Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Prospective, randomized, controlled trial of tissue adhesive (2-octylcyanoacrylate) vs standard wound closure techniques for laceration repair. Stony Brook Octylcyanoacrylate Study Group.
To compare a new tissue adhesive, 2-octylcyanoacrylate, with standard wound closure techniques for the repair of traumatic lacerations. ⋯ Wounds treated with octylcyanoacrylate and standard wound closure techniques have similar cosmetic appearances 3 months later.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Local anesthesia for lacerations: pain of infiltration inside vs outside the wound.
To compare the pains of infiltration of a local anesthetic for simple lacerations when used from within the wound vs through intact skin. ⋯ Local anesthesia is less painful when injected from within a laceration as compared with intact skin.
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To examine the consistency of Australasian National Triage Scale (NTS) categorization in a large hospital ED, especially in relation to daily activity. ⋯ In this ED, triage categorization according to the Australasian NTS does not vary with daily activity and has been consistent over time. Further study in other settings is required, particularly to identify variation dependent on the presenting population.
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1) To assess Canadian emergency physicians' (EPs') use of and attitudes toward 2 radiographic clinical decision rules that have recently been developed and to identify physician characteristics associated with decision rule use; 2) to determine the use of CT head and cervical spine radiography by EPs and their beliefs about the appropriateness of expert recommendations supporting the routine use of these radiographic procedures; and 3) to determine the potential acceptance of clinical decision rules for CT scan in patients with minor head injury and cervical spine radiography in trauma patients. ⋯ Canadian EPs are generally supportive of clinical decision rules and, in particular, have very positive attitudes toward the Ottawa Ankle and Knee Rules. Furthermore, EPs disagree with recommendations for routine use of CT head and cervical spine radiography and strongly support the development of well-validated decision rules for the use of CT head and cervical spine radiography. Most EPs expected the latter rules to be 100% sensitive for acute clinically significant lesions.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
The effect of order on pain of local anesthetic infiltration.
To define the relationship between order of injection and pain of infiltration of buffered lidocaine. ⋯ The second injection of buffered lidocaine was found to be statistically more painful than the first in this protocol that controlled for all variables except for order of injection. Future studies involving paired comparisons should take this information into account.