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.
Dr Keijzers…
Dr Richard Pellatt has successfully secured over $27,000 in funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation to work on the new project "Drug…
Embedding research into clinical practice was the theme of the second Gold Coast Health Emergency Care Research Symposium held on Thursday 23rd…
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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
Long-Term Statin Administration Does Not Affect Warfarin Time in Therapeutic Range in Australia or Singapore
Bernaitis, N., Ching, C. K., Teo, S. C., Badrick, T., Davey, A. K., Crilly, J., & Anoopkumar-Dukie, S. (2018). Journal of clinical medicine, 7(5).
DOI: 10.3390/jcm7050097
Getting on with field research using participant deconstruction
Wright, A. L., Middleton, S., Hibbert, P., & Brazil, V. (2018). Organizational Research Methods, 1094428118782589
The Australasian Resuscitation In Sepsis Evaluation: FLUid or vasopressors In Emergency Department Sepsis, a multicentre observational study (ARISE FLUIDS observational study): Rationale, methods and analysis plan. Emergency Medicine Australasia
Keijzers, G., Macdonald, S.P., Udy, A.A., Arendts, G., Bailey, M., Bellomo, R., Blecher, G.E., Burcham, J., Delaney, A., Coggins, A.R. and Fatovich, D.M., 2019. The Australasian Resuscitation In Sepsis Evaluation: FLUid or vasopressors In Emergency Department Sepsis, a multicentre observational study (ARISE FLUIDS observational study): Rationale, methods and analysis plan. Emergency Medicine Australasia.
