Browsing by Author "Hurwitz, Shelley"
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4,871 Emergency Airway Encounters by Air Medical Providers: A Report of the Air Transport Emergency Airway Management (NEAR VI: “A-TEAM”) Project
Brown, Calvin A.; Cox, Kelly; Hurwitz, Shelley; Walls, Ron M. (Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, 2014)Introduction: Pre-hospital airway management is a key component of resuscitation although the benefit of pre-hospital intubation has been widely debated. We report a large series of pre-hospital emergency airway encounters ... -
The Effect of Dimethyl Fumarate on Cerebral Gray Matter Atrophy in Multiple Sclerosis
Dupuy, Sheena L.; Tauhid, Shahamat; Hurwitz, Shelley; Chu, Renxin; Yousuf, Fawad; Bakshi, Rohit (Springer Healthcare, 2016)Introduction: The objective of this pilot study was to compare cerebral gray matter (GM) atrophy over 1 year in patients starting dimethyl fumarate (DMF) for multiple sclerosis (MS) to that of patients on no disease-modifying ... -
Hypoglycemia, With or Without Insulin Therapy, Is Associated With Increased Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients
Garg, Rajesh; Hurwitz, Shelley; Turchin, Alexander; Trivedi, Apoorva (American Diabetes Association, 2013)OBJECTIVE Hypoglycemia is associated with increased mortality in hospitalized patients. We investigated the relationship between spontaneous hypoglycemia versus insulin-associated hypoglycemia and mortality in hospitalized ... -
Morphological Characteristics of Brain Tumors Causing Seizures
Lee, Jong Woo; Wen, Patrick Yung Chih; Hurwitz, Shelley; Black, Peter McLaren; Kesari, Santosh; Drappatz, Jan; Golby, Alexandra Jacqueline; Wells, William Mercer; Warfield, Simon Keith; Kikinis, Ron; Bromfield, Edward B. (American Medical Association (AMA), 2010)Objective: To quantify size and localization differences between tumors presenting with seizures vs nonseizure neurological symptoms. Design: Retrospective imaging survey. We performed magnetic resonance imaging–based ... -
MRI detection of hypointense brain lesions in patients with multiple sclerosis: T1 spin-echo vs. gradient-echo
Dupuy, Sheena; Tauhid, Shahamat Syed; Kim, Gloria; Chu, Renxin; Tummala, Subhash; Hurwitz, Shelley; Bakshi, Rohit (Elsevier BV, 2015)Objective Compare T1 spin-echo (T1SE) and T1 gradient-echo (T1GE) sequences in detecting hypointense brain lesions in multiple sclerosis (MS). Background Chronic hypointense lesions on T1SE MRI scans are a surrogate ...