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  1. People living in rural areas usually suffer comparatively disadvantaged emergency health care than those living in urban areas, reasons including long transit time due to geographic factors. As for many time c...

    Authors: Xing Fu, Philip Wilson and Wing Sun Faith Chung
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:65
  2. Selecting stroke patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) based on prehospital stroke scales could provide a faster triage and transportation to a comprehensive stroke centre resulting a favourable outcome. ...

    Authors: Gabor Tarkanyi, Peter Csecsei, Istvan Szegedi, Evelin Feher, Adam Annus, Tihamer Molnar and Laszlo Szapary
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:64
  3. Emergency care research into ‘Silver Trauma’, which is simply defined as major trauma consequent upon relatively minor injury mechanisms, is facing many challenges including that at present, there is no clear ...

    Authors: Abdullah Alshibani, Jay Banerjee, Fiona Lecky, Timothy J. Coats, Rebecca Prest, Áine Mitchell, Emily Laithwaite, Matt Wensley and Simon Conroy
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:63
  4. To manage increasing demand for emergency and unscheduled care NHS England policy has promoted services in which patients presenting to Emergency Departments (EDs) with non-urgent problems are directed to gene...

    Authors: Michelle Edwards, Alison Cooper, Freya Davies, Rebecca Sherlock, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Delyth Price, Alison Porter, Bridie Evans, Saiful Islam, Helen Snooks, Pippa Anderson, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Peter Hibbert, Thomas Hughes, Matthew Cooke, Jeremy Dale…
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:62
  5. There has been an increasing demand for emergency medical services (EMS), and a growing number of patients are not conveyed; i.e., they are referred to levels of care other than ambulance conveyance to the eme...

    Authors: Erik Höglund, Magnus Andersson-Hagiwara, Agneta Schröder, Margareta Möller and Emma Ohlsson-Nevo
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:61
  6. Despite regionalization efforts, delays at transferring hospitals for patients transferred with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) persist. These de...

    Authors: Michael J. Ward, Timothy J. Vogus, Kemberlee Bonnet, Kelly Moser, David Schlundt and Sunil Kripalani
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:60
  7. Syncope is a frequent reason for referral to the emergency department. After excluding a potentially life-threatening condition, the second objective is to find the cause of syncope. The objective of this stud...

    Authors: Veera K. van Wijnen, Reinold O. B. Gans, Wouter Wieling, Jan C. ter Maaten and Mark P. M. Harms
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:59
  8. Malnutrition often occurs in acute stroke patients receiving enteral tube feeding (ETF). Unless malnutrition is improved, their clinical outcome is poor. However, strategies to improve malnutrition in these pa...

    Authors: Takahisa Mori and Kazuhiro Yoshioka
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:56

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:99

  9. Massive infusions of crystalloids into bleeding hypotensive patients can worsen the outcome. Military experience suggests avoiding crystalloids using early damage control resuscitation with blood components in...

    Authors: Pauli Vuorinen, Joonas-Eemeli Kiili, Piritta Setälä, Antti Kämäräinen and Sanna Hoppu
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:55
  10. No study to date has looked at the gender of emergency medicine (EM) physicians in the United States in relation to admission rates. This study seeks to investigate admission rates of adult patients treated by...

    Authors: Hisham Valiuddin, Hope Ring, Michelle Fallon and Yaser Valiuddin
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:54
  11. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Willem F. van der Mei, Anna C. Barbano, Andrew Ratanatharathorn, Richard A. Bryant, Douglas L. Delahanty, Terri A. deRoon-Cassini, Betty S. Lai, Sarah R. Lowe, Yutaka J. Matsuoka, Miranda Olff, Wei Qi, Ulrich Schnyder, Soraya Seedat, Ronald C. Kessler, Karestan C. Koenen and Arieh Y. Shalev
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:53

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:16

  12. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent among road traffic accident survivors (RTA), yet the psychological welfare of the persons has largely been ignored as health care professionals focus more on ...

    Authors: Asres Bedaso, Gemechu Kediro, Jemal Ebrahim, Firkru Tadesse, Shewangizaw Mekonnen, Negeso Gobena and Ephrem Gebrehana
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:52
  13. Emergency Department (ED) crowding occurs when demand for care exceeds the available resources. Crowding has been associated with decreased quality of care and increased mortality, but the prevalence on a nati...

