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This thesis seeks to understand the reasons for the continuing prevalence of genocide and genocide-like crimes through an analysis of the body of genocide law, the actualities of state practice in the current international system, and the United Nations’ ideology and practices. In closing, it presents a series of recommendations intended to increase the prevention, suppression, and prosecution of genocide and genocide-like crimes.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Genocide" }, { "word": "Human Rights" }, { "word": "International Law" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gn2651f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Radhika", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bhat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-17T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6314/galley/3764/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6316, "title": "Bridging Fiction and Documentary in Godard's \nNotre Musique", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper is a close analysis of Jean-Luc Godard’s 2004 film, \nNotre Musique\n. Its primary focus is the implications of Godard’s blending of documentary footage with staged footage. Among the examples of documentary and narrative blurring, Godard stages an interview with an internationally known poet, Mahmoud Darwish, and though the pretext is completely false, the exchange that takes place is honest and potent. Aside from the famous personages who play themselves, the film’s other main characters are actors. They insert themselves seamlessly through events that actually took place in Sarajevo (i.e. that were not planned for the shooting of the film). I believe this technique echoes Godard’s belief that people have faith in the imaginary, and doubt reality. Even though the narrative curve is atypical--there is no climax, and the two main characters never meet--it offers that which the spectator needs in order to submit himself or herself to a film: the imaginary. Thanks to the lens of narrativity, the varied documentary subjects (the Israeli/Palestine conflict, the symbolic rebuilding of the Mostar Bridge, the Native American plight, the future of digital filmmaking) whose philosophical links would otherwise not be considered are conjoined into a field where realities point to imaginaries and vice versa. Throughout the film, the characters acknowledge the inability of images and words to represent certain atrocities, and strange way by which imaginary representations are at times more believable than the truth.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "film" }, { "word": "french film" }, { "word": "activism through art" }, { "word": "Arts and Humanities" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x91v9fg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laure", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Astourian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-20T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-20T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-17T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6316/galley/3766/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6315, "title": "Chinese Student Protests: Explaining the Student Movements of the 1980s and the Lack of Protests Since 1989", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Chinese students today are growing up in era that is significantly different, both politically and economically, from that of their predecessors. Today’s youth have been characterized by the media as pragmatic, materialistic, and uninterested in politics. In light of such developments, one may wonder if the days of pro-democracy student protests are over in China. Have students become too uninterested in politics and satisfied with their economic situations to spearhead protests like their Tiananmen predecessors? What factors initiated student protests in the past, and why have they not occurred since 1989? This paper argues that current students are, in fact, not too different from their protesting predecessors. Both groups share similar characteristics of pragmatism, materialism, and lack of interest in politics, as well as similar political grievances. Therefore, the lack of protests since 1989 cannot be explained by a decline in political interest or the appeasement of political grievances. Instead, three other factors seem to be crucial for a student protest to occur in China. First, political opening by the government is necessary to “awaken” and prompt students to protest. Second, progressive elites inspire students to protest. Third, some salient event often serves as the final catalyzing force for student movements. This paper asserts that the lack of protests since 1989 is not a consequence of changing student attitudes and situations, but rather due to the limited degree of political opening that has occurred since 1989. Finally, although the Chinese government has done a noteworthy job of improving living standards and economic opportunities, students today still harbor political grievances similar to those of the 1980s generation. Therefore, if the government sends signals of political relaxation in the future, perhaps the incumbent generation of students may rise up to protest like their predecessors.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Chinese students" }, { "word": "democracy movements" }, { "word": "protests" }, { "word": "Tiananmen Square Protests" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/25r226jz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Patricia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kim", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-12-01T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-12-01T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-17T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6315/galley/3765/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6313, "title": "Drunk On Oil: Russian Foreign Policy 2000-2007", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Over the past seven years, oil has climbed steadily in price, while at the same time Russian foreign policy has become more assertive. Many commentators have linked these two phenomena, claiming that such aggression is due to “petroconfidence” – implying that the increase in the price of energy resources is causing or enabling this increased aggression. This paper attempts to analyze whether or not such linkage is empirically justified, finding that it is. The author measures a newly constructed metric of Russian aggression against the price of oil, to see if the relationship is statistically extant. The paper goes on to dissect the various ways in which oil resources can impact foreign policy decision-making, and scrutinizes potential alternative reasons for alterations in Russian foreign policy decisions. Finally, future trends in regard to oil price, Russian energy production and Russian political leadership are outlined, with the conclusion assessing the implications for the United States.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/26d7t54f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brugato", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-17T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6313/galley/3763/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6317, "title": "Surviving Through The Post-Cold War Era: The Evolution of Foreign Policy In North Korea", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Between the years of 1989 and 1992, the Cold War Era came to an end with the collapse of the communist Soviet bloc. However, unique among the Soviet imposed communist regimes, the struggling North Korean government has lived on, defying odds and predictions. How is it that the North Korean regime is able to withstand the pressures of change? What impact did the transformation in the international situation have on North Korea’s seemingly contradictory and often unpredictable foreign policy? Most research on this subject has focused on North Korea’s unique internal structure, but this paper will show that, as was the case in Eastern Europe, the answer to these questions can be found in the regime’s geopolitical conditions.\n\n\nBy using articles from the Rodong Sinmun, Kulloja, and the Pyongyang Times from this period, this paper will show that North Korea believed that the changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union posed a serious threat to its internal system, sovereignty, and legitimacy due to the deteriorating geopolitical environment. This understanding compelled North Korea to implement new foreign policies to adapt to a new world order: establishing friendlier relations with its neighbors and developing nuclear capabilities. This paper will illustrate that both policies were rational and complementary responses that has been critical for the survival of the North Korean regime. Also, as these two policies are inseparable, instead of coercing or enticing North Korea to accommodate, it will be much more effective to change the underlying considerations that led to these policies.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Post" }, { "word": "Cold War" }, { "word": "North Korea" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nj1x91n", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-17T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6317/galley/3767/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6310, "title": "The Collapse of Time: Decennial Anniversaries and the Experience of Time in the German Democratic Republic", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The German Democratic Republic (GDR) collapsed in November 1989, just one month after celebrating its fortieth birthday. “Rising from the ruins” of the Second World War, East Germany—as it is more commonly known—had always boasted that socialism was the future. But by the end of 1989, German socialism was defunct. The reasons for its disintegration are often discussed, but this study proposes new explanation: the GDR collapsed as a result of the collapse of time. By studying the propaganda surrounding the four decennial anniversary celebrations, the author traces how time in the GDR became characterized by stagnation and futurelessness, a far cry from the optimism of the state’s earlier years. Analysis of newspaper articles, speeches, television specials, posters, advertisements, and an interview shed light on the temporal progression of the GDR toward its final end. Spurred by the perestroika and glasnost reforms proposed by the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev, people in the GDR began to see a vision of a viable future, and left the extended, stagnated present behind. But the state—also knowledgeable of the deficiencies of the present—took a different approach, and retreated into the past. The present became nonexistent. And finally, the GDR collapsed in that void, a temporal implosion heralded by sledgehammers on the Berlin Wall.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "East Germany" }, { "word": "German Democratic Republic" }, { "word": "time" }, { "word": "Political Time" }, { "word": "Anniversaries" }, { "word": "Socialism" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w9012q1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Linda", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Nyberg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-11-02T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-11-02T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-12T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6310/galley/3760/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6312, "title": "'Tradition' and the Solitary Singer: Taking Exception to T.S. Eliot's Literary Legacy", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "T.S. Eliot and Walt Whitman, two of the most monumental figures and divergent thinkers in American poetic history, are quite radically opposed to one another in terms of conceptual bent. Whitman, the poet of the body and buoyant personality, and Eliot, champion of cerebral and hermetic verse, do not seem, therefore, to offer anything in the way of theoretical permeability. Nonetheless, in this essay I attempt to re-evaluate Eliot’s most elemental essay upon “Tradition and the Individual Talent” in order to assess just how accommodating this text is toward the “individual” and the most “solitary” of singers, Whitman himself. My method is informed by a close analysis of Eliot’s discursive technique, and how this past-immersed perspective often leaves off a more “lively” vital and aesthetic envisioning proffered by his poetic predecessor. In short, I work toward the ultimate aim of demonstrating the broader applicability of Eliot’s treatise toward Whitman, and how the earlier poet, although less identifiable with any theory of “fixed” tradition, masterfully inaugurates a precipatory paradigm of poetic creation.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Whitman" }, { "word": "Eliot" }, { "word": "tradition" }, { "word": "poetic inspiration" }, { "word": "influence" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qk211z8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kate", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Klonowski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-11-02T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-11-02T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-12T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6312/galley/3762/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6311, "title": "Uncertain Interiors: Bourgeois Homes and Brothels Under the Third Republic", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "By 1890, the French government under the Third Republic seemed on the brink of political and social disaster. Anarchists were planting bombs in Parisian cafes, the birthrate was declining, and Germany—who had won a war against France in 1870—was surpassing her economically. In this time of political and social anxiety, women became increasingly important in the rhetoric of the Third Republic, as the regime determined to actively support the decorative arts in an effort to revive France as the world’s producer of fine feminine luxury goods. This rhetoric relied on a clear social and physical separation between the bourgeois woman (purveyor of the home and mother of France’s future citizens) and the prostitute (society’s necessary receptacle for the dangerous male lust that found no place in the bourgeois home).\n\n\nUsing two paintings of feminine interiors—one of a bourgeois home, the other of a brothel—by contemporary painters Edouard Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, respectively, this paper explores the ways in which the opposition of the bourgeois woman to the prostitute became increasingly difficult to maintain as the century turned. The boundaries between the bourgeois home and the brothel began to rupture with the migration and mixing of social and class signifiers within these highly charged spaces, and with the threatening emergence of a new, highly independent bourgeois woman (femme nouvelle). The collapse of this rigid distinction between the two spaces reflected more serious social changes and threats as the Third Republic descended into the political turmoil that would lead ultimately to its war with Germany in 1914.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Vuillard" }, { "word": "Toulouse-Lautrec" }, { "word": "Brothels" }, { "word": "Third Republic" }, { "word": "France" }, { "word": "Interiors" }, { "word": "Bourgeois Homes" }, { "word": "Femme Nouvelle" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2416j999", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Sonia", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fleury", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-11-06T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-11-06T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-12T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6311/galley/3761/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3944, "title": "Estates (Old Kingdom)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Estates (also referred to as “domains”) formed the basis of institutional agriculture in Old Kingdom Egypt. Estates were primarily administered by the temples or by state agricultural centers scattered throughout the country, but were also granted to high officials as remuneration for their services. Sources from the third millennium BCE show that estates constituted production networks where agricultural goods were produced, stored, and kept available for agents of the king who were traveling on state business.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "estates" }, { "word": "domains" }, { "word": "economy" }, { "word": "agriculture" }, { "word": "administration" }, { "word": "architecture" }, { "word": "Art History, Criticism and Conservation" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" } ], "section": "Economy", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1b3342c2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Juan Carlos", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moreno García", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Université Charles-de-Gaulle", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-07-19T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-07-19T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-11-06T08:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3944/galley/2520/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3956, "title": "Scarab", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The ancient Egyptian scarab is an artistic depiction of the indigenous Egyptian dung beetle. Mythologically, the scarab represented the ability of the sun god to bring about his own rebirth. There are a number of different kinds of scarabs, including heart scarabs, commemorative scarabs, and scarab amulets, indicating their different functions within varying social contexts—from apotropaic to amuletic, socioeconomic, and propagandistic. The blank oval underside of the scarab amulet was an excellent location for the inscription of personal names, kings’ names, apotropaic sayings, or geometric or figural designs. Scarabs are extremely difficult to date; very few are found in archaeological context and most are unprovenanced in private and museum collections.