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  1. Prolonged prehospital time is a major global problem in the emergency medical system (EMS). Although factors related to prolonged on-scene times (OSTs) have been reported in patients with trauma and critical m...

    Authors: Keiko Ueno, Chie Teramoto, Daisuke Nishioka, Shiho Kino, Hiroyuki Sawatari and Kazuaki Tanabe
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:10
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  2. Long-term care (LTC) was overwhelmingly impacted by COVID-19 and unnecessary transfer to emergency departments (ED) can have negative health outcomes. This study aimed to explore how the COVID-19 pandemic impa...

    Authors: Leanna Wyer, Yair Guterman, Vivian Ewa, Eddy Lang, Peter Faris and Jayna Holroyd-Leduc
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:9
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  3. The effect of alcohol consumption on trauma remains controversial. The effects of alcohol on hemorrhage and peritonitis after blunt abdominal trauma have rarely been discussed. This study aimed to explore the ...

    Authors: Ting-Min Hsieh, Kuo-Chen Huang, Po-Chun Chuang, Chun-Ting Liu, Bei-Yu Wu, Ching-Hua Hsieh and Fu-Jen Cheng
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:8
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  4. Focused assessment with sonography for trauma helps detect abdominal free fluid. Prehospital ultrasound scanning is also important because the early diagnosis of hemoperitoneum may reduce the time to definitiv...

    Authors: Kun-Te Lin, Zih-Yang Lin, Cheng-Chieh Huang, Shang-Yan Yu, Jing-Lan Huang, Jian-Houng Lin and Yan-Ren Lin
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:7
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  5. During disasters (including epidemics such as coronavirus disease 2019), the capacity of emergency departments is exceeded, thereby hindering the administration of appropriate lifesaving measures. Furthermore,...

    Authors: Kazuki Nagashima, Nobuhiro Yasuno and Machiko Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:5
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  6. Nurses have always been at the forefront of providing services for victims of disasters. Using nurses’ experiences in disaster planning can play an important role in improving their readiness to provide health...

    Authors: Khadijeh Akbari, Arezoo Yari and Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:4
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  7. The risk of high-energy trauma injuries on construction sites is relatively high. A delayed response time could affect outcomes after severe injury. This study assessed if an advanced first aid course for firs...

    Authors: Hans Hedberg, Pia Hedberg, Jonas Aléx, Sofia Karlsson and Michael Haney
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:2
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  8. Healthcare providers, particularly nurses, play a critical role in mitigating the impact of disasters on victims and the healthcare system. However, nurses face unique challenges in disasters that may not expe...

    Authors: Jamileh Farokhzadian, Parvin Mangolian Shahrbabaki, Hojjat Farahmandnia, Gülcan Taskiran Eskici and Faezeh Soltani Goki
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2024 24:1
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  9. Implementing training programs to educate patients on the prodromal symptoms of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) may assist patients in accurately recognizing these symptoms, and ultimately decrease their time de...

    Authors: Siyue Wang, Junxian Song, Chongyou Lee, Jin Jiang, Mengying Wang, Dongjing Liu, Zhuqing Wang, Yuan Yuan, Wenyong Li, Ren Zhou, Hongchen Zheng, Jianmin Wei, Yonghua Hu, Tao Wu, Zhenbiao Tian and Hong Chen
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:146
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  11. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common complication in orthopedic patients. Previous studies have focused on major orthopedic surgery.There are few studies with multiple trauma. We aimed to describe the preval...

    Authors: Huijuan Chen, Libing Sun and Xiangyan Kong
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:144
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  12. Today, using the medical technology of telecardiology, as part of advanced medical services, plays an essential role in providing care to cardiac patients in life-threatening conditions who need emergency care...

    Authors: Mostafa Bijani, Saeed Abedi, Azam Zare, Ziba Tavacol, Fozieh Abadi and Abdulhakim Alkamel
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:143
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  13. Hemorrhage is one of the main causes of death in trauma. Critical bleeding in patients needs to be detected as soon as possible to save the patient. Drones are gaining increasing importance in emergency servic...

