Katherine Brooks

An Exercise in Clinical Reasoning: Use of Social Context in Diagnosing an Elevated Lactate

Rachel Si-Wen Chang, Gregory M Ow, Evan J. Walker, Katherine Brooks et autres

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Airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury

M. D. Wiles, H. A. Iliff, Katherine Brooks, E. J. Da Silva et autres

BACKGROUND: There are concerns that airway management in patients with suspected or confirmed cervical spine injury may exacerbate an existing neurological deficit, cause a new spinal cord injury or be hazardous due to precautions to avoid neurological injury. However, there are no …

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Use of definition, risks factors, and management of hypoglycemia by UK anesthesiologists

Hannah Lewis, Katherine Brooks, Tom Bennett, Sarah Greenaway et autres

Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analyzed during this study.

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Diagnostic Errors in Hospitalized Adults Who Died or Were Transferred to Intensive Care

Andrew D. Auerbach, Tiffany Lee, Colin C. Hubbard, Sumant R Ranji et autres

Importance: Diagnostic errors contribute to patient harm, though few data exist to describe their prevalence or underlying causes among medical inpatients. Objective: To determine the prevalence, underlying cause, and harms of diagnostic errors among hospitalized adults transferred to an intensive care unit …

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74 Airway topicalisation for Paediatric Microlaryngobronchsoscopy (MLB) and other airway procedures: Review of local practice and creation of a new standard operating procedure (SOP)

K.F. Harvey-Kelly, David Reicher, Alice Miskovic, Katherine Brooks

Background Airway topicalisation with local anaesthetic (LA) is common in paediatric anaesthesia to facilitate endoscopic airway procedures, reduce perioperative complications and provide analgesia. Topicalisation has a risk of LA toxicity and aspiration, however, guidance on LA dosing and fasting duration is limited. …

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Fluid Optimisation in Emergency Laparotomy (FLO-ELA) Trial: study protocol for a multi-centre randomised trial of cardiac output-guided fluid therapy compared to usual care in patients undergoing major emergency gastrointestinal surgery

Mark Edwards, Gordon Forbes, Neil Walker, Dion Morton et autres

INTRODUCTION: Postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing major emergency gastrointestinal surgery are a major burden on healthcare systems. Optimal management of perioperative intravenous fluids may reduce mortality rates and improve outcomes from surgery. Previous small trials of cardiac-output guided haemodynamic therapy …

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A Silent Curriculum

Katherine Brooks

In this narrative medicine essay, a medical student reflects on the ways in which she has seen racism and implicit bias affect clinical practice and emphasizes the importance of examining and challenging these biases to address health inequalities.

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Identification of Racial Inequities in Access to Specialized Inpatient Heart Failure Care at an Academic Medical Center

Lauren A. Eberly, Aaron Richterman, Anne G. Beckett, Bram Wispelwey et autres

BACKGROUND: Racial inequities for patients with heart failure (HF) have been widely documented. HF patients who receive cardiology care during a hospital admission have better outcomes. It is unknown whether there are differences in admission to a cardiology or general medicine service …

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In-situ simulation to ‘road test’ a new paediatric clinical decision unit: mitigating the risk from latent safety threats

Katherine Brooks, Amutha Anpananthar

A new paediatric clinical decision unit (PCDU) has to be opened in our paediatric emergency department (PED) due to increasing pressure in the department and on inpatient beds. Our purpose-built PED is attached to the adult emergency department (ED) and there is …

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STRUCTURAL INEQUITIES IN THE ADMISSION PATTERNS OF PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE TO GENERAL MEDICINE OR CARDIOLOGY SERVICES

Lauren A. Eberly, Aaron Richterman, Bram Wispelwey, Jennifer Goldsmith et autres

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The Purple Heart

Katherine Brooks

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596. Case Study of Motivational Interviewing Intervention in Patients Non-Adherent to Antiretroviral Therapy

Katherine Brooks, Jennifer Johnson, Susan Larrabee, John A. Grimaldi

Motivational interviewing (MI) may have a positive impact on antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. However, few studies focus on non-adherent patients at high risk of viral transmission, as identified by unsuppressed viral load. Patients on ART with detectable viral load (VL) were identified …

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