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ARS bo Re M ELSEVIER The Journal of Emergency Medicine VOLUME 25 INDEX Contents Volume 25, 2003 Volume 25, Number 2003 CONTENTS Original Contributions Richard L. Yukl ow Alt in Level in the Emergency Department: A Potential David Bar-Or nt Predictor of Delayed Mortality in Blunt Trauma Lisbeth Harris Howard Shapiro James V. Winkler M. Andrew Levitt nical gement of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Infection in a County Suzanne Johnson eaching Emergency Department—Concerns in Overtreatment, Linda Engelstad idertreatment, and Follow-up Treatment Success Robert Montana Susan Stewart Diana Pancu 13 valbuterol is ; fective as Racemic Albuterol in Lowering Serum Michelle LaFlamme otassium Elizabeth Evans James Reed Clinical Communications Michael D. Schwartz | ientamoeba fragilis Infection Presenting to the Emergency Department Michael E. Nelson is Acute Appendicitis David A. Wald 23 scular Manifestations of Thyroid Storm: A Case Report Allison Silver David K. Doostan Ay ebral and Coronary Air Embolism: An Intradepartmental Suicide Sandra L. Steffenson Eric R. Snoey Jacob W. Ufberg 3 pture ‘nal Artery Aneurysm: An Uncommon Cause of Acute Bryon McNeil Abdominal Pai Loice Swisher Lauren P. Daley 3 Presenting Features of Idiopathic Ketotic Hypoglycemia Kevin C. Osterhoudt Stuart A. Weinzimer Dawn Helms Otomastoiditis—Related Facial Nerve Palsy Raymond J. Roberge Michael Kovalick Clinical Communications: OB/GYN Mark A. Silverberg Axillary Breast Tissue Mistaken for Suppurative Hidradenitis: An Mohammed Z. Rahman Avoidable Error David A. Wald Postpartum Hemorrhage Resulting from Uterine Artery Pseudoaneurysm Selected Topics: Toxicology Lyle Thomas Delayed Recovery Associated with Persistent Serum Concentrations after P. Timothy Pollak Clozapine Overdose Selected Topics: Cardiology Commentary Richard A. Harrigan Electrocardiographic Manifestations: Bundle Branch Blocks and Mare L. Pollack Fascicular Blocks Theodore C. Chan Selected Topics: Emergency Radiology John L. Kendall Fluid-Filled Bowel Mimicking Hemoperitoneum: A False-Positive Finding Joseph P. Ramos During Sonographic Evaluation for Trauma Case Presentations of the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency Azita G. Hamedani Headache and Visual Change David F. M. Brown Eric S. Nadel Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine David Effron Acute Abdominal Pain in Pregnancy James Aiello Yu-Jang Su Chalk Bones and Pathological Fractures: Case Report and Review of the Wen-Kuang Chiang Literature Kuo-Song Chang Editorial William M. Green Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations in Evolution Edward A. Panacek Letters to the Editor Violence: Recognition, Management and Prevention Blaine V. Houmes Establishing a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) Program in the Melissa M. Fagan Emergency Department N. Marcela Quintana American Academy of Emergency Medicine Abstracts olume Contents Book and Other Media Reviews Kenneth V. Iserson 2 An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers: Communication and Culture, 2nd edition, by Chase RO and Medina de Chase CB. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003 Calendar of Events Instructions for Contributors Volume 25, Number 2 CONTENTS Clinical Communications Kushaljit Singh Sodhi 33. =Torsion of a Wandering Spleen: Acute Abdominal Presentation Kavita Saggar Bimal P. Sood Parambir Sandhu Todd V. Brennan Congenital Cleft Spleen with CT Scan Appearance of High-Grade Splenic Gerald S. Lipshutz Laceration After Blunt Abdominal Trauma Andrew M. Posselt Jan K. Horn Nina A. Gold 3 Methemoglobinemia Due to Ingestion of At Most Three Pills of Pyridium William G. Bithoney in a 2-Year-Old: Case Report and Review Mardi Steere Fever in Children Less Than 36 Months of Age—Questions and Ghazala Q. Sharieff Strategies for Management in the Emergency Department Phyllis H. Stenklyft Clinical Communications: OB/GYN Douglas S. Binder 5 Thirteen-Week Abdominal Pregnancy After Hysterectomy Selected Topics: Toxicology Kristin M. Engebretsen Cardiotoxicity and Late Onset Seizures with Citalopram Overdose Carson R. Harris James E. Wood Selected