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "scarab" }, { "word": "dung beetle" }, { "word": "amulet" }, { "word": "seal" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" } ], "section": "Material Culture, Art and Architecture", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13v7v5gd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kathlyn", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Cooney", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-31T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3956/galley/2532/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6308, "title": "Leaking Pipelines: Doctoral Student Family Formation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Balancing the demands of an academic career and those of a family are a great challenge, especially for women. Women pursuing a tenure-track position, or while on the tenure-track, often find themselves in a position of choosing between advancing their academic careers or having children; as a result, women, more so than men, leak out of the academic pipeline. The primary focus of this study is to explore, using secondary data from the \"UC Berkeley Doctoral Career and Life Survey,\" and interviews with doctoral students, how family formation affects the life and career paths of men, and particularly women, while they are in graduate school. Secondly, recommendations are made for university sponsored policies, programs, and services for doctoral students with children.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "doctoral students" }, { "word": "family-friendly" }, { "word": "work-life" }, { "word": "family formation" }, { "word": "gender equity" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1gp0f8hr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Christyna", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Serrano", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6308/galley/3758/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6309, "title": "Party Control and Budget Estimates: A Study of Politics in the Federal Budget Process", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The historical development and contemporary nature of the American federal budget process have indicated that the process is fundamentally tied to politics. This paper discusses how and why this political dynamic exists in federal budget making. The study also attempts to learn whether or not differences in budget estimates produced by the Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Budget Office increase or decrease during times of unified or divided party control. Research findings indicate that the existence of divided party control is associated with higher differences in estimates. The study therefore suggests that politics may play a key role in budget estimations, and that this political dynamic ultimately adds to the politicization of the budget process.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "federal budget process" }, { "word": "budget estimates" }, { "word": "budget assumptions" }, { "word": "party homogeneity" }, { "word": "party polarization" }, { "word": "party control" }, { "word": "Office of Management and Budget" }, { "word": "Congressional Budget Office" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7515h7n6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lara", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Palanjian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6309/galley/3759/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6307, "title": "The Word Made Text: An Exercise of Christly Reading (in) “Paradise Regain'd“", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Paradise Regain’d is Milton’s brief epic, describing when Jesus is thrice tempted by Satan in the Wilderness. This poem’s central question is what it means to be the Son of God. Indeed, the nature of Jesus’ status as incarnate divinity has engendered a great critical schism between those who see an imperfectly human Son of God, and those who see Milton’s Jesus as a rigidly perfect being. Yet both critical perspectives assume that the poem works on a passive audience, one that sits idly as the dramatic action or didactic ‘meaning’ is narrated to it. Milton’s ideal reader, however, is the opposite: as an active participant in the reading process, he or she constantly reinterprets the events and conclusions of any argument. I argue for seeing the Jesus of Paradise Regain’d as the epitome of this ideal, and that the act of reading the poem acts as a whetstone for readers’ interpretive skill and individual agency. I begin by exploring theological background: the Protestant Reformation’s identification of the Bible as manifested divine. I combine this investigation with an examination of Milton’s Areopagitica in order to illustrate his conception of the individual, choice, and the value of discernment. I trace this value through the poem, especially when it contrasts Satan’s recourses to twisted logic. The difference between Jesus’ copiously figurative and Satan’s limitedly literal reading thus sheds light on Milton’s conception of history, the status of classical culture, and provides the basis for a liberal subject free from coercive laws.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Areopagitica" }, { "word": "biblical interpretation" }, { "word": "Paradise Lost" }, { "word": "Paradise Regained" }, { "word": "ontology" }, { "word": "the Reformation" }, { "word": "Renaissance classicism" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4d53j15w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "J. Antonio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Templanza", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Berkeley", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-30T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6307/galley/3757/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3972, "title": "Osiris and the Deceased", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "For the Egyptians, the god Osiris provided a model whereby the effects of the rupture caused by death could be totally reversed, since that deity underwent a twofold process of resurrection. Mummification reconstituted his “corporeal” self and justification against Seth his “social” self, re-integrating him and restoring his status among the gods. Through the mummification rites, which incorporated an assessment of the deceased’s character, the Egyptians hoped to be revived and justified like Osiris. These rites endowed them with their own personal Osirian aspect or form, which was a mark of their status as a member of the god’s entourage in the underworld. Thus the deceased underwent a twofold resurrection as well. Not only were their limbs reconstituted, and mental and physical faculties restored, but they entered into a personal relationship with Osiris that simultaneously situated them within a group.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "funerary beliefs" }, { "word": "Osiris" }, { "word": "death" }, { "word": "transfiguration" }, { "word": "mortuary beliefs" }, { "word": "mummy" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" }, { "word": "Religion/Religious Studies" } ], "section": "Religion", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29r70244", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Smith", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Oxford", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-05-28T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-05-28T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-27T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3972/galley/2548/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 62445, "title": "Sample Design-based Methodology for Estimating Delta Smelt Abundance", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A sample design-based procedure for estimating pre-adult and adult delta smelt abundance is described. Using data from midwater trawl surveys taken during the months of September, October, November, and December for the years 1990 through 2006 and estimates of size selectivity of the gear from a covered codend experiment, stratified random sample ratio estimates of delta smelt abundance were made per month. The estimation procedure is arguably an improvement over the dimensionless delta smelt indices that have been used historically in that (1) the volume sampled is used in a manner that leads to directly interpretable numbers and (2) standard errors are easily calculated. The estimates are quite imprecise, i.e., coefficients of variation in the range of 100\\% occurred. The point estimates are highly correlated with the monthly indices, and conclusions on abundance declines are quite similar. However, both the estimates and indices may suffer from selection biases if the trawl samples are not representative of the true densities. Future work is needed in at least three areas: (1) gathering additional information to determine the validity of assumptions made, in particular determining the possible degree of selection bias; (2) developing procedures that utilize survey data gathered from earlier life history stages, such as larval surveys; (3) embedding a life-history model into the population estimation procedure.", "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.\n\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": "gear selectivity" }, { "word": "Horvitz-Thompson" }, { "word": "Hypomesus transpacificus" }, { "word": "ratio estimators" }, { "word": "stratified random sampling" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99p428z6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ken", "middle_name": "B.", "last_name": "Newman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-02-06T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-02-06T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-21T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jmie_sfews/article/62445/galley/48274/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 62443, "title": "Subsidence Reversal in a Re-established Wetland in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The stability of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is threatened by continued subsidence of Delta peat islands. Up to 6 meters of land-surface elevation has been lost in the 150 years since Delta marshes were leveed and drained, primarily from oxidation of peat soils. Flooding subsided peat islands halts peat oxidation by creating anoxic soils, but net accumulation of new material in restored wetlands is required to recover land-surface elevations. We investigated the subsidence reversal potential of two 3 hectare, permanently flooded, impounded wetlands re-established on a deeply subsided field on Twitchell Island. The shallower wetland (design water depth 25 cm) was almost completely colonized by dense emergent marsh vegetation within two years; whereas, the deeper wetland (design water depth 55 cm) which developed spatially variable depths as a result of heterogeneous colonization by emergent vegetation, still had some areas remaining as open water after nine years. Changes in land-surface elevation were quantified using repeated sedimentation-erosion table measurements. New material accumulating in the wetlands was sampled by coring.\n \nLand-surface elevations increased by an average of 4 cm/yr in both wetlands from 1997 to 2006; however, the rates at different sites in the wetlands ranged from -0.5 to +9.2 cm/yr. Open water areas of the deeper wetland without emergent vegetation had the lowest rates of land-surface elevation gain. The greatest rates occurred in areas of the deeper wetland most isolated from the river water inlets, with dense stands of emergent marsh vegetation (tules and cattails). Vegetated areas of the deeper wetland in the transition zones between open water and mature emergent stands had intermediate rates of land-surface gain, as did the entire shallower wetland. These results suggest that the dominant component contributing to land-surface elevation gain in these wetlands was accumulation of organic matter, rather than mineral sediment, and that accumulation of organic matter in emergent marshes is strongly affected by hydrologic factors. Re-established, non-tidal wetlands with managed hydrology can produce significant increases in land-surface elevations, which can help to improve levee stability and protect subsided islands from future flooding.", "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.\n\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": "subsidence reversal" }, { "word": "carbon sequestration" }, { "word": "carbon storage" }, { "word": "wetland restoration" }, { "word": "peat" }, { "word": "organic matter accumulation" }, { "word": "organic soils" }, { "word": "Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta" }, { "word": "Twitchell Island" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j76502x", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Robin", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Miller", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Geological Survey", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Miranda", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fram", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Geological Survey", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Roger", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fujii", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Geological Survey", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Gail", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wheeler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Geological Survey", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-07-03T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-07-03T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-21T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jmie_sfews/article/62443/galley/48272/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 62444, "title": "Understanding the Occurrence and Transport of Current-use Pesticides in the San Francisco Estuary Watershed", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The occurrence and potential effects of current-use pesticides are of concern in the San Francisco Estuary watershed but our understanding of the spatial and temporal distribution of contamination is limited. This paper summarizes almost two decades of historical data and uses it to describe our current knowledge of the processes controlling the occurrence of current-use pesticides in the watershed. Monitoring studies analyze fewer than half of the pesticides applied in the watershed and most of our knowledge is about inputs of dissolved pesticides in the upper watershed. The four major seasonal patterns of riverine inputs of pesticides to the estuary can be identified by usage and transport mechanism. Dormant spray insecticides applied to orchards and herbicides applied to a variety of crops are transported by rainfall during the winter. Alfalfa pesticides are detected following rainfall and irrigation return flow in the spring, and rice pesticides are detected following release of rice field water in the summer. Irrigation return flows transport a variety of herbicides during the summer. In addition, pesticides applied on Delta islands can cause elevated pesticide concentrations in localized areas. Although not as well characterized, urban creeks appear to have their own patterns of insecticide concentrations causing toxicity throughout most of the year. Current-use pesticides have also been detected on suspended and bed sediments throughout the watershed but limited data make it difficult to determine occurrence patterns. Data gaps include the lack of analysis of many pesticides (or degradates), changing pesticide use, limited information on pesticide transport within the Delta, and an incomplete understanding of the transport and persistence of sediment-associated pesticides. Future monitoring programs should be designed to address these data gaps.", "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.\n\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": "pesticides" }, { "word": "herbicides" }, { "word": "insecticides" }, { "word": "San Francisco Bay" }, { "word": "Sacramento River" }, { "word": "San Joaquin River" }, { "word": "Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta" }, { "word": "toxicity" }, { "word": "sediment" } ], "section": "Research Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/06n8b36k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kathryn", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kuivila", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Geological Survey", "department": "" }, { "first_name": "Michelle", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hladik", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "U.S. Geological Survey", "department": "" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-04-15T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-04-15T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-10-21T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/jmie_sfews/article/62444/galley/48273/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6305, "title": "Joyce’s Comedic Self-Revision in “Cyclops”", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The following paper addresses the “Cyclops” episode in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Joyce’s novel is fraught with epic comparisons, especially in regards to The Odyssey. For example, the protagonist, Leopold Bloom, continually parallels the brave and cunning Odysseus. While these epic comparisons tend to be somewhat insincere, there is an undeniably genuine element in the connection. Similarly, the “Cyclops” episode within the novel contains numerous narrative interruptions that often liken the ordinary to the grand. Yet, the interruptions ultimately mock and parody their subject. This paper relates these two different types of comparisons that are basically structured in the same way—they both relate the banal to the extraordinary—yet they have opposite results. My research draws on key works in Joyce criticism, and argues that the comparisons within “Cyclops” can function as a joke on Joyce’s much used technique of epic parallelism. The joke is that Joyce’s technique of epic parallelism is comically revised into a caricature—the mocking comparisons in “Cyclops.” It is precisely this ability to poke fun at oneself that is the answer to the fanatical patriotism exhibited by the Citizen, the Cyclopean figure within the episode. This performative joke on Joyce’s writing is consistent with Joyce’s habit of comical depictions of his work and of himself; and the analysis in this paper offers this comedic rendering as another facet to consider when examining the ingenuity and complexity of Joycean humor.