• An Active Research Division (publications are listed below; see also ongoing projects)
• *Junior Investigators, including fellows, residents, medical students, and pre-meds (studies with junior investigators are denoted below with an asterisk). For more on our Research Internship
• EM Research across Kaiser Permanente's two California medical groups (see the 2018 Q3 report, attached below) 

• Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Warton EM, Cotton DM, Vazquez-Benitez G, Kharbanda AB, Kharbanda EO. Validation of the pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC) in a community setting. Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(4S):S90 [abstract 227].  Full-text

• Kharbanda AB, Vazquez-Benitez G, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Kene MV, Dehmer SP, Bachur S, Dayan PS, Kuppermann N, O’Connor P, Kharbanda EO. Development and validation of a new pediatric Appendicitis Risk Calculator (pARC). Pediatrics. 2018;141(4):e20172699.   Abstract

• Kene MV, Ballard DW, Liu MY, Warton EM, Kharbanda EO, Vinson DR, Kharbanda AB. Performance of clinical gestalt in predicting pediatric appendicitis risk: does experience matter? Ann Emerg Med. 2017;70(4S):S98 [abstract 247].  The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

• Sax DR, Huang J, Reed M, Yamin C, et al. Telephone consultation service safely manages demand for acute care among patients with chest pain in an integrated delivery system.  Health Affairs. In press.

• Mark DG, Huang J, Chettipally U, Kene MV, Anderson ML, Hess EP, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Reed ME. Performance of coronary risk scores in patients with chest pain in the emergency department. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018;71(6):606-616.    Abstract    Press Release

• Simon LE, Reed ME, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG. Predictors of physician gestalt in the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in the Emergency Department. Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(4S):S13-14 [abstract 27].  Full-text

• Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Chettipally UK. Shared decision making in low risk chest pain: looking ahead [letter]. BMJ. 2017;356;j324. Full-text    For a fuller version, see BMJ. 2016;355:i6165/rr-1. Full-text

• *Nagam MR, Vinson DR, Levis JT. ECG Diagnosis: Right ventricular myocardial infarction. Perm J. 2017;21:16-105. Full-text

• Mark DG, Vinson DR. Low-risk chest pain in the emergency department: Should we be focusing on better follow-up instead of accelerated testing? JAMA Intern Med. 2014;174(6):1009-1010.  Excerpt

• Vinson DR. Expediting emergency throughput: Kiosk-assisted care and telephone treatment protocols. Acad Emerg Med. 2012;19:365. PubMed

   

• Vinson DR, Quesenberry CP Jr. Telephone management of presumed cystitis in women: Factors associated with recurrence. J Clin Outcomes Manage. 2007;14:41-46.  Abstract

Winner of the 2008 Morris F. Collen Research Award for best paper by a clinician in Kaiser Northern California 

Study summary       Award Intro Video (3 min)    Our Project Video (3 min)

Presented at the 2003 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Chicago, IL

Presented at the 2002 International Meeting on the Therapies of Infections, Florence, IT.

Media coverage: Newsweek, Sept 22, 2003; Chicago Sun-Times, Good Housekeeping, Shape, First for Women, Health, Urology Times--Oct 9, 2003; Family Practice News 2003;33:41, Cosmopolitan (Cosmo. Ring Up UTI Relief, attached below)

• Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Non-inferiority, but not superiority of basic life support ambulance response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest [letter]. JAMA Inter Med. 2015;175(8):1422-3.

• Mark DG, Vinson DR, Hung YY, Anderson ES, Escobar GJ, Carr BG, Abella BS, Ballard DW. Lack of improved outcomes with increased use of targeted temperature management following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A multicenter retrospective cohort study. Resuscitation. 2014;85(11):1549-56. PubMed

  
  

• *Mark DG, Vinson DR, Anderson E, Ballard DW. Treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with electrocardiographic ST segment elevation myocardial infarction: differences in rates of emergent cardiac catheterization between receiving hospitals with and without on-site cardiac catheterization capacity. Crit Care Med. 2012;43(12 Suppl.):295 [abstract]. Link

Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 42nd Critical Care Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2013. 

• *Anderson E, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Mark DG. Does the annual volume of patients admitted following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest predict use of therapeutic hypothermia? Crit Care Med. 2012;43(12 Suppl.):555 [abstract].

   
  Presented at the Society of Critical Care Medicine's 42nd Critical Care Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 2013.