    Authors: Christoph West, Bernhard Kaus, Sean O’ Sullivan, Henning Schneider and Oskar Seifert
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:142
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  14. Use of video review in medicine is established in contexts such as surgery. Although not widely used in the emergency department (ED), some centres use it to evaluate non-technical skills (NTS) to support teac...

    Authors: Emily G Alexander, Fraser Denny, Malcom WG Gordon, Cieran McKiernan and David J Lowe
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:141
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  15. The aim of this trial-based economic evaluation was to assess the incremental costs and cost-effectiveness of the modified diagnostic strategy combining the YEARS rule and age-adjusted D-dimer threshold compar...

    Authors: Arnaud Nze Ossima, Bibi Fabiola Ngaleu Siaha, Maroua Mimouni, Nadia Mezaour, Meryl Darlington, Laurence Berard, Marine Cachanado, Tabassome Simon, Yonathan Freund and Isabelle Durand-Zaleski
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:140
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  16. The risk of occupational exposure during endotracheal intubation has required the global Emergency Medicine (EM), Anesthesia, and Critical Care communities to institute new COVID- protected intubation guidelin...

    Authors: Muzeen Ismath, Holly Black, Carmen Hrymak, Rhonda J. Rosychuk, Patrick Archambault, Patrick T. Fok, Thomas Audet, Brenden Dufault, Corinne Hohl and Murdoch Leeies
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:139
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  17. In recent years, Iran has encountered a growing frequency of earthquake disasters. Given that nurses constitute the largest group of healthcare providers, it is imperative that they possess adequate disaster p...

    Authors: Mohammad Rostami, Saeed Babajani-Vafsi, Arash Ziapour, Kourosh Abbasian, Mojgan Mohammadimehr and Armin Zareiyan
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:138
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  18. Although outcome goals for acute healthcare among older people living with frailty often include Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and other patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), current quality metr...

    Authors: James D. van Oppen, Simon P. Conroy, Timothy J. Coats, Nicola J. Mackintosh and Jose M. Valderas
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:137
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  19. The unpredictability of prehospital emergencies combined with constantly changing circumstances can lead to increased stress and mental health issues among Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs). To accurately d...

    Authors: Ali Afshari, Mohammad Torabi, Sasan Navkhasi, Marzieh Aslani and Afshin Khazaei
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:136
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  20. One of the most significant advantages of Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) in disaster relief efforts is their ability to reach inaccessible or remote areas quickly. This is especially important in ...

    Authors: Mahmoud Hatami, Milad Ahmadi Marzaleh, Mostafa Bijani and Mahmoudreza Peyravi
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:135
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  22. Natural disasters, health, terrorism, infectious diseases, and social unrest affect more than 200 million people worldwide each year. The present study is an attempt to evaluate the self-efficacy of senior, mi...

    Authors: Asiye Aminafshar, Majid Sartipi and Abdolrazzagh Pakzad
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:133
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  23. Early recognition and appropriate treatment has shown to decrease morbidity and mortality in patients with undifferentiated shock. There are many ultrasound protocols in shock; each protocol combines core ultr...

    Authors: Asmaa Ramadan, Tamer Abdallah, Hassan Abdelsalam, Ahmed Mokhtar and Assem Abdel Razek
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:132
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  24. In emergency departments, patients with mental health conditions are a major concern and make up the third or fourth of the most common diagnosis seen during all consultations. Over the past two decades, there...

    Authors: Heribert Kirchner, Heiko Ullrich, Peter Neu, Nik Hulsmans, Georg Juckel and Patrick Brzoska
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:131
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  26. Inter-facility transport of patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the prone position (PP) is a high-risk situation, compared to other strategies. We aimed to quantify the prevalence of co...

    Authors: Malik Haoutar, David Pinero, Hodane Yonis, Eric Cesareo, Mehdi Mezidi, Olivier Peguet, Karim Tazarourte, Matteo Pozzi, Pierre-Yves Dubien, Jean-Christophe Richard and Laurent Bitker
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:129
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  27. We aim to understand the current situation of the first aid ability and training needs of Chinese medical personnel to provide a scientific basis for formulating the contents and methods of emergency medical r...

