Publications by authors named "Amanda Kao"
Objectives: We sought to confirm retrospective studies that measured an approximately 20% reduction in emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) in early-gestation pregnant women who receive emergency physician-performed point-of-care ultrasound (US) examinations rather than radiology department-performed US examinations for evaluation of intrauterine pregnancy (IUP).
Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial was performed at an urban academic safety net hospital and 2 Naval medical centers in the United States. The allocation was concealed before enrollment.
Priapism is rarely related to use of non-erectile related medications. The objective was to educate about the multiple possible causes of priapism and to provide treatment recommendations for the different types of priapism. We present the case of a 43-year-old African American male with a history of schizoaffective disorder who presented to our emergency department multiple times over a three year period with priapism, each episode related to the ingestion of quetiapine.
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- The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of different bag-valve-mask ventilation techniques: 1-handed, 2-handed, and modified 2-handed methods.
- Conducted on 52 health care providers, the trial assessed their performance on a model and measured the expired tidal volume over 5 minutes for each technique, with a focus on achieving maximum ventilation.
- Results showed that both the 2-handed and modified 2-handed techniques produced significantly higher expired tidal volumes than the 1-handed technique, with no notable difference between the two 2-handed methods.