A/Prof Marcus Ong Consultant, Senior Medical Scientist & Director of Research Department of Emergency Medicine Singapore General Hospital

1. Emergency Medicine Research : How do I get started? A/Prof Marcus Ong Consultant, Senior Medical Scientist & Director of Research Department of Emergency Medicine Singapore General Hospital Adjunct Associate Professor Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Office of Research

10. Results Table 1: Characteristics of patients

11. Results Complications by treatment

13. Patient information (Study no_______) Name________________________________________________ HRN__________________________ Age___________Sex 1)M 2)F Race 1)Chinese Patient’s sticker 2)Malay 3)Indian 4)Others ,State_________________ Attending Doctor____________________ Scalp injury (circle where appropriate) Medical history steroids 1)y 0)n DM 1)y 0)n Immunocompromise 1)y 0)n Others________________________ Technique used 1)hair apposition 2)T&S Unable to score pain 1)y 0)n Procedure painful? VISUAL SCALE: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NO PAIN UNBEARABLE PAIN Adhesive used 1)Dermabond 2)Histoacryl glue Hair shaved 1)y 0)n Antibiotics 1)y 0)n Duration of procedure______________ Problems encountered__________________ _________________________________ Multiple wounds 0)n 1)y Site 1) frontal 2)occipital 3)temporal 4)parietal 5)vertex Length ___________(Use longest wound only) Wound 1)Linear 2)complicated State 1)Clean 2)mild contamination 3)moderate contamination 4)severe contamination Underlying fracture 1)y 0)n Proven intracranial injury 1)y 0)n Bleeding 1)none 2)mild 3)moderate 4)severe Time to treatment __________

16. Reader’s Digest 2003

19. University of Ottawa EM Research Fellowship incorporating MSc in Epidemiology (2 years)

20. Dept of Emergency Medicine /VCURES VCU Health System Research Fellowship Incorporates Phd (3 years) or Masters of Public Health (1.5 years) Dept of Epidemiology and Community Health Virginia Commonwealth University

29. ‘ Public access defibrillation in Singapore: where should automated external defibrillators (AEDs) be placed? (PADS Phase I)’

34. Early Defibrillation

36. “ Controlled Therapeutic Hypothermia Post-Cardiac Arrest Compared to Standard Intensive Care Unit Therapy  Marcus EH Ong, MD, FRCS (A&E), MPH Department of Emergency Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System Mary Ann Peberdy MD, FACC Department of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, VCU Health System Renata Sampson, RN, MSN, BC, CPHQ Department of Performance Improvement, VCU Health System Joseph P. Ornato MD, FACP, FACC, FACEP Department of Emergency Medicine, VCU Health System

43. Measurement of Prehospital Heart Rate Variability as a Predictor of Hospital Outcomes

44. Measurement of Prehospital Heart Rate Variability as a Clinical Predictor of Hospital Outcomes in Acutely Ill Patients Pavitra Padmanabhan, Zhiping Lin, Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Wee Ser and Guang-Bin Huang. Automatic Extraction of HRV Sequences From Noisy ECG Data For Reliable Analysis And Telediagnosis. In print. Proceedings of the Third IASTED International Conference on Telehealth Wang Su Ho (265-317 AD) A Treatise on Qualities of the Pulse, “If the pattern of the heart beat becomes as regular as the tapping of a woodpecker or the dripping of rain from the roof, the patient will be dead in four days.”

45. Noise reduction & QRS detection Noise reduction QRS detection

46. Wireless Remote Detection of Heart Beat & Respiratory Rate

48. Schematic view of Body Cooling Unit and wireless vital signs monitoring system