Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2023
Observational StudyWrist, hand and finger injuries in Australian football: A prospective observational study of emergency department presentations.
Investigate the characteristics of wrist, hand and finger (WHF) injuries in Australian footballers presenting to EDs and determine if injury profiles differed between females and males, and between children and adults. ⋯ Differences in injury type, location and mechanism between females and males, and children and adults, suggest an opportunity for customised injury prevention and management strategies by sex and age.
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The professional body for nurses working in emergency medicine is the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia. The professional body for doctors working in emergency medicine is the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). ⋯ Associate membership in ACEM would recognise their role in treating patients and would enhance their access to relevant continued professional development as has been endorsed by ACEM. It would also facilitate their further integration into the body of those who autonomously treat patients in the ED.
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Emerg Med Australas · Aug 2023
ReviewReview article: Prehospital telehealth for emergency care: A scoping review.
Telehealth has been successfully implemented in the prehospital setting to expedite emergency care, although applications are still in their infancy. With recent advances in technologies, it is not described how prehospital telehealth has evolved over the past decade. This scoping review aimed to answer the research question 'what telehealth platforms have been used to facilitate communication between prehospital healthcare providers and emergency clinicians in the past decade?'. ⋯ Challenges to telehealth involved technical, clinical and organisational issues. Few facilitators of prehospital telehealth were identified. Telehealth platforms to facilitate prehospital to ED communication continue to develop but require technological advances and improved network connectivity to support implementation in the prehospital environment.