Topics: Prehospital Care David Jaslow 167 Primary Injury Prevention in an Urban EMS System Jacob Ufberg Rebecca Marsh E. Brooke Lerner The Time First-Response Fire Fighters Have to Initiate Care in a Midsize Anthony J. Billittier, IV City Ronald M. Moscati John E. Adolf The Journal of Emergency Medicine : bf Selected Topics: Aeromedical Emergencies Nathan I. Shapiro Isolated Prehospital Hypotension After Traumatic Injuries: A Predictor of Chris Kociszewski Mortality? Tim Harrison YuChiao Chang Suzanne K. Wedel Stephen H. Thomas Selected Topics: Emergency Radiology Paul-André C. Abboud Emergency Department Ultrasound for Hemothorax After Blunt Traumatic John Kendall Injury Pharmacology in Emergency Medicine Jeffrey R. Suchard Assessing Physostigmine’s Contraindication in Cyclic Antidepressant Ingestions Case Presentations of the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency Nathan Mick Pediatric Altered Mental Status David F. M. Brown Eric S. Nadel Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine Antonio E. Muiiz Vaginal Laceration Caused by a Wood Beetle Greg Christiansen Letters to the Editor International Emergency Medicine Elke Platz International Report: Current State and Development of Health Insurance Tareg Bey and Emergency Medicine in Germany. The Influence of Health Insurance Frank G. Walter Laws on the Practice of Emergency Medicine in a European Country Violence: Recognition, Management and Prevention Donald W. Alves Ambulance Snatching: How Vulnerable Are We? Richard A. Bissell Lisa D. Mills The Prevalence of Female-to-Male Intimate Partner Violence in an Urban Trevor J. Mills Emergency Department Ellen Taliaferro Andrea Zimbler Donald Smith Joe Suyama Injury Patterns Related to Use of Less-Lethal Weapons During a Period Peter D. Panagos of Civil Unrest Matthew D. Sztajnkrycer Denis J. FitzGerald Dawn Barnes Abstracts Book and Other Media Reviews Admission and Discharge Decisions in Emergency Medicine, by Frank LR and Jobe KA. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 2002 Calendar of Events Instructions for Contributors Volume 25, Number 3 2003 CONTENTS Original Contributions Dean A. Berman The GI Cocktail is No More Effective Than Plain Liquid Antacid: A Robert S. Porter Randomized, Double Blind Clinical Trial Mylissa Graber Emile Hay Rizatriptan RPD for Severe Migraine in the Emergency Department Joseph Rodrig Multicenter Study Amer Hussain Hashmonai Derazon Giorgio Kopelovitch Ella Dashkovsky Natalia Bokish Michael Kafka Irina Shtibelman Shoshana Nassimyan Alex G. Garza Effect of Paramedic Experience on Orotracheal Intubation Success Rates Matthew C. Gratton Darryl Coontz Elizabeth Noble O. John Ma Christopher Ho \ Seven-Year Experience in Expedition Medicine: The Juneau Icefield Guy Adema Research Program Daniel Davis Mark Stinson Clinical Communications Steve Ting-Yuan Yeh Nonaneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Secondary to Tuberculous Wei-Jing Lee Meningitis: Report of Two Cases Huey-Juan Lin Chin-Yu Chen Antonio Leo Te Hung-Jung Lin Antonio E. Muniz Lymphocytic Vasculitis Associated with the Anthrax Vaccine: Case Report and Review of Anthrax Vaccination Mark A. Hostetler Sudden Unexplained Hemolysis Occurring in an Infant Due to Presumed William Dribben Loxosceles Envenomation David B. Wilson William J. Grossman Selected Topics: Toxicology Robert S. Green 2 Effectiveness of Octreotide in a Case of Refractory Sulfonylurea-Induced Wes Palatnick Hypoglycemia Michael Y. Woo Artifactual Elevation of Lactate in Ethylene Glycol Poisoning Donald C. Greenway Steven P. Nadler Pierre Cardinal Jeffrey N. Love Introduction to the Series: “Are One or Two Dangerous in Toddlers?’ Orin Eddy 297 Are One or Two Dangerous? Clonidine and Topical Imidazolines John M. Howell Exposure in Toddlers Selected Topics: Cardiology Commentary Korin B. Hudson 303 ~— Electrocardiographic Manifestations: Ventricular Tachycardia William J. Brady Theodore C. Chan Marc Pollack Richard A. Harrigan Case Presentations of the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency Tracy Wimbush 31 ever and Rash David F. M. Brown Eric S. Nadel Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine Scott C. Sherman Massive Pneumocephalus After Minimal Head Trauma Faran Bokhari Letters to the Editor International Emergency Medicine Charles A. Perrott 32 Emergency Medicine in South Aft Ethics of Emergency Medicine Jon C. Olsen 32! Emergency Department Patient Perceptions of Privacy and Confidentiality Brad R. Sabin American Academy of Emergency Medicine Book and Other Media Reviews Edward J. Otten 34 titud Exploration of Human Adaptation, edited by Hornbein IF and Schoene RB. New York, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2001 R. Jason Thurman 346 = Thrombolytic Therapy for Stroke, edited by Lyden PD. Totowa, NJ Humana Press, 2001 Calendar of Events Instructions for Contributors Volume 25, Number CONTENTS gaiinnaail - Contartiridh y uttIiOnNneS Reid Hayward nfluen f Acute Resistance Exercise on Cardiac Biomarkers in Kathrine A. Hutcheson Carole M. Schneider Christopher Lai 3 hort-Tern . ter Initial Observation for Chest Pain Thomas P. Noeller Kristen Schmidt Peter King Charles L. Emerman J. Tobias Nagurney of Diagnostic ing in the Emergency Department for Patients David F. M. Brown sentil n-traumatic Abdominal Pain Yuchiao Chang Swati Sane Andrew C. Wang Justin B. Weiner Alan E. Jones nograp traperitonea ) Patients with Pelvic Fracture: Two Phillip E. Mason of Tra trape eal dder Rupture Vivek S. Tayal Michael A. Gibbs Jason E. Mattingly Inter lia me Aft xposure to Chlorpyrifos in a 16-Month-Old Janice EF. Sullivan Henry A. Spiller George M. Bosse Biilent Atas . FA ynd ing Familial Mediterranean Fever: Report of a Hiiseyin Caksen Stikrii Arslan Oguz Tuncer Ercan Kirimi Dursun Odabas inications: OB/GYN Joy Martin , e Postpar ampsia: A Common Presentation of an Uncommon Robert Sidman Selected Topics: Toxicology Kirk L. Cumpston Acute Airway Compromise After Brief Exposure to a Dieffenbachia Plant Stephen N. Vogel Jerrold B. Leikin limothy B. Erickson John Simic Acute Myocardial Infarction as a Complication of Clonidine Withdrawal Stephen Kishineff Richard Goldberg William Gifford Selected Topics: Prehospital Care Christopher B. Colwell Complaints Against an EMS System Peter T. Pons Randy Pi Selected Topics: Disaster Medicine Joseph Varon Critical [lIness at Mass Gatherings is Uncommon Robert E. Fromm, Jr. Katia Chanin Michael Filbin Kris Vutpakdi Selected Topics: Cardiology Commentary Robert N. Bilkovski Elevations of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Erik B. Kulstad series Howard S. Bush Combination Pharmacotherapy with Reduced-Dose Fibrinolytic and Platelet GP I[b/IIla Inhibition Pharmacology in Emergency Medicine Jeff C. Huffman The Use of Benzodiazepines in the Treatment of Chest Pain: A Review of Theodore A. Stern the Literature Case Presentations of the Harvard Emergency Medicine Residency David F. M. Brown An Unusual Cause of Acute Myocardial Infarction Theodore I. Benzer Eric S. Nadel Visual Diagnosis in Emergency Medicine Bobbie A. Schauer ervical Spine Distraction Peter E. Sokolove Christopher C. Lee -ar-Old Boy with a Swollen Knee: Unusual Cause of Knee Pain Uri Vainchenker Robert S. Crupi Karin R. Swartz Blossoming Traumatic Epidural Hematoma Dominic B. Fee Robert J. Dempsey Editorials Michael S. Kobernick Management of Chest Pain Patients Deborah B. Diercks : Risk and Chest Pain Evaluation: Inseparable? Edward A. Panacek J. Douglas Kirk 5 Use of Benzodiazepines for Chest Pain vy Indication for an Old Ezra A. Amsterdam Drug Vince Markovchick Critical Illness at Mass Gatherings Raymond J. Roberge Advanced Life Support Courses for Board-Certified Emergency James S. Cohen Physicians: Lowering the Standard of Care? Letters to the Editor Education R. Wayne Wolfram Retention of Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Course Concepts Cecilia M. Warren Cindy R. Doyle Robert Kerns Steven Frye American Academy of Emergency Medicine Joint Position Statement on the Emergency Care of Children Abstracts Book and Other Media Reviews Daniel Lindberg£ 489 Evaluating Child Sexual Abuse: Education Manual for Medical Professionals, by Botash AS. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000 Calendar of Events List of Reviewers for Volumes 24 and 25 Contents, Author, and Keyword Index to Volume 25 Instructions for Contributors