Publications by authors named "Jennifer A Oman"
Objective: The objective of this study is to assess if venous blood gas (VBG) results (pH and base excess [BE]) are numerically similar to arterial blood gas (ABG) in acutely ill trauma patients.
Methods: We prospectively correlated paired ABG and VBG results (pH and BE) in adult trauma patients when ABG was clinically indicated. A priori consensus threshold of clinical equivalence was set at ± less than 0.
To reassess problems with on-call physician coverage in California, we repeated our anonymous 2000 survey of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Physicians responded from 77.4% of California emergency departments (EDs), 51.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The purpose of the study was to determine the accuracy of adult weight estimates by emergency department personnel.
Basic Procedures: This was a prospective, nonrandomized, observational study in a university tertiary referral center. All patient care staff and all adult patients were eligible.
Introduction: Rapid retrieval of information, including drug treatment options, is critical to emergency department practice.
Objectives: To assess feasibility and patient acceptance of personal digital assistants and to determine the scope of management changes.
Methods: Emergency medicine residents (EMRs, n = 18) and emergency medicine attending (EMAs, n = 12) used personal digital assistants with drug database and clinical references.
Study Objective: We sought to describe the epidemiology of emergency department (ED) patients with blunt head injury undergoing cranial computed tomography (CT) scanning for the evaluation of possible traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Methods: Prospective, multicenter, observational study of ED patients undergoing cranial CT after blunt head injury. Patient's date of birth, sex, and race/ethnicity were documented before CT scanning.
Objective: To assess the ability of the NEXUS II head trauma decision instrument to identify patients with clinically important intracranial injury (ICI) from among children with blunt head trauma.
Methods: An analysis was conducted of the pediatric cohort involved in the derivation set of National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study II (NEXUS II), a prospective, observational, multicenter study of all patients who had blunt head trauma and underwent cranial computed tomography (CT) imaging at 1 of 21 emergency departments. We determined the test performance characteristics of the 8-variable NEXUS II decision instrument, derived from the entire NEXUS II cohort, in the pediatric cohort (0-18 years of age), as well as in the very young children (<3 years).
Objectives: To evaluate the frequency of peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) measurement and clinical re-evaluation in the management of ED asthmatic patients.
Methods: This was a retrospective chart review examining consecutive asthma patients who presented to the University of California Irvine ED between September 1, 2003 and December 31, 2003. Patients were excluded if they had a diagnosis of COPD, lung cancer, pneumonia, congestive heart failure, alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency or were under 5 years of age.
Study Objective: Many injuries detected by computed tomographic (CT) imaging of blunt head trauma patients are considered "therapeutically inconsequential." We estimate the prevalence of these findings and determine how frequently affected patients had "important neurosurgical outcomes," defined as either a directed intervention or a poor Glasgow Outcome Scale score.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled all blunt head trauma patients undergoing emergency head CT imaging at 18 centers participating in the National Emergency X-radiography Utilization Study II (NEXUS).