigate whether speed ofacquisition differed after observation of conspecific demonstrators as opposed tocongeneric demonstrators, and (c) to compare performance between species. Thenumber of trials taken by observers to succeed on the task was compared with that taken by naive demonstrators to succeed on the task initially. Individuals succeeded on the task more quickly if they had had the opportunity to watch demonstrators perform the task, regardless of whether the demonstrator was a conspecific or congeneric. There was no difference in performance between species. It is concluded that, for both species, the learning of a new foraging technique is facilitated by the presence of both conspecifics and congenerics and that the likely mechanism for this facilitation is a combination of stimulus enhancement and response facilitation. Social learning of this kind is discussed with respect its adaptive value in wild mixed-species tamarin troops.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Intra" }, { "word": "Inter-Specific" }, { "word": "social" }, { "word": "novel" }, { "word": "Food" }, { "word": "Task" }, { "word": "species" }, { "word": "Tamarin" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4r56n90t", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Prescott", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Hannah", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Buchanan-Smith", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:33:50-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:33:50-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:34:03-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5135/galley/3014/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5134, "title": "Gender Differences in Marmosets and Tamarins: Responses to Food Tasks", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The study of behavioural gender differences among Callitrichid primates has been generally neglected. We describe evidence from experimental studies in which adult female tamarins (\nSaguinus\n) and marmosets (\nCallithrix\n) demonstrate priority of access to food that is spatially and temporarily restricted. Differences in behavioural strategies between both reproductive and non-reproductive females, and males, are consistent with differences between the genera in their feeding ecology and social organisation. They are also functionally plausible. A recent study gives preliminary data to show that, although mated females in family groups of common marmosets demonstrate priority of access to food sources, overall there are differences in responsiveness that may be influenced by factors such as the time of feeding, energycontent and preference of food.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "gender" }, { "word": "Difference" }, { "word": "Marmoset" }, { "word": "Tamarin" }, { "word": "Response" }, { "word": "Food" }, { "word": "Task" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bt6h3p3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Hilary", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Box", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "Emilia", "last_name": "Yamamoto", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Fivia", "middle_name": "Araujo", "last_name": "Lopes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:31:29-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:31:29-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:31:47-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5134/galley/3013/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5133, "title": "Left Hand Advantage for Prey Capture in the Galago (\nGalago Moholi\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Efficiency of hand use in nonhuman primates is often difficult to assess because of the relatively small number of responses made with a nonpreferred hand. The present study compared measures of reach efficiency in 8 galagos (\nGalago moholi\n), 4 left-hand preferent and 4 right-hand preferent subjects, tested in a reach apparatusdesigned to elicit equal numbers of responses by the left and right hands. The effect of variant or invariant target placement within sessions was also assessed by the use of both blocked and randomized trials. Efficiency was defined in terms of the percentage of successful reaches and the average duration of time required for reach execution. There was no effect of target variance on strength of hand preference or on either measure of performance efficiency. Preferred and nonpreferred hands did not differ with respect to these two measures. There was also no difference in the percentage of successful reaches between the left and right hands. However, for 7 of 8 subjects the left hand generated faster reach times than did the right hand, regardless of hand preference. The greater execufion speed with the left arm/hand is interpreted as exemplifying a lateralized neural advantage for the execution of ballistic reaching in galago species. The highly consistent timing of this prey capture behavior in the galago supports the view that this arm/hand movement is ballistic in type.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Left" }, { "word": "HAND" }, { "word": "Advantage" }, { "word": "Prey" }, { "word": "capture" }, { "word": "Galago" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bq8r50s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeannette", "middle_name": "P", "last_name": "Ward", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:28:04-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:28:04-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:28:13-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5133/galley/3012/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5132, "title": "Contextual Discrimination After Nonreinforced Preexposure to the Context", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Rats were trained on a contextual discrimination after nonreinforced preexposure to both contexts. In Experiment 1, where contexts differed in terms of tactile and visual stimuli, preexposure retarded subsequent discrimination by comparison with non preexposed controls (latent inhibition). In Experiment 2, where contexts differed only in terms of visual cue, discrimination was facilitated in preexposed animals (perceptual learning). Food was used as reinforcer and anticipatory activity as dependent measure. These results suggest that contextual similarity influences the outcome of nonreinforced preexposure.