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "James Joyce" }, { "word": "Ulysses" }, { "word": "Cyclops" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qr647tt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "George", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Derk", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-30T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6305/galley/3755/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6304, "title": "Understanding Aging: A Medical Humanities Approach to “Death in Venice“", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While \"Death in Venice\" by Thomas Mann has been typically described as a story about creativity, romance and death, this article analyzes several aspects of aging within the novel, while also giving a mini-treatise on the Medical Humanities as a field of study. Many nuances of the aging process are highly overlooked by the medical profession in modern times. Medical Humanities exists as a field that assists health professionals in understanding a variety of socio-cultural phenomenon that occur with respect to medicine by incorporating perspectives from sources such as literature and art. The medical field misdiagnoses many elderly ills as \"part of the aging process\" when, for a younger patient, the same symptoms are attributed to more general illness. This article works to reveal the ways in which Mann’s contemporary society perceived aging -and what we can learn about how our society looks at the same subject today- through a careful analysis of the novel's structure, and it’s emphasis not only in the interpersonal relationships between characters but also the function of the Venetian backdrop upon the flavor of the plot. Only once medical professionals truly understand the \"experience\" of aging can they help their patients deal with the aging process.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Death in Venice" }, { "word": "Thomas Mann" }, { "word": "Medical Humanities" }, { "word": "aging" }, { "word": "Geriatrics" }, { "word": "Germany" }, { "word": "Case study" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kv2j949", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "English", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-09T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-09T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-30T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6304/galley/3754/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 6306, "title": "United States Trade and Foreign Labor Interests: The Effects on Foreign Labor of Linking Trade with Labor Provisions in Bilateral U.S. Free Trade Agreements", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "All bilateral U.S. trade agreements ratified since 2001 have included labor provisions within the main body of the agreement, though the scale, scope, and appropriateness of such provisions – and their enforcement mechanisms – have varied slightly between different FTAs. But little has been written on whether such agreements have, in the short time before and after their passage, tangibly transformed labor legislation and respect for workers’ rights within partner countries. By examining the successes and failures of trade-labor linkage within four bilateral U.S. FTAs, I attempt to demonstrate that tying increased market access with minimum labor standards can foster improved and updated foreign labor legislation and greater respect for workers’ rights. I also argue that the primary concerns over trade-labor linkage at the multilateral level have far less relevance at the bilateral level, where the scope of the provisions can be tailored to each particular trading partner, and the leverage of the United States allows it to exert significant influence during the negotiating process. Recent bilateral U.S. FTAs have shown that incremental improvements in labor standards can be achieved through the combined efforts of negotiating trade partners, the International Labor Organization, and domestic and international NGOs. Ultimately, it is argued, the effectiveness and viability of labor provisions at the bilateral level is most dependent on the political will of the negotiating countries to adequately address labor issues during trade negotiations and within signed agreements. With the U.S.-Jordan FTA, the U.S. demonstrated its commitment to “hard” labor standards by including sufficiently enforceable and appropriate labor provisions within the body of the agreement. Since Jordan, however, the labor provisions in U.S. FTAs, including those with Morocco, Bahrain, and Oman, have been relaxed, as “soft” trade-labor linkage – or the linking of trade and labor issues in the negotiating process – has played a more significant role.", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "All rights reserved", "short_name": "Copyright", "text": "© the author(s). All rights reserved.", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Foreign Labor" }, { "word": "Bilateral U.S. Free Trade Agreement" }, { "word": "international trade" }, { "word": "Trade-Labor Linkage" }, { "word": "Free Trade" }, { "word": "Labor Legislation" }, { "word": "WTO" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9hh8n3d3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jonathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Soleimani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-05T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-05T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-30T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/6306/galley/3756/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3940, "title": "Duality", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The term “duality” refers to a way of thinking that creates meaning by conceptually juxtaposing opposite or complementary realities (whether cultural, philosophical, or of the natural world) in a static or dynamic relationship and serves as a mechanism to make sense of, and explain, the functioning of the world.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "concepts" }, { "word": "worldview" }, { "word": "conceptual category" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" } ], "section": "Religion", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/95b9b2db", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Frédéric", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Servajean", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-05-22T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-05-22T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-25T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3940/galley/2516/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16738, "title": "Acute Ischemic Stroke in a Pediatric Patient", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Acute ischemic stroke in a pediatric patient is a complex disease with a variety of etiologies that differ from adults. Though rare, they are a real phenomenon with potentially devastating consequences. Some treating institutions are using anti-thrombotic drug therapy with unclear benefits. Available literature, which is limited to case reports and retrospective reviews of databases, clouds this topic with both positive and negative outcomes. Emergency department management should focus on stabilization and resuscitation with immediate involvement of a pediatric neurologist and intensivist. The decision to use anti-thrombotic drug therapy, including anti-platelet drugs and thrombolytics, should be in consult with the specialists involved until randomized controlled trials determine their safety and efficacy in the pediatric population. [WestJEM. 2008;9:225-227.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "stroke" }, { "word": "pediatrics" }, { "word": "thrombolitics" }, { "word": "etiolopgy" }, { "word": "iscehmic stroke" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7wv3r8wz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Julie", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Gorchynski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CHRISTUS Spohn Memorial Hospital, Texas A&M, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Herrick", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CHRISTUS Spohn Memorial Hospital, Texas A&M, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Edgar", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Cortes", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Corpus Christi, Texas", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-03-22T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-03-22T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16738/galley/8476/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16751, "title": "Clitoral Priapism with No Known Risk Factors", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Clitoral priapism is a rare condition that is associated with an extended duration of clitoral erection due to local engorgement of clitoral tissue resulting in pain. Although the pathophysiology is not completely understood, it has been associated with specific classes of medications, diseases that alter clitoral blood flow or others associated with small to large vessel disease. We present a case report of a 26-year-old patient who developed clitoral priapism without a clear medication or disease related etiology. The patient was treated with opiates, imipramine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication, and local ice packs. She recovered uneventfully. [WestJEM. 2008;9:235-237.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "priapism" }, { "word": "clitoris" }, { "word": "vulvar pain" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6p55r19w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laleh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gharahbaghian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Stanford University Medical Center, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-04-06T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-04-06T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16751/galley/8483/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16720, "title": "Delayed Complications of Emergency Airway Management: A Study of 533 Emergency Department Intubations", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objectives: Airway management is a critical procedure performed frequently in emergency departments (EDs). Previous studies have evaluated the complications associated with this procedure but have focused only on the immediate complications. The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence and nature of delayed complications of tracheal intubation performed in the ED at an academic center where intubations are performed by emergency physicians (EPs).\n\n\nMethods: All tracheal intubations performed in the ED over a one-year period were identified; 540 tracheal intubations were performed during the study period. Of these, 523 charts (96.9%) were available for review and were retrospectively examined. Using a structured datasheet, delayed complications occurring within seven days of intubation were abstracted from the medical record. Charts were scrutinized for the following complications: acute myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, airway trauma from the intubation, and new respiratory infections. An additional 30 consecutive intubations were examined for the same complications in a prospective arm over a 29-day period.\n\n\nResults: The overall success rate for tracheal intubation in the entire study group was 99.3% (549/553). Three patients who could not be orally intubated underwent emergent cricothyrotomy. Thus, the airway was successfully secured in 99.8% (552/553) of the patients requiring intubation. One patient, a seven-month-old infant, had unanticipated subglottic stenosis and could not be intubated by the emergency medicine attending or the anesthesiology attending. The patient was mask ventilated and was transported to the operating room for an emergent tracheotomy. Thirty-four patients (6.2% [95% CI 4.3 – 8.5%]) developed a new respiratory infection within seven days of intubation. Only 18 patients (3.3% [95% CI 1.9 – 5.1%]) had evidence of a new respiratory infection within 48 hours, indicating possible aspiration pneumonia secondary to airway management. Three patients (0.5% [95% CI 0.1 – 1.6%]) suffered an acute MI, but none appeared to be related to the intubation. One patient was having an acute MI at the time of intubation and the other two patients had MIs more than 24 hours after the intubation. No patient suffered a stroke (0% [95% CI 0 – 0.6%]). No patients suffered any serious airway trauma such as a laryngeal or vocal cord injury.\n\n\nConclusions: Emergency tracheal intubation in the ED is associated with an extremely high success rate and a very low rate of delayed complications. Complication rates identified in this study compare favorably to reports of emergency intubations in other hospital settings. Tracheal intubation can safely be performed by trained EPs.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:190-194.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Airway Management" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "Medical Education" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vg2063w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Sakles", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Deacon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Aaron", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Bair", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Keim", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Arizona College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Edward", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Panacek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-12-06T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-12-06T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16720/galley/8465/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16716, "title": "Emergent Endotracheal Intubation and Mortality in Traumatic Brain Injury", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objective: To determine the relationship between emergent intubation (emergency department and field intubation cases combined) and mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) while controlling for injury severity.\n\n\nMethods: Retrospective observational study of 981 (35.2% intubated, 64.8% not intubated) patients with TBI evaluating the association between intubation status and mortality. Logistic regression was used to analyze the data. Injury severity measures included Head/Neck Abbreviated Injury Scale (H-AIS), systolic blood pressure, type of head injury (blunt vs. penetrating), and a propensity score combining the effects of several other potential confounding variables. Age was also included in the model.\n\n\nResults: The simple association of emergent endotracheal intubation with death had an odds ratio (OR) of 14.3 (95% CI = 9.4 – 21.9). The logistic regression model including relevant covariates and a propensity score that adjusted for injury severity and age yielded an OR of 5.9 (95% CI = 3.2 – 10.9).\n\n\nConclusions: This study indicates that emergent intubation is associated with increased risk of death after controlling for a number of injury severity indicators. We discuss the need for optimal paramedic training, and an understanding of the factors that guide patient selection and the decision to intubate in the field. [WestJEM.2008;9:184-189]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "intubation" }, { "word": "brain injury" }, { "word": "emergency" }, { "word": "Injury" }, { "word": "Trauma" }, { "word": "Mortality" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4n93d8g7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kurt", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Denninghoff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Arizona, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mervin", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Griffin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Alabama Birmingham and Injury Control Research Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Alfred", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Bartolucci", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Alabama Birmingham School of Public Health and Injury Control Research Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "G.", "last_name": "LoBello", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Auburn University Montgomery and Injury Control Research Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Philip", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Fine", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Alabama Birmingham Injury Control Research Center and School of Public Health", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-11-13T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-11-13T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16716/galley/8462/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16747, "title": "Fever, Sacral Pain, and Pregnancy: An Incarcerated Uterus", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Uterine incarceration is an uncommon but serious presentation in the emergency department that requires early recognition to improve maternal and fetal outcomes.\n\n\nCase: A 29-year-old female, at 12 weeks gestation, presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of fever, sacral pain and urgency. Based on history and physical examination, she was found to have a retroverted, incarcerated uterus. After a failed attempt at reduction in the ED, her uterus was successfully reduced under general anesthesia.