2019 MERC publications

  1. Druda DF, Gone S, Graudins A. Deliberate Self-poisoning with lethal Dose of Pentobarbital with Confirmatory Serum DrugConcentrations: Survival After Cardiac Arrest with Supportive Care. J Med Toxicol. 2019 Jan;15(1):45-48.
  2. L Taylor, A Graudins. Extended‐release quetiapine overdose is associated with delayed onset of toxicity compared to immediate‐release quetiapine overdose. Emergency Medicine Australasia 2019, 31, 562–568.
  3. Wong A, McNulty R, Taylor D, Sivilotti M, Greene S, Gunja N, Koutsogiannis Z, Graudins A. The NACSTOP trial: A multi-center, cluster-controlled trial of early cessation of acetylcysteine in acetaminophen overdose in Hepatology. Hepatology, 2019, 69(2):774-784.
  4. Wong A, Sivilotti MLA, Heard K, Dalhoff K, Graudins A. Improving the management of paracetamol overdose. E Clin Med 2019. 20:12:10.
  5. Chiew A, Reith D, Pomerleu A, Wong A, Isoardi K, Soderstrom J, Buckley NA. Updated guidelines for the management of paracetamol poisoning in Australia and New Zealand. The Medical Journal of Australia, 01 December 2019. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50428.
  6. Li Y, Lam KF, Wong CLW, Wong A. In Vitro study of Pharmacobezoar formation in simulated acetaminophen overdose. Clin Tox 2019 Dec 26:1-7.
  7. Leang Yit, Greene SL, Koutsogiannis Z, Wong A. The use of intravenous labetalol in the setting of atrial fibrillation secondary to methamphetamine use. Toxicology Communications 2019. 3(1) 91-93.
  8. Keijzers G, Macdonald SP, Udy AA, Arendts G, Bailey M, Bellomo R, Blecher GE, Burcham J, Delaney A, Coggins AR, Fatovich DM, Fraser JF, Harley A, Jones P, Kinnear F, May K, Peake S, Taylor DM27, Williams J, Williams P; ARISE FLUIDS Study Group. The Australasian Resuscitation In Sepsis Evaluation: FLUid or vasopressors In Emergency Department Sepsis, a multicentre observational study (ARISE FLUIDS observational study): Rationale, methods and analysis plan. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Feb;31(1):90-96.
  9. Walker K, Ben-Meir M, Dunlop W, Rosler R, West A, O'Connor G, Chan T, Badcock D, Putland M, Hansen, Crock C, Liew, Taylor D, Staples M. Impact of scribes on emergency medicine doctors’ productivity and patient throughput: multicentre randomised trial. BMJ. 2019 Jan 30;364:l121.
  10. Miller P, Droste N, Egerton-Warburton D, Caldicott D, Fulde G, Ezard N, Preisz P, Walby A, Lloyd-Jones M, Stella J, Sheridan M, Baker T, Hall M, Shakeshaft A, Havard A, Bowe S, Staiger PK, D'Este C, Doran C, Coomber K, Hyder S, Barker D, Shepherd J. Driving change: A partnership study protocol using shared emergency department data to reduce alcohol-related harm. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Dec;31(6):942-947.
  11. McAllan FJ, Egerton-Warburton D, O'Reilly G, Weiland TJ, Jelinek GA. Planning for the future: Modelling daily emergency department presentations in an Australian capital city. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Oct;31(5):750-755.
  12. Abadier M, Wong A, Stathakis P, Singsit J, Pillay M, Graudins A. A case of accidental neonatal paracetamol overdose with prolonged half-life and measured metabolites. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2019 Mar 11:1-3. doi: 10.1080/15563650.2019.1587450
  13. Wong A, Nejad C, Gantier M, Choy KW, Doery J, Graudins A. MicroRNA from a 12-h versus 20-h acetylcysteine infusion for paracetamol overdose. Hum Exp Toxicol. 2019 Mar 6:960327119833740. doi: 10.1177/0960327119833740
  14. A Wong, B Cheung, C Nejad, M Gantier, A Graudins. Hepatotoxicity after paracetamol overdose in a patient with cystic fibrosis despite early acetylcysteine and utility of microRNA to predict hepatotoxicity. Clinical Toxicology 2019: 56 (10), 904-906.