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "discrimination" }, { "word": "Nonreinforced" }, { "word": "Preexposure" }, { "word": "Context" }, { "word": "Contextual" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x676656", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alba", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Mustaca", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Santiago", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pellegrini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:25:04-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:25:04-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:25:15-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5132/galley/3011/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5131, "title": "Water Retrieval by Norway Rats: Behavior as Deduction", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The origin of behavior consistent with effective (\"optimal\") policies is an important topic in behavioral biology. In many cases, novel behavior patterns that emerge in unfamiliar situations are based on \"trial and error\" learning guided by rewards and punishments. The present work shows how an appropriate novel response canemerge full-blown in response to new contingencies if the situation has generic featuresthat can be recognized. This work is concerned with object retrieval, i.e., carriage of valued objects to a place of safety by Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout); Rodentia: Muridae). Experiment 1 shows that selective retrieval of objects containing water over dry objects of the same material can occur immediately when rats are made thirsty; it is unlikely that this is a specific adaptation, since the opportunity to retrieve water in this way would rarely arise under natural conditions. Experiment 2 shows that without initial exposure to both objects under ad lib conditions (where the retrieval preference was for the dry objects), a process of trial and error is apparent as thirsty rats learn to select the appropriate object. It is argued that if object retrieval behavior is linked to a generic incentive feature and features such as wetness are receded into this general term, then appropriate object retrieval can be generated by a kind of deductive process. This type of generalist strategy would appear to be highly adaptive, in part because the usual tradeoffs between specialist and generalist strategies may not apply.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Water" }, { "word": "retrieval" }, { "word": "Norway" }, { "word": "Rat" }, { "word": "Deduction" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pg4162n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "R", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Wallace", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:22:15-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:22:15-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:22:25-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5131/galley/3010/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5130, "title": "Making Place for a Comparative Scientist: Robert Mearns Yerkes at Harvard, 1902-1917", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "During the first decade of this century, Robert Meams Yerkes struggled to make a place for himself within Harvard University's Division of Philosophy as a comparative scientist. From the perspective of a young assistant professor, Yerkes'diary and letters permit a glimpse into the ail-too familiar struggle of establishing career and family.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "making" }, { "word": "Place" }, { "word": "Comparative" }, { "word": "Scientist" }, { "word": "Yerkes" }, { "word": "Harvard" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wt439g2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Randall", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Wight", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kristi", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Smith", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:18:31-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:18:31-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:18:43-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5130/galley/3009/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5129, "title": "Animal Cognition in Relation to Farm Animal Welfare: The Need for a Different Approach", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Reviewing various ideas about animal cognition, including the radically different approach developed by Maturana and Varela (1987), brings to light serious concerns about the ability of the current science of cognitive ethology to address issues of animal welfare or to provide useful interpretations of animal thinking and awareness. The proposition that farm animal welfare will be properly assessed only when much more is known about the cognitive abilities of the animals concerned is critically discussed. This principle is supported, but the current means of achieving it are questioned. It is argued that a broader scientific basis is needed to enhance a cognitive ethology that is merely an additive combination of behavioural observation and information-processing models of cognition.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Animal" }, { "word": "Relation" }, { "word": "Farm" }, { "word": "Welfare" }, { "word": "Need" }, { "word": "Different" }, { "word": "Approach" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vr1f90k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lloyd", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:13:46-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:13:46-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T16:14:06-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5129/galley/3008/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5140, "title": "Book Review - Comparative Psychology: A Handbook", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "by G. Greenberg and M.M. Haraway (Eds.), New York and London: Garland, 1998.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "book" }, { "word": "review" }, { "word": "Comparative" }, { "word": "psychology" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/505212hc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gilbert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gottleib", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-13T16:55:20-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-13T16:55:20-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-13T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5140/galley/3019/download/" }, { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5140/galley/3020/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43890, "title": "Toxicity of Bevacizumab (bev): The First in Class Anti-Angiogenesis Agent in Oncology", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6jb2t5b6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alexander", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Black", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-11-11T17:48:30-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43890/galley/32693/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43844, "title": "Group A Streptococcal