COVID-19 is an emerging disease of global public health concern. As the pandemic overwhelmed emergency departments (EDs), a restructuring of emergency care delivery became necessary in many hospitals. Furthermore, with more than 2000 papers being pub...
Delirium is an acute neurological disorder that involves attention and cognition. It is associated with a high risk of morbidity and mortality among older people (>65 years old). In the context of the Emergency Department (ED), it is frequently ex...
Background and Objectives: Due to the unexpected spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there was a serious crisis of emergency medical system collapse. Healthcare workers working in the emergency department were faced with psychosocial stres...
Severe bleeding is the leading cause of death in patients with major trauma admitted to the emergency department. It is estimated that about 50% of deaths happen within a few minutes of the traumatic event due to massive hemorrhage; 30% of deaths are...
This is a single-centre observational study of adult patients with severe pneumonia requiring hospitalization conducted at the emergency department. During the observation period (94 weeks), 398 patients were diagnosed with severe pneumonia and requi...
Background: The utilization of renal replacement therapy (RRT) is crucial for the management of patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) in emergency departments (EDs). The prompt initiation of RRT, encompassing both intermittent hemodialysis (HD) and...
Delirium is a common public health concern that significantly impacts older patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED). This condition is linked to adverse outcomes such as reduced long-term functionality, higher mortality rates, extended hos...
Aim: The aim of the study was to analyze whether a patient’s opinion is related to the effect of analgesic treatment. Methods: The study was conducted using a survey questionnaire among adult patients admitted to the hospital emergency departme...
While congenital heart disease historically was a pathology primarily restricted to specialized pediatric centers, advances in technology have dramatically increased the number of people living into adulthood, the number of complications faced by the...
In the Emergency Department (ED), pain is one of the symptoms that are most frequently reported, making it one of the most significant issues for the emergency physician, but it is frequently under-treated. Intravenous (IV), oral (PO), and intramuscu...
Background: Hyponatremia is one of the most common electrolyte disturbances in emergency departments. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of patients presenting with drug-induced hyponatremia and analyse factors associated with 30-day re...
Background: Brain computed tomography (CT) is the primary imaging modality for patients with acute neurological complaints in emergency departments, despite having a low diagnostic yield for many conditions. This study aimed to assess the common indi...
Severe patients visited regional emergency centers more frequently during the COVID-19 period, and disposition status warranting admission to the intensive care unit or resulting in death was more common during the COVID-19 period. This study was con...
27 September 2022
Hospital-based emergency services are frequently criticized worldwide for their management, which can lead to a decrease in staff motivation, with a potential impact on patient safety. This article describes how harnessing the power of social network...
Recurrent emergency department (ED) visits are responsible for an increasing proportion of overcrowding. Therefore, our aim was to investigate the characteristics and prevalence of recurrent ED visitors as well as to determine risk factors associated...
Sepsis and septic shock represent a leading cause of mortality in the Emergency Department (ED) and in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). For these life-threating conditions, different diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers have been studied. Proadrenomedu...
13 September 2019
Background: Pain management in emergency departments is a complex objective. The absence of a care pathway or a high level of activity complicates diagnostic or analgesic therapeutic strategies. Medical innovation can impact both individual practices...
Introduction: Sepsis, and particularly septic shock, is a life-threatening condition associated with high mortality rates in the emergency department. Timely interventions can significantly reduce these unacceptably high mortality rates. While some s...
Background/Objectives: The Identification of Seniors at Risk (ISAR) score is widely used to identify older emergency department (ED) patients at increased risk of adverse outcomes. However, its association with immediate disposition and operational o...
With the increasing global demand for artificial intelligence solutions, their role in medicine is also expected to grow as a result of their advantage of easy access to clinical data. Machine learning models, with their ability to process large amou...
(1) Background: The emergency department provides lifesaving treatment and has become an entry point to hospital admission. The purpose of our study was to describe the characteristics and outcomes of patients who were admitted through the emergency...
It is certain and established that overcrowding represents one of the main problems that has been affecting global health and the functioning of the healthcare system in the last decades, and this is especially true for the emergency department (ED)....
Background: The rapid spread of the disease has severely impacted healthcare systems around the world. There is a lack of evidence related to the care experience of emergency department nurses. Objective: To understand the care experience and thought...
Introduction: This study was conducted to determine whether specific emergency physician (EP) diagnoses and/or neurological signs/symptoms upon admission to the Emergency Department (ED) were associated with normal/non-informative emergency electroen...
Background and Objectives: Temporalis muscle thickness (TMT) has emerged as an imaging-based morphometric surrogate associated with reduced muscle mass and frailty; however, its prognostic value in emergency department cardiac arrest (EDCA) remains u...
