3D-printed procedural task trainer for the aspiration of penile corpus cavernosa in ischaemic priapism.

Objective: The development and initial clinical assessment of a novel 3D-printed procedural task trainer for the aspiration of penile corpus cavernosa in ischaemic priapism.

Methods: A task trainer for the aspiration of penile corpus cavernosa was designed and manufactured using commercially available 3D printing equipment. The trainer was assessed in two separate training sessions led by faculty investigators.

Prevalence of advance care directives in aged care facilities of the Northern Illawarra.

Objective: To assess the prevalence of advance care directives in the residential aged care facilities within the catchment for a single ED and to assess the systems in place for development of those advance care directives with focus on documentation and communication.

Methods: A de-identified, paper-based, mail-out survey of all 30 residential aged care facilities potentially referring to the Wollongong Hospital ED.

Results: A total of 24 of 30 surveys were returned.

Primary care presentations at emergency departments: rates and reasons by age and sex.

Primary care presentations at emergency departments (EDs) have been the subject of much attention in recent years. This paper is a demographic analysis using administrative data from the Emergency Department Information System (EDIS) for 2005 of such presentations in New South Wales EDs and of self-reported reasons for presentation. Age and sex differences in the reasons given by patients for such presentations are analysed using data from a survey of patients conducted in a subset of EDs in 2004.

Why patients attend emergency departments for conditions potentially appropriate for primary care: reasons given by patients and clinicians differ.

Objectives: To compare reasons identified by clinical staff for potential primary care attendances to the ED with those previously identified by patients.

Methods: Survey of staff and primary care patients in five ED in New South Wales, Australia using questionnaire based on reasons identified in published studies.

Results: Clinicians in the survey identify a broader spectrum of reasons for potential primary care cases presenting to the ED than the patients themselves report.

Primary care patients in the emergency department: who are they? A review of the definition of the 'primary care patient' in the emergency department.

Objective: To review the definition of 'primary care' and 'inappropriate' patients in ED and develop a generally acceptable working definition of a 'primary care' presentation in ED.

Method: A Medline review of articles on primary care in ED and the definitions used.

Results: A total of 34 reviewed papers contained a proposed definition or comment on the definition for potential 'primary care', 'general practice', or 'inappropriate' patients in ED.