Vaginitis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9j90d3jk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jamie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Polito", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-11-11T15:26:23-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43844/galley/32647/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 4798, "title": "Gemstones", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The gemstones of ancient Egypt, broadly defined, include all rocks, minerals, and biogenic materials used for jewelry (beads, pendants, ring stones, and cloisonné inlays), amulets, seals, and other small decorative items (figurines, cosmetic vessels, and inlays in furniture and sculpture). At least 38 gemstone varieties were used by the Egyptians, but ancient mines in Egypt are known for only nine of these. Some of the gemstones were imported from sources in Asia while others certainly came from undiscovered Egyptian mines\n .", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "geology, jewellry, gems, color" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" } ], "section": "Material Culture, Art and Architecture", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57f2d2sk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Harrell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Toledo", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2010-07-08T14:09:44-05:00", "date_accepted": "2010-07-08T14:09:44-05:00", "date_published": "2012-11-10T02:00:00-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/4798/galley/2696/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5128, "title": "Suckling Behavior in Domestic Goats: Interaction Between Litter Size and Kid Sex", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Studies of milk allocation in polytocous species provide the opportunity to investigate the effects of offspring number and sex ratio on maternal investment. In these species maternal control over milk allocation is more difficult because physiological limits on milk production may stimulate sibling competition. This study investigated the nursing behavior of domestic goats bearing twins or singletons in an experimental situation for the first 47 days post-partum. Milk yield and composition did not correlate with litter size, kid weight, or with the behavior of kids. Males were heavier than females, but there were no sex differences in behaviors related to nursing. Milk allocation differences existed between twins and singletons, even though, on the average, there were no significant weight differences. However, one twin was always larger than the other. Twins spent less time in proximity to the mother than did the singletons, and were more responsible for achieving proximity to the mother. These results suggest that nursing behavior was more affected by litter size than by sex of young, although there might be an interaction between both, that early mother-young interactions were different for twins and singletons, and that kids played an active role in the allocation of milk and its conversion to body weight.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Suckling" }, { "word": "Domestic" }, { "word": "Goat" }, { "word": "interaction" }, { "word": "Litter" }, { "word": "Size" }, { "word": "Kid" }, { "word": "sex" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65v2t54q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carlos", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Ruiz-Miranda", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Katerina", "middle_name": "V", "last_name": "Thompson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Callard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T17:18:28-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T17:18:28-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T17:19:33-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5128/galley/3007/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43867, "title": "Papular Elastorrhexis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "eng", "license": { "name": "", "short_name": "", "text": null, "url": "" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Clinical Vignette" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j4938m9", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aparche", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yang", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Jamie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zussman", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Chandra", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Smart", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Joseph", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Diehl", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Dina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Farshidi", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Binder", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Lorraine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Young", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2012-11-09T17:02:30-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43867/galley/32670/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5127, "title": "The Napoli Social Learning Conference", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "June 30 - July 5, 1998, Naples, Italy", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Napoli" }, { "word": "social" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "Conference" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hh3081r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Papers", "middle_name": "of", "last_name": "Abstract", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T16:39:55-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T16:39:55-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T16:40:33-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5127/galley/3006/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5126, "title": "Introduction - The Napoli Social Learning Conference", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "June 30 - July 5, 1998, Naples, Italy", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "introduction" }, { "word": "Napoli" }, { "word": "social" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "Conference" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bs526rc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "C", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Heyes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "B", "middle_name": "G", "last_name": "Galef, Jr.", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T16:35:27-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T16:35:27-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T16:35:36-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5126/galley/3005/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5125, "title": "IXth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Comparative Psychology", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "September 