   

• Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Letter by Mark et al Regarding Article "Implementation of the fifth link of the chain of survival concept for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Circulation. 2013;127:e566. Extract 

• Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Gould MK. Complications of central venous catheterization [letter]. N Engl J Med. 2016;374(15):1489-1492. Full-text 

• Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG. The indications for screening chest radiography after failed thoracic central venous catheterization. Am J Emerg Med. 2015;33(7):970-971. Abstract

• *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Hance LG, Stevenson DW, Clague VA, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Mark DG, for the CREST Network Investigators. Pneumothorax is a rare complication of thoracic central venous catheterization in community Emergency Departments. Amer J Emerg Med. 2015;33(1):60-66. PubMed

• Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Mark DG. Departure from central line ritual. AHRQ WebM&M [serial online]. May 2015. Full-text

• *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Hance LG, Hung YY, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Kene MV, Chettipally UK, Elms AR, Mark DG, for the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network Investigators. Bleeding complications of central venous catheterization in septic patients with abnormal hemostasis. Amer J Emerg Med. 2014;32(7):737-42.  PubMed

Presented at the 2013 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, Seattle, WA. iPoster 

• Ballard DW, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Chettipally UK, Offerman SR, Vinson DR. Emergency physician perspectives on central venous catheterization in septic patients: a survey-based study. Acad Emerg Med. 2014;21(6):623-30. PubMed

• * Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Stevenson MD, Mark DG, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Chettipally UK, Offerman SR, for the Kaiser Permanente CREST Network Investigators. Predictors of unattempted central venous catheterization in septic patients eligible for early goal-directed therapy. West J Emerg Med. 2014;15(1):67-75.   Full-text

Presented at the 2011 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, San Francisco, CA. Abstract

• *Vinson DR, Mark DG, Chettipally UK, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Lin JS, Kene MV, Wang DH, Sax DR, Pleshakov TS, McLachlan ID, Yamin CK, Elms AR, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Yealy DM, Ballard DW.  Increasing safe outpatient management for emergency department patients with pulmonary embolism: a controlled pragmatic trial. Ann Intern Med. 2018 Nov 13 [Epub ahead of print].   Abstract

• *Simon LE, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR. Emergency department patient satisfaction with treatment of low-risk pulmonary embolism. West J Emerg Med. 2018;19(6):938-946.   Full-text 

• *Nasrollahi F, Makin CW, Arangan J, McLachlan DI, Stevenson MD, Huang J, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR. The prevalence and outcomes of delayed diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism. Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(4S):S147 [abstract 374].   Full-text 

• *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Huang J, Reed ME, Lin JS, Kene MV, Sax DR, Rauchwerger AS, Wang DH, McLachlan DI, Pleshakov TS, Silver MA, Clague VA, Klonecke AS, Mark DG, for the MAPLE Investigators of the KP CREST Network. Outpatient management of emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism: variation, patient characteristics and outcomes. Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(1):62-72.e3.  Full-text 

• *Abraham AS, Othieno AA, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG, Vinson DR. Screening for and treatment of submassive pulmonary embolism in community Emergency Departments in the U.S. Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S28-29 [abstract 57].   Available on the CREST publication page

• *Bahl D, Engelhart DC, Swanson WP, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG, Vinson DR. Prevalence and prognostic value of proximal clot location in patients with acute pulmonary embolism presenting with presyncope or syncope. Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S29 [abstract 58].  Available on the CREST publication page

• *Engelhart DC, Bahl D, Abraham AS, Swanson WP, Cotton DM, Krauss WC, Huang J, Reed ME, Mark DG, Vinson DR. Presyncope carries similar risk as syncope in ED patients with acute pulmonary embolism. Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S71 [abstract 180].  Available on the CREST publication page

• *Simon LE, Iskin HR, Vemula R, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Vinson DR. Emergency Department patient satisfaction with treatment of Low-risk pulmonary embolism: does site-of-discharge matter? Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S104-105 [abstract 278].  Available on the CREST publication page

• *Liu MY, Ballard DW, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Vinson DR. Acute pulmonary embolism in ED patients despite adequate anticoagulation: prevalence, anticoagulation management, and 30-day outcomes. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S119-S120 [abstract 324]. The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

