2014 Research Forum
McCormick Place West Convention Center
Monday, October 27
New this year! All abstracts will be presented electronically!!
10:30 am – 11:30 am Oral Presentations – Practice and Policies That Influence Care
Brendan G Carr, MD, FACEP– Moderator -Room W474A
1. Strength and Dose of Opioids Prescribed from US Emergency Departments Compared to Office Practices: Implications for
Safe-Prescribing Guidelines – Menchine, M, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2. National Emergency Care and Emergency Care-Directed Costs in the United States - Galarraga, JE, George Washington
University, Washington, DC
3. At-Risk Alcohol Use Predicts Risk of Repeat Visit for Trauma – Hankin, A, Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA
4. The Impact of Emergency Medicine Residents on the Operational Efficiency in a Busy Level 1 Trauma Center Emergency
Department - Trop, AM, John Peter Smith Health Network, Fort Worth, TX
5. Medicaid Expansion Under The Affordable Care Act - How May It Affect Emergency Department Utilization and Access? –
Cutter, CM, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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9:30 am – 11:00 am
Administration (21-29)
Aiway (30-38)
Cardiovascular (39-47)
Critical Care (48-56)
Diagnosis & Treatment (57-65)
Ultrasound (66-75)
Emergency Medical Services (76-84)
Health Services Research (76-93)
12:00 Noon - 1:00 pm
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10:45 am – 11:45 am
Infectious Disease (94-100)
Neurology/Basic Science (101-EMF108)
Critical Care (109-EMF116)
Psychiatry/Wellness /Wellbeing (117-124)
Disaster (125-131)
Diagnosis & Treatment (132-138)
Emergency Medical Services (139-145)
Ultrasound (146-153)
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2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Informatics (154-159)
Education (160-165)
Pediatrics (166-171, 397)
Quality & Patient Safety (172-178)
Practice Management (179-184)
Public Health (185-190)
Resuscitation (191-197)
International/Global (198-204)
Awards Luncheon – Room W474B
By invitation only
Award Winners:
 Jody A. Vogel, MD, 2013 Best Paper Award
 Faheem Guirgis, MD, FACEP, 2013 Young Investigator Award
 Shareen Ismail, MD, and 2013 Best Resident Awards
 Nathan Itoga, 2013 Best Medical Student Award
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm State-of-the-Art Research Presentation – Pragmatic or Adaptive? The Future of Clinical Trial
Design
Judd E. Hollander, MD, FACEP and Roger J Lewis, MD, PhD, FACEP - Room W474A
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EMF Grant Showcase Presentations / Mark Courtney, MD, FACEP, Moderator – Room W474A
EMF-1 Palliative Medicine Competency Education in Emergency Medicine Residency Training: A Survey of Emergency
Medicine Education Leaders – Kraus CK, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
EMF-2 The Use of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Geographic Information Systems to Identify Communities
at Risk of Prescription Opioid Overdose Fatalities – Hoppe J, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
EMF-3 Genetic Architecture of Human Ischemic Stroke – Heitsch L, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
EMF-4 Patient Priorities and Preferences for Follow-up After Emergency Department Discharge – Rising KL, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2:30 pm –3:30 pm Oral Presentations – Improving Throughout and Billing Through Operational Efficiency
Eric Legome, MD, FACEP – Moderator – Room W474A
6. Financial Impact of Scribes in an Academic Emergency Department – Heaton, HA, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
7. Reconsidering the Doctor-in-Triage: Team-Based Triage and Care May Improve Patient Throughput – Gutteridge, DL, Icahn
School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York, NY
8. High Risk Care Plans Effectively Decrease Resource Utilization – Barrueto, F, University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Baltimore, MD
9. Effect of a Workflow Solution Task Force on Emergency Physician Compliance for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Documentation
and Billing – Lewiss, RE, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, New York, NY
10. The Impact of Triage - Leveling in an Environment of Emergency Department Overcrowding – Hocker, M, Duke University
Medical Center, Durham, NC
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Wine and Cheese Networking Social – Skyline Ballroom, W375D
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Spotlight: Office of Emergency Care Research - featuring–Jeremy Brown, MD, Director of the
Office of Emergency Care Research (OECR)
Tuesday, October 28
8:00 am - 8:30 am State-of-the-Art Research Presentation –Can We Trust Preliminary Data? Following Up
on Phase II Trials - Frank Peacock, MD, FACEP and Robert Welch, MD, FACEP– Room W474A
8:30 am - 9:30 am Oral presentations – Decision Making, Diagnosis and Treatment - The Essentials of Emergency
Medicine Joseph Piktel, MD, FACEP– Room W474
11. The Clinical Utility of the Clock Drawing Test in Detecting Delirium in Older Emergency Department Patients Emerson,G, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
12. Validation of a Clinical Decision Aid for 30-Day Adverse Events in Emergency Department Patients With Atrial Fibrillation
- Barrett, TW, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
13. Ketamine Use in a Resource-Limited Setting: Continued Safety in a Maturing African Non-Physician Clinician System –
Arthur, AO, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, OK
14. Computed Tomography for Pulmonary Embolism: A Prospective Evaluation of Utilization in the Emergency Department –
Myong, A, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
15 Management of Cardiac Arrest Is Influenced By the Use of an End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitor – Danielson, A, University
of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
9:30 am – 11:30 am
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Administration (205-213)
Geriatrics (214-EMF226)
Health Policy (227, 228, EMF229-238)
Health Services Research (239-249, EMF250, EMF251)
Infectious Disease/Pulmonary (252-263, 80)
Trauma /Injury Prevention(264-278)
Quality and Patient Safety (279-291)
Pediatrics (292-303)
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1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Cardiovascular (304-316)
Education/Simulation (317-329)
Public Health (330-342)
Ultrasound (343-EMF357)
Pain Management (358-371)
Quality and Patient Safety (372, EMF373, 374-383, EMF384)
Toxicology & Pharmacology (385-387, EMF388-399)
Teaching Fellowship (TF1-TF16)
11: 45 am - 12:45 pm Networking Lunch: Ode to the Research Director– Room W474B
By invitation only
Corita R Grudzen, MD, MSHS, FACEP
Alex Limkakeng, MD, FACEP
Adam Singer, MD, FACEP
1:00 pm – 2:00pm Oral Presentations – Back to Basics – Mechanisms of Action and Models of Acute Care
Jason D'Amore, MD, FACEP- Moderator – Room W474A
16. Effect of Therapeutic Hypothermia on Regional and Transmural Ventricular Fibrillation Waveform Complexity in a Model
of Ischemic Cardiac Arrest - Cheng, A, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
17. Prehospital Treatment of Massive, Lethal, Non-Compressible Hemorrhage with a Self-Expanding PercutaneouslyAdministered Foam – King, D, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
18. Ultrasound Identification of Successful Endotracheal Tube Placement By Paramedics and Residents – Lema, PC, University
at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
19. Short Term Recurrence and Severe Outcome Following Emergency Department Visit for Seizure: Results from the BISTRO
International Prospective Trial – Freund, Y, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
20. Kobayashi Maru in Medical Simulation: The Educational Utility of the No-Win Patient Scenario – Lee, S, University of
Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Wine and Cheese Networking Social – Skyline Ballroom, W375D
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Cutting-Edge: Highlights of the Research Forum – Room W474A
Phillip Levy, MD, FACEP (Moderator), Angela Mills, MD, David Milzman, MD, FACEP
A panel of experts will focus on the most interesting abstracts of the Research Forum and the take-home
message for practitioners and researchers alike. No badge or ticket is required to attend this event.