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Providing timely first-aid by trained responders can reduce deaths and disabilities from road traffic accidents, a leading global cause of death. Ethiopia ranks 19th worldwide and 4th in Africa. Therefore, thi...
Implementing innovative educational methods is crucial for enhancing emergency technicians’ knowledge and skills in providing fundamental care for trauma patients. This study aims to assess the impact of a sce...
Anemia affects up to 25% of emergency department (ED) patients. Restrictive red blood cell (RBC) transfusion strategies are recommended for stable patients, but ED transfusion practices often remain liberal. B...
Emergency endotracheal intubation is a critical skill for managing airway emergencies in the emergency department (ED). Accurate prediction of difficult laryngoscopy is essential for improving first-attempt su...
Disasters are becoming more frequent globally. In the past years, Saudi Arabia has been exposed to various disasters. Public awareness of disasters and disaster preparedness/response are deemed important to re...
Several prehospital trauma triage tools have been recently developed, but no standardized tools currently exist to identify trauma patients at risk of requiring resuscitative interventions (RIs) within the fir...
Overcrowding is a common issue in emergency departments worldwide. One condition associated with overcrowding is the Emergency Department Length of Stay(EDLOS). Prolonged EDLOS is linked to increased hospitali...
EMS providers are often the only emergency workers with medical knowledge at the scene of chemical hazards and are exposed to severe risks. They should always be prepared to face chemical hazards to be able to...
The 72-h emergency department (ED) revisit rate is a key quality indicator. While some revisits stem from medical errors or inadequate initial treatment, others are due to disease progression or a lack of acce...
The literature has identified numerous factors that contribute to workplace violence, ranging from environmental stressors to interpersonal conflict. However, a gap remains in our understanding of the specific...
This study explores HICGs’ experience of disaster response during a terrorist-induced major incident major incident.
Medical regulation of chest pain is challenging due to the multitude of potential diagnoses. The key challenge is to avoid misdiagnosing acute coronary syndrome while preventing over-triage. The SCARE score (b...
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) presents significant challenges with low survival rates, emphasizing the need for effective bystander CPR training. In Basic Life Support (BLS) training, the role of instr...
Timely management of sepsis in the emergency department, including the use of appropriate antimicrobials, is crucial for improving patient outcomes. Inadequate empiric antimicrobial treatment is associated wit...
Emergency departments (EDs) are high pressure work environments with several psychosocial job demands, e.g., violence, and job resources, e.g., colleague support. So far, the perceptions of working conditions ...
Dysnatremia is a critical electrolyte disturbance that can significantly impact the prognosis of trauma patients by influencing fluid balance, neurological function, and hemodynamics. Although sodium disorder ...
Volunteers providing nursing services are among the first individuals to arrive at the scene after an incident; therefore, they must use their skills and capabilities to provide necessary care for the injured ...
Traumatic injuries are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, with a disproportionate impact on populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Kampala Trauma Score (KTS) is frequent...
Moral intelligence is a significant and influential factor in the delivery of principled and high-quality care. This is because moral intelligence is the ability to recognize and be sensitive to moral issues, ...
Acute non-traumatic chest pain is one of the common complaints in the emergency department and is closely associated with fatal disease. Triage assessment urgently requires the use of simple, rapid tools to sc...
Long-COVID research to date focuses on outcomes in non-hospitalised vs. hospitalised survivors. However Emergency Department attendees (post-ED) presenting with acute COVID-19 may experience less supported rec...
In the 21st century, disasters (particularly earthquakes, which remain the leading cause of death) continue to be among the foremost issues requiring global emergency response. While the impact of advancing te...
Globally, healthcare institutions have seen a marked rise in workplace violence (WPV), especially since the Covid-19 pandemic began, affecting primarily acute care and emergency departments (EDs). At the Unive...
National response time targets for ambulance services are known to be more strongly maintained in urban areas compared to rural. That may mean that responses in rural areas could be less immediate which can in...
