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  1. Uncomplicated hyperglycaemia is a common presentation in the emergency department (ED). Rapid glucose control is associated with the risk of iatrogenic hypoglycaemia. We sought to determine the safety of a rap...

    Authors: I. Ibrahim, R. Macatangay, C. Y. Chai, C. M. Khoo and M. Mahadevan
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:66
  2. Trends in the characteristics and disease severity of patients using an after-hours house call (AHHC) medical service changed during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. However, there have been no rep...

    Authors: Ryota Inokuchi, Kojiro Morita, Masao Iwagami, Taeko Watanabe, Masatoshi Ishikawa and Nanako Tamiya
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:64
  3. Population ageing and increased prevalence of chronic diseases result in the emergence of new demands in prehospital care. The prehospital system is facing an increase of cases without acute threat to life (so...

    Authors: Séverine Vuilleumier, Assunta Fiorentino, Sandrine Dénéréaz and Thierry Spichiger
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:63
  4. Chest pain is one of the commonest presenting complaints in urgent/emergency care, with a lifelong prevalence of up to 25% in the adult population. Pleuritic chest pain is a subset of high investigation burden...

    Authors: Gabor Xantus, Derek Burke and Peter Kanizsai
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:62
  5. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a decrease in the number of patients presenting with acute appendicitis was observed. It is unclear whether this caused a shift towards more complicated cases of acute appendiciti...

    Authors: Jochem C. G. Scheijmans, Alexander B. J. Borgstein, Carl A. J. Puylaert, Wouter J. Bom, Said Bachiri, Eduard A. van Bodegraven, Amarins T. A. Brandsma, Floor M. ter Brugge, Steve M. M. de Castro, Roy Couvreur, Lotte C. Franken, Marcia P. Gaspersz, Michelle R. de Graaff, Hannah Groenen, Suzanne C. Kleipool, Toon J. L. Kuypers…
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:61
  6. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common complication of hospitalized trauma patients and has an adverse impact on patient outcomes. However, there is still a lack of appropriate tools for effectively predicti...

    Authors: Lingxiao He, Lei Luo, Xiaoling Hou, Dengbin Liao, Ran Liu, Chaowei Ouyang and Guanglin Wang
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:60
  7. During the recent outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), Lombardy was the most affected region in Italy, with 87,000 patients and 15,876 deaths up to May 26, 2020. Since February 22, 2020, well befor...

    Authors: Laura Castoldi, Monica Solbiati, Giorgio Costantino and Elena Casiraghi
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:59
  8. Highly empiric use of carbapenem in pyogenic liver abscess (PLA) is widespread problem. However, few studies have examined the association between blood culture and carbapenem use in patients with PLA in China...

    Authors: Shuangjun He, Jie Yu, Hairong Wang, Lifeng Wang, Yi Chen and Wei Zhou
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:58
  9. For adequate ventilation during bag-valve-mask ventilation, rescuers should ensure a proper mask seal using the one-handed or two-handed technique. Little is known about the magnitude of sealing forces of a ba...

    Authors: Dongchoon Uhm and Ajung Kim
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:57
  10. Emergency department (ED) visits due to non-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) conditions have drastically decreased since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to identify the magnitude, ch...

    Authors: Maaike Nab, Robyn van Vehmendahl, Inne Somers, Yvonne Schoon and Gijs Hesselink
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:56
  11. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom included large scale changes to healthcare delivery, without fully understanding the potential for unexpected effects caused by these changes.

    Authors: Jeremy W. Tankel, David Ratcliffe, Martin Smith, Andrew Mullarkey, Jennifer Pover, Zoe Marsden, Paula Bennett and Darren Green
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:55
  12. In-flight medical emergencies (IMEs) are common, and for a traveling physician, it is very likely to encounter such a condition. Data discussing this issue are limited. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the w...

    Authors: Nouf A. AlShamlan, Reem S. AlOmar, Majd Mohammed Alrayes, Saud K. Alkhaldi, Ali Hamad Alomar, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Alghamdi, Fares Mohammad Nassef, Sarah Hussain Al-Matar and Hatem A. Alqahtani
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:54
  13. Telephone triage within out-of-hours (OOH) services aims to ascertain the urgency of a caller’s medical condition in order to determine the correct type of health care needed, ensuring patient safety. To impro...

