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This section publishes articles on emergency medicine not covered by the other sections, including but not limited to: pediatric EM, neurological and psychiatric EM, toxicology and poisoning management, infection and sepsis, ultrasound, healthcare services research.
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Systematic reviews call for well-designed trials with clearly described intervention components to support the effectiveness of educational campaigns to reduce patient delay in stroke presentation. We herein d...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:20
Published on: 24 June 2017
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Hemorrhage is the main cause of maternal death during pregnancy. This study aims to evaluate incidence and outcomes of Severe Ante Partum Hemorrhage (SAPH) during the third trimester of pregnancy prior to deli...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:17
Published on: 31 May 2017
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There is no common understanding of how needs of emergency department (ED) frequent users differ from other patients. This study sought to examine how to best serve this population. Examinations of why ED freq...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:16
Published on: 10 May 2017
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While the capacities to care for and epidemiology of emergency and critically ill patients have been reported for secondary and tertiary level hospitals in Mongolia, no data exist for Mongolian primary level h...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:15
Published on: 8 May 2017
Study protocol
Musculoskeletal injuries are a common presentation to the Emergency Department (ED). The quality of care provided is important to the patients, clinicians, organisations and purchasers of care. In the context ...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:14
Published on: 5 May 2017
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Dyspnea is a frequent complaint in emergency departments (ED). It has a significant amount of subjective and affective components, therefore the dyspnea scores, based on the patients’ rating, can be ambiguous....
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:13
Published on: 26 April 2017
Research article
Intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) affects almost every organ sytem.If it is not detected early and corrected, mortality would be high. The prevalence of IAH and abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) at Kenyatt...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:10
Published on: 23 March 2017
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Appropriate and timely recognition of sepsis is a prerequisite for starting goal-directed therapy bundles. We analyzed the appropriateness of sepsis recognition and documentation with regard to adequacy of the...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:11
Published on: 23 March 2017
Research article
To investigate the impact of presenting to an Emergency Department (ED) during pregnancy on postnatal depression (PND) in women in New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:12
Published on: 23 March 2017
Research article
Bystander first aid can improve survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest or trauma. Thus, providing first aid education to laypersons may lead to better outcomes. In this study, we aimed to establish ...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:6
Published on: 23 February 2017
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Ingestion of foreign bodies and food impaction represent the second most common endoscopic emergency after bleeding. The aim of this paper is to report the management and the outcomes in 67 patients admitted f...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:42
Published on: 4 November 2016
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Secondary peritonitis is a common surgical emergence with deadly outcomes when not timely and promptly intervened. The emergence of Extended spectrum beta lactamase producing bacteria (ESBL) poses treatment ch...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:41
Published on: 21 October 2016
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To determine the extent to which 30- and 90-day hospital readmission and mortality rates differ as a function of whether a chest pain patient is placed in observation status or admitted to the hospital for a s...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:38
Published on: 21 September 2016
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Dizziness is a common chief complaint of patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED). Physicians must quickly and accurately identify patients whose etiology is most likely ischemia. Additional tools ...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:37
Published on: 13 September 2016
Research article
Diagnostic error and delay are critical impediments to the safety of critically ill patients. Checklist for early recognition and treatment of acute illness and injury (CERTAIN) has been developed as a tool th...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:35
Published on: 31 August 2016
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Psychological distress in medical patients admitted to the emergency department (ED) is not well studied. Our aim was to investigate the extent of psychological distress in a broad and unselected medical patie...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:33
Published on: 24 August 2016
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Sepsis is an often-fatal syndrome resulting from severe infection. Rapid identification and treatment are critical for septic patients. We therefore developed a probabilistic model to identify septic patients ...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:31
Published on: 22 August 2016
Research article
Individuals living with sickle cell disease (SCD) have significantly increased emergency department (ED) use compared to the general population. In Saudi Arabia, health care is free for all individuals and the...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:30
Published on: 20 August 2016
Research article
The identification of frail older persons in different health care settings is widely seen as an important step in improving the healthcare system. Screening at an emergency department (ED) should be handled i...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:27
Published on: 22 July 2016
Research article
Older people frequently attend the emergency department (ED) and have a high risk of poor outcome as compared to their younger counterparts. Our aim was to study routinely collected clinical parameters as pred...
BMC Emergency Medicine 2016 16:26
Published on: 13 July 2016
