2020 MERC publications

  1. Clifford J Connell Ruth Endacott Simon Cooper. The prevalence and management of deteriorating patients in an Australian emergency department. Australasian Emergency Care 2020. doi:10.1016/j.auec.2020.07.008
  2. Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Clifford J. Connell, Susan Lee, Virginia Plummer, Philip L. Russo, Ruth Endacott, Lisa Kuhn. Nurse Expertise: A Critical Resource in the COVID‐19 Pandemic Response. Annals of Global Health, 86(1). doi:10.5334/aogh.2898
  3. Pheonavan Huizena, Lisa Kuhn, Philip L.Russo, Clifford J.Connell. The nurses’ role in antimicrobial stewardship: A scoping review. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2020, 103772. doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103772
  4. Pourya Pouryahya, Natalie Guiney, Alastair Meyer, Neil Goldie. Evaluating the Implementation and outcomes of a Sepsis Pathway in the Emergency department. NZMJ 12 May 2020, 134, No 1513 (38-43).
  5. Caleb Loo, Pourya Pouryahya. Appendicitis but Not Appendicitis; Utility of ultrasound in management of children with suspected appendicitis. Journal of Universal Surgery and Emergency Medicine -105. DOI: 10.46715/2020.07.1000105
  6. Mark Lewis, Pourya Pouryahya. When the Simplest Solution is not the Right one: A Case of a Blunt Occam’s Razor. Journal of Universal Surgery and Emergency Medicine -106. DOI: 10.46715/2020.07.1000106
  7. Pourya Pouryahya, Alastair Meyer, Jia Cheng Tan. Accuracy of Emergency Physicians in Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Dissection; a Retrospective Study Examining the Incidence and Outcome of Patients with TAD. Journal of Universal Surgery and Emergency Medicine -107. DOI: 10.46715/2020.07.1000107
  8. Pourya Pouryahya, Andy Lim. Risk factors for Occupational Violence and Aggression in the Emergency Department. Med Emergency, Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
  9. Pourya Pouryahya, E Leong, Andy Lim, Alastair Meyer. Hi, is it me you’re looking for? Med Emergency, Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
  10. G Ramakrishnan, Pourya Pouryahya. Torsion but not torsion! An uncommon case report. Med Emergency, Mediterranean Journal of Emergency Medicine 2020
  11. Pourya Pouryahya, S Sherington, Alastair Meyer, Andy Lim. Consolidated survey results for phase I and phase II of the Occupational Violence and Aggression in the Emergency Department investigation. 2020 https://doi.org/10.26180/5e79a4dbec8dd.
  12. Andy Lim, Pourya Pouryahya, Alvin Lim. Tubo-ovarian Abscess Masquerading as Dual tumors; OSP J Case Rep 2: JCR-2-111
  13. Katie Walker, Shijie Ian Tan, Daniel Fatovich, Gina Watkins, Melanie Stephenson, Joseph Ting, Richard Whittome, Wei Wang, Jonathan Knott, ACEM Clinical Trials NetworkResearch capacity of Australian and New Zealand emergency medicine departments. Int J Emerg Med. Apr 15 2020;13(1):16. doi:10.1186/s12245-020-00275-z
  14. Katie Walker, M Stephenson, J Hutton, et al. Displaying emergency patient estimated wait times: a multi-centre, qualitative study of patient, community, paramedic and health administrator perspectives. Pre-print. medRvix. 08/11/2020 2020;doi:10.1101/2020.08.11.20173153
  15. Andy Lim, Namankit Gupta, Alvin Lim, Wei Hong, Katie Walker. Description of the effect of patient flow, junior doctor supervision and pandemic preparation on the ability of emergency physicians to provide direct patient care. Australian Health Review. 2020; https://doi.org/10.1071/AH20180
  16. Christine Jackman 1 2 3, Rohan Laging 1 4, Bridget Laging 5, Bridget Honan, Glenn Arendts 6 7, Katie Walker . Older person with vague symptoms in the emergency department: Where should I begin? Emergency medicine Australasia: EMA. Feb 2020;32(1):141-147. doi:10.1111/1742-6723.13433
  17. Fatemeh Heydari, Malikeh P. Ebrahim, Jean‐Michel Redoute, Keith Joe, Katie Walker, Alberto Avolio, Mehmet R. Yuce. Clinical study of a chest-based cuffless blood pressure monitoring system. Medical Devices and Sensors. 21/04/2020 2020;doi:10.1002/mds3.10091
  18. Andy Lim, Shaloo Singhal, Philippa Lavallee, Pierre Amarenco, Peter M. Rothwell, Gregory Albers, Mukul Sharma, Robert Brown Jr, Annemarei Ranta, Mohana Maddula, Timothy Kleinig, Jesse Dawson, Mitchell S.V. Elkind, Maria Guarino, Shelagh B. Coutts, Benjamin Clissold, Henry Ma, Thanh Phan. An International Report on the Adaptations of Rapid Transient Ischaemic Attack Pathways During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2020, 29, 105228
  19. Anselm Wong, Geoff Isbister, Richard McNulty, Katherine Isoardi, Keith Harris , Angela Chiew , Shaun Greene , Naren Gunja , Nicholas Buckley , Colin Page , Andis Graudins. Efficacy of a two bag acetylcysteine regimen to treat paracetamol overdose (2NAC study). EClinicalMedicin. 2020 Mar 19; 20:100288.
