Lithium-ion battery related burns and emerging trends: a retrospective case series and data analysis of emergency presentations.

Introduction: The rising prevalence of battery powered devices is driving a steady increase in lithium-ion battery-related burns. We present a case series of patients with lithium-ion battery-related burns and describe the clinical characteristics of this cohort. To further understand emerging trends, we compare our specialty inpatient case series with emergency department (ED) data collated by the Queensland Injury Surveillance Unit (QISU).

Reinforcing informed medication prescription for low back pain in the emergency department (RIME): a controlled interrupted time series implementation study protocol.

Introduction: Management guidelines for low back pain (LBP) recommend exclusion of serious pathology, followed by simple analgesics, superficial heat therapy, early mobilisation and patient education. An audit in a large metropolitan hospital emergency department (ED) revealed high rates of non-recommended medication prescription for LBP (65% of patients prescribed opioids, 17% prescribed benzodiazepines), high inpatient admission rates (20% of ED LBP patients), delayed patient mobilisation (on average 6 hours) and inadequate patient education (48% of patients). This study aims to improve medication prescription for LBP in this ED by implementing an intervention shown previously to improve guideline-based management of LBP in other Australian EDs.

Characteristics and Effectiveness of Postoperative Rehabilitation Strategies in Ankle Fractures: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: To explore the characteristics and to report on the effectiveness of postoperative rehabilitation strategies for people with an ankle fracture.

Data Sources: PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Web of Science, and CINAHL were searched to identify studies published from January 2010 to November 2021.

Study Selection: Studies that described or evaluated postoperative rehabilitation strategies for surgically repaired ankle fractures were included.

A large scale evaluation of TBProfiler and Mykrobe for antibiotic resistance prediction in .

Recent years saw a growing interest in predicting antibiotic resistance from whole-genome sequencing data, with promising results obtained for and . In this work, we gathered 6,574 sequencing read datasets of public genomes with associated antibiotic resistance profiles for both first and second-line antibiotics. We performed a systematic evaluation of TBProfiler and Mykrobe, two widely recognized softwares allowing to predict resistance in .