\n\n\nDiscussion: Pain and urinary difficulties, such as retention and hesitancy, are frequent in pregnancy, yet incarcerated uterus is an uncommon emergency department diagnosis that often presents with these symptoms. Clues to the diagnosis include a retroverted uterus, urinary retention, and pain in a patient presenting in the third to fourth months of gestation. Treatment is by manual reduction of the uterus. Complications range from spontaneous abortion to uterine rupture.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:232-234.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Pregnancy complications" }, { "word": "pelvic pain" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08p973jd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amy", "middle_name": "N.", "last_name": "Sweigart", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Naval Medical Center, San Diego", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Matteucci", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Naval Medical Center, San Diego", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-12-14T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-12-14T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16747/galley/8481/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16731, "title": "Images in Emergency Medicine: Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ventricular tachycardia" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6f51q716", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Amandeep", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Singh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Alameda County Medical Center - Highland General Hospital", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-11-08T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-11-08T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16731/galley/8471/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16736, "title": "Images in Emergency Medicine: Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "pneumomediastinum" }, { "word": "Pericarditis" }, { "word": "Free air" }, { "word": "pneumopericadium" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51j5x84z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeremy", "middle_name": "N", "last_name": "Johnson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Fort Lewis, WA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Jones", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Fort Lewis, WA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brandon", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Wills", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Madigan Army Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Fort Lewis, WA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-10-13T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-10-13T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16736/galley/8474/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16754, "title": "Malpractice Cases in Wound Care and a Legal Concept: Special Defense", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "There is no doubt that in today’s practice of emergency medicine it is imperative to be familiar with how the law relates to administrative and clinical practice. It is my pleasure to announce, as section editor, the new Legal Medicine section of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. It is anticipated that the articles will cover a variety of areas and cases in the law. Some articles may focus on a particular disease or entity, with representative malpractice cases, and clinical caveats. Other articles may focus on legal concepts that enter the arena of emergency medicine. I have provided brief examples of each of these in this initial manuscript. Other articles could also cover original research related to law such as the standard of care in a given clinical situation or legal concepts such as consent, do-not-resuscitate, and AMA among others. I am hopeful that it will be of great interest to the readers. We welcome submissions and contributions for consideration. [WestJEM. 2008;9:238-239.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "wounds" }, { "word": "foreign body" }, { "word": "Malpractice" }, { "word": "special defense" }, { "word": "sudden emergency" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2212827s", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Gregory", "middle_name": "P", "last_name": "Moore", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kaiser Permanente Sacramento/Roseville California, Emergency Department; Madigan Army Medical Center; University of California, Davis School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Pfaff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "San Antonio Uniformed Health Services Health Education Consortium; Brooke Army Medical Center", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-03-15T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-03-15T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16754/galley/8485/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16728, "title": "Necrotizing Vasculitis as a Complication of Propylthiouracil", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Background: Acute dermatologic conditions are a concern for acute care practitioners. Comprising 1.4% of presenting complaints to emergency departments, most skin complaints are relatively benign; however, some conditions can be quite severe. Prompt diagnosis is essential to avoid unnecessary morbidity and mortality.\n\n\nObjectives: To review drug-induced vasculitis.\n\n\nCase Report: We present the case of a 43-year-old female with a chief complaint of bruising to her ear, arm, and leg. She was found to have necrotizing vasculitis induced by propylthiouracil.\n\n\nConclusion: In this case, we look at the highlights of this presentation and review key aspects of cutaneous vasculitis for the practicing emergency provider.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:212-215.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "skin" }, { "word": "Vasculitis" }, { "word": "purpura" }, { "word": "toxicity" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57f632gm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Stein", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, San Francisco", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sergio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hernandez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, San Francisco", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Anke", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hebig", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, San Francisco", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-01-23T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-01-23T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16728/galley/8469/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16725, "title": "Non-Invasive Method for the Rapid Assessment of Central Venous Pressure: Description and Validation by a Single Examiner", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objectives: This study describes a means of assessing the external jugular venous pressure (JVP) as an indicator of normal or elevated central venous pressure (CVP).\n\n\nMethods: Intensive care unit patients having CVP monitoring were examined. With patients in bed, the external jugular vein (EJV) was occluded at the base of the neck and observed to distend. The occlusion was then removed and the vein observed for collapse. Complete collapse was hypothesized to indicate a non-elevated CVP (≤8cm of water). In those patients whose EJV collapsed incompletely, the vein was then occluded with the finger near the angle of the jaw. With the occlusion maintained, the vein was milked downwards with the other hand to cause its emptying and was then observed for filling from below. Filling from below was hypothesized to indicate an elevated CVP (>8cm of water).\n\n\nResults: In 12 of the 40 patients examined, the EJV could not be assessed (EJV not seen at all: 5, and difficult to visualize: 7). For the remaining 28 patients, 11 had a CVP > 8 cm, while 17 had a CVP of < 8. EJV assessment was 100% accurate (95% Confidence Interval 88-100) in predicting whether or not a patient’s CVP was greater or less than 8 cm of water.\n\n\nConclusion: EJV assessment, when visible, is accurate to clinically assess a patient’s CVP in the hands of the author. Further studies are needed to see if they are reproducible by other observer.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:201-205.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "CVP" }, { "word": "physical exam" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8c31w58c", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sankoff", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Colorado School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Arnold", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zidulka", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Royal Victoria Hospital, Department of Pulmonology", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-10-15T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-10-15T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16725/galley/8467/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16756, "title": "Open Access: The Alternative to Subscription Based Medical Publishing", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Open Access" }, { "word": "publishing" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v24h99q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Suleman", "middle_name": "S", "last_name": "Ahmed", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Quoc-Phong", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tran", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Saint Louis University School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "I", "last_name": "Langdorf", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Susan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lessick", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Shahram", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lotfipour", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-07-23T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-07-23T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16756/galley/8486/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16742, "title": "Ovarian Teratoma with Torsion Masquerading as Intussusception in 4-Year-Old Child", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Background: Ovarian torsion (OT) occurs primarily in women of child-bearing age, but is rare in the pediatric population. The clinical presentation often consists of nonspecific abdominal complaints making the diagnosis difficult. Radiologic and sonographic evidence can be misleading. Although the delay in diagnosis from symptom onset is common, rapid diagnosis of ovarian torsion is imperative to prevent morbidity.\n\n\nCase Report: We present the case of a four-year-old female who presented to the emergency department (ED) with a five-day history of intermittent abdominal pain and emesis. Initial diagnosis was suspicious for intussusception; however, on operative exploration, she was found to have a right adnexal torsion secondary to an ovarian teratoma. A right salpingo-oophorectomy was performed.\n\n\nConclusion: Early diagnosis of ovarian torsion may increase ovarian salvage and reduce morbidity. Faced with abdominal pain of uncertain etiology in a female child, emergency physicians should include ovarian torsion secondary to an ovarian mass in the differential diagnosis.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:228-231.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "ovarian torsion" }, { "word": "adnexal torsion" }, { "word": "ovarian teratoma" }, { "word": "Intussusception" }, { "word": "pediatric abdominal pain" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/77g9f6v7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carl", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Smith", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tareg", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bey", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sherif", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Emil", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christoph", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wichelhaus", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Shahram", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lotfipour", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-05-12T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-05-12T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16742/galley/8478/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16759, "title": "President’s Message: Keeping Informed – The CAL/AAEM News Service", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fg8t7b8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stuart", "middle_name": "P", "last_name": "Swadron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-02T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-02T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16759/galley/8488/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16724, "title": "The Effect of Single-Bolus Etomidate on Septic Patient Mortality: A Retrospective Review", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Background: Because of its many desirable properties, etomidate is widely used as an induction agent for endotracheal intubation. However, some have recently called into question the safety of etomidate for even single-bolus use due to its known effects on adrenal suppression.\n\n\nObjectives: We sought to compare the in-hospital mortality between septic patients given etomidate and those given alternative induction agents for intubation.\n\n\nMethods: We performed a retrospective chart review of intubated septic patients treated in our hospital. We collected data from patients over the age of 18 with sepsis who were intubated in the pre-hospital setting, in our emergency department, or on the wards of our hospital, and calculated the in-hospital mortality of each group.\n\n\nResults: We identified 181 patients with sepsis who were intubated over the study period; 135 received etomidate and 46 received alternative agents or no induction agent. Baseline characteristics, vital signs, and laboratory values were similar between the two groups. Of the 46 patients receiving alternative agents or no agent, 18 died, yielding an unadjusted mortality of 39.1% (95% CI 25.5% to 54.6%), while of the 135 patients receiving etomidate, 63 died, for an unadjusted mortality of 46.7% (95% CI 38.1% to 55.4%), P=0.38.\n\n\nConclusion: We found a non-statistically significant 7.6% absolute increase in mortality in patients given etomidate in our small-sized study population.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:195-200.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "septic shock" }, { "word": "intubation" }, { "word": "Infection" }, { "word": "etomidate" }, { "word": "Mortality" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7793b6rm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karis", "middle_name": "L", "last_name": "Tekwani, MD", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Hannah", "middle_name": "F", "last_name": "Watts, MD", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cindy", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Chan, MD", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Steve", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nanini, MD", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kathleen", "middle_name": "H", "last_name": "Rzechula, RN", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Erik", "middle_name": "B", "last_name": "Kulstad, MS, MD", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Advocate Christ Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-12-23T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-12-23T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16724/galley/8466/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16762, "title": "The Gloves Are Off: The Battle for Balance Billing Gets Bloody", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5828f5nh", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Douglas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brosnan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CAL/ACEP Policy & Advocacy Fellow; Associate Director of Provider Relations, CEP", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-10-02T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-10-02T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16762/galley/8489/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16737, "title": "Ultrasound-Assisted Peripheral Venous Access in Young Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial and Pilot Feasibility Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objectives: Intravenous (IV) access in children treated in the emergency department (ED) is frequently required and often difficult to obtain. While it has been shown that ultrasound can be useful in adults for both central and peripheral venous access, research regarding children has been limited. We sought to determine if the use of a static ultrasound technique could, a) allow clinicians to visualize peripheral veins and b) improve success rates of peripheral venous cannulation in young children in the ED. Methods: We performed a randomized clinical trial of children < 7 years in an academic pediatric ED who required IV access and who had failed the first IV attempt. We randomized patients to either continued standard IV attempts or ultrasound-assisted attempts. Clinicians involved in the study received one hour of training in ultrasound localization of peripheral veins. In the ultrasound group, vein localization was performed by an ED physician who marked the skin overlying the target vessel. Intravenous cannulation attempts were then immediately performed by a pediatric ED nurse who relied on the skin mark for vessel location. We allowed for technique cross-over after two failed IV attempts. We recorded success rate and location of access attempts. We compared group success rates using differences in 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results: We enrolled 44 children over a one-year period. The median age of enrollees was 9.5 months. We visualized peripheral veins in all patients in the ultrasound group (n=23) and in those who crossed over to ultrasound after failed standard technique attempts (n= 8). Venipuncture was successful on the first attempt in the ultrasound group in 13/23 (57%, CI, 35% to 77%), versus 12/21 (57%, CI, 34% to 78%) in the standard group, difference between groups 0.6% (95% CI -30% to 29%). First attempt cannulation success in the ultrasound group was 8/23 (35%, CI, 16% to 57%), versus 6/21 (29%, CI, 11% to 52%) in the standard group, difference between groups 6% (95% CI -21% to 34%). Conclusion: Ultrasound allows physicians to visualize peripheral veins of young children in the ED. We were unable to demonstrate, however, a clinically important benefit to a static ultrasound aided vein cannulation technique performed by clinicians with limited ultrasound training over standard technique after one failed IV attempt in an academic pediatric ED. [WestJEM. 