Publications by authors named "D P Sklar"
During the COVID-19 pandemic, resident unions proliferated. While unionization resulted in increased compensation and benefits, the process of union negotiations may have created adversarial relationships between residents and their institutions' leadership, who residents depend on for supervision and the development of clinical expertise. Such adversarial relationships could affect the learning environment, which is critical to the delivery of high-quality care.
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- The increasing incidence of heat stroke due to climate change necessitates urgent strategies to combat weather-related health issues and prevent severe outcomes like organ failure.
- The text focuses on a new protocol for cold-water immersion in emergency departments, aimed at quickly lowering core body temperatures in patients with heat stroke, particularly those with altered mental states and temperatures over 40 °C.
- It highlights the implementation of this protocol during the summer of 2023, detailing its effectiveness, challenges faced, and the need for collaboration, education, and infrastructure improvements in emergency care.
Introduction: The United States lacks a national interfacility patient transfer coordination system. During the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, many hospitals were overwhelmed and faced difficulties transferring sick patients, leading some states and cities to form transfer centers intended to assist sending facilities. In this study we aimed to explore clinician experiences with newly implemented transfer coordination centers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO) is a life-threatening condition. We aimed to quantify the impact of bystander FBAO interventions on survival and neurological outcomes.
Methods: We conducted a Japan-wide prospective, multi-center, observational study including all FBAO patients who presented to the Emergency Department from April 2020 to March 2023.