Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2022
Sports-related ocular injuries at a tertiary eye hospital in Australia: A 5-year retrospective descriptive study.
To describe the demographics and outcomes of sports-related ocular injuries in an Australian tertiary eye hospital setting. ⋯ The top three ocular injury causing sports were soccer, AFL and basketball. The most frequent injury was traumatic hyphaema. Projectiles posed the greatest risk.
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Emerg Med Australas · Oct 2022
Multicenter Study Observational StudyPatients treated for acute headache with intranasal droperidol spend less time in the emergency department: A retrospective observational study.
Headache is a common presenting complaint to the ED. Using time from the first provider to discharge as a surrogate for effectiveness, we aimed to determine if intranasal (IN) droperidol is as beneficial as usual treatment for acute headache in the ED. ⋯ IN droperidol reduced LOS in the ED. There are potential cost savings of this effective treatment via this novel route. A prospective multi-centre study of the use of IN droperidol for the treatment of acute headache in the ED is recommended.