2008;9:219-224.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "emergency ultrasound" }, { "word": "Venous Access" }, { "word": "pediatrics" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t648070", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aaron", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Bair", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "S", "last_name": "Rose", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cheryl", "middle_name": "W", "last_name": "Vance", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Emily", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Andrada-Brown", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kuppermann", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-01-23T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-01-23T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16737/galley/8475/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16727, "title": "Use of the Trendelenburg Position in the Porcine Model Improves Carotid Flow During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Background: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is now widely used as a treatment for ventricular fibrillation, though numerous studies have shown the outcome of standard CPR to be dismal. Alternative methods of CPR, including interposed abdominal compression, constant aortic occlusion, and the use of intrathoracic pressure regulator, have been shown to increase cardiac output and affect the mortality rate of CPR.\n\n\nObjectives: Here we suggest the Trendelenburg position as yet another method of increasing cardiac output and therefore improving the effectiveness of chest compressions. We hypothesized that the use of the Trendelenburg position during CPR would increase cardiac output as measured by carotid blood flow.\n\n\nMethods: We anaesthetized six pigs and measured their pre-arrest carotid flow rate for two minutes. We then induced ventricular fibrillation in those pigs and performed open-chest CPR on them. Post-arrest carotid blood flow was measured for two minutes each at 0 (supine position), 10, 20, and 30 degrees of head-down tilt in each pig. The mean carotid flow for each degree of tilt was compared to mean carotid flow at 0 degrees of tilt using a paired student t-test.\n\n\nResults: We found an increase of up to 1.4-fold in carotid blood flow during CPR in the Trendelenburg position, though only 20 and 30 degrees of Trendelenburg showed a statistically significant increase from the 0 degrees of tilt in pigs.\n\n\nConclusion: The Trendelenburg position can lead to increased blood flow through the carotid arteries during CPR in this pig model. Future studies should investigate whether this increased blood flow through the carotid arteries leads to improved brain perfusion and better neurologic outcomes.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:206-211.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "CPR" }, { "word": "Trendelenberg" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pd4k3rp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Filiberto", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zadini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northridge Hospital, Northridge California", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Edward", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Newton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Amin", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Abdi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jay", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lenker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "MicroVention, Inc, Aliso Viejo, CA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Giorgio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zadini", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "O", "last_name": "Henderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-10-31T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-10-31T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-18T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16727/galley/8468/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3967, "title": "Mace", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The mace, a club-like weapon attested in ancient Egypt from the Predynastic Period onward, played both functional and ceremonial roles, although more strongly the latter. By the First Dynasty it had become intimately associated with the power of the king, and the archetypal scene of the pharaoh wielding a mace endured from this time on in temple iconography until the Roman Period.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "weapon" }, { "word": "Ceremony" }, { "word": "king" }, { "word": "smiting" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" } ], "section": "Material Culture, Art and Architecture", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/497168cs", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alice", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stevenson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Cambridge", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-02-15T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-02-15T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-09-15T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3967/galley/2543/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3964, "title": "Graffiti (Figural)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Some of the earliest evidence for written communication in Egypt derives from figural graffiti—a variation of rock art. These texts are evidenced from many sites in Egypt, especially the Western Desert.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "image" }, { "word": "art" }, { "word": "Communication" }, { "word": "rock art" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" }, { "word": "Art History, Criticism and Conservation" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" } ], "section": "Material Culture, Art and Architecture", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v92z43m", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eugene", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cruz-Uribe", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Northern Arizona University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-01-18T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-01-18T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-08-10T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3964/galley/2540/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 43948, "title": "Adrenocortical Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Malignancy with Variable Clinical Behavior, Review of Case Series", "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/6748c9wd", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Steven", "middle_name": "G.", "last_name": "Wong", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Taylor", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Damiani", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" }, { "first_name": "Saeed", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sadeghi", "name_suffix": "MD", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "Medicine" } ], "date_submitted": null, "date_accepted": null, "date_published": "2008-07-29T22:00:58Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "PDF", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/ucladom_proceedings/article/43948/galley/32751/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3960, "title": "Personal Piety (modern theories related to)", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "The Egyptian language lacked specific terms for “religion” and “piety.” Nonetheless, Egyptologists recognize the significance of personal faith and piety in studying the religious sentiments and behavior of private individuals as expressed in texts and image. “Personal piety” was a complex phenomenon in ancient Egyptian religion and, as a result, the questions of how to define and apply the term remain controversial in Egyptology today. This article aims at presenting the Egyptological investigation of personal piety by providing both a history of its study and an overview of related issues and of the theories and methods applied to its research up to the present.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Religion" }, { "word": "sentiments" }, { "word": "devotion" }, { "word": "henotheism" }, { "word": "monotheism" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" }, { "word": "Other Religion" }, { "word": "Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion" } ], "section": "Religion", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49q0397q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Michela", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Luiselli", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Birmingham", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-12-03T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-12-03T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-07-10T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3960/galley/2536/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3950, "title": "Ethics", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Ancient Egyptian ethical thought and action revolved around the notion of maat. Although there are no traces of a standard moral code surviving from ancient Egypt, moral principles are often reflected in the literature--especially works of wisdom literature, funerary books and songs, tomb biographies, and literary narratives. In these sources moral principles are mostly expressed in practical admonitions and general observations on everyday conduct, and are voiced by authoritative sages. Through the study of these sources one can observe the occurrence of a major change in ancient Egyptian ethical thought during the New Kingdom, when piety and religiosity became significant criteria for the judgment of the individual.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Morality" }, { "word": "Code of Conduct" }, { "word": "Justice" }, { "word": "Maat" }, { "word": "Archaeological Anthropology" }, { "word": "Ethics and Political Philosophy" }, { "word": "Near Eastern Languages and Societies" } ], "section": "Individual and Society", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4q20j8mw", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Nikolaos", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lazaridis", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Radboud University Nijmegen", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-08-28T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-08-28T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-25T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/nelc_uee/article/3950/galley/2526/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3053, "title": "Cuba’s Education System: A Beacon of Light in Latin America Facing an Uncertain Future", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "While the international community, through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is promoting a global policy of Education for All (EFA), Cuba stands out as a beacon to other developing countries that have so far been unable to achieve their EFA goals. This paper presents a regional quantitative comparison of eleven Latin American and Caribbean countries—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Dominican Republic, and Venezuela—showing that Cuba excels in comparison to her neighboring Latin American and Caribbean countries in a majority of measurable characteristics of education implementation and outcomes. Cuba is also shown to have the highest overall UNESCO EFA ranking among Latin American and non-English speaking Caribbean countries and the only one currently meeting the UNESCO EFA goals. This paper will also show, in contrast, that the government of the United States has published highly detailed and specific plans to appropriate and substantially transform Cuba's education system given the political opportunity. With the changes in Cuba's leadership and apparent anticipation by the United States government of potential political instability in Cuba's foreseeable future, along with inexplicable inconsistencies between Cuba's outstanding education record and the recommendations by the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, it is important and relevant to ask the question, \"Why does the United States want to interfere in Cuba's education system, and what is potentially to be lost?\"", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "education" }, { "word": "Cuba" }, { "word": "Latin America" }, { "word": "education for all" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9569b508", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Brian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Johnstone", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-02-25T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-02-25T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3053/galley/1846/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3050, "title": "Cultural Probes in Transmigrant Research: A Case Study", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Cultural probes are a relatively new method of data collection which have been used extensively in design-based research since their initial inception by Gaver, Dunne, and Pacenti in 1999. Based on notions of “uncertainty, play, exploration and subjective interpretation” (Gaver, Boucher, Pennington, & Walker, 2004, p. 53), cultural probes are purposefully designed packages of mixed-media materials, such as disposable cameras, diaries, photo albums, postcards, and tape recorders, which are given to participants to explore and complete in their daily environments. In this paper, I will discuss and evaluate the adaptation of cultural probes for use in a qualitative study on transnational migration. Through discussion and reflective analysis of my experiences using probes for research on international students who become skilled migrants, I will make some suggestions on how probes can enhance and enrich data when used alongside more traditional qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "cultural probes" }, { "word": "qualitative methods" }, { "word": "migration" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1f68p0f8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Shanthi", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Robertson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "RMIT University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-05-08T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-05-08T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3050/galley/1843/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3049, "title": "Editors' Note", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Editor's Note", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7937d7jj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Paula", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Carbone", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Collins", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Los Angeles", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Stacey", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Meeker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-06-21T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-06-21T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3049/galley/1842/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3052, "title": "“I've Never Heard of the Word Pedagogy Before”: Using Liberatory Pedagogy to Forge Hope for Teachers in Our Nation's Public Schools", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This paper describes an initiative that engages urban high school students, pre-service teachers, and university professors in liberatory practice. Rooted in Freirian pedagogy and using Participatory Action Research as a methodological tool, this initiative aims to provide opportunities for democratic engagement of all parties by forging dialogue, modeling liberatory pedagogy, and raising the critical consciousness of future teachers, particularly those committed to serving low-income children of color in our nation’s public schools. Implications for teacher development and partnerships between universities and K-12 schools are considered.