Emergency Department Collaborative Research Group
We are the overarching group for research conducted in the Emergency Department. Our vision is to integrate research seamlessly into clinical practice and education while shaping new guidelines and policy.
In 2024, our group achieved significant milestones, including the publication of over 91 articles in peer-reviewed journals, involvement in more than 150 research projects, and¡
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Latest Emergency Department Research News
Dr Gerben Keijzers is a Senior Staff Specialist Emergency Physician at the Gold Coast University Hospital Emergency Department.
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Dr Richard Pellatt has successfully secured over $27,000 in funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation to work on the new project "Drug¡
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Current projects
Most children with asthma presenting to an emergency department (ED) are managed with inhaled medications and oral steroids. Infrequently, some¡
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Children sometimes present to an emergency department with severe illness which requires the insertion of a breathing tube into their windpipe and¡
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Bronchiolitis, a lower respiratory tract infection which causes inflammation of the small airways in infants, imposes the largest health care¡
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Publications
O005/# 486: INTUBATION PRACTICES FOR CHILDREN IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS AND INTENSIVE CARE UNITS ACROSS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A SURVEY OF MEDICAL STAFF
George, S., Long, E., Gelbart, B., Dalziel, S., Babl, F. and Schibler, A., 2021. O005/# 486: INTUBATION PRACTICES FOR CHILDREN IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS AND INTENSIVE CARE UNITS ACROSS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A SURVEY OF MEDICAL STAFF. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 22(Supplement 1 3S), p.3.
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Translational simulation: from description to action.
Nickson, C.P., Petrosoniak, A., Barwick, S. and Brazil, V. 2021. Translational simulation: from description to action. Advances in Simulation, 6(1), pp.1-11
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Idle peripheral intravenous cannulation: an observational cohort study of pre-hospital and emergency department practices. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma
Evison, H., Sweeny, A., Ranse, J., Carrington, M., Marsh, N., Byrnes, J., Rickard, C.M., Carr, P.J. and Keijzers, G., 2021. Idle peripheral intravenous cannulation: an observational cohort study of pre-hospital and emergency department practices. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 29(1), pp.1-13.
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