Emergency medicine (Fremantle, W.A.)
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Emerg Med (Fremantle) · Sep 2001
Comparative StudySurvival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Geelong region of Victoria, Australia.
To study the outcome from prehospital cardiac arrest managed by ambulance personnel, and to examine overall survival rates from successful resuscitation. ⋯ Decreasing time delays in accessing the patient is crucial to improving outcome in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Emerg Med (Fremantle) · Sep 2001
Comparative StudyThe use of emergency contraception in Australasian emergency departments.
To review the prescribing of emergency contraception by emergency departments in Australasia and compare it with other providers. ⋯ Emergency departments are accessed by patients requesting contraception following unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure. The prescribing of emergency contraception in Australasian emergency departments is comparable with other providers but substantial improvements could be made. Suggestions to assist this improvement include written clinical guidelines and patient information and purpose-made medication packs.
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Emerg Med (Fremantle) · Sep 2001
Comparative StudyEmergency department triage of indigenous and non-indigenous patients in tropical Australia.
To examine the relationship between ethnicity and triage at a tertiary hospital emergency department. ⋯ Indigenous patients are more likely to present with illness rather than injury and are more likely to require admission than non-indigenous patients. Indigenous patients are triaged in accordance with Australasian triage guidelines. Many non-indigenous patients should be triaged to lower urgency categories to allow resource allocation towards higher acuity indigenous and non-indigenous patients.