Emergency Department

Lisa A. Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN, speaks with Healio about four studies presented at the Emergency Nurses Association annual conference which have “implications for knowledge and practice and education and impact.”

Patients with neurological conditions had an increased risk for adverse childhood experiences compared with the overall U.S. population, according to results of a cross-sectional study published in Neurology: Clinical Practice.

A continuous risk prediction score predicted high risk for new-onset HF in patients after ED atrial fibrillation visit, regardless of economic status, according to new data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

ED visits for youth with suicidal thoughts and behaviors initially decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, likely because of lockdown orders, then aligned with 2019 levels, according to a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

Amid a rise in fireworks-related injuries, the AAP urged families to “resist the temptation” to use them to celebrate the 4th of July.

The use of rapid respiratory pathogen testing for influenza-like illness in a pediatric ED did not reduce antibiotic prescribing, according to findings from a randomized clinical trial that were reported in JAMA Network Open.

Children and adolescent psychiatric ED visits decreased significantly during the first 8 weeks of COVID-19 lockdown, according to results of a study conducted in Italy and published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

First-contact visits comprised approximately half of incident psychiatric ED visits, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Rates of prolonged length of stay for pediatric mental health ED visits significantly increased between 2005 and 2015 compared with non-mental health-related ED visits, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

Metoclopramide plus diphenhydramine resulted in greater improvement in pain scores compared with placebo for patients with acute post-traumatic headache in the ED, according to findings from a parallel group study published in Neurology.