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2020

Medically Clear: The less-is-more approach to acute diverticulitis.

Ballard D, Vinson D. 

Emerg Med News. 2020;42(12):18.

Publication Non Grata: The Challenge of Publishing Non-COVID-19 Research in the COVID Era.
Shan J, Ballard D, Vinson DR.
Cureus. 2020;12(11):e11403. 
Primary care physicians comprehensively manage acute pulmonary embolism without higher-level-of-care transfer. A report of two cases.
Isaacs DJ, Johnson EJ, Hofmann ER, Rangarajan S, Vinson DR.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2020;99:45(e23031).

Medically Clear: Trust your gut when you think it's not appendicitis.

Ballard D, Vinson D. 

Emerg Med News. 2020;42(11):15.

“They’re the experts. So, how involved could I be?”: Patient perspectives on oral anticoagulation decisionmaking.

Kea B, Gowen K, Wenzel E, Alligood T, Robinson C, Le N, Kim J, Hunt R, Vinson DR, Sun BC.

Ann Emerg Med. 2020;76(4S):S128 [abstract 332].

              Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, October 2020.

Effect of clinical decision support on head computed tomography for children with minor head trauma.

Shan J, Warton EM, Reed M, Vinson D, Kuppermann N, Dayan P, Dalziel S, Rauchwerger A, Ballard D. 

Ann Emerg Med. 2020;76(4S):S44-45 [abstract 114].

             Presented at the Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2020.

               Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, October 2020.

How is "outpatient management" of acute pulmonary embolism defined in the primary literature? A narrative review.
Shan J, Isaacs D, Bath H, Johnson E, Julien D, Vinson D.
Chest. 2020;158(4S):A2228.
Electrical versus pharmacological cardioversion for emergency department patients with acute atrial fibrillation.
Vinson DR, Kea B, Coll-Vinent B, Barrett TW.
Lancet. 2020;396(10255):885.
Deciding when to anticoagulate patients with isolated subsegmental pulmonary embolism.
Vinson DR, Mark DG, Ballard DW.
BMJ. 2020 Sept 1. 
Managing acute pulmonary embolism in primary care in a patient declining emergency department transfer: A case report
Vinson DR, Isaacs DJ, Johnson EJ.
Eur Heart J Case Rep. 2020;4(5):1-4.  
Medically Clear: A new way to manage (or just observe) pneumothorax.
Ballard D, Vinson D. 
Emerg Med News. 2020;42(9):21. 
Acute stroke presentation, care and outcomes in community hospitals in Northern California during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nguyen-Huynh MN, Tang XN, Vinson DR, Flint AC, Alexander JG, Meighan M, Burnett M, Sidney S, Klingman JG.
Stroke. 2020;51(10):2918-2924.
Medically Clear: A Case of Cold Drink Heart.
Vinson D, Ballard D.
Emerg Med News. 2020;42(8):13.
Practice gap in atrial fibrillation oral anticoagulation prescribing at Emergency Department home discharge. 
Kea B, Waites BT, Lin A, Raitt M, Vinson DR, Ari N, Welle L, Sill A, Button D, Sun BC. 
West J Emerg Med. 2020;21(4):924-934.  
Automated retrospective calculation of the EDACS and HEART scores in a multicenter prospective cohort of emergency department chest pain patients: a validation study.
Mark DG, Huang J, Kene MV, Sax DR, Cotton DM, Lin JS, Bouvet SC, Chettipally UK, Anderson ML, McLachlan ID, Simon LE, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Reed ME.
Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(10):1028-1038.
               Abstract: https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.14068
Hospitalization is less common in ambulatory patients with acute pulmonary embolism diagnosed before emergency department referral than after arrival.
Vinson DR, Bath H, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG. 
Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(7):588-599.
               Abstract: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2020.201.1_MeetingAbstracts.A2012 
               Presented at the American Thoracic Society meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2020.
60-day major adverse cardiac event in emergency department patients with non-low modified HEART scores.
Mark DG, Huang J, Kennedy CK, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Reed ME.
Am J Emerg Med. 2020;38(12):2760.e5-2760.e8. 
Redressing the underrecognition of “Cold Drink Heart”: Patients teaching physicians about atrial fibrillation triggered by cold drink and food.
Vinson DR.
Perm J. 2020;24:19.238.