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Liberatory Pedagogy" }, { "word": "teacher development" }, { "word": "urban education" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5kh8942g", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Louie", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Rodríguez", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Florida International University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-02-20T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-02-20T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3052/galley/1845/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3051, "title": "PsychoGeography as Teaching Tool: Troubled Travels Through an Experimental First-Year Seminar", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This article is a critical reflection on the effectiveness of an experimental teaching tool for the college classroom. In an experimental seminar, students are asked to wander around—across campus, in the city of the college, in their respective hometowns, and in shopping malls. By describing and theorizing their own experiences in “travelogues” students draw attention to highly political and often contentious issues, i.e., questions of class, social position, gender, race, agency, and the body. This article critically analyzes the successes and limits of such a project. Drawing on bell hooks’ theories, it suggests a pedagogy of space that demands that the teacher and the student confront, transgress, and transform the psychogeographies that structure, confuse, and complicate our lives.", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Critical Pedagogy" }, { "word": "feminist geography" }, { "word": "Situationism" } ], "section": "Articles", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xv3634r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Maria", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Stehle", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Tennessee Knoxville", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-06-04T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-06-04T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3051/galley/1844/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3057, "title": "Review: Children and Television: A Global Perspective by Dafna Lemish", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nj98683", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fleming", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-05-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-05-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3057/galley/1850/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3058, "title": "Review: Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Tuhiwai Smith", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/65x1s5zb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Christine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Malsbary", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California - Los Angeles", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-04-14T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-04-14T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3058/galley/1851/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3059, "title": "Review: Glut: Mastering Information throughout the Ages by Alex Wright", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83k6m3t2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Dan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Haley", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-06-03T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-06-03T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3059/galley/1852/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3061, "title": "Review: Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet by Christine Borgman", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xz0s5m8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "T.", "middle_name": "Patrick", "last_name": "Milas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Florida State University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-06-03T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-06-03T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3061/galley/1854/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3055, "title": "Review: The Education Rights of Students: International Perspectives on Demystifying the Legal Issues edited by Charles J. Russo, Douglas J. Stewart and Jan De Groof", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "education law" }, { "word": "children's rights" }, { "word": "1979 United Nations Convention" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/30h107j8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ligia", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Toutant", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "UCLA", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-05-13T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-05-13T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3055/galley/1848/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3054, "title": "Review: The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results by Douglas B. Reeves", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "leadership" }, { "word": "school improvement" }, { "word": "student achievement" }, { "word": "educational equity" }, { "word": "accountability" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2415t4m7", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Dolores", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Vazquez Donet", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Florida International University", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-07-17T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-07-17T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3054/galley/1847/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3060, "title": "Review: Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "information commons" }, { "word": "knowledge commons" }, { "word": "commons" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8xk961gg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "J", "last_name": "Crispin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Missouri", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-05-23T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-05-23T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3060/galley/1853/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 3056, "title": "Review: Wittgenstein, Language and Information: \"Back to the Rough Ground!\" by David Blair", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": null, "keywords": [ { "word": "Wittgenstein" }, { "word": "Information Retrieval" } ], "section": "Book Reviews", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/51j7q6j5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Heather", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hill", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Missouri - Columbia", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-04-30T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-04-30T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-24T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3056/galley/1849/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16625, "title": "A Case of Complicated Urinary Tract Infection: Klebsiella pneumoniae Emphysematous Cystitis presenting as Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "This case report describes an atypical presentation of an atypical disease entity: Emphysematous Cystitis, a rapidly progressive, ascending urinary tract infection, in an emergency department (ED) patient whose chief complaint was abdominal pain and who had a urinalysis not consistent with the diagnosis of cystitis. [WestJEM. 2008;9:171-173.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/39w1g3t8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kapil", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Dhingra", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Davis Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-10-31T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-10-31T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16625/galley/8412/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16677, "title": "Access to Care - A Pilot Study in Los Angeles", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1tm6p0nm", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rachel", "middle_name": "E.", "last_name": "Rosenheck", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kathryn", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Challoner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16677/galley/8441/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16690, "title": "Addition of Echocardiography to Electrocardiographic Stress Testing Clarifies Cardiac Pathology but Does not Improve Diagnostic Accuracy in Emergency Department Chest Pain Unit Patients", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n12w7kj", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Ali", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Ghobadi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "Kaihwan", "last_name": "Wei", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rocky", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sayegh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Son", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Doan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Roula", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Saleem", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Mark", "middle_name": "I.", "last_name": "Langdorf", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16690/galley/8448/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16666, "title": "Administrative Support and Clinical Shift Load Varies among Emergency Medicine Residency Leadership", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/61f7p8kc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "H.", "middle_name": "Gene", "last_name": "Hern", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Charlotte", "middle_name": "P.", "last_name": "Wills", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Katz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16666/galley/8434/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16713, "title": "Arm your Weapons!", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t30907t", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Douglas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Brosnan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of California, Irvine Medical Center", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-07-15T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-07-15T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16713/galley/8460/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16662, "title": "A Survey of the Beliefs Regarding International Emergency Medicine among Fourth-Year Medical Students Planning on Matching in Emergency Medicine", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7rp5v6w2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Elissa", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Schechter", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nicholas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Forget", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Allison", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Richard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "William", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Mallon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16662/galley/8433/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16668, "title": "Attending and Resident Satisfaction with Feedback in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mm1b5st", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lalena", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Yarris", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "H.", "middle_name": "Gene", "last_name": "Hern, Jr.", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Judy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Linden", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "David", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Nestler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Cedric", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lefebvre", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rongwei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Esther", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Choo", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Patrick", "middle_name": "H.", "last_name": "Brunett", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16668/galley/8435/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16704, "title": "Cocaine Use and Risk of Death in Sickle Cell Patients Who Frequently Use the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z40v283", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Martha", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Neighbor", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jaime", "middle_name": "Raul", "last_name": "Antuna", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Kohn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16704/galley/8455/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16603, "title": "Comparison of Methanol Exposure Routes Reported to Texas Poison Control Centers", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objective: Methanol poisoning by ingestion is well represented in current emergency medicine literature. Much less described, however, is poisoning via intentional inhalation of methanol-containing products such as carburetor cleaner. This study intends to explore the exposure routes and treatment patterns of methanol cases reported to Texas Poison Centers.\n\n\nMethods: All cases of methanol exposures from January 2003 to May 2005 were collected from the Texas Poison Center Network database “Toxicall.” Inclusion criteria were 1) methanol as primary exposure, and 2) documented route of exposure. Exclusion criteria were unknown, dermal, and eye exposures. Data was extracted from documented calls to Texas Poison Centers and analyzed using descriptive statistics.\n\n\nResults: A total of 203 cases were collected from 6 regional Poison Centers. Eighty seven cases had inhalation as the route of exposure, while 81 were methanol ingestions. Carburetor cleaner was responsible for nearly all the inhalational cases (79/87) while ingestions involved mostly windshield washer fluid (39/81) and carburetor cleaner (20/81). Seventy-eight percent of the inhalational exposures were intentional while most of the ingestions were accidental (49/75) and suicidal (18/75). An anion gap was documented in 31 of the inhalational cases and in 10 of the ingestions. Dialysis, use of fomepizole, and vision loss were documented for both types of exposure. Fifty-six percent of the inhalational group was admitted compared to 46% of the ingestion group.\n\n\nConclusion: We propose that the results obtained from our review show inhalational exposure involving methanol (e.g., “huffing”) represents a significant source of toxicity in the studied population. This is in contrast to previous literature that proposed inhalational toxicity was rare and aggressive treatment usually not necessary in cases of inhalation of methanol-containing carburetor cleaners.[WestJEM. 2008;9:150-153.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Methanol" }, { "word": "Toxic Alcohol" }, { "word": "methyl alcohol" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6sf2t9mv", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Melissa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Givens", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kristine", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kalbfleisch", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Scott", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bryson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-02-20T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-02-20T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16603/galley/8399/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16633, "title": "Complications of MRSA Treatment: Linezolid-induced Myelosuppression Presenting with Pancytopenia", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections have grown to epidemic proportions in the United States. With the development of increasing drug resistance of MRSA to traditional antimicrobials, there has been a search for a more effective antibiotic treatment. Linezolid is one of the most effective oral medications used for outpatient treatment of MRSA infections. We present a case of pancytopenia after outpatient treatment with linezolid. Myelosuppression is a rare but serious side effect of linezolid of which emergency physicians need to be aware in order to provide early intervention.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:177-178.