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BMC Emergency Medicine

General emergency medicine

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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  1. Content type: Research article

    The aim of this study is to test the diagnostic value of baseline and early change of C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations, evaluated separately or in combination with the modified Alvarado score (MAS), in ...

    Authors: Mohamed Amine Msolli, Kaouther Beltaief, Wahid Bouida, Nahla Jerbi, Mohamed Habib Grissa, Hamdi Boubaker, Riadh Boukef and Semir Nouira

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:15

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  2. Content type: Research article

    Since the 1990s, community-associated methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) has emerged as an important global cause of skin and soft tissue infections. Little is known about the epidemiology of t...

    Authors: Muna Al Jalaf, Hanan Fadali, Rasha Alanee, Firas Najjar, Zulfa Al Deesi, Rania M. Seliem and Eric J. Nilles

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:12

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  3. Content type: Research article

    Approximately 80% of patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) with chest pain do not have any true cardiopulmonary emergency such as acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, psychological contributors ...

    Authors: Paul I. Musey Jr, John A. Lee, Cassandra A. Hall and Jeffrey A. Kline

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:10

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  4. Content type: Research article

    Studies investigating different medical conditions and settings have demonstrated mixed results regarding the weekend effect. However, data on the outcome of elderly patients hospitalised on weekends is scarce...

    Authors: Steffie H. A. Brouns, Joyce J. Wachelder, Femke S. Jonkers, Suze L. Lambooij, Jeanne P. Dieleman and Harm R. Haak

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:9

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  5. Content type: Research article

    Triage is used to prioritize the patients in the emergency department. The majority of the triage systems include the patients’ pain score to assess their level of acuity by using a combination of patient repo...

    Authors: Martin Høhrmann Hangaard, Brian Malling and Christian Backer Mogensen

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:8

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  6. Content type: Case report

    Surgical cricothyroidotomy is considered to be the last resort for management of the difficult airway. A major point for a successful surgical cricothyroidotomy is to identify the location of the cricothyroid ...

    Authors: Hiromu Okano, Kohji Uzawa, Kunitaro Watanabe, Akira Motoyasu, Joho Tokumine, Alan Kawarai Lefor and Tomoko Yorozu

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:5

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  7. Content type: Research article

    Clinical handover is an important process for the transition of patient-care responsibility to the next healthcare provider, but it may divert the attention of the team away from active patients. This is chall...

    Authors: Sami Alsolamy, Atheer Al-Sabhan, Najla Alassim, Musharaf Sadat, Eman Al Qasim, Hani Tamim and Yaseen M Arabi

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:3

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  8. Content type: Case report

    Pneumocephalus, illustrated by air in the cranial vault is relatively infrequent and generally associated with neurosurgery, trauma, meningitis and barotrauma. However cases of spontaneous non-traumatic pneumo...

    Authors: Abdus Samad Ansari, Brittany B. Dennis, Dilip Shah and Winfred Baah

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:2

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  9. Content type: Research article

    While emergency airway management training is conventionally conducted via face-to-face learning (F2FL) workshops, there are inherent cost, time, place and manpower limitations in running such workshops. Blend...

    Authors: Madeleine Huei Tze Kho, Keng Sheng Chew, Muhaimin Noor Azhar, Mohd Lotfi Hamzah, Kee Man Chuah, Aida Bustam and Hiang Chuan Chan

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:1

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  10. Content type: Research article

    The early warning score (EWS) was developed to identify deteriorating patients early. It is a track-and-trigger system based on vital signs designed to direct appropriate clinical responses based on the seriou...

    Authors: John Asger Petersen, Lars S. Rasmussen and Susan Rydahl-Hansen

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:36

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  11. Content type: Research article

    As many as 12% of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) patients screen positive for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms due to their cardiac event, and emergency department (ED) factors such as overcrowdin...

    Authors: Beatrice Konrad, David Hiti, Bernard P. Chang, Jessica Retuerto, Jacob Julian and Donald Edmondson

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:33

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  12. Content type: Research article

    Sepsis management in the Emergency Department remains a daily challenge. The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) has released three-hour bundle. The implementation of these bundles in European Emergency Department...

    Authors: Philippe Le Conte, Séverin Thibergien, Jean Batiste Obellianne, Emmanuel Montassier, Gilles Potel, Pierre Marie Roy and Eric Batard

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:27

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  13. Content type: Study protocol

    Overuse of antibiotics is a major public health problem, contributing to growing antibiotic resistance. Procalcitonin has been reported to be commonly elevated in bacterial, but not viral infection. Multiple E...

    Authors: David T. Huang, Derek C. Angus, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Yohei Doi, Michael J. Fine, John A. Kellum, Octavia M. Peck-Palmer, Francis Pike, Lisa A. Weissfeld, Jonathan Yabes and Donald M. Yealy

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:25

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  14. Content type: Research article

    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...

    Authors: Caterina Caminiti, Peter Schulz, Barbara Marcomini, Elisa Iezzi, Silvia Riva, Umberto Scoditti, Andrea Zini, Giovanni Malferrari, Maria Luisa Zedde, Donata Guidetti, Enrico Montanari, Mario Baratti and Licia Denti

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:20

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  15. Content type: Research article

    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...

    Authors: Martin Lankoande, Papougnezambo Bonkoungou, Sosthène Ouandaogo, Marcelin Dayamba, Ali Ouedraogo, Francis Veyckmans and Nazinigouba Ouédraogo

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:17

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  16. Content type: Research article

    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...

    Authors: Lauren E. Birmingham, Thaddeus Cochran, Jennifer A. Frey, Kirk A. Stiffler and Scott T. Wilber

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:16

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  17. Content type: Research article

    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...

    Authors: Naranpurev Mendsaikhan, Davaa Gombo, Ganbold Lundeg, Christian Schmittinger and Martin W. Dünser

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:15

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  18. Content type: 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 ...

    Authors: Kirsten Strudwick, Anthony Bell, Trevor Russell and Melinda Martin-Khan

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:14

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  19. Content type: Research article

    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....

    Authors: Tibor Gondos, Viktor Szabó, Ágnes Sárkány, Adrienn Sárkány and Gábor Halász

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:13

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  20. Content type: 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.

    Authors: Fenglian Xu, Elizabeth A. Sullivan, Roberto Forero and Caroline S. E. Homer

    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2017 17:12

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