    Authors: Sita LeBlanc Thilsted, Fredrik Folke, Janne S. Tolstrup, Lau Caspar Thygesen and Hejdi Gamst-Jensen
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:53
  14. Endothelial glycocalyx (EG) abnormal degradation were widely found in critical illness. However, data of EG degradation in multiple traumas is limited. We performed a study to assess the EG degradation and the...

    Authors: Feng Qi, Hao Zhou, Peng Gu, Zhi-He Tang, Bao-Feng Zhu, Jian-Rong Chen, Jin-Song Zhang and Feng Li
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:52
  15. Airway management in patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is important and several methods are used. The establishment of a supraglottic airway device (SAD) is a common technique used during OHC...

    Authors: Maja Pålsdatter Lønvik, Odd Eirik Elden, Mats Joakimsen Lunde, Trond Nordseth, Karin Elvenes Bakkelund and Oddvar Uleberg
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:51
  16. For decades, Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) contribute greatly to prehospital patient care by performing advanced medical interventions on-scene. Unnecessary dispatches, resulting in cancellation...

    Authors: E. Berkeveld, T. C. N. Sierkstra, P. Schober, L. A. Schwarte, M. Terra, M. A. de Leeuw, F. W. Bloemers and G. F. Giannakopoulos
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:50
  17. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Jens Wretborn, Håkan Starkenberg, Thoralph Ruge, Daniel B. Wilhelms and Ulf Ekelund
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:49

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:21

  18. Emergency departments (EDs) across Canada are increasingly prescribing buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD). The objective of this study was to identify the current knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours ...

    Authors: David Wiercigroch, Patricia Hoyeck, Hasan Sheikh and Jennifer Hulme
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:48
  19. Suicide is a painful consequence of many psychiatric disorders and one of the most frequent psychiatric emergencies. Generally, pre-hospital technician is the first person in the treatment chain who attends th...

    Authors: Fatemeh Shirzad, Shakiba Gholamzad, Maisam Shafiee and Seyed Vahid Shariat
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:47
  20. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Chao Zhang and Min Ou
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:46

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:6

  21. The initial care of patients with sepsis is commonly performed by ambulance clinicians (ACs). Early identification, care and treatment are vital for patients with sepsis to avoid adverse outcomes. However, kno...

    Authors: Agnes Olander, Anders Bremer, Annelie J. Sundler, Magnus Andersson Hagiwara and Henrik Andersson
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:45
  22. When in need of emergency care and ambulance services, the ambulance nurse is often the first point of contact for the patient with healthcare. This role requires comprehensive knowledge of the ambulance nurse...

    Authors: Veronica Vicente, Anders Johansson, Magnus Selling, Johnny Johansson, Sebastian Möller and Lizbet Todorova
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:44
  23. The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdowns have caused significant disruptions across society, including changes in the number of emergency department (ED) visits. This study aims to investigate the im...

    Authors: J. Panovska-Griffiths, J. Ross, S. Elkhodair, C. Baxter-Derrington, C. Laing and R. Raine
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:43
  24. Recent studies have shown a decrease of admissions to accident and emergency (A&E) departments after the local outbreaks of COVID-19. However, differential trends of admission counts, for example according to ...

    Authors: Philipp Jaehn, Christine Holmberg, Greta Uhlenbrock, Andreas Pohl, Thomas Finkenzeller, Michael T. Pawlik, Ivo Quack, Antonio Ernstberger, Felix Rockmann and Andreas G. Schreyer
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:42
  25. Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains the leading cause of cardiovascular disease mortality and morbidity worldwide. While the management quality measures and clinical outcomes of patients with ACS have been e...

    Authors: Korinan Fanta, Fekede Bekele Daba, Elsah Tegene, Tsegaye Melaku, Ginenus Fekadu and Legese Chelkeba
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:41
  26. The COVID-19 pandemic is a major public health problem. Subsequently, emergency medical services (EMS) have anecdotally experienced fluctuations in demand, with reports across Canada of both increased and decr...