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Linezolid myelosuppression methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0f76s28z", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Julie", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Gorchynski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "CHRISTUS Spohn Memorial Hospital, Texas A&M University, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jeri", "middle_name": "K", "last_name": "Rose", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of North Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Worth, Texas", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-03-02T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-03-02T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16633/galley/8416/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16699, "title": "Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Dental Pain in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7116153w", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aaron", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lessen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Billie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Winegard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McLaughlin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Beskind", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16699/galley/8452/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16672, "title": "Do You Plan to Have Children? The Incidence of Potentially Illegal Questions during Resident Interviews", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w4924z2", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "H.", "middle_name": "Gene", "last_name": "Hern, Jr.", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Harrison", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Alter", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Charlotte", "middle_name": "P.", "last_name": "Wills", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Snoey", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Barry", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Simon", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16672/galley/8437/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16675, "title": "Effectiveness of a Central Line Bundle Protocol including Ultrasonic Guidance in Reducing Operative Complications Associated with Central Venous Catheter Placement in a Community Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5hd0b1vb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Alissa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Arnold", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Torbati", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16675/galley/8439/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16673, "title": "Emergency Medicine Interest Group: Faculty and Preclinical Medical Students Differ in Their Preferences for Educational Objectives", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wr0f9s1", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Carol", "middle_name": "K.", "last_name": "Lee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Wendy", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Coates", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16673/galley/8438/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16706, "title": "Emergency Medicine Physician Practice and Perception of Opioid-Seeking Patients", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73d0k9xt", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lisa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Chan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Billie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Winegard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kevin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Reilly", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Brooke", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rosonke", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Emily", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Osborn", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16706/galley/8457/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16616, "title": "Fatal Metformin Overdose Presenting with Progressive Hyperglycemia", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A 29-year-old man with no history of diabetes ingested over 60 grams of metformin in a suicide attempt. He presented to the emergency department with acute renal insufficiency, severe lactic acidosis, and rapidly-progressive hyperglycemia. The patient’s peak serum glucose level of 707 mg/dL is the highest yet reported in a case of metformin toxicity. Treatment included sodium bicarbonate infusion and hemodialysis, but the patient suffered several cardiac arrests with pulseless electrical activity and ultimately expired 25 hours after the ingestion.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:160-164.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "overdose" }, { "word": "poisoning" }, { "word": "Metformin" }, { "word": "hyperglycemia" }, { "word": "lactic acidosis" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1nh2f6wn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Suchard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Grotsky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-02-19T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-02-19T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16616/galley/8407/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16606, "title": "Fluoxetine Overdose-Induced Seizure", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "A 37-year-old woman experienced a witnessed generalized seizure in the Emergency Department three hours after ingesting approximately 1400 mg of fluoxetine in a suicide attempt. Although the majority of fluoxetine ingestions are benign, seizures may occur after large intentional overdoses.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:154-156]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Fluoxetine" }, { "word": "overdose" }, { "word": "poisoning" }, { "word": "Seizure" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4sj302z6", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jeffrey", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Suchard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-11-19T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-11-19T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16606/galley/8400/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16592, "title": "Health Literacy Among Parents of Pediatric Patients Seen in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Background: Health literacy is an important predictor of healthcare outcomes, but research on this topic has largely been absent from the emergency medicine literature.\n\n\nObjectives: We measured the prevalence of health literacy in parents or guardians of pediatric patients seen in the emergency department (ED).\n\n\nMethods: This was an observational study conducted in a Midwestern urban, university-based, tertiary, Level 1 trauma center ED with 33,000 visits/year. Using convenience sampling during a three-month period, English-speaking parents or guardians of pediatric patients (< 19 yrs.) were asked to complete the short version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy for Adults (s-TOFHLA). Parents/guardians were excluded if they had uncorrected visual impairment, required an interpreter, had altered mental status, or if the patients they accompanied were the subjects of a medical or trauma activation.\n\n\nResults: Of the 188 parents or guardians approached, six did not consent or withdrew, one was excluded, leaving 181 (96.3%) in the study. Of these, 19 (10.5%) had either \"marginal\" or \"inadequate\" health literacy, while 162 (89.5%, 95% CI: 84.1%, 93.6%) had \"adequate\" health literacy.\n\n\nConclusions: A large majority (89.5%) of English-speaking parents or guardians of pediatric patients evaluated in the ED have adequate health literacy. This data may prompt ED professionals to adjust their communication styles in the evaluation of children. Future multi-center studies are needed to confirm the findings in this pilot study. [WestJEM.2008:9:130-134]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Health Literacy" }, { "word": "pediatrics" }, { "word": "Emergency Medicine" }, { "word": "emergency department" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dz4g1b3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "T.", "middle_name": "Paul", "last_name": "Tran", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "M", "last_name": "Robinson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Keebler", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Richard", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Walker", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "C", "last_name": "Wadman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-10-16T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16592/galley/8393/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16628, "title": "Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0px715rc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Thomas", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Catron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Alameda County Medical Center, Highland General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "H.", "middle_name": "Gene", "last_name": "Hern", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Alameda County Medical Center, Highland General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-11-15T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-11-15T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16628/galley/8415/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16621, "title": "Images in Emergency Medicine: Chemical Pneumonitis from Hydrocarbon Aspiration", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xf197f8", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Kiemanh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pham", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sverchek", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rick", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "McPheeters", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kern Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-12-28T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-12-28T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16621/galley/8410/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16638, "title": "Images in Emergency Medicine: Pelvic Digit", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "pelvic" }, { "word": "digit" }, { "word": "radiograph" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6m5958zz", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Carnell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Alameda County Medical Center - Highland Hospital", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Division of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-02-23T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-02-23T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16638/galley/8418/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16636, "title": "Images in Emergency Medicine: Splenic Infarction Due to Sickle Cell Trait after Climbing Mt. Fuji", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "sickle cell trait" }, { "word": "Splenic Infarct" }, { "word": "high-altitude illness" }, { "word": "abdominal pain" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8fn060p3", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Aki", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morishima", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Naval Hospital Okinawa", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Joel", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Schofer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Naval Hospital Okinawa", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Pierre", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pelletier", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Naval Hospital Okinawa", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "McKee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Naval Hospital Okinawa", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-04-07T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-04-07T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16636/galley/8417/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16645, "title": "Impact of Winter Resort Injuries on ACS Level I Trauma Center", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0d70979q", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Karen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Danenhauer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Craig", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moffat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gilmore", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christy", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "McCowan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16645/galley/8423/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16701, "title": "Incidental Ultrasound Findings of Emergency Department Patients with Biliary Symptoms", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/501897gr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Wesley", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Zeger", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "J", "middle_name": "R", "last_name": "Realing", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Tran", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Samantha", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Morris", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16701/galley/8454/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16683, "title": "Influenza Vaccination in the Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68f618bg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Heather", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Woodin", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Katherine", "middle_name": "M.", "last_name": "Hiller", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Billie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Winegard", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sid", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Patanwala", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Melanie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "DeBoer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16683/galley/8445/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16623, "title": "Issues and Solutions in Introducing Western Systems to the Prehospital Care System in Japan", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objective: This report aims to illustrate the history and current status of Japanese emergency medical services (EMS), including development of the specialty and characteristics adapted from the U.S. and European models. In addition, recommendations are made for improvement of the current systems.\n\n\nMethods: Government reports and academic papers were reviewed, along with the collective experiences of the authors. Literature searches were performed in PubMed (English) and Ichushi (Japanese), using keywords such as emergency medicine and pre-hospital care. More recent and peer-reviewed articles were given priority in the selection process.\n\n\nResults: The pre-hospital care system in Japan has developed as a mixture of U.S. and European systems. Other countries undergoing economic and industrial development similar to Japan may benefit from emulating the Japanese EMS model.\n\n\nDiscussion: Currently, the Japanese system is in transition, searching for the most suitable and efficient way of providing quality pre-hospital care.\n\n\nConclusion: Japan has the potential to enhance its current pre-hospital care system, but this will require greater collaboration between physicians and paramedics, increased paramedic scope of medical practice, and greater Japanese societal recognition and support of paramedics.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:166-170.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "prehospital care" }, { "word": "Japan" }, { "word": "paramedic" }, { "word": "international cooperation" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c3699wn", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Tetsuji", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Suzuki", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Assistant Professor, Department of Prehospital Emergency Medical Care, Graduate School of Health Information Science, Teikyo Heisei University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Masamichi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nishida", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, Teikyo University, School of Medicine", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Yuriko", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Suzuki", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Nursing, Kyoto Kujo Hospital", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kunio", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kobayashi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Professor and Chairman, Department of Prehospital Emergency Medical Care, Graduate School of Health Information Science, Teikyo Heisei University", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "S. V.", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mahadevan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Assistant Professor of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Associate Chief, Division of Emergency Medicine, Medical Director, Stanford University Emergency Department", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-11-08T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-11-08T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16623/galley/8411/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16680, "title": "Low Rate of MRSA Colonization among Residents is Stable Over Time", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68v1x15j", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Jennifer", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Carnell", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "H.", "middle_name": "Gene", "last_name": "Hern, Jr.", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Amandeep", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Singh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Cheung", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Bradley", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Frazee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16680/galley/8443/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16644, "title": "Maximizing Medical and Health Outcomes after a Catastrophic Disaster: Defining a New “Crisis Standard of Care”", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9j62f2b5", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Emile", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Chang", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Howard", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Backer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tareg", "middle_name": "A", "last_name": "Bey", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kristi", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Koenig", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16644/galley/8422/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16650, "title": "Near-Hanging Injuries in an