  20. Jonathan Knott , Marie Gerdtz, Sheriden Dobson, Catherine Daniel, Andis Graudins, Biswadev Mitra, Bruce Bartley, Pauline Chapman. Restrictive interventions in Victorian emergency departments: A study of current clinical practice. Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Jun; 32(3):393-400.
  21. Anselm Wong, Kennon Heard, Andis Graudins, Richard Dart, Marco LA Sivilotti. Adducts Post Acetaminophen Overdose Treated with a 12-Hour vs 20-Hour Acetylcysteine Infusion. J Med Toxicol. 2020 Apr; 16(2):188-194.
  22. Simon Craig, Franz E Babl, Stuart R Dalziel, Charmaine Gray, Colin Powell, Khalid Al Ansari, Mark D Lyttle, Damian Roland, Javier Benito, Roberto Velasco. Acute severe paediatric asthma: study protocol for the development of a core outcome set, a Pediatric Emergency Reserarch Networks (PERN) study. Trials. 2020 Jan 13; 21(1):72.
  23. Joe Rotella, Wong Anthony, Wong Ophelia, Anselm Y Anselm, Andis Graudins. Overdose of pong pong (Cerbera odollam) seeds bought over the Internet. Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Apr; 32(2):358-360.
  24. Anselm Wong, Mark Yarema, Geoffrey K Isbister, Marco LA Sivilotti, Richard McNulty, Angela Chiew, Katherine Isoardi, Keith Harris, Colin Page, Shaun L Greene. Comparison of adverse reactions to a 2 vs 3 bag IV acetylcysteine regimen during treatment of paracetamol overdose. Clinical Toxicology, 2020, 58 (6), 626-627.
  25. Joe-Anthony Rotella, Shaun L Greene, Zeff Koutsogiannis, Andis Graudins, Yit Leang Hung, Kelvin Kuan, Helen Baxter, Elyssia Bourke, Anselm Wong. Treatment for beta-blocker poisoning: a systematic review. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2020 Apr 20;1-41.
  26. Madeleine M Jona,  Andis Graudins. Lurasidone mono-ingestion overdoses: a case series with minimal toxicity. Clinical Toxicology, 2020, 58 (6), 626-627.
  27. Siba J Sulaeman, Andis Graudins. An uncommon cause of high-anion gap metabolic acidosis after repeated supratherapeutic paracetamol ingestion. Clinical Toxicology, 2020, 58 (6), 633-634.
  28. Roberts Stasinskis,  Viesturs Liguts, Andis Graudins. Experience with mushroom poisoning in a tertiary-care hospital in Latvia: incidence, clinical features and management. Clinical Toxicology, 2020, 58 (6), 541-542
  29. Anselm Wong, Kennon Heard, Andis Graudins, Richard Dart, Marco L A Sivilotti. Paracetamol protein adducts following overdose treated with an abbreviated 12-hour versus 20-hour acetylcysteine infusion. Journal Med Tox 2020. 16(2):188-194.
  30. Angela L Chiew, David Reith, Adam Pomerleau, Anselm Wong, Katherine Z Isoardi, Jessamine Soderstrom, Nicholas A Buckley. Updated guidelines for the management of paracetamol poisoning in Australia and New Zealand — explanation and elaboration, MJA 2020. 212(4):175-183.
  31. Kathryn T Kopec, Rais Vohra, Cynthia Santos, Ziad Kazzi, Anselm Wong. The Global Educational Toxicology toolKIT (GETKIT): A One Day Course for Teaching Poisoning Essentials in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC): Course Development and Pilot Data Analysis. Journal Med Tox 16(3), 255-261.
