A5084507799- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Radiology practices and education
- Academic Writing and Publishing
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
- Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
- Anesthesia and Sedative Agents
- Radiation Dose and Imaging
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Diabetes Management and Research
University of California, Los Angeles
2016-2025
Perspectives Charter School
2017-2023
Loma Linda University
2022-2023
UCLA Health
1996-2022
Faculty of Media
2019-2022
Linde (United States)
2017-2019
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
2001-2019
University of Washington
2019
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2017
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
2017
<h3>Importance</h3> Since September 2017, standing electric scooters have proliferated rapidly as an inexpensive, easy mode of transportation. Although there are regulations for safe riding established by both scooter companies and local governments, public common use practices the incidence types injuries associated with these unknown. <h3>Objective</h3> To characterize use, clinical outcomes injured patients, in first US metropolitan area to experience adoption this technology. <h3>Design,...
This study assesses trends in drug overdose deaths among US adolescents aged 14 to 18 years from January 2010 June 2021, by substance type and race ethnicity, using data the Centers for Disease Control Prevention WONDER database.
Most drug epidemics in the United States have disproportionately affected nonwhite communities. Notably, current opioid epidemic is heavily concentrated among low-income white communities, and roots of this racial/ethnic phenomenon not been adequately explained.To examine degree to which differential exposure opioids via health care system by race/ethnicity income could be driving observed social gradient epidemic, as well compare trends prevalence prescription with those for stimulants...
Study objective. To develop guidelines for the care of infants and children from birth to 36 months age with fever without source. Participants setting. An expert panel senior academic faculty expertise in pediatrics infectious diseases or emergency medicine. Design intervention. A comprehensive literature search was used identify all publications pertinent management febrile child. When appropriate, meta-analysis combine results multiple studies. One more specific strategies proposed each...
Context.—Intracranial hemorrhage must be excluded prior to administration of thrombolytic agents in acute stroke.Objective.—To evaluate physician accuracy cranial computed tomography scan interpretation for determining eligibility therapy stroke.Design.—Administration randomly selected, ordered series 15 scans from a pool 54 that demonstrated intracerebral hemorrhage, infarction, calcifications (impostor hemorrhage), old cerebral infarction infarction), and normal findings.Participants.—A...
Many trauma centers use the pan-computed tomography (CT) scan (head, neck, chest, and abdomen/pelvis) for evaluation of blunt trauma. This prospective observational study was undertaken to determine whether a more selective approach could be justified.We evaluated injuries in victims receiving pan-CT at level I center. The primary outcome injury needing immediate intervention. Secondary any injury. perceived need each independently recorded by emergency medicine surgery service before...
This cohort study characterizes emergent trends in overdose-related cardiac arrests the US during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using a large, national emergency medical services database.
Provisional records from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through July 2020 indicate that overdose deaths spiked during early months of COVID-19 pandemic, yet more recent trends are not available, data disaggregated by month occurrence, race/ethnicity, or other social categories. In contrast, emergency medical services (EMS) provide a source information nearly in real time may be useful rapid granular surveillance mortality.To describe racial/ethnic, social, geographic...
Importance Rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) and associated mortality in the US remain high. Treatment OUD with buprenorphine reduces morbidity mortality. There have been national efforts to expand initiation emergency department (ED), where many patients low treatment access seek medical care. Adoption trends clinician prescribing are unknown. Objective To describe for OUD, subsequent prescriptions, changes over time California. Design, Setting, Participants Observational retrospective...
ContextNew criteria for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus have recently been introduced that lowered diagnostic fasting plasma glucose (FPG) concentration from 7.8 to 7.0 mmol/L (140 126 mg/dL).ObjectiveTo determine if individuals with diagnosed by new FPG criterion would excessive glycosylation (elevated hemoglobin [HbA1c] levels).DefinitionsWe determined distribution HbA1c levels in using 4 classifications: (1) normal (FPG <6.1 [110 mg/dL]); (2) impaired 6.1-6.9 [110-125 (3) solely...
For patients suffering from diabetes and other chronic conditions, a large body of work demonstrates income-related disparities in access to coordinated preventive care. Much less is known about associations between poverty consequential negative health outcomes. Few studies have assessed geographic patterns that link household incomes major preventable complications diseases. Using statewide facility discharge data for California 2009, we identified 7,973 lower-extremity amputations 6,828...
Emergency medical services (EMS) may serve as a key source of real-time data about the evolving health coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-affected populations, especially in low- and middle-income countries with less rapid reliable vital statistics registration systems. Although official COVID-19 Mexico report almost exclusively inhospital mortality events, excess out-of-hospital has been identified other countries, including 1 EMS study Italy that showed 58% increase. Additionally,...