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  1. Disaster responders are an important part of disaster response. However, despite large efforts to train disaster responders, there is a limited scientific knowledge regarding which competences and skills such ...

    Authors: Anja Westman, Lisa Kurland and Karin Hugelius
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:171
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  2. Length of stay in the emergency department is used as a quality indicator to gauge the overall efficiency of emergency care. The performance measure was used to evaluate the quality of care provided in the eme...

    Authors: Telayneh Addis Zeleke, Wagari Tuli Nora, Muluwork Tefera Denberu, Ousman Adal and Lemlem Beza Demisse
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:170
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  3. Healthcare systems worldwide are facing numerous challenges, such as an aging population, reduced availability of hospital beds, staff reductions and closure of emergency departments (ED). These issues can exa...

    Authors: Ã…sa Falchenberg, Ulf Andersson, Gabriella Norberg Boysen, Henrik Andersson and Anders Sterner
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:169
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  4. Approximately 458,000 victims were deceased from intentional violence in 2021. A stabbing assault causes 25% of homicides. The study aims to evaluate injury patterns, trauma scores, radiological findings, type...

    Authors: Nil Deniz Kartal Yeter, Mehmet Ali Karaca, Ahmet Sefa Yeter, Elif Öztürk İnce and Bülent Erbil
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:168
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  6. Overcrowded emergency departments (EDs) are associated with higher morbidity and mortality and suboptimal quality-of-care. Most ED flow management strategies focus on early identification and redirection of lo...

    Authors: Anne-Laure Feral-Pierssens, Isabelle Gaboury, Clément Carbonnier and Mylaine Breton
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:166
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  7. Providing feedback to healthcare professionals and organisations on performance or patient outcomes may improve care quality and professional development, particularly in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) where...

    Authors: Caitlin Wilson, Luke Budworth, Gillian Janes, Rebecca Lawton and Jonathan Benn
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:165
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  8. Neurological emergencies are one of the major diagnosis groups in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) with the highest rate of misdiagnosis. Despite the knowledge of time sensitivity and the importance of pre...

    Authors: Vesta Brauckmann, Dominica Hudasch, Pascal Gräff, Torben Riecke, Gökmen Aktas, Jorge Mayor and Christian Macke
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:164
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:218

  9. In the recent years, National Early Warning Score2 (NEWS2) is utilized to predict early on, the worsening of clinical status in patients. To this date the predictive accuracy of National Early Warning Score (N...

    Authors: Mohammad Reza Yousefi, Mehrdad Karajizadeh, Mehdi Ghasemian and Shahram Paydar
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:163
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  10. Workplace violence (WPV) is an important issue in prehospital care, especially for emergency medical technicians ( EMTs) who are at increased risk of physical violence due to the nature of their work. This stu...

    Authors: Ali Afshari, Majid Barati, Fatemeh Darabi and Afshin Khazaei
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:162
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  11. Sepsis is a severe medical condition that can be life-threatening. If sepsis progresses to septic shock, the mortality rate increases to around 40%, much higher than the 10% mortality observed in sepsis. Diabe...

    Authors: Wijittra Liengswangwong, Ranchana Siriwannabhorn, Sittichok Leela-Amornsin, Chaiyaporn Yuksen, Pitsucha Sanguanwit, Chonthicha Duangsri, Nusara Kusonkhum and Parnthap Saelim
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:161
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  12. Telemedicine encompasses all medical practices that allow patients to be remotely cared for through new information and communication technologies. This study aims to assess the remote management of patients c...

    Authors: Houda Ben Soltane, Ines Lazrak, Souhir Chelly, Mariem Khrouf, Salma Younes, Ons Haddaji, Mohamed Mahjoub and Zied Mezgar
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:160
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  13. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, there has been a substantial increase in the demand for prehospital services. Emergency medical service (EMS) providers have encountered a myriad of challenges tha...

    Authors: Afshin Khazaei, Mohammad Torabi, Maryam Shayganihonar and Ali Reza Bayat
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:159
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  14. We conducted a scoping review of the evidence for the use of the Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) tool in emergency pediatric patients, in hospital and prehospital settings. We focused on the psychometric p...