Urban Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/71n0m7cb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stuart", "middle_name": "P.", "last_name": "Swadron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kori", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Sauser", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Aleya", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hyderi", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "O.", "last_name": "Henderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16650/galley/8428/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16682, "title": "Opt-Out HIV Screening in an Urban Emergency Department: Implementation of the New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tj7p51p", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Douglas", "middle_name": "AE", "last_name": "White", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Alicia", "middle_name": "N.", "last_name": "Scribner", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16682/galley/8444/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16646, "title": "Outcome Study of Same-Level Falls in The Elderly with Momentary Loss of Consciousness Or Acute Neurological Deficit", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3729c34f", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Eric", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Hegedus", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Samuel", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Stratton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16646/galley/8424/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16654, "title": "Patient Perceptions of Resident Interpersonal and Communication Skills in the Emergency Department; An Analysis by Post-Graduate Year of Emergency Medicine Residents and Off-Service Residents", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/43c6f0hg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Rebecca", "middle_name": "L.", "last_name": "Palmer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sarah", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Andrus", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Rongwei", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Fu", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Emilie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Weed", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Annick", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Yagapen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Daniel", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Knoepflmacher", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Megan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lockwood", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Patrick", "middle_name": "H.", "last_name": "Brunett", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16654/galley/8431/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16710, "title": "Presdient's Message", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/494286dc", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Stuart", "middle_name": "P", "last_name": "Swadron", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Southern California", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-07-15T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-07-15T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16710/galley/8459/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16708, "title": "Prevalence of a Positive Emergency Department Septic Screen Differs between Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Non-Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/45s4w1vb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Christopher", "middle_name": "B.", "last_name": "Chee", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "F.", "last_name": "Walsh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kian", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Azimian", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Stephen", "middle_name": "J.", "last_name": "Rothenberg", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16708/galley/8458/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16594, "title": "Prevalence of Bordetella pertussis and Bordetella parapertussis in Samples Submitted for RSV Screening", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Background: The clinical presentation of Bordetella pertussis can overlap with that of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV); however, management differs.\n\n\nHypothesis: First, the prevalence of B. pertussis is less than 2% among patients screened for RSV, and second the prevalence of B. parapertussis is also less than 2% among these patients.\n\n\nMethods: Nasal washings submitted to a clinical laboratory for RSV screening were tested for B. pertussis and B. parapertussis, using species-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. These were optimized to target conserved regions within a complement gene and the CarB gene, respectively. A Bordetella spp. genus-specific real-time PCR assay was designed to detect the Bhur gene of B. pertussis, B. parapertussis, and B. bronchiseptica. RSV A and B subtypes were tested by reverse transcription-PCR.\n\n\nResults: Four hundred and eighty-nine clinical samples were tested. There was insufficient material to complete testing for one B. pertussis, 10 RSV subtype A, and four RSV subtype B assays. Bordetella pertussis was detected in 3/488 (0.6%) (95% CI 0.1% to 1.8%), while B. parapertussis was detected in 5/489 (1.0%) (95% CI 0.3% to 2.4%). Dual infection of B. pertussis with RSV and of B. parapertussis with RSV occurred in two and in three cases respectively. RSV was detected by PCR in 127 (26.5%).\n\n\nConclusion: The prevalence of B. pertussis in nasal washings submitted for RSV screening was less than 2%. The prevalence of parapertussis may be higher than 2%. RSV with B. pertussis and RSV with B. parapertussis coinfection do occur.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:135-140.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Bordetella pertussis" }, { "word": "Bordetella parpertussis" }, { "word": "Respiratory Syncytial Virus" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1j23x5qb", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Paul", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Walsh", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield, CA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christina", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lim-Overmeyer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Research and Development Department, Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, Hamilton, NJ", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Lauren", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kimmel", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Research and Development Department, Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, Hamilton ,NJ", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Melanie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Feola", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Research and Development Department, Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, Hamilton ,NJ", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Pusavaat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Pathology, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield ,CA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tuan Anh", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Nguyen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield ,CA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sam", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kuan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield CA.", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Kirt", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Emery", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Kern County Department of Public Health", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Martin", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Rosengreen", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Department of Emergency Medicine, Kern Medical Center, Bakersfield ,CA", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Eli", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Mordechai", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Research and Development Department, Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, Hamilton ,NJ", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Martin", "middle_name": "E", "last_name": "Adelson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Research and Development Department, Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, Hamilton ,NJ", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-11-12T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-11-12T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16594/galley/8394/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16694, "title": "Rapid Sequence Intubation - from the Patients’ Perspective", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9qt05570", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Deborah", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Kimball", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Sean", "middle_name": "O.", "last_name": "Henderson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16694/galley/8450/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16700, "title": "Resident Shift-Hour Productivity: A New Method for Measuring Resident Productivity that Accounts for Variations in Hourly Patient Volumes", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wr873bp", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "James", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "McClay", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Ronald", "middle_name": "H.", "last_name": "Carson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wadman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16700/galley/8453/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16599, "title": "Self-Reported Emergency Medicine Residency Applicant Attitudes Towards a Procedural Cadaver Laboratory Curriculum", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Objective: Residency applicants consider a variety of factors when ranking emergency medicine (EM) programs for their NRMP match list. A human cadaver emergency procedure lab curriculum is uncommon. We hypothesized that the presence this curriculum would positively impact the ranking of an EM residency program.\n\n\nMethods: The EM residency at Nebraska Medical Center is an urban, university-based program with a PGY I-III format. Residency applicants during the interview for a position in the PGY I class of 2006 were surveyed by three weekly electronic mailings. The survey was distributed in March 2006 after the final NRMP match results were released. The survey explored learner preferences and methodological commonality of models of emergency procedural training, as well as the impact of a procedural cadaver lab curriculum on residency ranking. ANOVA of ranks was used to compare responses to ranking questions.\n\n\nResults: Of the 73 potential subjects, 54 (74%) completed the survey. Respondents ranked methods of procedural instruction from 1 (most preferred or most common technique) to 4 (least preferred or least common technique). Response averages and 95% confidence intervals for the preferred means of learning a new procedure are as follows: textbook (3.69; 3.51-3.87), mannequin (2.83; 2.64-3.02), human cadaver (1.93; 1.72-2.14), and living patient (1.56; 1.33-1.79). Response averages for the commonality of means used to teach a new procedure are as follows: human cadaver (3.63; 3.46-3.80), mannequin (2.70; 2.50-2.90), living patient (2.09; 1.85-2.33), and textbook (1.57; 1.32-1.82). When asked if the University of Nebraska Medical Center residency ranked higher in the individual’s match list because of its procedural cadaver lab, 14.8% strongly disagreed, 14.8% disagreed, 40.7% were neutral, 14.8% agreed, and 14.8% strongly agreed.\n\n\nConclusion: We conclude that, although cadaveric procedural training is viewed by senior medical student learners as a desirable means of learning a procedure, its use is uncommon during medical school, and its presence as part of a residency curriculum does not influence ranking of the residency program.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:141-145.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "Medical Education" }, { "word": "procedural training" }, { "word": "residency curriculum" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02p8g8mg", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lance", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hoffman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Michael", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Wadman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Tammi", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Erickson", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Robert", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Muelleman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "University of Nebraska Medical Center", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-03-05T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-03-05T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16599/galley/8396/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16686, "title": "Social Factors that Predict Penetrating Trauma: Has Anything Changed in the Past Twenty Years?", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n11r7rk", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lisa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moreno-Walton", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Valerie", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Katz", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Amish", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Shah", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jayne", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Lieb", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, 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"2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16705/galley/8456/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16649, "title": "Success Rates of Direct Laryngoscopy and Glidescope in an Academic Emergency Department", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92g4x4cr", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Laura", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Dolkas", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Arthur", "middle_name": "R.", "last_name": "Smolensky", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "John", "middle_name": "C.", "last_name": "Sakles", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16649/galley/8427/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16612, "title": "Survival after an Intentional Ingestion of Crushed Abrus Seeds", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "Abrus precatorius seeds contain one of the most potent toxins known to man. 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If the seeds are crushed and then ingested, more serious toxicity, including death, can occur.\n\n\nWe present a case of a man who survived an intentional ingestion of crushed Abrus seeds after he was treated with aggressive gastric decontamination and supportive care.\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2008;9:157-159.]", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [ { "word": "poisoning" }, { "word": "overdose" }, { "word": "Abrin" }, { "word": "plant" } ], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mk8r34r", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Lisa", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Reedman", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Morristown Memorial Hospital", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Richard", "middle_name": "D", "last_name": "Shih", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Morristown Memorial Hospital; New Jersey Medical School", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Oliver", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Hung", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "Morristown Memorial Hospital", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2007-12-23T08:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2007-12-23T08:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16612/galley/8405/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16676, "title": "Terrain Park Injuries: Demographics and Injury Patterns", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kg7z54k", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Craig", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Moffat", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Nathan", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Gilmore", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Karen", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Danenhauer", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Jade", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "Bringhurst", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Christy", "middle_name": "", "last_name": "McCowan", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16676/galley/8440/download/" } ] }, { "pk": 16678, "title": "Time Analysis of Consultant Services in Adult Emergency Department Admissions", "subtitle": null, "abstract": "", "language": "en", "license": { "name": "none", "short_name": "none", "text": "", "url": "http://google.com" }, "keywords": [], "section": "Article", "is_remote": true, "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3w81z07c", "frozenauthors": [ { "first_name": "Katherine", "middle_name": "A.", "last_name": "Sutherland", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" }, { "first_name": "Joseph", "middle_name": "S.", "last_name": "Stapczynski", "name_suffix": "", "institution": "", "department": "None" } ], "date_submitted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_accepted": "2008-09-11T07:00:00Z", "date_published": "2008-06-23T07:00:00Z", "render_galley": null, "galleys": [ { "label": "", "type": "pdf", "path": "https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16678/galley/8442/download/" } ] } ] }