• *Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Huang J, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Wang DH, Lin DS, Kene MV, Pleshakov TS, Sax DK, Sax JM, McLachlan DI, Yamin CK, Swap CJ, HIskin HR, Vemula R, Fleming BS, Elms AR, Aujesky D; for the MAPLE Investigators of the KP CREST Network. Risk stratifying emergency department patients with acute pulmonary embolism: does the simplified Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index perform as well as the original? Thromb Res. 2016;148:1-8. Abstract

• *Ballard DW, Vemula R, Reed ME, Huang J, Chettipally UK, Vinson DR. Optimizing clinical decision support in the electronic health record: clinical characteristics associated with the use of a decision tool for disposition of ED patients with pulmonary embolism. Appl Clin Inform. 2016;7(3):883-898.  Full-text  

• *Yamin C, Reed ME, Ballard DW, Mark DG, Vinson DR. Not so fast! β-Blockers blunt tachycardia in pulmonary embolism: implications for clinical decision rules? Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(S1):S130 [abstract 294].    The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

• Sharp AL, Vinson DR, Alamshaw F, Handler J, Gould MK. An age-adjusted d-dimer threshold for Emergency Department patients with suspected pulmonary embolus: accuracy and clinical implications. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;67(2):249-57.  Abstract

• *Vinson DR, Mark DG, Huang J, Iskin HR, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Pleshakov T, Wang DH, Ballard DW, for the KP CREST Network. The characteristics and outcomes of ED patients with acute pulmonary embolism discharged home within 24 hours. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22(S1):S93-4 [abstract 201].

• *Vinson DR, Morley JE, Huang J, Liu V, Anderson ML, Drenten CE, Radecki RP, Nishijima DK, Reed ME. The accuracy of an electronic Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index auto-populated from the electronic health record: setting the stage for computerized clinical decision support. Appl Clin Inform. 2015:66(2):318-333. Full-text 

• Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Mark DG, for the KP CREST Network. Timing of discharge follow-up for acute pulmonary embolism: retrospective cohort study. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(1):55-61. Full-text

• *Vinson DR, Drenten CE, Huang J, Morley JE, Anderson ML, Reed ME, Nishijima DK, Liu V, on behalf of the KP CREST Network. Impact of relative contraindications to home management in emergency department patients with low-risk pulmonary embolism. Ann Am Thoracic Soc. 2015;12(5):666-673. Full-text  

Presented at the 2014 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, Dallas, TX.

• Vinson DR, Zehtabchi S, Yealy DM. Can selected patients with newly diagnosed pulmonary embolism be safely treated without hospitalization? A systematic review. Ann Emerg Med. 2012;60(5):651-662.e4.  Full-text   

Reuters Health interview    Featured in Journal Watch   Featured in DARE: Quality-assessed Reviews 

• *Vinson DR, Patel JP, Irving CS. Pretest probability estimation in the evaluation of patients with possible deep vein thrombosis. Amer J Emerg Med. 2011;29:594-600. PubMed 

• *Vinson DR, Berman DA, Patel PB, Hickey DO. Outpatient management of deep venous thrombosis: Two models of integrated care. Amer J Manag Care. 2006;12:405-410.  Full-text 

• Vinson DR. Eligibility criteria for home treatment of DVT vary. BMJ. 2001;323:866.  PubMed 

• Vinson DR. Outpatient treatment of deep venous thrombosis: effective management by emergency physicians. Thrombosis in Oncology. 2001;4:2-7. 

• Vinson DR, Berman DA. Outpatient treatment of deep venous thrombosis: a clinical care pathway managed by the emergency department. Ann Emerg Med. 2001;37(3):251-258.  Full-text

Reviewed by Journal Watch Emergency Medicine 2001 May 2.

Presented at the 2000 Research Forum, American College of Emergency Physicians, Philadelphia, PA.

• *Makin CW, Vinson DR. A literature-based algorithm for treatment of children with radial head subluxation who fail to respond to initial hyperpronation [letter]. Am J Emerg Med. 2017;35(9):1365-1367.

  .  The letter can be found at the CREST site. A popular-level discussion was published in Emerg Med News. 

