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Submissions from 2023 2023

Standing tests lack reliability to diagnose all adolescents who have postural tachycardia syndrome, Paul Visintainer

Addressing the rising trend of high-risk pulmonary embolism mortality: Clinical and research priorities, Lauren Westafer DO

Bilateral Emboli and Highest Heart Rate Predict Hospitalization of Emergency Department Patients With Acute, Low-Risk Pulmonary Embolism, Lauren Westafer DO

Hot off the Press: Blood on blood: massive transfusion protocols in older trauma patients, Lauren Westafer DO

Managing Pulmonary Embolism, Lauren Westafer DO

The role of emergency physicians in the fight against health misinformation: Implications for resident training, Lauren Westafer DO

The Role of Graduate Medical Education in the Fight Against Health Misinformation, Lauren Westafer DO

Barriers and Facilitators to the Outpatient Management of Low-risk Pulmonary Embolism from the Emergency Department, Lauren Westafer DO, Erica Jessen MD, Michael Zampi MD, Eric Boccio MD, and Peter Lindenauer

Barriers and Facilitators to the Outpatient Management of Low-risk Pulmonary Embolism From the Emergency Department, Lauren Westafer DO, Erica Jessen MD, Michael Zampi MD, Eric Boccio MD, and Peter Lindenauer

Acting on sex and gender in medical innovation is good for business, Jeannette Wolfe MD

The development of an educational workshop to reframe and manage professional conflict via a sex and gender lens, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Treatment of severe metformin-associated lactic acidosis with renal replacement therapy and tris-hydroxymethyl aminomethane: a case report, Diana Yusim MD, Bogdan Tiru MD, Marat Abdullin MD, Daniel Landry MD, Spencer Hodgins MD, and Gregory Braden MD

Total parenteral nutrition for patients with gastrointestinal cancers: a clinical practice review, Emily Zametkin MD and Yael Tarshish MD

Submissions from 2022 2022

Impact of indirect bilirubin and uric acid on outcomes of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (sAKI), Mohammed Abozenah

Impact of indirect bilirubin and uric acid on outcomes of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury (sAKI), Mohammed Abozenah

The Prediction of Cardiac Events Using Contemporary Risk Prediction Models after Radiation Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer, Raza Alvi MD

The History of Durable Left Ventricular Assist Devices and Comparison of Outcomes: HeartWare, HeartMate II, HeartMate 3, and the Future of Mechanical Circulatory Support, Cecilia Berardi MD

Germline Genetic Testing in Breast Cancer: Systemic Therapy Implications, Prarthna Bhardwaj MD

Primary Spinal Epidural Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma: Case Report and Literature Review, Prarthna Bhardwaj MD, Annie Abraham MD, and Sunitha Alluri MD

Primary Spinal Epidural Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma: Case Report and Literature Review, Prarthna Bhardwaj MD, Annie Abraham MD, and Sunitha Alluri MD

Dual therapy with oral anticoagulation and single antiplatelet agent versus monotherapy with oral anticoagulation alone in patients with atrial fibrillation and stable ischemic heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Usama Bin Nasar

Applying Conceptual and Theoretical Frameworks to Health Professions Education Research: An Introductory Workshop, Rebecca Blanchard PhD

Establishment of SEP-1 national practice guidelines does not impact fluid administration for septic shock patients, Eric Boccio MD

Letter to editor in response to Vlatten et al. study Randomized trial of three airway management techniques for restricted access in a simulated pediatric scenario, Eric Boccio MD

The Next Frontier: Biomarkers and Artificial Intelligence Predicting Cardiorenal Outcomes in Diabetic Kidney Disease, Gregory Braden MD and Daniel Landry MD

Methadone Induction for a Patient With Precipitated Withdrawal in the Emergency Department: A Case Report, Benjamin Church DO, Ryan Clark DO, William Mohn PA, Peter Friedmann MD, and William Soares MD

Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure: Eligibility, Enrollment, and Participation, Anisha Contractor DO, Kevin O'Sullivan, Quinn Pack MD, Kyle McAnally, Christene DeJong, Briana Jurkowski, Peter Lindenauer, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Association Between Loss of SATB2 Expression in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Indefinite for Dysplasia and a Diagnosis of Definitive Dysplasia on Follow-up, Anthony Cretara MD, Alex Knee, James Mueller MD, and Rahul Jawale

Design and Evaluation of a Curriculum on Intimate Partner Violence for Medical Students in an Emergency Medicine Clerkship, Alanna Darling MD

'I Am Not The Doctor For You': Physicians' Attitudes About Caring For People With Disabilities, Christene DeJong

Advanced practice providers in academic emergency medicine: A national survey of chairs and program directors, Tala Elia MD

Intraoperative Lymph Node Assessment (Touch Preparation Only) for Metastatic Breast Carcinoma in Neoadjuvant and Non-neoadjuvant Settings, Esma Ersoy MD, Mahmoud Elsayad, Madhavi Pandiri MD, Alex Knee, Q Jackie Cao MD, and Giovanna Crisi MD

An Unlikely Trio: Profound Anemia, Elevated Lactate, and Riociguat, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD

Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the management of pulmonary hypertension, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD

Identifying themes to inform nursing decisions when caring for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on noninvasive ventilation: A qualitative descriptive study, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD, Christine Callahan, Karen Riska, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Intracranial atherosclerosis: Review of imaging features and advances in diagnostics, Edward Feldmann MD

Lipid Levels and Short-Term Risk of Recurrent Brain Infarcts in Symptomatic Intracranial Stenosis, Edward Feldmann MD

Health care professional perspectives on discharging hospitalized patients with injection drug use-associated infections, Peter Friedmann MD

"I've been to more of my friends' funerals than I've been to my friends' weddings": Witnessing and responding to overdose in rural Northern New England, Peter Friedmann MD

Jail-based reentry programming to support continued treatment with medications for opioid use disorder: Qualitative perspectives and experiences among jail staff in Massachusetts, Peter Friedmann MD

Legislatively mandated implementation of medications for opioid use disorders in jails: A qualitative study of clinical, correctional, and jail administrator perspectives, Peter Friedmann MD

Medication for opioid use disorder treatment continuity post-release from jail: A qualitative study with community-based treatment providers, Peter Friedmann MD

Preoperative alcohol interventions for elective surgical patients: Results from a randomized pilot trial, Peter Friedmann MD

The Rural Opioid Initiative Consortium description: providing evidence to Understand the Fourth Wave of the Opioid Crisis, Peter Friedmann MD

Uncommon and preventable: Perceptions of diversion of medication for opioid use disorder in jail, Peter Friedmann MD

The Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Team (START) study: protocol for a multi-site randomized controlled trial evaluating an intervention to improve initiation of medication and linkage to post-discharge care for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder, Peter Friedmann MD and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Monitored COVID-19 mRNA vaccine second doses for people with adverse reactions after the first dose, Megan Gallagher, Sarah Haessler MD, Elizabeth Pecoy-Whitcomb PA, and Jonathan Bayuk MD

Individualized anemia management enhanced by ferric pyrophosphate citrate protocol, Michael Germain MD

Safety and Effectiveness of Difelikefalin in Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Pruritus Undergoing Hemodialysis: An Open-Label, Multicenter Study, Michael Germain MD

Video Images about Decisions for Ethical Outcomes in Kidney Disease (VIDEO-KD): the study protocol for a multi-centre randomised controlled trial, Michael Germain MD

A Five-Week-Old Twin With Profound Anemia: A Case Report of Asymmetric Congenital Babesiosis, Julien Ginsberg-Peltz and Liza Smith MD

Tissue Rotation of the Xenopus Anterior-Posterior Neural Axis Reveals Profound but Transient Plasticity at the Mid-Gastrula Stage, Janhavi Giribhattanavar MD

