Aim: To quantify staff burnout and wellbeing in emergency departments (EDs) throughout New Zealand (NZ).
Methods: A national cross sectional electronic survey of New Zealand clinical and non-clinical ED staff was conducted between 9 March and 3 April 2020. Burnout and wellbeing were assessed using the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) and a variety of quantitative measures.
Introduction: Emergency department (ED) staff face daily exposure to the illness, injury, intoxication, violence and distress of others. Rates of clinician burnout are high and associated with poor patient outcomes. This study sought to measure the prevalence of burnout in ED personnel as well as determine the important facilitators of and barriers to workplace wellbeing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objective: We determine success rates of endotracheal intubation performed in emergency departments (EDs) by North American emergency medicine residents.
Methods: During 58 months, physicians performing intubations at 31 university-affiliated EDs in 3 nations completed a data form that was entered into the National Emergency Airway Registry 2 database. Included were all patients undergoing endotracheal intubation in the ED.
J Emerg Med
October 2005
This article describes a combination maneuver for the reduction of anterior glenohumeral dislocations. It maximizes the force counter to the patient's musculature by using downward motion, with the physician's body mass and gravity doing the work, and the base of the ED gurney providing countertraction. It couples this force with the benefit of a scapulothoracic manipulation maneuver, which rotates the glenoid fossa into a position more amenable to "reaccepting" the humeral head.
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