  32. Yu Kwan Li, Ka Fung Lam, Cheung Lun William Wong, Anselm Wong. In vitro study of pharmacobezoar formation in simulated acetaminophen overdose. Clin Tox 2020, 58(9), 900-906.
  33. Niloofar Rashidipour, Somayyeh Karami-Mohajeri, Ali Mandegary, Reza Mohammadinejad, Anselm Wong, Melika Mohit, Jafar Salehi, Milad Ashrafizadeh, Amir Najafi, Ardavan Abiri. Where Ferroptosis Inhibitors and Paraquat Detoxification Mechanisms Intersect, Exploring Possible Treatment Strategies in Toxicology. Toxicology 30; 433-434:152407.
  34. Anselm Wong.COVID-19 and toxicity from potential treatments: panacea or poison. Emerg Med Australas 2020 Aug; 32(4):697-699.
  35. Anselm Wong, Andis Graudins. Efficacy of sustained low efficiency dialysis (SLED) in the management of sodium valproate overdose. Int Med J 2020.
  36. Michael Chan, Anselm Wong. Management and Monitoring of Large Enoxaparin Overdose treated with Protamine. Emerg Med Australas 2020 Aug; 32(4):712-713.
  37. F Geshlaghi, Anselm Wong. Massive citalopram overdose associated with recurrent seizures and bilateral shoulder dislocations. J Res Pharm Prac 2020.
  38. Anselm Wong, Rais Vohra, Kathy Kopec, Nicholas Brooke, Andrew Stolbach. The Importance of Continuing Medical Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the Global Educational Toxicology Uniting Project (GETUP). J Med Tox 2020, 16, 340–341.
  39. Mohamed Umar, Morey Sarah, Gerastamoulos Dimitri, Anselm Wong. Massive gamma hydroxybutyrate overdose resulting in severe metabolic acidosis requiring continuous venovenous haemidiafiltration. Emerg Med Australas 2020 Aug 6. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13599.
  40. Anselm Wong. Comment on “Truncated IV acetylcysteine treatment duration has potential to safely preserve resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Clin Tox 2020.
  41. Kasia Bail, Rachel Davey, Marian Currie, Jo Gibson, Eamon Merrick, Bernice Redley. Implementation pilot of a novel electronic bedside nursing chart: a mixed-method case study. Australian Health Review.  https://www.publish.csiro.au/AH/justaccepted/AH18231
  42. Bernice Redley, Tracy Douglas, Mari Botti. Methods used to examine technology in relation to the quality of nursing work in acute care: A systematic integrative review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2020, 29(9-10), 1477-1487.
  43. Darcy T O'Connor, Helen Rawson, Bernice Redley. Nurse-to-nurse communication about multidisciplinary care delivered in the emergency department: An observation study of nurse-to-nurse handover to transfer patient care to general medical wards. Australasian Emergency Care, 2020, 23(1), 37-46.
  44. Kasia Baila, Eamon Merrick, Bernice Redley, Jo Gibson, Rachel Davey, Marian Currie.  “Blind leading the blind”: Qualitative evaluation of unanticipated difficulties during nurse testing of a hospital health information system. Collegian, 2020, 27(1), 82-88.
  45. Anthony Cignarella, Bernice Redley, Tracey Bucknall. Organ donation within the Intensive Care Unit: A retrospective audit. Australian Critical Care, 2020, 33(2), 167-174.
  46. Bernice Redley, Don Campbell, Keith Stockman, Sara Barnes. A mixed methods quality evaluation of structured interdisciplinary medical ward rounds. Internal Medicine Journal, 2020, 50(1); 221-231.
  47. Hui-Ling Lee, Chin-Yen Han, Bernice Redley, Chun-Chih Lin, Mei-Ying Lee, Wen Chang. Workplace Violence Against Emergency Nurses in Taiwan: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 2020, 46(1,) 66-71.
  48. Muna Alharbi, Lisa Kuhn, Julia Morphet. Undergraduate nursing students’ adoption of the professional identity of nursing through social media use: A qualitative descriptive study. Nurse Education Today, 2020 Jun 1;92:104488
  49. Jill Beattie, Kelli Innes, Debra Griffiths, Julia Morphet. Workplace violence: Examination of the tensions between duty of care, worker safety and zero tolerance. Health Care Management Review, 2020, 45(3):E13-E22.
  50. Clifford J. Connell, Virginia Plummer, Pieternella Foley, Debra L. Griffiths, Kelli Innes, Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Lorraine E. Walker, Julia Morphet. Future directions for acute care nursing research: A Delphi study. Journal of Clinical Nursing 2020 doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15284
  51. Corinne Davis, Olivia A King, Allie Clemans, Jan Coles, Paul E S Crampton, Nicky Jacobs, Tui McKeown, Julia Morphet, Kate Seear, Charlotte E Rees. Student dignity during work integrated learning: A qualitative study exploring student and workplace supervisors’ perspectives. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2020, 25(1), 149-172.