• *Vinson DR, Kann GS, Gaona SD, Panacek EA. Performance of the four-way range of motion test for radiographic injuries after blunt elbow trauma. Amer J Emerg Med. 2016;34(2):235-239. PubMed

• Darracq MA, Vinson DR, Panacek EA. Preservation of active range of motion following acute elbow trauma predicts absence of elbow fracture. Amer J  Emerg Med. 2008;26:779-782. PubMed

• Patel PB, Vinson DR, Gardner MN, Wulf DA, Kipnis P, Liu V, Escobar GJ. Impact of emergency physician-provided patient education about alternate care venues. Amer J Manag Care. 2018;24(5):294-300.  Full-text    Editorial   Press release  

• Song H, Tucker A, Murrell KL, Vinson DR. Closing the productivity gap: Improving worker productivity through public relative performance feedback and validation of best practices. Man Sci. 2017 June 27 [Epub ahead of print].  Abstract 

• Patel PB, Vinson DR, Combs MA. Reduction of admit wait times: The effect of a leadership-based program. Acad Emerg Med. 2014;21(3):266-273. PubMed  

• Vinson DR. Expediting emergency management: Kiosk-assisted care and telephone treatment protocols. Acad Emerg Med. 2012;19(3):365. PubMed 

• Vinson DR, Patel PB. Facilitating follow-up after emergency care using an appointment assignment system. J Healthcare Quality. 2009;31:18-24. Abstract 

• Patel PB, Vinson DR. Team Assignment System: Expediting emergency department care. Ann Emerg Med. 2005;46:499-506.  PubMed

Presented at the 2004 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, San Francisco, CA

Reviewed by Emergency Medical Abstracts, October, 2006

• *Nishijima DK, Gaona SD, Waechter T, Maloney R, Blitz A, Elms AR, Farrales RD, Montoya J, Bair T, Howard C, Gilbert M, Trajano RP, Hatchel KM, Faul M, Bell JM, Coronado VC, Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Tancredi DJ, Garzon H, Mackey KE, Shahlaie K, Holmes JF, for the Sacramento County Prehospital Research Consortium. The incidence of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in head-injured older adults transported by EMS with and without anticoagulant or antiplatelet use. J Neurotrauma. 2017 Nov 6 [Epub ahead of print].  PubMed

• *Anderson TA, Warton EM, Daniels B, Lin JS, Gill K, Buss AR, McLachlan I, Garrido MX, Nishijima DK, Arasu V, Vinson DR. Derivation of a clinical decision instrument to identify adults in a community setting with mild traumatic intracranial hemorrhage at low risk for requiring critical care intervention. Ann Emerg Med. 2017;70(4S):S146 [abstract 372].

• *Buss AR, Nishijima DK, Daniels B, Warton EM, Anderson TJ, Gill KS, McLachlan DI, Lin JS, Garrido M, McHargue C, Vinson DR. External validation of the UC Davis clinical decision instrument to identify adults in a community setting with mild traumatic intracranial hemorrhage at low risk for requiring ICU admission. Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(S1):S27 [abstract 56].  The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

• *Nishijima DK, Gaona SD, Waechter T, Maloney R, Bair T, Blitz A, Elms AR, Farrales RD, Howard C, Montoya J, Bell JM, Vinson DR, Holmes JF, Ballard DW. Out-of-Hospital Triage of Older Adults With Head Injury: A Retrospective Study of the Effect of Adding "Anticoagulation or Antiplatelet Medication Use" as a Criterion. Ann Emerg Med. 2017;70(2):127-138.e6.   PubMed

• Sharp AL, Nagaraj G, Rippberger E, Shen E, Swap CJ, Silver MA, McCormick T, Campbell C, Vinson DR, Hoffman JR. Low-value adult traumatic head computed tomography: describing community ED use of the Canadian CT Head Rule.  Acad Emerg Med. 2017;24(1):22-30. PubMed

• *Nishijima DK, Gaona S, Waechter T, Maloney R, Bair T, Blitz A, Elms AR, Farrales RD, Howard C, Montoya J, Bell JM, Coronado VC, Sugerman DE, Ballard DW, Mackey KE, Vinson DR, Holmes JF; for the Sacramento County Prehospital Research Consortium. Do EMS providers accurately ascertain anticoagulant and antiplatelet use in older adults with head trauma? Prehosp Emerg Care. 2017;21(2):209-215.  PubMed

• *Nishijima DK, Gaona S, Bair T, Blitz A, Carter D, Elms A, Farrales RD, Howard C, Maloney R, Montoya J, Waechter T, Foley M, Bell JM, Coronado VC, Sugerman DE, Chenoweth J, Vinson DR, Holmes JF. Incidence of outcomes based of field triage in older adults with blunt head trauma transported by EMS. Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(S1):S34-35 [abstract 60].    The abstract can be found at the CREST site.