1-5, 1998, South Africa", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Biennial" }, { "word": "Meeting" }, { "word": "International" }, { "word": "society" }, { "word": "Comparative" }, { "word": "psychology" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9dz3t705", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Papers", "middle_name": "of", "last_name": "Abstracts", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T16:32:45-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T16:32:45-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T16:33:05-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5125/galley/3004/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5124, "title": "IXth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Comparative Psychology", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "September 1-5, 1998, South African Museum, Capetown, South Africa", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Biennial" }, { "word": "Meeting" }, { "word": "International" }, { "word": "society" }, { "word": "Comparative" }, { "word": "psychology" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49c1m3sn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Abstracts", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Introductions", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T16:30:45-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T16:30:45-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T16:31:05-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5124/galley/3003/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5123, "title": "Startle-Freeze Behavior in Weaned Pigs", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Pigs may express a startle response and then freeze after they have heard an auditory stimulus. The objective of this study was to induce startle-freeze behaviour,describe it and to seek potential variables that might influence it. A startle-freeze response lasting 1 to 12 seconds was produced in 36 pigs 5-6 weeks old penned in 12 groups (3 pigs per group), using a cymbal (26 cm radius) to produce a sound of 1 10 dB intensity. This was repeated at 4 minute intervals for 8 stimuli over 28 minutes. The duration of the startle-freeze response decreased over presentations and all pigs had ceased to respond by the seventh stimulus. The frequencies of social interaction, ingestion and lying or sitting behaviours before freezing decreased after the freeze period, and standing or walking increased. The behaviours shown before and after immobilisation were not independent (x\\ = 101.9, p < 0.001). The social status of each group was determined from videotape records. The dominance rank of the pig was significantly related to the onset of immobilization; the most dominant pigs responded to the noise first, often 1 to 2 seconds ahead of lower ranked pigs (x\\ = 15.74, p < 0.05). In conclusion, pigs show a clear startle-freeze response to a novel auditory stimulus, they habituate rapidly and the onset of startle-freeze behaviour depends upon their social status.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Startle-Freeze" }, { "word": "Weaned" }, { "word": "Pig" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/70c6n652", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Judith", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Blackshaw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Alan", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Blackshaw", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "McGlone", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T16:28:05-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T16:28:05-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T16:28:44-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5123/galley/3002/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5122, "title": "How Many Dimensions are Needed to Describe Temperament in Animals: A Factor Reanalysis of Two Data Sets", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Factor analysis has commonly been used to infer the dimensions of animal temperament. However, the results were often complicated by large number of broad and situation-specific factors caused by low psychometric adequacy of the correlationmatrices, undermining the assumptions of factor analysis. In this study I reanalyzed the data sets obtained by Royce, Foley & Yeudall (1973) and Gervai & Csanyi (1985)including, however, only the variables with high correlations (multiple R^ > 0.3) andpsychometric adequacies (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure > 0.5). This yielded more stable and simpler factor solutions than in the original studies. Specifically, even though the present reanalysis cannot rule out the existence of other temperament factors, it indicates that two general dimensions, Activity-Exploration and Fear Avoidance, are present in such diverse species as mice and the paradise fish.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Dimension" }, { "word": "Temperament" }, { "word": "Animal" }, { "word": "Factor" }, { "word": "reanalysis" }, { "word": "data" }, { "word": "Set" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/522677n7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sergey", "middle_name": "V", "last_name": "Budaev", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T16:22:11-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T16:22:11-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T16:22:28-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5122/galley/3001/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5121, "title": "Chronological Development of Behavior in the Blind Mole Rat (\nSpalax Ehrenbergi\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The blind mole rat {Spalax ehrenbergi) is a potentially highl aggressive solitary, subterranean rodent. Data on growth and development of pups are lacking since it is difficult to raise pups in captivity and, until recently, the blind mole rat has never bred in captivity. In this study six litters were maintained in six large semi-natural setups. We describe for the first time the chronological development of behavior in the blind mole rat from day of birth until the young disperse and establish their own independentterritories. The relatively short gestation period (34 days) and low birth mass (5-6 g) combined with the need to acquire all survival skills prior to dispersal, are probably correlated with the relatively lengthy development of the blind mole ratcompared to Bathyergidae.