Déjà Review Emergency Medicine

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Cardiac enzyme in emergency medicine

Objective: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Chest pain due to suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is responsible for a large and ijncreasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. Current practice for suspected ACS involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom o...

THE PRACTICE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE/REVIEW ARTICLE Lean Thinking in Emergency Departments: A Critical Review

Emergency departments (EDs) face problems with crowding, delays, cost containment, and patient safety. To address these and other problems, EDs increasingly implement an approach called Lean thinking. This study critically reviewed 18 articles describing the implementation of Lean in 15 EDs in the United States, Australia, and Canada. An analytic framework based on human factors engineering and...

A review of the déjà vu experience.

For more than a century, the déjà vu experience has been examined through retrospective surveys, prospective surveys, and case studies. About 60% of the population has experienced déjà vu, and its frequency decreases with age. Déjà vu appears to be associated with stress and fatigue, and it shows a positive relationship with socioeconomic level and education. Scientific explanations of déjà vu ...

Physiology in Medicine--Déjà vu all over again.

THIS ISSUE MARKS THE BIRTH of PIM in the journal. PIM stands for Physiology in Medicine; it is an APS Publications program that has existed for many years. Under the very capable editorship of the late Dale Benos, PIM was housed in the Annals of Internal Medicine until that partnership ended a few years ago. Encouraged by the APS Publications Committee to restart PIM within the current APS rese...