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A Multicenter Randomised Placebo Controlled Trial of Antiemetic Agents in Adult Emergency Department Patients. A pilot study
Nausea and vomiting are common problems for patients in Emergency Departments (EDs). Our objective is to determine if Ondansetron 16mg and 8mg and...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Are We Doing More Harm Than Good? A prospective study of patients with suspected cervical spine injury.
Patients with suspected cervical spine injury (CSI) caused by blunt trauma present commonly to Emergency Departments. All patients with suspected CSI...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Conservative treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax – A Post Implementation Study
Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a significant global health problem affecting adolescents and young adults. Current management is variable...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Effectiveness of a strengthened standing-order nurse-initiated analgesia guideline on provision of analgesia in the emergency department.
An audit of analgesia provision in the ED undertaken in 2019 found that time to initial analgesia delivery and monitoring of effect did not meet...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Evaluation of the Monash Health Suspected MI pathway.
In Feb 2022 Monash Health introduced a new suspected MI pathway. Patients follow one of four streams depending on pre-hospital symptom duration/onset...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Health Promoting Emergency Departments (HPED): Innovation, Opportunity and Overcoming Barriers
To create a model for a HPEDs that will lead the way in the reduction of chronic disease in Victoria through the use of new digital technologies,...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Helping Older Persons in Emergency (iHOPE): iREDUCE unhelpful care for people who live in residential aged care facilities in Emergency Care.
The problem: Picture this… Cheng is an 83-year-old woman living with dementia in a residential aged care facility (RACF), she has frequent falls....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter use in Australian Emergency Departments: development and implementation of quality improvement interventions
This project will develop and implement quality improvement interventions which are embedded in an implementation science trial. The trial aims to...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter use in Australian Emergency Departments: evaluation of quality improvement interventions
This project will evaluate the quality improvement interventions that are embedded in an implementation science trial. The aim of the trial is to...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter use in Australian Emergency Departments: health economic analysis of a stepped-wedge cluster trial
This purpose of this project is to conduct a health economic analysis of an implementation science trial. The trial aims to reduce unnecessary...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter use in Australian Emergency Departments: roadmap for national roll out
This project will develop a roadmap for national scale up and toolkits for implementing best practice for peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) use...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Implications of low level high-sensitivity troponin elevations in women presenting to the emergency department with chest pain.
In early 2020 Monash Health introduced a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) assay for assessment of suspected myocardial infarction (MI...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Improving the ED management of Bell's Palsy.
This pre- and post-intervention CQI study will involve development of a multi-modal intervention to improve the management of ED patients with...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
iREDUCE Implementation Research in Emergency Departments to reduce Unhelpful Care and ensure Excellence: A National Prioritising Process to Reduce Unhelpful Emergency Care.
Health research prioritisation is a process where experts and stakeholders identify key areas requiring knowledge generation within a field....
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Just Say No To The Just In Case Chest Tube: An Implementation Study.
An international ground-breaking large randomised controlled trial (RCT) ( CI, Egerton-Warburton) and meta-analysis has demonstrated that...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Silver trauma dilemma: Anticoagulant continuation following minor head injury.
Data on delayed traumatic intracranial haemorrhage following minor head injury (normal initial CT brain) are limited, but the incidence appears to be...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Silver trauma dilemma: fall from standing height.
Current peak body guidelines for a hospital trauma response generally follow a three-tiered hierarchy. Trauma responses are indicated for trauma...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
Silver trauma dilemma: the ‘routine’ whole body CT.
Current peak body guidelines for a hospital trauma response generally follow a three-tiered hierarchy. Trauma responses are indicated for trauma...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The ED geriatrician: a needs-analysis based on the ACEM-GEM framework.
In recent years the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) has developed frameworks for improving the quality of care delivered to older...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
The ‘2G’ study: High dose oral paracetamol in emergency department patients - A Pilot Randomised Control Trial
Background: Paracetamol is a relatively safe & common analgesic used for many types of pain in the emergency department (ED). Current dosing...
Supervisor: Adj Clin Prof Diana Egerton-Warburton
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