  52. Auxillia Madhuvu, Ruth Endacott, Virginia Plummer, Julia Morphet.  Nurses’ knowledge, experience and self-reported adherence to evidence-based guidelines for prevention of ventilator‐associated events: A national online survey. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing 2020 Aug, 59:102827.
  53. Abra R.H.Osborne, Clifford Connell, Julia Morphet. Investigating emergency nurses’ attitudes, perceptions and experiences with patient handling in the emergency department. Australasian Emergency Care. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.auec.2020.07.005
  54. Julia Morphet, et al. Go8 Roadmap to Recovery, Australia’s Optimal Approach for Building and Supporting a Health System within the “Roadmap to Recovery” In Kapur, S. & Thomson, V. COVID-19 Roadmap to Recovery A Report for the Nation
    https://huntlab.science.unimelb.edu.au/home/research/
  55. Tina Lam, Lisa Kuhn, Jane Hayman, Melissa Middleton, James Wilson, Debbie Scott, Dan I Lubman, Karen Smith, Suzanne Nielsen. Recent trends in heroin and pharmaceutical opioid-related harms in Victoria, Australia up to 2018. Addiction, 2020 Feb; 115(2):261-269.
  56. Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, Clifford J Connell, Susan Lee, Virginia Plummer, Philip L Russo, Ruth Endacott, Lisa Kuhn. Nurse Expertise: A Critical Resource in the COVID-19 Pandemic Response. Ann Glob Health 2020 May 11; 86(1):49.
  57. Lisa Kuhn, Zheng J Lim, Daphne Flynn, Eden Potter, Diana Egerton-Warburton. Safety briefing and visual design key to protecting health care personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic. American J Infection Control, 2020. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.06.186
  58. Simon G A Brown, Emma L Ball, Kyle Perrin, Stephen E Asha, Irene Braithwaite, Diana Egerton-Warburton, Peter G Jones, Gerben Keijzers, Frances B Kinnear, Ben C H Kwan, K V Lam, Y C Gary Lee, Mike Nowitz, Catherine A Read, Graham Simpson, Julian A Smith, Quentin A Summers, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley, PSP Investigators. Conservative versus Interventional Treatment for Spontaneous Pneumothorax. N Engl J Med 2020 Jan 30; 382(5):405-415.
  59. Franz E. Babl, Amit Kochar, Michael Osborn, Meredith L. Borland, Adam West, Amanda Williams, Stuart R. Dalziel, on behalf of the PREDICT network. Risk of Leukemia in Children With Peripheral Facial Palsy. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2020.
  60. Catherine L Wilson, Emma J Tavender, Natalie Phillips, Stephen Hearps, Kelly Foster, Sharon O'Brien, Meredith Borland, Gina O Watkins, Lorna McLeod, Mark Putland, Stephen Priestley, Christine Brabyn, Dustin W Ballard, Simon Craig, Stuart Dalziel, Ed Oakley, Franz E Babl. Paediatric Research in Emergency Department's International Collaborative. Variation in CT use for paediatric head injuries across different types of emergency departments in Australia and New Zealand.  Emergency Medicine Journal 2020 Aug 17;emermed-2020-209719
  61. Simon S Craig, Stuart R Dalziel, Colin Ve Powell, Andis Graudins, Franz E Babl, Carole Lunny. Interventions for escalation of therapy for acute exacerbations of asthma in children: an overview of Cochrane Reviews. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2020 Aug 5;8:CD012977.
  62. Geoffroy Rousseau, Gerben Keijzers, Oene van Meer, Simon Craig, Mehmet Karamercan, Sharon Klim, Richard Body, Win Sen Kuan, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Peter Jones, Franck Verschuren, Anna Holdgate, Michael Christ, Adela Golea, Jean Capsec, Cinzia Barletta, Colin A Graham, Luis Garcia-Castrillo, Said Laribi, Anne-Maree Kelly. Epidemiology, treatment and outcome of patients with lower respiratory tract infection presenting to emergency departments with dyspnoea (AANZDEM and EuroDEM studies). Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Aug 3. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13567.