    Authors: Tore A. G. Tørisen, Julie M. Glanville, Andres F. Loaiza and Julia Bidonde
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:158
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  15. Prehospital airway management remains crucial with regard to the quality and safety of emergency medical service (EMS) systems worldwide. In 2007, the benchmark study by Timmermann et al. hit the German EMS co...

    Authors: Ulf Lorenzen, Hartwig Marung, Christine Eimer, Andrea Köser, Stephan Seewald, Marcus Rudolph and Florian Reifferscheid
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:157
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  17. Opioids kill more people than any other class of drug. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist which can be distributed in kits for peer administration. We assessed the feasibility of implementing a Take-home Naloxon...

    Authors: Helen A. Snooks, Jenna K. Jones, Fiona B. Bell, Jonathon R. Benger, Sarah L. Black, Simon Dixon, Adrian Edwards, Helena Emery, Bridie A. Evans, Gordon W. Fuller, Steve Goodacre, Rebecca Hoskins, Jane Hughes, Ann John, Sasha Johnston, Matthew B. Jones…
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:155
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  18. Paramedics are responsible for critical resuscitation decisions when attending Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OHCA). Existing research indicates that a range of clinical and non-clinical factors moderate the...

    Authors: Galina Gardiner, Karin Eli, Caroline J. Huxley, Rachael Fothergill, Gavin D. Perkins, Michael A. Smyth, Frances Griffiths and Anne-Marie Slowther
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:154
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  19. Hospitals as the main providers of healthcare services play an essential role in the management of disasters and emergencies. Nurses are one of the important and influential elements in increasing the surge ca...

    Authors: Alireza Shafiei, Narges Arsalani, Mehdi Beyrami Jam and Hamid Reza Khankeh
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:153
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  20. As first responders, paramedics are an extremely important part of the care chain. COVID-19 significantly impacted their working circumstances. We examined, according to the experiences and observations of par...

    Authors: Henna Myrskykari and Hilla Nordquist
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:152
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  21. Considering the vital role of nurses in responding to disasters, it is essential to measure their readiness with a valid and reliable tool. The present study aimed to assess the psychometric properties of the ...

    Authors: Reza Ghanei Gheshlagh, Arvin Barzanji, Faezeh Amini and Hosein Zahednezhad
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:151
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    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:183

  22. Severe hyperlactatemia (lactate level ≥ 10 mmol/L) is associated with high mortality rates in critically ill patients. However, there is limited data on emergency department (ED) patients. We aimed to investig...

    Authors: Thanat Tangpaisarn, Byron C. Drumheller, Ronnakorn Daungjunchot, Praew Kotruchin, Kiattichai Daorattanachai and Pariwat Phungoen
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:150
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  23. Crowding has been a longstanding issue in emergency departments. To address this, a fast-track system for avoidable patients is being implemented in the Paediatric Emergency Department where our study is condu...

    Authors: João Viana, Júlio Souza, Ruben Rocha, Almeida Santos and Alberto Freitas
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:149
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  25. Emergency department (ED) crowding is a major patient safety concern and has a negative impact on healthcare systems and healthcare providers. We hypothesized that it would be feasible to control crowding by e...

    Authors: Jesper Juul Larsen, Halfdan Lauridsen, Laurits Wullum Gundersen, Birgit Falk Riecke and Thomas A. Schmidt
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:147
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  26. At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, devastating incidents increased due to frequent oxygen administration to patients. The dangers associated with the use of oxygen, especially through local enrichments and ...

    Authors: Lisa Marie Kohler, Andrea Köhler, Fabian Perschinka, Bernhard M. Benda, Michael Joannidis and Frank Hartig
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:146
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  27. Authors: Alexander Althammer, Stephan Prückner, Geogr Christian Gehring, Victoria Lieftüchter, Heiko Trentzsch and Florian Hoffmann
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:145
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:77

  28. Advances in emergency and critical care have improved outcomes, but gaps in communication and decision-making persist, especially in the emergency department (ED), prompting the development of a checklist to a...