The vast majority of injured patients suffer from pain. Systematic assessment of pain on admission to the emergency department (ED) is a cornerstone of translating the best treatment strategies for patient care into practice. Pain must be measured wi...
The Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (eFAST) plays a crucial role in the emergency department (ED) by providing rapid and non-invasive diagnostic information in trauma patients. It is a diagnostic-free fluid detection technique...
Overcrowding in Emergency Departments (EDs) is a phenomenon that is now widespread globally and causes a significant negative impact that goes on to affect the entire hospital. This contributes to a number of consequences that can affect both the num...
Objective: Inappropriate antimicrobial prescribing in the emergency department (ED) can lead to poor outcomes. It is unknown how often the prescribing clinician is guided by others, and whether prescriber factors affect appropriateness of prescribing...
The ever-increasing number of hospital Emergency Department (ED) visits pose a challenge to the effective running of health systems in many countries globally and multiple strategies have been adopted over the years to tackle the plight. According to...
Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada, with diagnoses increasing annually. In Alberta, many cancer cases are detected in emergency departments, often at advanced stages. Despite the significant role of emergency departments in cancer diagnos...
8 September 2021
We aimed to evaluate the overall clinical characteristics of patients treated by a neuro-emergency expert dedicated to the emergency department (ED) as an attending neurologist during the COVID-19 pandemic. We included adult patients who visited the...
Sepsis and septic shock are life-threatening emergencies associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Hence, early diagnosis and management of both conditions is of paramount importance. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a cost-effective and...
Background: Despite advancements in emergency medical systems, inter-hospital transfer (IHT) remains a critical component. Several studies have analyzed the impact of IHT on patient outcomes. Some studies have reported positive effects, indicating th...
The objective of this study was to characterize the content and interventions performed during follow-up phone calls made to patients discharged from the Geriatrics Emergency Department Innovation (GEDI) Program and to demonstrate the benefit of thes...
Major bleeding is a life-threatening condition with high morbidity and mortality. Trauma, gastrointestinal bleeding, haemoptysis, intracranial haemorrhage or other causes of bleeding represent major concerns in the Emergency Department (ED), especial...
Introduction: Large language models (LLMs) have proven effective in many different fields, including the allocation of scarce resources. Triage within emergency departments (ED) is a core process that ensures the sickest patients are seen in a timely...
Emergency department (ED) triage is the cornerstone of ED operations. Many different triage systems have been proposed and implemented globally. To date, an ideal triage system has not yet been identified. As the burden on EDs rises, with overcrowdin...
Background and Objectives: There is scarce data about the epidemiology, clinical features, investigations, diagnosis, treatment, and outcome in patients attending Singapore emergency departments (EDs) with nontraumatic headache. We sought to describe...
10 January 2023
The use of opioids to treat pain can increase the risk of long-term opioid dependency and is associated with negative patient outcomes. The objective of this study was to present the initial results following the implementation of Emergency-Departmen...
Opiophobia contributes to oligoanalgesia in the emergency department (ED), but its definition varies, and its association to healthcare providers’ personality traits has been scantly explored. Our purpose was to study the different definitions of opi...
Objective: This study was conducted to examine the relationship between ruminative thinking styles and suicide probability in individuals presenting to the emergency department with suspected alcohol and substance intoxication/use, and to investigate...
Background. Overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs), particularly pediatric emergency departments (PEDs), remains a significant challenge that affects patient outcomes and the efficiency of healthcare. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for respirator...
Background/Objectives: Very few studies describe the various feelings experienced in the emergency department (ED). Our study describes the pain, stress, and negative and positive emotions experienced by patients admitted to the ED in relation to age...
Objectives: Early recognition and prevention of in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) play an increasingly important role in the Chain of Survival. However, clinical tools for predicting IHCA in the emergency department (ED) are scanty. We sought to eval...
Objectives: This study analyzes factors influencing Emergency Department (ED) overcrowding by examining the impacts of operational, environmental, and external variables, including weather conditions and football games. Materials and Methods: This re...
Background and Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has profoundly impacted healthcare systems worldwide. To assess the effects of the pandemic on pediatric emergency department (ED) visits in Taiwan, we conducted a study to e...
The provision of quality healthcare is an international mandate. The provision of quality healthcare for mental health patients poses unique challenges. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in the emergency department. The purpose of this manuscrip...
Background/Objectives: Ambulance-transported patients represent an important subgroup of emergency department (ED) admissions and may demonstrate distinct temporal presentation patterns. However, studies simultaneously evaluating broad diagnostic cat...
19 November 2010
Objectives were to assess and estimate an association between exposure to ground-level ozone and emergency department (ED) visits for cellulitis. All ED visits for cellulitis in Edmonton, Canada, in the period April 1992–March 2002 (N = 69,547) were...
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