  15. Graudins A, Wong A. Paracetamol overdose: limiting the potential for harm. Med J Aust. 2019 Aug 16. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50306
  16. Wong O, Wong A, Green SL, Graudins A. Prolonged coma resulting from massive levothyroxine overdose and the utility of N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide. (NT-proBNP). Clin Tox 2019. 57(6):415-417.
  17. Wong A, Homer N, Dear JW, Choy KW, Doery J, Graudins A. Paracetamol metabolite concentrations following low risk overdose treated with an abbreviated 12 hour versus 20 hour acetylcysteine infusion. Clin Tox 2019. 57(5):312-317.
  18. Nagarajan S, Wong A, Koutsogiannis Z, Greene SL. An aging methadone  population: a challenge for treating doctors. Australian Journal of General Practice 2019. 48(3):111-112.
  19. Cairns R, Karanges E, Wong A, Robinson J, Brown J, Dawson A, Buckley NA. Trends in self-poisoning and psychotropic drug use in people aged 5-19 years: a population based retrospective cohort study in Australia. BMJ Open 2019. 9(2): e026001.
  20. Rotella JA, Wong A. A case of liraglutide toxicity presenting to the emergency department and literature review. Emerg Med Aust 2019. 31(5):895-896.
  21. Lee C, Greene SL, Wong A. The utility of droperidol in the treatment of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Clin Tox 2019. 57(9):773-777.
  22. Graudins A, Wong A. Cameron Textbook of Emergency Medicine 2019 5th edition, Churchill Livingstone. Chapter- Paracetamol. (book chapter)
  23. Rotella JA, Wong A. Cameron Textbook of Emergency Medicine 2019 5th edition, Churchill Livingstone. Chapter- Anticonvulsants. (book chapter)
  24. Wong A. Fleisher and Ludwig’s 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult 2nd edition 2019, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Chapter-Tricyclic Antidepressants. (book chapter)
  25. Wong A. Fleisher and Ludwig’s 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult 2nd edition 2019, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Chapter-Anticholinergic poisoning. (book chapter)
  26. Wong A. Fleisher and Ludwig’s 5-Minute Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consult 2nd edition 2019, (book chapter)
  27. Celene Y. L. Yap, DavidMcD. Taylor, Andis Graudins, et al. Management of behavioural emergencies: a prospective observational study in Australian emergency departments. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research, (2019) doi: 10.1002/jppr.1522
  28. Yap CYL, Taylor DM, Kong DC, Knott JC, Taylor SE; A Graudins, Sedation for Acute Agitation in Emergency Department Patients: Targeting Adverse Events (SIESTA) Collaborative Study Group. Risk Factors for Sedation-Related Events During Acute Agitation Management in The Emergency Department. Acad Emerg Med. 2019 Oct;26(10):1135-1143
  29. Meek R, Mee MJ, Egerton-Warburton D, Graudins A, Meyer A, Pouryahya P, Blecher G, Fahey J, Crow S. Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial of Droperidol and Ondansetron for Adult Emergency Department Patients With Nausea. Acad Emerg Med. 2019 Aug;26(8):867-877.
  30. Meek R, Graudins A. Visual analog scale rating change cut‐offs for detection of improvement in nausea severity. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Apr. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13291.
  31. Craig SS, Seith RW, Cheek JA, Wilson K, Egerton-Warburton D, Paul E, West A. Lidocaine and phenylephrine versus saline placebo nasal spray for the pain and distress of nasogastric tube insertion in young children and infants: a randomised, double-blind, controlled trial. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2019 Jun;3(6):391-397.
  32. S Craig, A Graudins, SR Dalziel, CVE Powell, FE Babl. A primer for clinical researchers in the emergency department: Part VI. Measuring what matters: Core outcome sets in emergency medicine research. Emergency Medicine Australasia 2019: 31 (1), 29-34.
  33. Craig S, Kuan WS, Kelly AM, Van Meer O, Motiejunaite J, Keijzers G, Jones P, Body R, Karamercan MA, Klim S, Harjola VP, Verschuren F, Holdgate A, Christ M, Golea A, Graham CA, Capsec J, Barletta C, Garcia-Castrillo L, Laribi S. Treatment and outcome of adult patients with acute asthma in emergency departments in Australasia, South East Asia and Europe: Are guidelines followed? AANZDEM/EuroDEM study. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Oct;31(5):756-762.