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Chronological" }, { "word": "development" }, { "word": "Blind" }, { "word": "Mole" }, { "word": "Rat" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xp040d5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Irit", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gazit", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Joseph", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Terkel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T14:59:02-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T14:59:02-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T14:59:16-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5121/galley/3000/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5119, "title": "Evolutionary Psychology, Adaptation, and the Evolution of Language: Is there a Need for Comparison?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A general assumption held by evolutionary psychologists is that a reference point for examining the origins and evolution of human psychological adaptations exists within a time range beginning roughly two million years ago. Scenarios for explaining the evolution of human psychological processes often allude to possible election pressures encountered by hominids during this time. unfortunately, comparative psychology and ethology are relatively absent from much current evolutionary psychological thought. Selective pressures that existed during the putative environment of evolutionary adaptedness may have predated the origin of hominids. Based on examples of the evolution of communication, this paper offers another approach to discovering the origins and evolution of psychological traits, with the aim of modifying a potentially misleading assumption of evolutionary psychology.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Evolutionary" }, { "word": "psychology" }, { "word": "adaptation" }, { "word": "evolution" }, { "word": "Language" }, { "word": "Comparison" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0b1185q7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Krause", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T14:29:30-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T14:29:30-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T14:29:41-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5119/galley/2998/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5118, "title": "Observing Behavioral Qualities", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Animal movements have distinctive qualities, and these qualities can vary even when the form of the movement remains relatively constant. Description of behavioral qualities by trained observers can be useful in basic behavioral research and in applications ranging from behavioral ecology to clinical medicine. A method called Laban movement analysis differentiates four separate bipolar effort factors that contribute to the quality of body movement. Using independent rankings of videotaped behavioral sequences,we verified that observers can distinguish behavioral qualities liably when using the Laban system. Observers generally agreed both on the kind(s) of effort factor(s) present and on the mode or degree of expression of each factor. We discuss the potential and limitations of the Laban system as applied to animal behavior and identify some philosophical issues that arise from attempts to link the study of behavioral quality to the study of form and space, and to a possible emerging \"science of qualities\".", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Animal" }, { "word": "observation" }, { "word": "Laban" }, { "word": "movement" }, { "word": "analysis" }, { "word": "Behavioral" }, { "word": "Qualities" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8gx671cb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fagan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Conitz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Elizabeth", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kunibe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T14:22:39-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T14:22:39-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T14:23:02-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5118/galley/2997/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5117, "title": "Consistency of Skinner Box Activity Measures in the Domestic Rabbit (\nOryctolagus Cuniculus\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Consistency of individual differences in several measures of Skinner box operant and other activity and their intercorrelations in 14 chinchilla bred rabbits were studied. Reliability analysis revealed that both operant and activity measures were highly consistent (Cronbach alpha>0.87) over at least 15 days. Furthermore, locomotor activity, the tendencies to press the lever with high frequency, to make many errors, to check the presence of food in the dispenser as well as rearing were highly intercorrelated, making up a single dimension of activity. However, grooming did not correlate with these behaviors.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "consistency" }, { "word": "Skinner" }, { "word": "Box" }, { "word": "activity" }, { "word": "Measure" }, { "word": "Domestic" }, { "word": "Rabbit" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kj67467", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Svetlana", "middle_name": "V", "last_name": "Zworykina", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sergey", "middle_name": "V", "last_name": "Budaev", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Dmitry", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Zworykin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:49:30-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:49:30-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:49:42-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5117/galley/2996/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5116, "title": "Comparative Perspectives on Pointing and Joint Attention in Children and Apes", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The comprehension and production of manual pointing and joint visual attention are already well developed when human infants reach their second year. These early developmental milestones mark the infant's transition into accelerated linguistic competence and shared experiences with others. The ability to draw another's attention toward distal objects or events facilitates the development of complex cognitive processes such as language acquisition. A comparative approach allows us to examine the evolution of these phenomena. Of recent interest is whether non-human primates also gesture and manipulate the eye gaze direction of others when communicating. However,all captive apes do not use referential gestures such as pointing, or appear to understand the meaning of shared attention. Those that show evidence of these abilities differ in their expression of them, and this may be osely related to rearing history. This paper reviews the literature on the topic of pointing and joint attention in non-human primates with the goal of identifying why these abilities develop in other species, and to examine the potential sources of the existing individual variation in their expression.