Relation of Patient's Opinion of Alcohol's Health Effects and Drinking Habits Among Hospitalized Patients With Cardiovascular Disease, Kyle Gobeil MD, Khalid Sawalha MD, Mohammed Abozenah, Peter Friedmann MD, and Quinn Pack MD

Equal Pay for Equal Work in the Dean Suite: Addressing Occupational Gender Segregation and Compensation Inequities Among Medical School Leadership, Amy Gottlieb MD

How the COVID Crisis Changed Our Lives in the ICU, O'Neil Green MD, Mohammad Abu-Hishmeh MD, and Thomas Higgins MD

The effect of a training webinar on decreasing inter-observer variability in making a radiologic diagnosis of bronchiectasis, O'Neil Green MD, Alex Knee, Angelica Patino MD, Lucy Modahl MD, and Sybille Liautaud MD

A retrospective study on use of palliative care for patients with alcohol related end stage liver disease in United States, Kamesh Gupta MD and Syed Hamza Sohail MD

Etiology, Treatments, and Outcomes of Patients With Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in a Large U.S. Sample, Sarah Haessler MD and Peter Lindenauer

Derivation and validation of a risk assessment model for drug-resistant pathogens in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia, Sarah Haessler MD, Peter Lindenauer, and Thomas Higgins MD

Influenza Testing and Treatment Among Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia, Thomas Higgins MD, Sarah Haessler MD, and Peter Lindenauer

A risk model to identify Legionella among patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia: A retrospective cohort study, Thomas Higgins MD and Peter Lindenauer

Central Sleep Apnea: Adaptive Servo-Ventilation, Intelligent Volume-Assured Pressure Support, and Hypoventilation, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

CPAP set-up by mail: we're not there yet, Karin Johnson MD and Douglas Johnson MD

PAP therapy and readmission rates after in-hospital laboratory titration polysomnography in patients with hypoventilation, Karin Johnson MD, Vida Rastegar, Nicholas Scuderi, Douglas Johnson MD, and Paul Visintainer

Periprocedural anticoagulation therapy in patients undergoing Micra leadless pacemaker implantation, Anis Kadado MD and Fadi Chalhoub MD

A Novel Simple and Safe Approach to Frozen Pacemaker Leads, Anis Kadado MD, Adrian Gardner, Jishu Motta MD, and Fadi Chalhoub MD

Very low tidal volume, high-frequency ventilation in atrial fibrillation ablation: a systematic review, Anis Kadado MD, Kyle Gobeil MD, Abdullah Pervaiz MD, and Jean Chalhoub MD

Feasibility and Acceptance of a Tele-Trauma Surgery Consult Service to Rural and Community Hospitals: A Pilot Study, Tovy Kamine MD, Margaret Siu MD, Kristina Kramer MD, Reginald Alouidor MD, Edward Kelly, Ashley Deutsch MD, Timothy Mader MD, Paul Visintainer, Kristina Grochowski, and Nicolas Jabbour MD

Principles and Considerations in the Early Identification and Prehospital Treatment of Thrombocytopenia, Seth Kelly MD

Bronchial thermoplasty: State of the art, Asad Khan MD

Sliding Away From Using POCUS: Diagnosing Pneumothorax Following Endobronchial Valve Placement, Asad Khan MD

Safe Positioning of Central Venous Catheters, Asad Khan MD and William McGee MD

Ergonomics of gastrointestinal endoscopies: Musculoskeletal injury among endoscopy physicians, nurses, and technicians, Aysha Khan MD

A Statewide Collaboration to Deliver and Evaluate a Pediatric Critical Care Simulation Curriculum for Emergency Medical Services, Anthony Kitchen MD

Structural competency in emergency medical education: A scoping review and operational framework, Sarah Kleinschmidt MD

Structural competency in emergency medical education: A scoping review and operational framework, Sarah Kleinschmidt MD

