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Emergency medicine

Narrative review

Developing the green operating room: exploring barriers and opportunities to reducing operating room waste

Ludmilla Pillay, Kenneth D Winkel and Timothy Kariotis

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 279-284 Free

Research letter

Emergency department presentations in Queensland by First Nations people, remote residents, and young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020: interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben B Keijzers, Dinesh Palipana, John Gerrard and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 579-581 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Minimising harm: avoiding intubation for psychogenic non‐epileptic seizures

Stephen Bacchi, Santosh Verghese and Mark Slee

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 364-365 Free

Research letter

Ambient maximum daily temperature and mental health‐related presentations to a western Sydney emergency department, 2015–2019: analysis of hospital and meteorological data

Wen Yu Claire Ooi, Taylor A Braund, James Elhindi and Anthony WF Harris

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 379-380 Free

Letters

Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative

Amith Shetty, Jean‐Frederic Levesque and Walid Jammal

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 217-217 Free

Letters

Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative

Michael Montalto

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 217-217 Free

Guideline summary

Patient blood management guideline for adults with critical bleeding

Biswadev Mitra, Margaret Jorgensen, Michael C Reade, Anastazia Keegan, Anthony Holley, Shannon Farmer, Nichole Harvey, James Winearls, Michael Parr and Craig J French, for the Clinical and Consumer Reference Group for the Update of Patient Blood Management Guidelines (Module 1: Critical Bleeding/Massive Transfusion)

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 211-216 Free

Narrative review

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for refractory cardiac arrest in Australia: a narrative review

Mark Dennis, Kiran Shekar and Aidan JC Burrell, For the National ECPR Working Group

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 46-53 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis secondary to disseminated tuberculosis in a young adult with Crohn's disease

Rattanak Visal Hean, David A Sheffield, Kirsten Herbert and David Brewster

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (8): 350-352

Research

Hospitalisations and in‐hospital deaths following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in Australia, 2015–20: a registry data analysis for the Australian Traumatic Brain Injury National Data (ATBIND) project

Gerard M O'Reilly, Kate Curtis, Biswadev Mitra, Yesul Kim, Afsana Afroz, Kate Hunter, Courtney Ryder, Delia V Hendrie, Nick Rushworth, Jin Tee, Shane D'Angelo, Emma Solly, Oashe Bhattacharya, Mark C Fitzgerald, Gerard M O'Reilly, Kate Curtis, Biswadev Mitra, Yesul Kim, Afsana Afroz, Kate Hunter, Courtney Ryder, Delia V Hendrie, Nick Rushworth, Jin Tee, Shane D'Angelo, Emma Solly, Oashe Bhattacharya and Mark C Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 316-324 Free

Research letter

Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative: a cross‐sectional study

Haomin S Wu and James L Mallows

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (4): 166-167 Free

Perspectives

Defibrillator access across Australia: the first step in avoiding a chain of fatality

Elizabeth Paratz, Gregory J Page and Garry LR Jennings

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (4): 146-148 Free

Editorials

Has the COVID‐19 pandemic unmasked the fragility of the Australian health care system?

Lucy E Kirk and Imogen Mitchell

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 457-458 Free

Editorials

The inter‐hospital transfer of critically ill patients with COVID‐19: a double‐edged sword

Peter T Morley

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 458-459 Free

Research

The characteristics of SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive children in Australian hospitals: a PREDICT network study

Laila Ibrahim, Catherine Wilson, Doris Tham, Mark Corden, Shefali Jani, Michael Zhang, Amit Kochar, Ker Fern Tan, Shane George, Natalie T Phillips, Paul Buntine, Karen Robins‐Browne, Vimuthi Chong, Thomas Georgeson, Anna Lithgow, Sarah Davidson, Sharon O'Brien, Viet Tran and Franz E Babl

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 460-466 Free

Research

Mortality among people admitted to Australian intensive care units for reasons other than COVID‐19 during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study

Sing Chee Tan, Tess Evans, Matthew L Durie, Paul J Secombe and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 467-473 Free

Perspectives

Hospital congestion: a market solution to address delayed transfers of care from hospital beds

Benedict Rogers, Juan Paolo Legaspi and Tarun Bastiampillai

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 298-300 Free

Letters

Historic breakthrough for public access defibrillation in Australia

Joshua G Kovoor, Gregory J Page and Pramesh Kovoor

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (5): 238-238 Free

Perspectives

Recent advances in critical care

Yasmine Ali Abdelhamid, Adam Deane and Rinaldo Bellomo

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 153-156 Free

Editorials

The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on emergency department presentations: an opportunity for renewal?

Amith Shetty and Jean‐Frederic Levesque

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 116-117 Free

Letters

The influence of ambulance offload time on 30‐day risks of death and re‐presentation for patients with chest pain

James L Mallows, Bridget Honan and Sierra Beck

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 142-142 Free

Letters

The influence of ambulance offload time on 30‐day risks of death and re‐presentation for patients with chest pain

Luke P Dawson, Emily Nehme, Ziad Nehme, Karen Smith and Dion Stub

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 142-142

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Cervical cord infarction mimicking migraine in a patient with vertebral artery dissection

Alanna Rottler, Yew Li Dang, Wai Foong Hooi, David Burrows, Hong Kuan Kok and Douglas Crompton

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 111-112 Free

Research

Emergency department presentations during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Queensland (to June 2021): interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben Keijzers, Andrea Marshall, Emma J Hall, Jamie Ranse, Ping Zhang, Gary Grant, Ya‐Ling Huang, Dinesh Palipana, Yang D Teng, Benjamin Gerhardy, Jaimi H Greenslade, Philip Jones and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 120-125 Free

Research

Twelve‐month mortality outcomes for Indigenous and non‐Indigenous people admitted to intensive care units in Australia: a registry‐based data linkage study

Paul J Secombe, Alex Brown, Michael J Bailey, Sue Huckson, Shaila Chavan, Edward Litton and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (2): 77-83 Free