Transitioning to high-sensitivity troponin: 1-year mortality outcomes in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome presenting to emergency departments.

Background: Switching from a conventional to a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assay enables detection of smaller amounts of myocardial damage, but the clinical benefit is unclear. We investigated whether switching to a hs-cTnI assay with a sex-specific 99th centile diagnostic threshold was associated with lower 1-year death or new myocardial infarction (MI) in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Methods: This pre-post study included nine tertiary hospitals in Australia.

Prevalence of alcohol exposure in burns related injuries.

The aim of this registry-based cohort study was to quantify the prevalence, injury characteristics, and outcomes of alcohol exposure in burn-related injuries. All patients ≥ 18 years presenting to The Alfred Emergency & Trauma Centre, a major trauma centre in Victoria, Australia between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2022 and included in the Victorian Adult Burns Service registry were included. An explicit chart review was performed to verify retrieved data with alcohol exposure coded when documented in medical records, laboratory evidence of a blood alcohol concentration > 2mmol/L, or recorded in discharge ICD-10-AM codes.

Rate and yield of imaging for acute pyelonephritis in the emergency department: A retrospective cohort study.

Objectives: The role of imaging in acute pyelonephritis (APN) in the ED is poorly understood, with variability among clinical guidelines for when patients should be imaged, and the modality of imaging. The objective of this study was to identify the proportion of patients with APN being imaged, the proportion abnormal findings, and the association between abnormal imaging and discharge disposition.

Methods: A single-centre retrospective review of patients with a discharge diagnosis of APN at an adult tertiary referral hospital over a 5-year period (2018-2022) was conducted.

Research outputs after the Coursework Pathway.

Objectives: The aim of the present study was to quantify research outputs after completing a Coursework Pathway (CP).

Methods: Emergency medicine trainees who completed a CP during 2012-2022 were included. Research outputs were identified using Medline, EMBASE, Pubmed and Google Scholar.

Scope 2 estimates of carbon dioxide emissions from electricity consumption at the US census block group scale.

This paper introduces and describes a dataset representing United States carbon dioxide (CO) emissions from electricity consumption (scope 2 CO emissions) for the 2019-2021 time period separately for the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. The spatial resolution is the U.S.