2023
Emergency Department Point‐of‐Care Echocardiography and Lung Ultrasound in Predicting COVID‐19 Severity
Baloescu C, Weingart G, Moore C. Emergency Department Point‐of‐Care Echocardiography and Lung Ultrasound in Predicting COVID‐19 Severity. Journal Of Ultrasound In Medicine 2023, 42: 1841-1850. PMID: 36840721, DOI: 10.1002/jum.16205.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLeft ventricular ejection fractionPleural line abnormalitiesSevere COVID-19Emergency departmentSevere COVIDPOCUS findingsCOVID-19Decreased LVEFEmergency department pointHypoxemic respiratory failureRetrospective cohort studyAdult ED patientsRight ventricular dilationVentricular ejection fractionWeeks of presentationSevere clinical courseCOVID-19 severityLung POCUSRespiratory failureCohort studyCare echocardiographyClinical courseDisease courseEjection fractionHospital admission
2020
The cost of waiting: Association of ED boarding with hospitalization costs
Baloescu C, Kinsman J, Ravi S, Parwani V, Sangal RB, Ulrich A, Venkatesh AK. The cost of waiting: Association of ED boarding with hospitalization costs. The American Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2020, 40: 169-172. PMID: 33272871, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2020.10.058.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsED boardingHospitalization costsED crowdingHospital spendingHospital care accessMultivariate linear regression analysisED patient volumeCost of careQuality of careEmergency department boardingCross-sectional analysisPublic health crisisED lengthEffective careCare accessHospital levelInpatient bedsED characteristicsLinear regression analysisPatient volumeCareMedicare spendingMultivariate regressionPatientsRegression analysis