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Comparative" }, { "word": "Pointing" }, { "word": "joint" }, { "word": "attention" }, { "word": "Children" }, { "word": "Apes" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3qk44993", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Krause", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:44:03-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:44:03-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:44:15-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5116/galley/2995/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5115, "title": "Spaced-trail Operant Learning with Purely Instrumental Contingencies in Pigeons (\nColumba Livia\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The purpose of this experiment was to study persistence during extinction of key pecking performance in pigeons (Columba livia) after training with either a large (15 food pellets) or a small reward magnitude (1 food pellet). Strictly instrumental contingencies were enforced and a single trial per daily session was administered. There were 52 acquisition trials followed by 48 extinction trials. Although extinction started from similar response levels in both groups, the pigeons trained with 15 pellets exhibited significantly slower extinction than those trained with a single pellet. This result is discussed in the context of comparative research on the effects of reward magnitude and schedule on extinction in vertebrates.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Spaced-trail" }, { "word": "Operant" }, { "word": "Instrumental" }, { "word": "Contingencies" }, { "word": "Pigeon" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wg430b7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mauricio", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Papini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Thomas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:40:12-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:40:12-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:40:30-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5115/galley/2994/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5114, "title": "Video Display for Study of Avian Visual Cognition: From Psychophysics to Sign Language", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "We demonstrated four different ways of using video systems for research in avian visual cognition: 1) recent developments of high vision TV systems made it possible to use the video system for psychophysical studies. Visual acuity measured with such a video system was comparable to those obtained by more traditional methods; 2) using image processing software, we could display unnatural animals, such as chimeras on the TV screen. We also reported that pigeons did not discriminate partially occluded conspecifics; 3) effects of exposure to visual stimuli upon on-going behavior were examined using suppression and conditioned suppression procedures; and 4) discrimination of moving images, namely two words of Japanese Sign Language, are reported.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "video" }, { "word": "Display" }, { "word": "Study" }, { "word": "avian" }, { "word": "Visual" }, { "word": "Psychophysic" }, { "word": "Sign" }, { "word": "Language" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0gp375st", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "S", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Watanabe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "I", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Furuya", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:33:18-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:33:18-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:33:38-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5114/galley/2993/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5113, "title": "Effects of Aging on Inhibitory Learning and Short-Term Memory in \nDrosophila Melanogaster", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Two experiments have been performed in young (7 days old), middle-aged (28 days old) and old (49 days old) Drosophila melanogaster. In Experiment 1, the inhibitory conditioning of the Proboscis Extension Response (PER) to sucrose was displayed under three Inter-Trial-Interval (ITI) schedules: 1, 2 or 4 minutes. The results did not reveal any age-related impairment of short-term-memory. The PER suppression performance was higher in middle-aged and old flies than in young ones, whatever the ITI. In Experiment 2, the habituation of the PER to sucrose was induced to investigate the hypothesis of an age-related increase of the non associative processes involvement (sensory adaptation, motor fatigue) in the PER suppression. The results showed that once such peripheral effects were removed, suppression performances no longer varied with age.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Effect" }, { "word": "aging" }, { "word": "Inhibitory" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "Short-Term" }, { "word": "memory" }, { "word": "Drosophila" }, { "word": "Melanogaster" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7q82r14f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nadine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Frequet", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:28:20-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:28:20-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:28:31-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5113/galley/2992/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5112, "title": "Rat Behavior in the Exploration Box - Cluster Analysis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The main objective of this study was to provide a description of the possible patterns of rat behaviour in the exploration box. Both age and sex of the animals were controlled. The measures taken assessed changes in the patterns of behavioural activity over time. Sex did not differentiate the rat's behaviour significantly. Two patterns of developmental changes were found. The results of cluster analysis with a sequential data sets lead to the conclusion that there are at least two levels of regulation of rat behaviour: activation and content organization. It was also shown that rat behaviour in the exploration box is not stereotyped but highly plastic. The results are discussed in terms of development, sex differences and individual differences.