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Shahram Lotfipour
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 152
Citations - 2558
Shahram Lotfipour is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Emergency department. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 146 publications receiving 2119 citations. Previous affiliations of Shahram Lotfipour include Case Western Reserve University & American University of Beirut.
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Procalcitonin-Guided Use of Antibiotics for Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
David T. Huang,Donald M. Yealy,Michael R. Filbin,Aaron M. Brown,Chung-Chou H. Chang,Yohei Doi,Michael W. Donnino,Jonathan M. Fine,Michael J. Fine,Michelle A. Fischer,John M. Holst,Peter C. Hou,John A. Kellum,Feras Khan,Michael C. Kurz,Shahram Lotfipour,Frank LoVecchio,Octavia M Peck-Palmer,Francis Pike,Heather Prunty,Robert Sherwin,Lauren T. Southerland,Thomas E. Terndrup,Thomas E. Terndrup,Lisa A. Weissfeld,Jonathan G. Yabes,Derek C. Angus +26 more
TL;DR: The provision of procalcitonin assay results, along with instructions on their interpretation, to emergency department and hospital‐based clinicians did not result in less use of antibiotics than did usual care among patients with suspected lower respiratory tract infection.
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Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients: In conjunction with the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
TL;DR: The methodology, findings and updated guidelines from the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the 2011 Panel are presented along with commentary on the burden of injury in the U.S., and the role emergency physicians have in impacting morbidity and mortality at the population level.
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Crowding and Delivery of Healthcare in Emergency Departments: The European Perspective
TL;DR: Emergency department (ED) crowding is a multifactorial problem, resulting in increased ED waiting times, decreased patient satisfaction and deleterious domino effects on the entire hospital.
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A prospective evaluation of emergency department bedside ultrasonography for the detection of acute cholecystitis
Shane M. Summers,William Scruggs,Michael Menchine,Shadi Lahham,Craig L. Anderson,Omar Amr,Shahram Lotfipour,Seric Cusick,J. Christian Fox +8 more
TL;DR: The test characteristics of emergency physician-performed bedside ultrasonography for the detection of acute cholecystitis are similar to the test characteristicsof radiology ultr Masonography.
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Simulation in medical school education: review for emergency medicine.
Bharath Chakravarthy,Elizabeth Ter Haar,Srinidhi Subraya Bhat,Christopher Eric McCoy,T. Kent Denmark,Shahram Lotfipour +5 more
TL;DR: A retrospective review of the current literature, studying simulation use in EM medical student clerkships and whether simulation training improves patient-related outcomes is performed.