  34. Epidemiology of patients presenting with dyspnea to emergency departments in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Laribi S, Keijzers G, van Meer O, Klim S, Motiejunaite J, Kuan WS, Body R, Jones P, Karamercan M, Craig S, Harjola VP, Holdgate A, Golea A, Graham C, Verschuren F, Capsec J, Christ M, Grammatico-Guillon L, Barletta C, Garcia-Castrillo L, Kelly AM; AANZDEM and EURODEM study groups. Eur J Emerg Med. 2019 Oct;26(5):345-349.
  35. Franklin D, Babl FE, Gibbons K, Pham TMT, Hasan N, Schlapbach LJ, Oakley E, Craig S, Furyk J, Neutze J, Moloney S, Gavranich J, Shirkhedkar P, Kapoor V, Grew S, Fraser JF, Dalziel SR, Schibler A. Nasal High Flow in Room Air for Hypoxemic Bronchiolitis Infants. Frontiers in Pediatrics 2019 Oct; 7:426 doi: 10.3389/fped.2019.00426
  36. Babl FE, Schlapbach LJ, Oakley E, Borland ML, Hoeppner T, George S, Craig S, Neutze J, Williams A, Acworth J, McCay H, Wallace A, Mattes J, Gangathimn V, Wildman M, Fraser JF, Moloney S, Gavranich J, Waugh J, Hobbins S, Fahy R, Grew S, Gannon B, Gibbons K, Dalziel S, Schibler A; PARIS and PREDICT. Multicentre, randomised trial to investigate early nasal high-flow therapy in paediatric acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial-a Paediatric Acute respiratory Intervention Study (PARIS 2). Franklin D, Shellshear D, BMJ Open. 2019 Dec 18;9(12): e030516.
  37. Coman J, Kelly AM, Savulescu J, Craig S. Skeletons in the closet: towards the dignified disposal of all human bones acquired for medical education. BMJ. 2019 Dec 18;367:l6705.
  38. O’Brien S, Craig S, Babl FE, Borland ML, Oakley E, Dalziel SR; Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) Network, Australasia. Rational use of high-flow oxygen in infants with bronchiolitis. What do the latest trials tell us? A PREDICT perspective. J Paediatr Child Health. 2019 Jul; 55(7):746-752. Doi: 10.1111/jpc.14496
  39. Chan E, Hovenden M, Ramage E, Ling N, Pham JH, Rahim A, Lam C, Liu L, Foster S, Sambell R, Jeyachanthiran K, Crock C, Stock A, Hopper SM, Cohen S, Davidson A, Plummer K, Mills E, Craig SS, Deng G, Leong P. Virtual Reality for Pediatric Needle Procedural Pain: Two Randomized Clinical Trials. J Pediatr. 2019 Apr 13. pii: S0022-3476(19)30266-5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2019.02.034.
  40. Dalziel SR, Borland ML, Furyk J, Bonisch M, Neutze J, Donath S, Francis KL, Sharpe C, Harvey AS, Davidson A, Craig S, Phillips N, George S, Rao A, Cheng N, Zhang M, Kochar A, Brabyn C, Oakley E, Babl FE; PREDICT research network. Levetiracetam versus phenytoin for second-line treatment of convulsive status epilepticus in children (ConSEPT): an open-label, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2019 May 25; 393(10186):2135-2145.
  41. Long E, Craig S, Babl FE, Tavender E, Lunny, C. Review article: A primer for clinical researchers in the emergency department. Part IX. How to conduct a systematic review in the field of emergency medicine. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Apr 15. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13298.
  42. Kelly AM, Van Meer O, Keijzers G, Motiejunaite J, Jones P, Body R, Craig S, Karamercan M, Klim S, Harjola VP, Franck V, Holdgate A, Christ M, Golea A, Graham CA, Capsec J, Barletta C, Garcia-Castrillo L, Kuan WS, Laribi S; AANZDEM and EuroDEM study groups. Get With The Guidelines - Management Of COPD In EDs In Europe And Australasia is sub-optimal. Intern Med J. 2019 Apr 15. doi: 10.1111/imj.14323.