    Authors: Jens Wretborn, Joakim Henricson, Ulf Ekelund and Daniel B. Wilhelms
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:50
  14. The cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines revised in 2015 recommend target chest compression rate (CCR) and chest compression depth (CCD) of 100–120 compressions per minute (cpm) and 5–6 cm, respectively. W...

    Authors: Nao Urushibata, Kiyoshi Murata, Hideki Endo, Ayako Yoshiyuki and Yasuhiro Otomo
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:49
  15. UK Ambulance services are under pressure to safely stream appropriate patients away from the Emergency Department (ED). Even so, there has been little evaluation of patient outcomes. We investigated difference...

    Authors: Joanna M. Blodgett, Duncan J. Robertson, David Ratcliffe and Kenneth Rockwood
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:48
  16. The average age of the global population is rising at an increasing rate. There is a disproportional increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits by older people worldwide. In the Brazilian health system, comp...

    Authors: João Carlos Pereira Gomes, Roger Daglius Dias, Jacson Venancio de Barros, Irineu Tadeu Velasco and Wilson Jacob Filho
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:47
  17. Previous studies have shown that prehospital insertion of peripheral vascular access is highly variable. The aim of this study is to establish the proportion of peripheral vascular access placement and its use...

    Authors: Erin Gonvers, Thierry Spichiger, Eric Albrecht and Fabrice Dami
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:46
  18. Acute appendicitis is a global disease and a very common indication for emergency surgery worldwide. The need for hospital resources is therefore constantly high. The administration in Kanta-Häme Central Hospi...

    Authors: Artur Ojakäär, Martin Purdy, Aristotelis Kechagias, Ulla Järvelin and Ari Palomäki
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:45
  19. Sepsis is a common problem encountered in the emergency room which needs to be intervened early. Predicting prognosis is always a difficult task in busy emergency rooms using present scores, which has several ...

    Authors: Rajan Ghimire, Yogendra Man Shakya, Tirtha Man Shrestha and Ram Prasad Neupane
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:43
  20. Several scores and codes are used in prehospital clinical quality registries but little is known of their reliability. The aim of this study is to evaluate the inter-rater reliability of the American Society o...

    Authors: A. Heino, P. Laukkanen-Nevala, L. Raatiniemi, M. Tommila, J. Nurmi, A. Olkinuora, I. Virkkunen and T. Iirola
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:42
  21. Anterior shoulder dislocations (ASD) are commonly seen in Emergency Departments (ED). ED overcrowding is increasingly burdening many healthcare systems. Little is known about factors influencing ED length-of-s...

    Authors: Daan Schuur, David Baden, Martijn Roetman, Tom Boeije, Michael Burg and Nieke Mullaart-Jansen
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:41
  22. Suspected urinary tract infection (UTI) syndromes are a common reason for empirical antibiotics to be prescribed in the Emergency Department (ED), but differentiating UTI from other conditions with a similar p...

    Authors: Laura J. Shallcross, Patrick Rockenschaub, David McNulty, Nick Freemantle, Andrew Hayward and Martin J. Gill
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:40
  23. Tranexamic acid (TXA) may be a useful adjunct for military patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). These patients are often treated in austere settings without immediate access to neurosurgical inte...

    Authors: Patrick F. Walker, Joseph D. Bozzay, Luke R. Johnston, Eric A. Elster, Carlos J. Rodriguez and Matthew J. Bradley
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:39
  24. Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) is a pathophysiologic process that occurs in non-acclimated susceptible individuals rapidly ascending to high-altitude. Barometric pressure falls at high altitude and it translate...

    Authors: Gaurav Nepal, Jayant Kumar Yadav, Jessica Holly Rehrig, Niroj Bhandari, Santosh Baniya, Rakesh Ghimire and Narayan Mahotra
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:38
  25. Abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints among patients admitted to the Emergency Department (ED). Diagnosis and management of abdominal pain may be a challenge and there are patients who require ad...