    Authors: Richard Ferron, Gina Agarwal, Rhiannon Cooper and Douglas Munkley
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:39
  27. Dizziness is a relatively common symptom among patients who call for the emergency medical services (EMS).

    Authors: C. Magnusson, J. Gärskog, E. Lökholm, J. Stenström, R. Wetter, C. Axelsson, M. Andersson Hagiwara, N. Packendorff, K. Jood, T. Karlsson and J. Herlitz
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:38
  28. It is recommended that difficult airway predictors be evaluated before emergency airway management. However, little is known about how patients with difficult airway predictors are managed in emergency departm...

    Authors: Jutamas Saoraya, Komsanti Vongkulbhisal, Norawit Kijpaisalratana, Suthaporn Lumlertgul, Khrongwong Musikatavorn and Atthasit Komindr
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:37
  29. While COVID-19 has had far-reaching consequences on society and health care providers, there is a paucity of research exploring frontline emergency medicine (EM) provider wellness over the course of a pandemic...

    Authors: Heather Kelker, Kyle Yoder, Paul Musey Jr, Madison Harris, Olivia Johnson, Elisa Sarmiento, Punit Vyas, Brooke Henderson, Zachary Adams and Julie Welch
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:36
  30. Emergency medical services (EMS) providers are at continuous exposure to occupational stressors which negatively affect their health and professional practice. This study explored perceived occupational stress...

    Authors: Ali Afshari, Seyed Reza Borzou, Farshid Shamsaei, Eesa Mohammadi and Leili Tapak
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:35
  31. This study analyzed the characteristics of hydrogen fluoride-exposed patients (HFEPs) treated in the emergency department (ED) of a local university hospital, and reviewed the hospital’s disaster response acco...

    Authors: Heejun Shin, Se Kwang Oh, Han You Lee, Heajin Chung, Seong Yong Yoon, Sung Yong Choi and Jae Hyuk Kim
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:34
  32. Adult emergency department mortality remains high in resource-limited lower-income countries. The majority of deaths occur within the first 24 h of presentation to the emergency department. Many of these morta...

    Authors: Hanna Daniel Yosha, Achamyelesh Tadele, Sisay Teklu and Kidest Getu Melese
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:33
  33. On October 17, 2018, the Cannabis Act decriminalized the recreational use of cannabis in Canada. This study seeks to determine how legalization of cannabis has impacted emergency department (ED) visits for acu...

    Authors: Robert Baraniecki, Puru Panchal, Danya Deepsee Malhotra, Alexandra Aliferis and Zaka Zia
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:32
  34. Patients discharged against medical advice (DAMA) act as a high-risk population for the Emergency Department (ED), regardless of their presentations, and can pose a serious burden for the hospital. This study ...

    Authors: Feras H. Abuzeyad, Moonis Farooq, Salah Farhat Alam, Mudhaffar Ismael Ibrahim, Luma Bashmi, Shaikha Sami Aljawder, Najeh Ellouze, Abdulla Almusalam, Stephanie Hsu and Priya Das
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:31
  35. Bloodstream infection (BSI) is a common urgent condition at the emergency department (ED). However, current guidelines for diagnosis do not specify the juncture at which blood cultures should be taken. The dec...

    Authors: Pariwat Phungoen, Nunchalit Lerdprawat, Kittisak Sawanyawisuth, Verajit Chotmongkol, Kamonwon Ienghong, Sumana Sumritrin and Korakot Apiratwarakul
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:30
  36. The number of operations by the German emergency medical service almost doubled between 1994 and 2016. The associated expenses increased by 380% in a similar period. Operations with treatment on-site, which re...

    Authors: Marc S. Schehadat, Guido Scherer, David A. Groneberg, Manfred Kaps and Michael H. K. Bendels
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:29
  37. Spinal injuries are present in 16–31% of polytraumatized patients. Rapid identification of spinal injuries requiring immobilization or operative treatment is essential. The Lodox-Statscan (LS) has evolved into...