  43. Lee WH, OʼBrien S, Skarin D, Cheek JA, Deitch J, Nataraja R, Craig S, Borland ML; PREDICT. Pediatric Abdominal Pain in Children Presenting to the Emergency Department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2019 Mar 12. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001789
  44. Lee WH, O'Brien S, Skarin D, Cheek JA, Deitch J, Nataraja R, Craig S, Borland ML; PREDICT. Accuracy of clinician gestalt in diagnosing appendicitis in children presenting to the emergency department. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Aug;31(4):612-618.
  45. Fernandez M, Craig S. Appropriateness of adult plain abdominal radiograph requesting in a regional Emergency Department. J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2019 Jan 10. doi: 10.1111/1754-9485.12847
  46. Craig SS, Auerbach M, Cheek JA, Babl FE, Oakley E, Nguyen L, Rao A, Dalton S, Lyttle MD, Mintegi S, Nagler J, Mistry RD, Dixon A, Rino P, Kohn-Loncarica G, Dalziel SR; Pediatric Emergency Research Networks (PERN). Preferred learning modalities and practice for critical skills: a global survey of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians. Emerg Med J. 2019 May;36(5):273-280.
  47. Gray SCS, Powell CE, Babl FE, Dalziel SR, Craig S, PREDICT research network. Variability of outcome measures in trials of intravenous therapy in acute severe paediatric asthma: a systematic review. Emergency Medicine Journal 2019; 36:225-230.
  48. Iacovou M, Craig SS, Yelland GW, Barrett JS, Gibson PR, Muir JG. Randomised clinical trial: reducing the intake of dietary FODMAPs of breastfeeding mothers is associated with a greater improvement of the symptoms of infantile colic than for a typical diet. Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2018 Nov;48(10):1061-1073
  49. Pouryahya P, Meyer AD. McR, Koo MPM. Prevalence and utility of point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency department: A prospective observational study. Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 27 June 2019. doi 10.1002/ajum.12172
  50. Cameron J, Murphy BM, Kuhn L. Improving the uptake of cardiac rehabilitation for women: time for a gender-based review. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. European J Cardiovascular Nursing, 2019;18(5):344-345
  51. Lam T, Kuhn L, Hayman J, Middleton M, Wilson J, Scott D, Lubman DI, Smith K, Nielsen S. Recent trends in heroin and pharmaceutical opioid-related harms in Victoria, Australia up to 2018. Addiction. 2019 Aug 29. doi: 10.1111/add.14784.
  52. Cormack CJ, Wald AM, Coombs PR, Kallos L, Blecher GE. Time to establish pillars in point‐of‐care ultrasound. Australasian Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine., 2019, 22, 12-14.
  53. See SY, Blecher GE, Craig SS, Egerton-Warburton D. Expectations and experiences of women presenting to emergency departments with early pregnancy bleeding. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Dec 1. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13403
  54. Hsiao KH, Egerton-Warburton D. An example of public health training in emergency medicine. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Jun;31(3):487-490.
  55. Egerton-Warburton D, Maclean P, Cullen L. Letter by Egerton-Warburton et al Regarding Article, "Duration of Electrocardiographic Monitoring of Emergency Department Patients With Syncope". Circulation. 2019 Sep 17;140(12): e654.
  56. Lingamanaicker K, Geelhoed E, Fatovich DM; Alcohol Harm in Emergency Departments (AHED) Investigators. Direct cost of alcohol-related presentations to Royal Perth Hospital emergency department. Emerg Med Australas. 2019 Dec;31(6):1045-1052.
  57. Bonomo Y, Norman A, Biondo S, Bruno R, Daglish M, Dawe S, Egerton-Warburton D, Karro J, Kim C, Lenton S, Lubman DI, Pastor A, Rundle J, Ryan J, Gordon P, Sharry P, Nutt D, Castle D. The Australian drug harms ranking study. J Psychopharmacol. 2019 Jul;33(7):759-768.
  58. Wong A, Heard K, Graudins A, Dart R, Sivilotti MLA. Paracetamol protein adducts following overdose treated with an abbreviated 12-hour versus 20-hour acetylcysteine infusion. Journal Med Tox 2020. Accepted. In print.
  59. Rotella JA, Wong O, Graudins A, Wong A. Overdose of Pong Pong (cerbera odellam) seeds bought over the internet. Emerg Med Aust 2020. Accepted.