  63. Simon Craig, Mya Cubitt, Ashish Jaison, Steven Troupakis, Natalie Hood, Christina Fong, Adnan Bilgrami, Peter Leman, Juan Carlos Ascencio-Lane, Guruprasad Nagaraj, John Bonning, Gabriel Blecher, Rob Mitchell, Ellen Burkett, Sally M McCarthy, Amanda M Rojek, Kim Hansen, Helen Psihogios, Peter Allely, Simon Judkins, Lai Heng Foong, Stephen Bernard, Peter A Cameron. Management of adult cardiac arrest in the COVID-19 era: consensus statement from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Med J Aust. 2020 Jul 12. doi: 10.5694/mja2.50699.
  64. Simon S Craig, Marc Auerbach, John A Cheek, Franz E Babl, Ed Oakley, Lucia Nguyen, Arjun Rao, Sarah Dalton, Mark D Lyttle, Santiago Mintegi, Joshua Nagler, Rakesh D Mistry, Andrew Dixon, Pedro Rino, Guillermo Kohn Loncarica, Stuart R Dalziel, Pediatric Emergency Research Networks. Exposure and Confidence With Critical Nonairway Procedures: A Global Survey of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physicians. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020 May 19. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000002092.
  65. Vijay S Gc, Donna Franklin, Jennifer A Whitty, Stuart R Dalziel, Franz E Babl, Luregn J Schlapbach, John F Fraser, Simon Craig, Jocelyn Neutze, Ed Oakley, Andreas Schibler. First-line oxygen therapy with high-flow in bronchiolitis is not cost saving for the health service. Arch Dis Child. 2020 Apr 10. pii: archdischild-2019-318427. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2019-318427
  66. Janet C Long, Sarah Dalton, Gaston Arnolda, Hsuen P Ting, Charlotte J Molloy, Peter D Hibbert, Louise K Wiles, Simon Craig, Meagan Warwick, Kate Churruca, Louise A Ellis, Jeffrey Braithwaite, CareTrack Kids investigative team. Guideline adherence in the management of head injury in Australian children: A population-based sample survey. PLoS One, 2020 15(2):e0228715.
  67. Franz E Babl, Donna Franklin, Luregn J Schlapbach, Ed Oakley, Stuart Dalziel, Jennifer A Whitty, Jocelyn Neutze, Jeremy Furyk, Simon Craig, John F Fraser, Mark Jones, Andreas Schibler. Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative and Pediatric Critical Care Research Group Enteral hydration in high-flow therapy for infants with bronchiolitis: Secondary analysis of a randomised trial. J Paediatr Child Health, 2020 Jun; 56(6):950-955.
  68. Rohan Borschmann, Simon Craig, Harriet Hiscock. Reducing suicide after hospital-treated self-harm in young people. Child Adolesc Health 2020 Feb; 4(2):92-93.
  69. Stephanie Yc See, Gabriel E Blecher , Simon S Craig, Diana Egerton-Warburton. Expectations and experiences of women presenting to emergency departments with early pregnancy bleeding. Emerg Med Australas 2020 Apr; 32(2):281-287
  70. William Birkett, Pourya Pouryahya , Alastair D McR Meyer. Bilateral vertebral artery dissection and cerebellar stroke: a rare complication of massage. N Z Med J 2020 Apr 3; 133(1512):88-92.
  71. Pourya Pouryahya, William Birkett, Alastair D McR Meyer, Stephen Louey , Miriam Belhadfa , Sapphire Ferdousi, Kimberly Imperial, Phi Nguyen, Amber Wang. Oxycodone prescribing in the emergency department during the opioid crisis. Emerg Med Australas. 2020 Jun 14. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13545.
  72. Gerben Keijzers, Stephen Pj Macdonald , Andrew A Udy , Glenn Arendts, Michael Bailey, Rinaldo Bellomo, Gabriel E Blecher, Jonathon Burcham, Andrew R Coggins, Anthony Delaney , Daniel M Fatovich , John F Fraser, Amanda Harley, Peter Jones, Frances B Kinnear , Katya May, Sandra Peake , David McD Taylor , Patricia Williams, the ARISE FLUIDS Observational Study Group. The Australasian Resuscitation In Sepsis Evaluation: Fluids or vasopressors in emergency department sepsis (ARISE FLUIDS), a multi-centre observational study describing current practice in Australia and New Zealand. Emerg Med Australas, 2020 Aug;32(4):586-598
  73. Pourya Pouryahya , Richard Haydon , Alastair Meyer , Naomi Easaw-Mamutil , Shawn Yan Zhi Tan, Glenn Hui Wen Teng. Utility of lumbar puncture after a normal brain computed tomography scan in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage: A new more rational approach? Emerg Med Australas 2020 Mar 20. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.13502