    Authors: Juntao Wang, Chuanzhu Lv, Xingyue Song, Yanlan Hu, Wenjie Hao, Lanfen He, Yu Chen, Yong Gan, Xiaotong Han and Shijiao Yan
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:128
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  28. Pro-protein convertase subtilisin/kexin 9 (PCSK9) decreases the clearance of the pathogenic lipids, supporting the potential role of PCSK9 in the prognosis of sepsis.

    Authors: Yuanlu Shu, Ziwei Deng, Ye Deng, Jianliang Zhou, Jin Wang, Zhenxing Duan, Tao Jiang, Xiang Zhao, Zhihua Shi and Chengfeng Qiu
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:127
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  30. Prehospital factors play a vital role in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivability, and they vary between countries and regions. We investigated the prehospital factors associated with OHCA outcomes ...

    Authors: Jae Yun Ahn, Hyun Wook Ryoo, Sungbae Moon, Haewon Jung, Jungbae Park, Won Kee Lee, Jong-yeon Kim, Dong Eun Lee, Jung Ho Kim and Sang-Hun Lee
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:125
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  31. The Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a frailty assessment tool used to identify frailty in older patients visiting the emergency department (ED). However, the current understanding of how it is used and accepte...

    Authors: Erika Hörlin, Samia Munir Ehrlington, Rani Toll John, Joakim Henricson and Daniel Wilhelms
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:124
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  32. Innovations in models of care for older adults living with frailty presenting to the emergency department (ED) have become a key priority for clinicians, researchers and policymakers due to the deleterious out...

    Authors: Íde O’Shaughnessy, Christine Fitzgerald, Aoife Whiston, Patrick Harnett, Helen Whitty, Des Mulligan, Marian Mullaney, Catherine Devaney, Deirdre Lang, Jennifer Hardimann, Brian Condon, Christina Hayes, Alison Holmes, Louise Barry, Claire McCormack, Megan Bounds…
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:123
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  33. Nomograms are easy-to-handle clinical tools which can help in estimating the risk of adverse outcome in certain population. This multi-center study aims to create and validate a simple and usable clinical pred...

    Authors: Naria Park, Greta Barbieri, Gianni Turcato, Alessandro Cipriano, Arian Zaboli, Sara Giampaoli, Antonio Bonora, Giorgio Ricci, Massimo Santini and Lorenzo Ghiadoni
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:122
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  34. Frailty assessment by paramedics in the prehospital setting is understudied. The goals of this study were to assess the inter-rater reliability and accuracy of frailty assessment by paramedics using the Clinic...

    Authors: Christophe A. Fehlmann, Loric Stuby, Christophe Graf, Matthieu Genoud, Rebecca Rigney, Judah Goldstein, Debra Eagles and Laurent Suppan
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:121
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  35. Abdominal pain, which is a common cause of children presenting to the paediatric emergency department (PED), is often evaluated by ultrasonography (US). However, uncertainty in US reports may necessitate addit...

    Authors: Soyun Hwang, Hyun Jung Chung, Joong Wan Park, Eui Jun Lee, Ha Ni Lee, Jin Hee Kim, Jie Hee Jue, Young Hun Choi and Jae Yun Jung
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:120
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  36. Paramedics convey a high proportion of seizure patients with no clinical need to emergency departments (EDs). In a landmark study, only 27% of UK paramedics reported being “Very…”/ “Extremely confident” making...

    Authors: Adam J. Noble, Carolyn Lees, Kay Hughes, Lucy Almond, Hesham Ibrahim, Cerys Broadbent, Pete Dixon and Anthony G. Marson
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:119
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  37. The clinical decision-making of non-conveyance is perceived as complex and difficult by emergency medical services (EMS) professionals. Patients with a transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) based on syncope c...

