10 results match your criteria: "University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center[Affiliation]"
West J Emerg Med
February 2023
International University of Health and Welfare, Department of Emergency Medicine, Narita, Chiba, Japan.
Introduction: Emergency physicians (EP) are suspected to have a high prevalence of insomnia and sleep-aid use. Most prior studies about sleep-aid use in EPs have been limited by low response rates. In this study our aim was to investigate the prevalence of insomnia and sleep-aid use among early-career Japanese EPs and assess the factors associated with insomnia and sleep-aid use.
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May 2023
Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Background: Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a common cause of acute dizziness. Medication use for its treatment remains common despite guideline recommendations against their use.
Objectives: The objective was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of vestibular suppressants in patients with BPPV compared to placebo, no treatment, or canalith repositioning maneuvers (CRMs).
J Emerg Med
December 2021
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.
J Clin Pathol
August 2022
Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Aims: While the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic may be contained through vaccination, transfusion of convalescent plasma (CCP) from individuals who recovered from COVID-19 (CCP) is considered an alternative treatment. We investigate if CCP transfusion in patients with severe respiratory failure increases plasma titres of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies and improves clinical outcomes.
Methods: Patients with COVID-19 (n=34) were consented for CCP transfusion and serial blood draws pretransfusion and post-transfusion.
World J Surg
October 2020
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.
Background: The burden of surgical disease in refugee and internally displaced person (IDP) populations has not been well defined. Populations fleeing conflict are mobile, limiting the effectiveness of traditional sampling methods. We employed novel sampling and survey techniques to conduct a population-based surgical needs assessment amongst IDPs in Kerenik, West Darfur, Sudan, over 4 weeks in 2008.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychiatry Res
July 2020
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Infection by the SARS-CoV2 virus leads to the COVID-19 disease which can be fatal, especially in older patients with medical co-morbidities. The impact to the US healthcare system has been disruptive, and the way healthcare services are provided has changed drastically.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrim Care Companion CNS Disord
December 2019
VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA.
Objective: To help clinicians recognize that hypertension, hypertensive urgency, and hypertensive emergency can arise in patients detoxifying from alcohol. Diagnostic and treatment implications are reviewed to help clinicians manage blood pressure in these situations.
Data Sources: PubMed was searched with no restrictions on publication date or study type in June 2019 using the terms (alcohol withdrawal) AND hypertension.
Cureus
January 2018
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Introduction: Many residents and fellows complete graduate medical education having received minimal unbiased financial planning guidance. This places them at risk of making ill-informed financial decisions, which may lead to significant harm to them and their families. Therefore, we sought to provide fellows with comprehensive unbiased financial education and empower them to make timely, constructive financial decisions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Nurs
September 2017
Jennifer L. Goldsborough is an NP at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Baltimore. Marianne Matzo is director of research for the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, Pittsburgh, PA. She is an AJN contributing editor and coordinates Perspectives on Palliative Nursing. Contact author: Marianne Matzo, The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise. The authors wish to acknowledge Angela Poppe Ries, Carolyn Ramos, and Jamie Kelly, members of the palliative care team at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, who contributed to reviews and edits of this article.
This series on palliative care is developed in collaboration with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA; http://hpna.advancingexpertcare.org).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neurosurg
July 2014
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, Maryland;
Unlabelled: OBJECT.: When patients present to the emergency department (ED) with acute headache concerning for subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and a lumbar puncture (LP) shows blood in the CSF, it is difficult to distinguish the results of a traumatic LP from those of SAH. CT angiography (CTA) is often performed, but the long-term outcome for patients with a positive LP and normal neurovascular imaging remains uncertain.
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