• Nishijima DK, Offerman SR, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Holmes JF, for the Clinical Research in Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network. Risk of traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients with head injury and pre-injury warfarin or clopidogrel use. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(2):140-5.  PubMed

• Nishijima DK, Holmes JF,  Offerman SR, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME. In reply (response to Rasler F, Delayed intracranial hemorrhage from mild head injury and warfarin use). Ann Emerg Med. 2013;61:126-127. Full text   

• Nishijima DK, Offerman SR, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Chettipally UK, Rauchwerger AS, Reed ME, Holmes JF, for the Clinical Research in Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network. Immediate and delayed traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients with head trauma and pre-injury warfarin or clopidogrel use. Ann Emerg Med. 2012;59(6):460-468.e7. PubMed

• Ballard DW, Kuppermann N, Vinson DR, Tham E, Hoffman JM, Swietlik M, Deakyne SJ, Alessandrini EA, Tzimenatos L, Bajaj L, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Chettipally UK, Paterno MD, Schaeffer MH, Richards R, Casper TC, Goldberg HS, Grundmeier RW, Dayan PS. Implementation of a clinical decision support system for children with minor blunt head trauma at non-negligible risk for traumatic brain injuries. Ann Emerg Med. 2018; in press. 

• Masterson Creber RM, Dayan PS, Kuppermann N, Ballard DW, Tzimenatos L, Alessandrini E, Mistry RD, Hoffman J, Vinson DR, Bakken S; Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) and the Clinical Research on Emergency Services and Treatments (CREST) Network. Applying the RE-AIM framework for the evaluation of PECARN electronic health record based clinical decision support head trauma tool: a mixed-methods study. Appl Clin Inform. 2018;9(3):693-703.  Full-text 

• Vinson DR, Ballard DW, Dayan PS, Kuppermann N. Clinical judgment and the PECARN head trauma prediction rules [letter]. Ann Emerg Med. 2018;72(3):323-325.  Full-text

• Dayan PS, Ballard DW, Tham E, Hoffman JM, Swietlik M, Deakyne SJ, Alessandrini EA, Tzimenatos L, Bajaj L, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Chettipally UK, Paterno MD, Schaeffer MH, Wang J, Casper TC, Goldberg HS, Grundmeier RW, Kuppermann N. Use of traumatic brain injury prediction rules with clinical decision support. Pediatrics. 2017;139(4).  PubMed

• Sheehan B, Nigrovic LE, Dayan PS, Kuppermann N, Ballard DW, Alessandrini E, Bajaj L, Goldberg H, Hoffman J, Offerman SR, Mark DG, Swietlik M, Tham E, Tzimenatos L, Vinson DR, Jones GS, Bakken S; for the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN). Informing the design of clinical decision support services for evaluation of children with minor blunt head trauma in the emergency department: A sociotechnical analysis. J Biomed Inform. 2013;46(5):905-13. PubMed

Presented at the 2011 American Medical Informatics Association’s Annual Symposium, Washington, DC

• Ballard DW, Reed ME, Rauchwerger AS, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Offerman SR, Chettipally UK, Graetz I, Dayan P, Kuppermann N, for the Clinical Research in Emergency Services and Treatment (CREST) Network. Emergency physicians’ knowledge and attitudes of clinical decision support in the electronic health record: a survey-based study. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(4):352-360.   Full-text  

• Lin M, Vinson DR, Geier C, Zlatan C, Hayes BD. Prochlorperazine, metoclopramide, and diphenhydramine for acute migraine headache. Acad Life in Emerg Med. 2018 Jan 10 [Epub].

• Vinson DR. Development of a simplified instrument for the diagnosis and grading of akathisia in a cohort of patients receiving prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med. 2006;31:139-145.  PubMed 

Featured in “You can’t assume headaches are benign”  ED Nursing. 2008;11:65-66.

• Vinson DR. Diphenhydramine in the treatment of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med. 2005;28:348-349 [letter]. In response to Baden EY et al. Diphenhydramine in the treatment of akathesia [sic] induced by prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med. 2005;28:347-348. 

• Vinson DR. Diphenhydramine in the treatment of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine. J Emerg Med.  2004;26:265-270.  Full-text

Presented at the 2002 American College of Emergency Physicians’ Research Forum, Seattle, WA.