Comprehensive management of acute pulmonary embolism in the primary clinic setting without transfer of care: A case report

Isaacs DJ, Johnson EJ, Vinson DR.

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2020;201:A7257.

              Presented at the American Thoracic Society meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2020.

Prevalence of equivocal pediatric abdominal ultrasound reports for suspected appendicitis in 11 emergency departments in an integrated delivery system.

Sax D, Vinson DR, Durant E, Stram D, Ballard D, Saxon A, Olcese M.

E-PAS2020:2814.211.

               Presented at the Pediatric Academic Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 2020.

Indeterminate ultrasound in pediatric appendicitis is prevalent, poorly documented, and predicts additional imaging.

Olcese ME, Saxon A, Sax DR, Vinson DR, Durant EJ, Stram DA, Ballard DW.

Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(S1):S93 [abstract 201].

               Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2020.

 

 

Testing and enhancing an emergency department acute heart failure risk stratification tool.

Sax DR, Mark DG, Huang J, Rana JS, Collins SP, Storrow AB, Liu D, Reed ME.

Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(S1):S167 [abstract 412].

               Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2020.

 

Prehospital Treatment and Emergency Department Outcomes in Young Children with Food Allergy

Ko J, Zhu S, Alabaster A, Wang J, Sax DR.

J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2020 Jul-Aug;8(7):2302-2309.e2.

Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2020.

 

Accurately identifying pulmonary embolism in computed tomography pulmonary angiography reports using natural language processing.

Kene M, Arasu V, Warton M, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Shan J, Vinson DR.

Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(S1):S76-S77 [abstract 155].

               Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2020.

 

 

Emergency department initiation of stroke prophylaxis for atrial fibrillation impacts long-term use.

Kea B, Warton M, Reed ME, Go AS, Olshansky B, Lip GY, Raitt M, Sun B, Vinson DR, Ballard DW.

Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(S1):S58 [abstract 104].

               Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, May 2020.

Paramedics’ perspectives on telemedicine in the ambulance: A survey study.

Simon LE, Shan J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Warton EM, Vinson DR, Konik ZI, Vlahos JW, Groves K, Ballard DW.

JEMS. 2020 Apr 30 [Epub].

             Abstract

              Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Image diagnosis: neodymium magnetic bead ingestion in a toddler.
Hui K, Arasu VA, Vinson DR, Cotton DM.

Perm J. 2020;24:19.165.

Presyncope increases risk for intensive care in emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism.

Vinson DR, Engelhart DC, Bahl D, Othieno AA, Abraham AS, Huang J, Reed ME, Swanson WP, Clague VA, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Mark DG.
West J Emerg Med. 2020; 21(3):703-713.
    Abstract
    Presented at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2018.

Diagnostic performance of emergency physician gestalt in predicting acute appendicitis in patients age 5-20 years.

Simon LE, Kene MV, Warton EM, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Reed ME, Chettipally UK, Mark DG, Sax DR, McLachlan DI, Cotton DM, Lin JS, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO, Ballard DW.

Acad Emerg Med. 2020;27(9):821-831.

                Abstract: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acem.13931

                Research Spotlight: https://spotlight.kaiserpermanente.org/emergency-physicians-can-use-clinical-experience-to-predict-whether-a-child-hasappendicitis/

                Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, Washington, DC, 2017.

                Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2017

Comprehensive outpatient management of low-risk pulmonary embolism: can primary care do this? a narrative review.
Vinson DR, Aujesky D, Geersing GJ, Roy PM.

Perm J. 2020;24;19.163.

              Tables 2 and 3: http://www.thepermanentejournal.org/files/2020/19.163T.pdf

              Pdf of complete article

Medically Clear: Nonmydriatic ocular fundus photography and how it could avoid missed diagnoses.
Ballard D, Dimmig J.

Emerg Med News. 2020;42(1):1,31.

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CREST researchers have acted as peer reviewers for many clinical journals, including:
 
Academic Emergency Medicine,The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, American Journal of Managed Care, Annals of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Circulation, The Cochrane Collaboration, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Health Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of Medical Toxicology, Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, Medical Care MedEdPORTAL, New England Journal of Medicine, Stroke
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