    Authors: Hongxia Ge, Shu Li and Qingbian Ma
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:144
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  29. This study aimed to address the challenges faced by rural emergency medical services in Europe, due to an increasing number of missions and limited human resources. The primary objective was to determine the n...

    Authors: Josef Michael Lintschinger, Daniel Laxar, Lorenz Kapral, Stefan Ulbing, Thomas Glock, Sybille Behrens, Christoph Frimmel, Reinhold Renner, Daniel Alexander Klaus, Harald Willschke and Christina Hafner
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:143
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  30. Utilization by low acuity patients contributes to emergency department (ED) crowding. Both knowledge deficits about adequate care levels and access barriers in primary care are important promoters of such pres...

    Authors: Felix Holzinger, Lisa Kümpel, Rebecca Resendiz Cantu, Anja Alberter, Martin Möckel and Christoph Heintze
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:142
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  31. Preliminary evidence demonstrates that visit-to-visit systolic blood pressure (SBP) variability is a prognostic factor of TBI. However, literature regarding the impact of initial blood pressure management on t...

    Authors: Shao-Yang Zhang, Chang-Li Li, Jian Yin, Meng Jiang and Xiao-Feng Yang
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:141
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  32. Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major public health problem with substantial mortality rates worldwide. Genetic diseases and primary electrical disorders are the most common etiologies at younger ag...

    Authors: Meir Tabi, Nimrod Perel, Louay Taha, Itshak Amsalem, Rafi Hitter, Tomer Maller, Mohamed Manassra, Mohammad Karmi, Netanel Zacks, Nir Levy, Maayan Shrem, David Marmor, David Gavriel, Amir Jarjoui, Mony Shuvy and Elad Asher
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:140
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  33. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive accuracy of the prehospital rapid emergency medicine score (pREMS) for predicting the outcomes of hospitalized patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) who died, w...

    Authors: Ali Afshari, Mohammad Torabi, Afshin Khazaei, Sasan Navkhasi, Marzieh Aslani and Vahid Molaee
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:139
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  34. Road traffic accidents(RTA) are a major public health problem worldwide, accounting for almost 1.24 million deaths per year and it is the number one cause of death among those aged group 15–29 years. Even thou...

    Authors: Fatuma Seid Degu, Adem Hussein Endris, Samuel Anteneh Ayele, Natnaiel Grima Melkie, Mitaw Girma Kenbaw, Mekuriaw Wuhib Shumye, Missale Kassahun Hirpo, Atrsaw Dessie Liyew, Mandefro Assefaw Geremew and Prem Kumar
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:138
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  36. The current UK standard for major trauma patients is to record notes in a paper trauma booklet. Through an innovative collaboration between a major trauma centre and a digital transformation industry partner, ...

    Authors: Miss Joanna Butler, Clare Arneil, Alan S. Whitelaw, Kevin Thomson, Malcolm W. G. Gordon, Josh Thorburn, Darren Shiels and David J. Lowe
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:136
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  37. Pedestrian traffic injuries are a rising public health concern worldwide. In rapidly urbanizing countries like Saudi Arabia, these injuries account for a considerable proportion of trauma cases and represent a...

    Authors: Rayan Jafnan Alharbi, Abdulrhman Saleh Alghamdi, Rami Al-Jafar, Ateeq Almuwallad and Sharfuddin Chowdhury
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:135
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  38. The emergency department (ED) is a vital source of healthcare for individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD). Prior research indicates that during the COVID-19 pandemic some individuals with SCD avoided...

    Authors: Brandon K. Attell, Allison P. Plaxco, Mei Zhou, Jhaqueline Valle, Sarah L. Reeves, Pooja N. Patel, Krista Latta, Matthew P. Smeltzer and Angela B. Snyder
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:134
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  40. To compare compliance with the French national guidelines before and after the implementation (in 2018) of a new protocol on acute fracture pain management in the pediatric emergency department of a French uni...