    Authors: Sonja Häckel, Elena Hofmann, Helen Anwander, Christoph E. Albers, Jasmin Basedow, Sebastian F. Bigdon, Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos, Marius J. B. Keel, Robert N. Dunn, Sithombo Maqungo, Lorin M. Benneker, Michael Held and Sven Hoppe
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:27
  38. Sudden cardiac death remains a leading cause of mortality in Canada, resulting in more than 35,000 deaths annually. Most cardiac arrest victims collapse in their own home (85% of the time) and 50% are witnesse...

    Authors: Christian Vaillancourt, Manya Charette, Sarika Naidoo, Monica Taljaard, Matthew Church, Stephanie Hodges, Shannon Leduc, Jim Christenson, Sheldon Cheskes, Katie Dainty, Michael Feldman, Judah Goldstein, John Tallon, Jennie Helmer, Aaron Sibley, Matthew Spidel…
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:26
  39. We sought to describe the national characteristics of ED visits by patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in the United States in order to improve the emergency treatment and screening of ESRD patients.

    Authors: Ningyuan Wang, Jiao Pei, Hui Fan, Yaseen Ali, Anna Prushinskaya, Jian Zhao and Xingyu Zhang
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:25
  40. Neutrophil-lymphocyte count ratio (NLCR) has been reported as better indicator of bacteremia than procalcitonin (PCT), and more precise predictor of mortality than C-reactive protein (CRP) under various medica...

    Authors: Tao Zhou, Nan Zheng, Xiang Li, Dongmei Zhu and Yi Han
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:24
  41. Kurdistan province of Iran is among disaster prone areas of the country. The Primary Health Care facilities in Iran deliver health services at all levels nationwide. Resiliency and flexibility of such faciliti...

    Authors: Arezoo Yari, Yadolah Zarezadeh, Farin Fatemi, Ali Ardalan, Siamak Vahedi, Homa Yousefi-Khoshsabeghe, Mohsen Soufi Boubakran, Farzam Bidarpoor and Mohamad Esmaeil Motlagh
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:23
  42. Noise levels are monitored in call centres. A maximum of 52 to 55 dB(A) is recommended in order to prevent adverse events. We aimed at assessing the noise level and the impact of a visual noise indicator on th...

    Authors: Justin Outrey, Jean-Baptiste Pretalli, Sophie Pujol, Alice Brembilla, Thibaut Desmettre, Christophe Lambert, Jean-Marc Labourey, Frédéric Mauny and Abdo Khoury
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:22
  43. Emergency Department crowding is associated with increased morbidity and mortality but no measure of crowding has been validated in Sweden. We have previously derived and internally validated the Skåne Emergen...

    Authors: Jens Wretborn, Håkan Starkenberg, Thoralph Ruge, Daniel B. Wilhelms and Ulf Ekelund
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:21

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:49

  44. Becoming critically ill represents not just a great upheaval for the patient in question, but also for the patient’s closest family. In recent years, there has been a change in how the quality of the public he...

    Authors: Randi Olsson Haave, Hilde Hammerud Bakke and Agneta Schröder
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:20
  45. A lack of follow-up of violence incidents and assaulted staff has been associated with high levels of workplace violence. There is a paucity of literature on the barriers, enablers and opportunities for organi...

    Authors: Brodie Thomas, Anthony McGillion, Kristina Edvardsson, Peter O’Meara, Julia Van Vuuren and Evelien Spelten
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:19
  46. Mechanical chest compression (mCPR) offers advantages during transport under cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Little is known how devices of different design perform en-route. Aim of the study was to measure per...

    Authors: Maximilian Jörgens, Jürgen Königer, Karl-Georg Kanz, Torsten Birkholz, Heiko Hübner, Stephan Prückner, Bernhard Zwissler and Heiko Trentzsch
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:18
  47. Long-term prescription of opioids by healthcare professionals has been linked to poor individual patient outcomes and high resource utilization. Supportive strategies in this population regarding acute healthc...

    Authors: Jean Deschamps, James Gilbertson, Sebastian Straube, Kathryn Dong, Frank P. MacMaster, Christina Korownyk, Lori Montgomery, Ryan Mahaffey, James Downar, Hance Clarke, John Muscedere, Katherine Rittenbach, Robin Featherstone, Meghan Sebastianski, Ben Vandermeer, Deborah Lynam…
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2021 21:17

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