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MS DEBRA KERR



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Organization: Medicine - Royal Melbourne and Western Hospitals
Position: Honorary (Senior Fellow)

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Nursing Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Certificate of Coronary Care Institution not known
Registered Nurse Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

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Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Impact of oral dexamethasone versus placebo after ED treatment of migraine with phenothiazines on the rate of recurrent headache: a randomised controlled trial


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Emergency Medicine Journal
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 26-29
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  • When continuity of care breaks down: a systems failure in identification of osteoporosis risk in older patients treated for minimal trauma fractures


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 188
    Page numbers: 389-391
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  • Impact of patient and environmental factors on capillary refill time in adults
    Year: 2008
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 62-65
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  • Intranasal naloxone for the treatment of suspected heroin overdose
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 379-386
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • External validation of the Best Guess formulae for paediatric weight estimation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Emergency Medicine Australasia
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 543-546
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  • External validation of the San Francisco Syncope Rule in the Australian context
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 157-161
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  • Failed validation of the Argall weight formula for estimating children's weight in an Australian emergency department
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Academic Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 486-488
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  • Is cardiac monitoring during transport of low-risk chest pain patients from the emergency department necessary?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Emergency Medicine Australasia
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 229-233
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  • Parental weight estimation of their child's weight is more accurate than other weight estimation methods for determining children's weight in an emergency department?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Emergency Medicine Journal
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 756-759
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Adverse events associated with the use of intravenous epinephrine in emergency department patients presenting with severe asthma.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Annals of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 559-563
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  • Head computed tomography guidelines are being followed.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Emergency Medicine Australasia
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 238-244
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  • One-handed versus two-handed chest compressions in paediatric cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Resuscitation
    Volume: 71
    Page numbers: 65-69
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  • Predictors of ambulance use in patients with acute myocardial infarction in Australia.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Emergency Medicine Journal
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 948-952
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Implementation of the Canadian C-spine rule reduces cervical spine X-ray rate for alert patients with potential neck injury
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 127-131
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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  • Randomised trial of intranasal versus intramuscular naloxone in prehospital treatment for suspected opioid overdose
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 182
    Page numbers: 24-27
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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  • The quality of medical record review studies in the international emergency medicine literature
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annals of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 444-447
    Publisher: Mosby
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  • Validation of venous pCO2 to screen for arterial hypercarbia in patients with chronic obstructive airways disease
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 28
    Page numbers: 377-379
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Asthma in emergency departments: Combined adult and apediatric versus paediatric only centres
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 433-437
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Can nurses apply the Canadian C-spine rule: A pilot study
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 161-164
    Publisher: Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
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  • Clinical features in the emergency department can identify patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes who are safe for care in unmonitored hospital beds
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Internal Medicine Journal
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 594-597
    Publisher: Blackwell Science Asia(Carlton)
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  • Clinical nursing research: nurses' attitudes and activity
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Collegian
    Volume: 11
    Page numbers: 17-21
    Publisher: Royal College of Nursing Australia
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  • Is severity assessment after one hour of treatment better for predicting the need for admission in acute asthma?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Respiratory Medicine
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 777-781
    Publisher: WB Saunders Co
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  • Potential impact of interventions to reduce times to thrombolysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Emergency Medicine Journal
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 625-629
    Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Call-to-needle times for thrombolysis in acute myocardial infarction in Victoria
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 178
    Page numbers: 381-385
    Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Co Ltd(Sydney)
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