    Authors: Mélany Liber, Claire De Jorna, Déborah Abidji, Nassima Ramdane, Justine Avez-Couturier and François Dubos
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:132
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  41. The process of transferring patients from small rural primary care facilities to referral facilities impacts the quality of care and effectiveness of the referral healthcare system. The study aimed to develop ...

    Authors: Tebogo T. Mamalelala, William L. Holzemer, Esther S. Seloilwe and Emilia Iwu
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:131
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  42. Mortality due to injuries disproportionately impact low income countries. Knowledge of who is at risk of poor outcomes is critical to guide resource allocation and prioritization of severely injured. Kampala T...

    Authors: John Damulira, Joshua Muhumuza, Umaru Kabuye, Godfrey Ssebaggala, Michael Lowery Wilson, Till Bärnighausen and Herman Lule
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:130
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  43. In healthcare settings, physical and verbal attacks are commonly encountered in the workplace among healthcare providers. Patients and patients’ relatives and friends have been reported to be the perpetrators ...

    Authors: Kholoud Abdullah Babkair, Bsaim Abdulsalam Altirkistani, Jamil Mostafa Baljoon, Abdulrahman Adnan Almehmadi, Ahmad Loay Atiah, Sultan Abdullah Alsadan and Montasir Esam Moamena
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:129
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  44. Compared to the conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CCPR), potential benefits of extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for patients with cardiac arrest (CA) are still controversial. We ai...

    Authors: Hong Zhong, Zhaohui Yin, Yanze Wang, Pei Shen, Guoli He, Shiming Huang, Jianhong Wang, Shan Huang, Li Ding, Zunwei Luo and Manhong Zhou
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:128
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  45. Emergency medical services preparedness in mass casualty incidents is one of the most important concerns in emergency systems. A mass casualty incident is a sudden event with several injured individuals that o...

    Authors: Vahid Saadatmand, Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh, Nasrin Shokrpour, Hamid Reza Abbasi and Mahmoud Reza Peyravi
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:127
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  46. Authors: Benedikt Schick, Benjamin Mayer, Markus Jäger, Bettina Jungwirth, Eberhard Barth, Martin Eble, Christoph Sponholz, Claus-Martin Muth and Carlos Schönfeldt-Lecuona
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:126
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2022 22:173

  47. Due to the high burden of mortality from acute communicable and non-communicable diseases, emergency department’s mortality has become one of the major health indices in Ethiopia that should be evaluated regul...

    Authors: Mengistu Abebe Messelu, Baye Tsegaye Amlak, Gebrehiwot Berie Mekonnen, Asnake Gashaw Belayneh, Sosina Tamre, Ousman Adal, Tiruye Azene Demile, Yeshimebet Tamir Tsehay, Alamirew Enyew Belay, Henok Biresaw Netsere, Wubet Tazeb Wondie, Gebremeskel Kibret Abebe, Sileshi Mulatu and Temesgen Ayenew
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:125
    Content type: Systematic Review Published on:

  48. Emergency nurses play a pivotal role in delivering efficient emergency healthcare, yet they often encounter numerous challenges, especially while managing life-threatening cases, impacting both their well-bein...

    Authors: Rawan AlZahrani, Abdulellah Al Thobaity and Manal Saleh Moustafa Saleh
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:123
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  49. The percentage of elderly trauma patients under anticoagulation and antiplatelet agents has been rising lately. As newer agents are introduced, each comes with its own advantages and precautions. Our study cov...

    Authors: David Bettschen, Dimitra Tsichlaki, Eleftherios Chatzimichail, Jolanta Klukowska-Rötzler, Martin Müller, Thomas C. Sauter, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos, Mairi Ziaka, Michael Doulberis and John-Patrik Burkhard
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:121
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  50. Early and adequate preliminary diagnosis reduce emergency department (ED) and hospital stay and may reduce mortality. Several studies demonstrated adequate preliminary diagnosis as stated by emergency medical ...

    Authors: Lars I. Veldhuis, P. Gouma, Prabath W. B. Nanayakkara and J. Ludikhuize
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:120
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