Association of fluoroquinolones or cephalosporin plus macrolide with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) after treatment for community-acquired pneumonia, Peter Lindenauer and Sarah Haessler MD

Beyond magic: How to differentiate the acute presentations of aortic stenosis and myocardial infarction?, Amir Lotfi

Unprotected Left Main Revascularization in the Setting of Non-Coronary Atherosclerosis: Gulf Left Main Registry, Amir Lotfi

Impact of Wire Sensor Location on Coronary Physiological Measurement, Amir Lotfi, Ali Haider MD, Abdullah Pervaiz MD, Anis Kadado MD, Marcos Bachman, and Jose Rodriguez-Arciniega

Away Rotation Applications in Emergency Medicine: Medical Student Behaviors, Outcomes, and Stressors, Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton M.D.

Utilization of Core Values and Branding to Recruit the Best Trainees for Your Program, Stewart Mackie MD and Sharon Wretzel MD

Estimating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest burden of disease in the United States, Timothy Mader MD

Evaluation of National Institutes of Health Cardiac Arrest Research Based on 'Chain of Survival' Links, Timothy Mader MD

Full moons are not associated with increases in emergency medical services (EMS) activations (911 calls) in the United States, Timothy Mader MD

Insulin resistance and weight gain in women treated for early stage breast cancer, Grace Makari-Judson MD, Deborah Katz MD, Ruth Barham, and Wilson Mertens MD

Mucinous Signet-Cell Adenocarcinoma of the Ileum: A Diagnostic Challenge-Case Report and Review of the Literature, Tiago Martins, Jalaluddin Umar MD, Kevin Groudan MD, Hariharan Sivakumar Bharadwaj MD, and David Desilets MD

Exploring Patient Experience with Noninvasive Ventilation: A Human-Centered Design Analysis to Inform Planning for Better Tolerance, Jill McCormick, Taylar Clark, Peter Lindenauer, Crystal Allen, Mary Jo S. Farmer MD, Jay Steingrub MD, and Mihaela Stefan MD

Per-oral endoscopic myotomy for the treatment of non-achalasia esophageal dysmotility disorders: experience from a single high-volume center, Timothy Morley MD, Matthew Mikulski, Matthew Rade, Jean Chalhoub MD, David Desilets MD, and John Romanelli MD

Antibody Response Among Maintenance Dialysis Patients to the COVID-19 Ad26.COV2.S Vaccine, Jeffrey Mulhern MD

Impact of left ventricular ejection fraction on outcomes after left main revascularization: g-LM Registry, Maryam Naser MD, Mina Iskandar MD, and Amir Lotfi

One Versus Two Stents Strategies for Unprotected Left Main Intervention: Gulf Left Main Registry, Maryam Naser MD and Amir Lotfi

INCIDENCE AND PATTERNS OF FALLS IN CARDIAC REHABILITATION, Maryam Naser MD, Patrick Schilling, Heidi Szalai, Paul Visintainer, and Quinn Pack MD

Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: A Clinical and Radiologic Update, Ivy Nguyen DO, O'Neil Green MD, and Lucy Modahl MD

Case report: MELAS and concomitant presumed antiphospholipid antibody syndrome in an adult woman, Sirisha Nouduri, Rajiv Padmanabhan MD, Richard Hicks MD, Mary-Alice Abbott MD, Dennis O'Brien PA, and Gottfried Schlaug MD

Prevalence of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome symptoms at different follow-up periods: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Yasin Obeidat MD

The New England Neurosurgical Society: growth and evolution over 70 years, Dennis Oh MD

Real World Performance of The Afirma Genomic Sequencing Classifier (GSC) - A Meta-analysis, Ibitoro Osakwe MD

Acute but not chronic heart failure is associated with higher mortality among patients hospitalized with pneumonia: An analysis of a nationwide database ☆, Quinn Pack MD

Exercise Prescription Methods and Attitudes in Cardiac Rehabilitation: A National Survey, Quinn Pack MD