• Gupta R, Vinson DR. Akathisia can be reduced by lowering the dose of D2 receptor antagonists. Ann Emerg Med. 2003;41:280.  

• Vinson DR. Akathisia: Problematic but preventable. Ann Emerg Med. 2002; 39:575-576. 

• Vinson DR. Drug-induced akathisia: In Need of Detection and Prevention. Rapid Response to “Akathisia: overlooked at a cost.” BMJ. 2002; 324: 1506-1507.  BMJ Online 

• Vinson DR. Frequency of adverse reactions to prochlorperazine in the ED: a response. Amer J Emerg Med. 2001; 19:175. 

• Vinson DR, Drotts DL. Diphenhydramine for the prevention of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine: a randomized, controlled trial. Ann Emerg Med. 2001:37:125-131.  Full-text

Discussed in Side Effects of Drugs—Annual 26, ed. Aronson JK (Boston/London: Elsevier, 2003), 66.

Presented at the 1999 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

• Vinson DR, Migala AF, Quesenberry CP, Jr. Slow infusion for the reduction of akathisia induced by prochlorperazine: a randomized controlled trial. J Emerg Med. 2001;20:113-119.  PubMed 

Discussed in Side Effects of Drugs—Annual 26, ed. Aronson JK (Boston/London: Elsevier, 2003), 66.

Presented at the 2000 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

• Vinson DR, Drotts DL: Akathisia and prochlorperazine. Ann Emerg Med. 2000;36:170-1. 

• Drotts DL, Vinson DR. Prochlorperazine induces akathisia in emergency patients. Ann Emerg Med. 1999;34:469-475.  PubMed

Reviewed by Journal Watch Emergency Medicine, 1999 Dec 1.

Presented at the 1998 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL  

• Vinson DR, Bradbury DR. Etomidate for procedural sedation in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med. 2002;39:592-598. PubMed

Reviewed by Journal Watch Emergency Medicine 2002 August 28.

• Offerman SR, Nishijima D, Ballard D, Chettipally U, Vinson DR, Holmes JF. The use of delayed telephone informed consent for observational emergency medicine research is ethical and effective. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(4):403-407.  Abstract

    Presented at the 2010 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

• Offerman SR, Rauchwerger AS, Nishijima DK, Ballard DW, Chettipally UK, Vinson DR, Reed ME, Holmes JF Jr. Use of an electronic medical record ‘‘dotphrase’’ data template for a prospective head injury study. West J Emerg Med. 2013;14(2):109-113. Full-text

• Mark DG, Morehouse JW, Hung YY, Kene MV, Elms AR, Liu V, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, for the KP CREST Network Investigators. In-hospital mortality following treatment with red blood cell transfusion or inotropic therapy during early goal-directed therapy for septic shock: a retrospective propensity-adjusted analysis. Crit Care. 2014;18:496. Full-text pdf

• Mark D, Morehouse J, Kene M, Elms A, Ballard D, Vinson D. Unbundling early goal-directed therapy: correction of low central venous oxygen saturation. Crit Care Med. 2013;41(S12), A269 [abstract 1068]. Abstract

• Mark D, Hung Y-Y, Morehouse J, Kene M, Elms A, Vinson D, Ballard D, for the KP CREST Network Investigators. Predictors of dobutamine and red blood cell administration among patients treated with EGDT in the ED. Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4S):S134  [abstract 375]. iPoster  

• Chettipally UK, Reed ME, Huang J, Rauchwerger AS, Ballard DW, Offerman SR, Vinson DR, for the CREST Network. Life After Sepsis Therapy: A one-year follow-up study of Early Goal Directed Therapy. Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4S):S132-S133  [abstract 372].   iPoster

Stroke

• Fox CK, Hills NK, Vinson DR, Numis AL, Dickerf R, Sidney S, Fullerton HJ. Population-based study of ischemic stroke risk after trauma in children and young adults. Neurology. 2017;89(23):2310-6.  PubMed

• Ballard DW, Huang J, Vinson DR, Reed ME, Kim AS. Reply to Shy BD, et al. The complexities of studying computerized physician order entry: implications for the perceived effectiveness of stroke order sets [letter]. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;67(4):561-562. Full-text

• *Kene MV, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Rauchwerger AS, Iskin HR, Kim AS. Emergency physician attitudes, preferences, and risk tolerance for stroke as a potential cause of dizziness symptoms. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(5):768-776.  Full-text

• *Ballard DW, Kim AS, Huang J, Park DK, Kene MV, Chettipally UK, Iskin HR, Hsu J, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Reed ME. Implementation of an inpatient electronic health record with computerized physician order entry is associated with improved outcomes for patients admitted with ischemic stroke. Ann Emerg Med. 2015;66(6):601-10.  Abstract

• Coralic Z, Kim AS, Vinson DR. Prochlorperazine-induced hemidystonia mimicking acute stroke. West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(4):572-4. Full-text

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Presented at the 2012 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. 

• Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW; Kaiser Permanente CREST Network investigators. Reply to Perry JJ, “Pragmatic interpretation of the study of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage in the setting of negative cranial computed tomography results: External validation of a clinical and imaging prediction rule.” Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4):436-437.

  The Letter      The Reply

• Mark DG, Sonne DC, Vinson DR, Ballard DW; Kaiser Permanente CREST Network investigators. Reply to Schwartz DT, “Sensitivity of computed tomography for subarachnoid hemorrhage.” Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62(4):438-439.

The Letter      The Reply

• Mark DG, Vinson DR, Ballard DW. Reply to Verrgouwen MD, et al, “Clinical suspicion of subarachnoid hemorrhage and negative head CT scan performed within 6 hours of headache onset - no need for lumbar puncture.” Ann Emerg Med. 2013;61(4):504-5.

The Letter     The Reply

 

• Le DD, Abraham AS, Vinson DR. Prevalence of guideline-discordant lidocaine use in the U.S. prehospital treatment of stable monomorphic ventricular tachycardia. Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(S1):S267-268 [abstract 759].  Available on the CREST publication page

Presented at the 2018 

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN

• Furyk JS, Meek RA, Egerton-Warburton D, Vinson DR. Oligo-evidence for antiemetic efficacy in the emergency department [letter]. Am J Emerg Med. 2017;35(6):921-922.  Opener  

• *Vinson DR, Nagam MR, Lugovskaya N, Nasrollahi F, Egerton-Warburton D, Furyk JS, Meek RA. Oligoantiemesis: a premature neologism for an intervention insufficiently substantiated in the emergency setting. J Emerg Med. 2017;52(3):366-368.    The full text pdf can be found at the CREST site.

• *Abraham AS, Liu MY, Vinson DR. Image diagnosis: Iliopsoas abscess from Crohn disease. Perm J. 2017;21:16-150. Full-text

• Patel PB, Vinson DR. Emergency physicians seek...and are finding their place [letter]. Ann Emerg Med. 2016;68(3):397-398. Full-text

• *Stieglitz DD, Vinson DR, Hampton MD. Equipment-based Pilates reduces work-related chronic low back pain and disability: a pilot study. J Bodyw Mov Ther. 2016;20(1):74-82. Abstract

• Vinson DR. NEXUS Cervical Spine Criteria. Ann Emerg Med. 2001;37:237-238.

• Vinson DR. Tetanus not 100% preventable. J Emerg Med. 2000;19:74-5. 

• Vinson DR: Immunisation does not rule out tetanus. BMJ. 2000; 320:383.  Full-text 

• Vandenberg JT, Lutz RH, Vinson DR. Large-diameter suction system reduces oropharyngeal evacuation time. J Emerg Med. 1999;17:941-944.  PubMed

• Vinson DR, Burke TF, Sung HM. Rapid reversal of life-threatening diltiazem-induced tetany with calcium chloride. Ann Emerg Med. 1999;34:676-678.  PubMed 

• Vandenberg JT, Vinson DR. The inadequacies of contemporary oropharyngeal suction. Am J Emerg Med. 1999;17:611-613.  PubMed 

• Vinson DR: Epiploic appendagitis. a new diagnosis for the emergency physician. Two cases and a review. J Emerg Med. 1999;17:827-832.  PubMed 

• Vinson DR. The Ellis fracture: An anachronistic eponym in dentistry. Ann Emerg Med. 1999; 33:599-600. 

• Roth BA, Vinson DR, Kim S. Carisoprodol-induced myoclonic encephalopathy. J Toxicol Clin Toxicol. 1998;36:609-612.  PubMed 

• Vinson DR. Superstitions in medicine: bad luck or bad logic? Ann Emerg Med. 1998;31:650-652.