    Authors: B. Bastiaan A. Ort, Lucia G. uit het Broek, Harm de Bruin, Reinier P. Akkermans, Ben Goosselink, Hester Vermeulen, Remco H.A. Ebben, Lilian C.M. Vloet and Sivera A.A. Berben
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:118
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  38. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent phenomenon in somatic emergency departments, where nurses are the most consistent group of healthcare professionals who treat people with NSSI, which means they m...

    Authors: Kickan Roed, Cecilie Rostrup Brauner, Senayt Yigzaw and Julie Midtgaard
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:117
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  39. Stroke is the most common time-dependent pathology that pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) are confronted with. Prioritisation of ambulance dispatch, initial actions and early pre-notification have ...

    Authors: Nicolás Riera-López, Francisco Aranda-Aguilar, Montse Gorchs-Molist and Jose Antonio Iglesias-Vázquez
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:116
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  40. Teledermatology has provided new avenues through which dermatologists can provide healthcare. Teledermatology was introduced to the Emergency Department (ED) to enable immediate dermatological consult. We aime...

    Authors: Adinia Santosa, Zisheng Li and Nisha Suyien Chandran
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:115
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  41. COVID-19 rapidly spread throughout the world. Stay-at-home and social distance strategies accompanied by fear of contamination with COVID-19 caused significant disruptions in daily life. The study focused on t...

    Authors: Vahid Ghanbari, Alireza Khatony, Maryam Janatolmakan, Shahab Rezaeian and Leili Rostamnia
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:114
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  42. The Battle of Mosul (2016–2017) was an urban conflict resulting in over 9000 civilian deaths. Emergency Management Centre (EMC), located 90 km from Mosul, was designated as a civilian-run trauma centre as part...

    Authors: Måns Muhrbeck, Aron Egelko, Rawand Musheer Haweizy, Johan von Schreeb and Andreas Älgå
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:113
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  43. Prehospital care of psychiatric patients often relies on the medical experience of prehospital emergency physicians (PHEPs). The psychiatrists (PSs) involved in the further treatment of psychiatric patients al...

    Authors: Benedikt Schick, Benjamin Mayer, Constanze Hensel, Sebastian Schmid, Bettina Jungwirth, Eberhard Barth, Claus-Martin Muth, Stephan Katzenschlager and Carlos Schönfeldt-Lecuona
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:112
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  44. One significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing endotracheal intubation is the aspiration of gastric contents. Its prevalence is more in the emergency than in elective settings. Point-o...

    Authors: Reshma Asokan, Bharat Bhushan Bhardwaj, Naman Agrawal, Udit Chauhan, Aadya Pillai, Takshak Shankar, D. J. Lalneiruol, Himanshi Baid, Hannah Chawang and Sanket Mukeshkumar Patel
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:111
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  45. E-scooters have become increasingly popular in Turkey due to easy accessibility. In parallel with this, the number of e-scooter-related injuries has increased gradually. The aim of this study was to determine ...

    Authors: Servet İğrek and İbrahim Ulusoy
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:110
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  47. Very little data is available about the involvement of lifeboat crews in medical emergencies at sea. The aim of this study is to analyze the medical operations at sea performed by the Royal Netherlands Sea Res...

    Authors: Daphne M. Messelink, Gert-Jan van der Ploeg, Theo van der Linden, Roos D. Flameling and Joost J. L. M. Bierens
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:108
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  48. Bleeding from the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract is one of the common medical emergencies. In this study, we assessed patients’ socio-demographic and clinical characteristics and the association of clinical...

    Authors: Alok Raj, Nidhi Kaeley, Hari Prasad, Itish Patnaik, Yogesh Bahurupi, Shrirang Joshi, Krishna Shukla, Santosh Galagali and Sanket Patel
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:107
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  50. The population of older trauma patients is increasing. Those patients have heterogeneous presentations and need senior-friendly triaging tools. Systolic blood pressure (SBP) is commonly used to assess injury s...

    Authors: Axel Benhamed, Brice Batomen, Valérie Boucher, Krishan Yadav, Chartelin Jean Isaac, Eric Mercier, Francis Bernard, Julien Blais-L’écuyer, Karim Tazarourte and Marcel Emond
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2023 23:105
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