The incidence of contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) in the general population ranges from 0.6 to 2.3%, whereas for specific high-risk patients, the incidence can reach more than 30–40%. Ultrasound m...
Saudi ambulance clinicians face unique challenges in providing prehospital care to older trauma patients. Limited geriatric-specific training and complex needs of this population hinder effective management, l...
The ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States has reinforced the need to provide multimodal and non-opioid pain management interventions. The PAMI-ED ALT program employed a multifaceted approach in the Emer...
The use of emergency tourniquets among military personnel has helped to dramatically reduce battlefield deaths and has recently gained popularity in the civilian sector. Yet, even well-trained individuals can ...
Overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) is a major public health issue, leading to increased workload and exhaustion for the teams, resulting poor outcomes. It seems interesting to be able to predict the ad...
In Sweden with about 10 million inhabitants, there are about one million primary ambulance missions every year. Among them, around 10% are assessed by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) clinicians with the primar...
Air medical transport services play a significant role in emergency situations by providing timely transfers of critically ill patients to medical facilities. This study aimed to investigate the mission charac...
Based on explainable DenseNet model, the therapeutic effects of optimization nursing on patients with acute left heart failure (ALHF) and its application values were discussed.
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) incidents present rare and complex challenges for Emergency Medical Services (EMS), necessitating effective incident command to manage occupat...
The ability of hospitals to provide special care services for critically ill or injured patients during emergencies and disasters poses very significant challenges that necessitate the response in-place plans....
Accurate triage is required for efficient allocation of resources and to decrease patients’ length of stay. Triage decisions are often subjective and vary by provider, leading to patients being over-triaged or...
In emergency settings, difficult intubations often occur unexpectedly despite pre-intubation assessments. Traditional glottic view scoring systems for direct laryngoscope may not apply to video laryngoscopy. W...
Learning motivation is essential to obtain and maintain ultrasound competencies in emergency medicine. One’s competencies herein and the need for ongoing training are best evaluated by self-assessment. This ma...
Paediatric mortality rates in low- and middle-income countries account for over 80% of the global burden. In South Africa, one in every 33 children will not reach the age of five. Despite the high mortality ra...
Reflection is an essential educational practice often characterized as a self-regulated learning activity. Self-regulated learning has been shown to positively influence learning motivation and metacognition. ...
Droperidol is a first-generation antipsychotic medication that has been used for various indications in the emergency department (ED); however, its use has been controversial due to reports of QT prolongation ...
In the complex landscape of modern warfare, understanding combat-related injuries leading to hospitalization is crucial for optimizing injury treatment. This study aims to compare combat casualty characteristi...
Traumatic injuries, particularly those involving massive bleeding, remain a leading cause of preventable deaths in prehospital settings. The availability of appropriate emergency equipment is crucial for effec...
Road traffic injuries are a global public health challenge. This study was conducted to describe the epidemiological patterns of road traffic injuries in a large tertiary care hospital in the West Bank of Pale...
Studies have shown that Emergency Department physicians have little to no training in recognizing and supporting victims of human trafficking despite being uniquely situated to identify and intervene on behalf...
Saudi paramedics face numerous challenges while providing care for adult trauma patients affecting their care but little is known about these specific challenges.
The aim of this study was to describe perceived health problems among disaster responders after the earthquake in eastern Turkey/Syria in February 2023.
The increasing proportion of elderly populations has led to a rise in chronic diseases and frequent transfers between long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) and emergency departments (EDs). This study investigates t...
The reduction of processing times in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke is of outstanding importance. Our objective is to analyze the acute stroke care chain from onset to treatment in a city in Germany co...
Chest pain is a common condition in the emergency department (ED). High-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) assays are crucial for diagnosing acute coronary syndrome, but the implications of “negative but me...
In healthcare facilities, an efficient triage system is critical to optimize patient care. The main objective of this study was to explore the triage processes and practices in three different tiers of healthc...
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