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Rat" }, { "word": "Exploration" }, { "word": "Box" }, { "word": "cluster" }, { "word": "analysis" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0bd7r1xw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wojciech", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pisula", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:24:35-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:24:35-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:24:46-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5112/galley/2991/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5111, "title": "Changes in the Structure of the Peep Vocalizations of Female Domestic Chicks (\nGallus Gallus Domesticus\n) with Age", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Changes in the structure of the peep vocalization of female domestic chicks reared in pairs from day three post-hatching were investigated. Recording began on day five with each chick being recorded in isolation twice weekly over a ten week period post-hatching. Spectrographic analysis shows that the peep call develops an increasingly complex structure from the second week post-hatching with additional components introduced as the chicks age. Nine acoustic parameters (duration, maximum frequency, minimum frequency, difference between maximum and minimum frequency, peak frequency, peak frequency range, peak amplitude, energy and average power) of four different peep calls were analysed. Significant differences were found between the four types of peep call on seven of the nine acoustic parameters. Discriminant analysis showed that the different types of peep call could be accurately determined on the basis of these results. Correlations of the call parameters showed that the calls displayed lower levels of stability as call structure became more complex. Chicks also displayed high inter-individual variation and relatively low intra-individual variation over call parameters. Results are discussed in relation to hen-chick, chick-chick communication as the broody period declines.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "change" }, { "word": "structure" }, { "word": "Peep" }, { "word": "vocalization" }, { "word": "Female" }, { "word": "Domestic" }, { "word": "Chick" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/55c106rt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "D", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Jennings", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "T", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Hayden", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:21:38-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:21:38-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:22:03-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5111/galley/2990/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5110, "title": "Brain Dimorphisms and Sex: A Review", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "In this article we review evidence from studies of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which bears on the question of whether differences in sexual behaviour are reflected by differences in central nervous system (CNS) structure. Neural structures in fish demonstrate the existence of both inter- and intra-sexual dimorphisms related to dimorphic behaviours, as well as environmentally triggered changes in the size of neural structures. Seasonal changes in neural structure in amphibians have demonstrated a strong correlation between sexually dimorphic brain structures and sex-specific behaviours. While in reptiles there are some examples of sexually dimorphic CNS structures, C.uniparens demonstrates that differences in brain morphology are not necessary to display sexually distinct behaviour. Birds demonstrate the clearest sex related brain-behaviour differences; the song control nuclei exhibit substantial differences in size between the sexes varying in magnitude in relation to the amount of sexual dimorphism in song production. There are sexually dimorphic areas in the mammalian brain, in areas associated with sexual and maternal behaviour, which are correlated with differences in hormonal environments during ontogeny. No single phyletic trend is obvious, though this could be the consequence of a small number of taxa examined or the different aims of the studies. It appears that sexuality has not necessarily evolved linearly from a particular primitive vertebrate ancestor but is manifested variously in different vertebrate classes, most likely as the result of distinct environmental pressures.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "brain" }, { "word": "dimorphism" }, { "word": "sex" }, { "word": "review" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4m70f7fc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Heather", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Conklin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "J", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Polemics", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:14:24-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:14:24-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:14:43-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5110/galley/2989/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 5109, "title": "The Logic of Searches in Young Children (\nHomo Sapiens\n) and Tufted Capuchin Monkeys (\nCebus Apella\n)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Nine young children and five tufted capuchin monkeys {\nCebus apella\n) were tested on tasks involving a search for an object hidden within a set of plastic cups. As viewed, the sequences of displacements enabled subjects to eliminate some of the possible locations where the object lay hidden, thereby constraining the search space. Both species deployed principled modes of search, in contrast to a random selection strategy. However, no subject from either group proved able to fully constrain the search on the basis of all of the information conveyed over the full menu of tasks. The reasons for incomplete success are as yet unclear, however failures may be due as much to social limitations as to other forms of error. On that basis we conclude that new paradigms are necessary, designed specifically to evaluate competencies for socially based knowledge on the one hand and self-directed search on the other.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0", "short_name": "CC BY 4.0", "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "International Journal of Comparative Psychology" }, { "word": "Behavior" }, { "word": "Behaviour" }, { "word": "Behavioral Taxonomy" }, { "word": "learning" }, { "word": "cognition" }, { "word": "Cognitive Processes" }, { "word": "Conditioning" }, { "word": "Logic" }, { "word": "Searches" }, { "word": "Young" }, { "word": "Children" }, { "word": "Tufted" }, { "word": "capuchin" }, { "word": "Monkey" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5fm14104", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carlo", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "De Lillo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brendan", "middle_name": "O", "last_name": "McGonigle", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2012-11-09T13:08:32-06:00", "date_accepted": "2012-11-09T13:08:32-06:00", "date_published": "2012-11-09T13:08:50-06:00", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5109/galley/2988/download/" } ] } ] }