Risk Stratification With Coccidioidal Skin Test to Prevent Valley Fever Among Inmates, California, 2015.

Two California state prisons (A and B) have very high rates of coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever). The prison health care service sought to improve their prevention strategy by risk stratification with a newly available spherulin-based Coccidioides delayed-type hypersensitivity test. Of the 36,789 voluntarily screened inmates, 4.

Identification of barriers to adaptation of battlefield technologies into civilian trauma in California.

Objective: To characterize the adoption of routine battlefield medical techniques (tourniquets, hemostatic agents, and tactical combat casualty care into civilian prehospital trauma care and to identify the barriers to their use in the state of California through anonymous electronic survey of local emergency medical services agency (LEMSA) directors.

Results: The response rate for this survey was 50% (14/28). The majority of LEMSA directors (86%) were emergency medicine physicians.

Poisoning hospitalization correlates with poison center call frequency.

Introduction: Poison Control Centers (PCCs) have been shown to reduce health expenditures by reducing emergency department and clinic visits. The effect or association of PCC call frequency on acute hospitalization rates for poisonings has not been studied extensively.

Methods: All nonfederal hospital discharges for acute poisoning principal diagnosis codes (960-979, 980-989, 9956X, 3030, and 005) in California between October 1999 and June 2002 were examined.

Reversal of elevated international normalized ratios and bleeding with low-dose recombinant activated factor VII in patients receiving warfarin.

Study Objective: To assess the effectiveness of using low-dose recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) to reverse the effects of warfarin in critically ill patients with major bleeding events.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: Intensive care unit of a 500-bed university-affiliated hospital.

Regional variations in the use and awareness of the California Poison Control System.

Purpose: To investigate regional variations in public awareness and utilization of the services of Poison Control Centers (PCC) before and after an intervention.

Methods: This study examines call rates of different California regions based on the final five regional PCCs prior to the consolidation of these services under a single statewide California Poison Control System (CPCS) and interventions to increase utilization. Awareness surveys were performed before and after a media campaign that was directed primarily to the Los Angeles basin and to a lesser extent other high Hispanic concentration areas.