    Authors: Artur Kacprzyk, Tomasz Stefura, Katarzyna Chłopaś, Kaja Trzeciak, Aleksandra Załustowicz, Mateusz Rubinkiewicz, Michał Pędziwiatr, Kazimierz Rembiasz and Piotr Major
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:37
  26. In recent years, researchers and clinicians have been developing prognostic prediction tools (PPTs) as a way of identifying patients at risk of deterioration. The use of PPTs in the clinical environment not on...

    Authors: Claire O’Neill, Hayley A. Hutchings, Zoe Abbott and Ceri Battle
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:36
  27. Obstetric and gynecological (OBGY) diseases are among the most important differential diagnoses for young women with acute abdominal pain. However, there are few established clinical prediction rules for scree...

    Authors: Asami Okada, Yohei Okada, Hiroyuki Fujita and Ryoji Iiduka
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:35
  28. Applying excessive force during endotracheal intubation (ETI) is associated with several complications, including dental trauma and hemodynamic alterations. A gum-elastic bougie (GEB), a type of tracheal tube ...

    Authors: Yuko Ono, Kazuaki Shinohara, Jiro Shimada, Shigeaki Inoue and Joji Kotani
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:34
  29. The Kingdom of Eswatini, a lower-middle income nation of 1.45 million in southern Africa, has recently identified emergency care as a key strategy to respond to the national disease burden. We aimed to evaluat...

    Authors: J. L. Pigoga, A. P. Joiner, P. Chowa, J. Luong, M. Mhlanga, T. A. Reynolds and L. A. Wallis
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:33
  30. Examination of serum lactate level and its changes, as an indicator of tissue oxygenation, as well as level of creatine kinase (CK) inhibitors, as a factor of mortality which partially expresses heart, brain, ...

    Authors: Alireza Golaghaei, Hossein Hassanian-Moghaddam, Shahin Shadnia, Nasim Zamani and Fatemeh Amraei
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:32
  31. Acute pain is frequently encountered in the prehospital setting, and therefore, a fundamental aspect of quality emergency care. Research has shown a positive association between healthcare providers’ knowledge...

    Authors: Andrit Lourens, Peter Hodkinson and Romy Parker
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:31
  32. Pre-hospital identification of key subgroups within the suspected stroke population could reduce delays to emergency treatment. We aimed to identify and describe technology with existing proof of concept for d...

    Authors: Hannah A Lumley, Darren Flynn, Lisa Shaw, Graham McClelland, Gary A Ford, Phil M White and Christopher I Price
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:30
  33. In Tanzania, there is no national trauma registry. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a data set for injury that specifies the variables necessary for documenting the burden of injury and patien...

    Authors: Hendry R. Sawe, Teri A. Reynolds, Ellen J. Weber, Juma A. Mfinanga, Timothy J. Coats and Lee A. Wallis
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:29
  34. Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) carries an 86% mortality rate in Norway. Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) is a potential adjunct in management of non-traumatic cardiac ar...

    Authors: Jostein Rødseth Brede, Jo Kramer-Johansen and Marius Rehn
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:28
  35. To report on prevalence of gout flare in emergency departments and to report the quality of gout care in emergency departments and causes of admission at emergency departments.

    Authors: Patapong Towiwat, Pariwat Phungoen, Kitti Tantrawiwat, Pavita Laohakul, Duangkamol Aiewruengsurat, Chokchai Thanadetsuntorn, Nopparat Ruchakorn, Passagorn Sangsawangchot and Bodin Buttham
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:27
  36. When resuscitating patients with hemorrhagic shock following trauma, fluid volume restriction and permissive hypotension prior to bleeding control are emphasized along with the good outcome especially for pene...

    Authors: Kenichiro Uchida, Tetsuro Nishimura, Naohiro Hagawa, Shinichiro Kaga, Tomohiro Noda, Naoki Shinyama, Hiromasa Yamamoto and Yasumitsu Mizobata
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:26
  37. The definition of sepsis is regularly updated; however, there is no standard diagnostic test. To improve diagnosis and prognostic prediction, the aim of this study was to determine the predictive value of circ...

    Authors: Lifeng Wang, Wei Zhou, Kaiwen Wang, Shuangjun He and Yi Chen
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:25
  38. The authors have retracted this case report [1] because the head of the snake shown in Figure 1 and described as being that of a viper (Echis occellatus) is identical to the head of a snake shown in Figure 1 of a...

    Authors: Agnès Esiéné, Paul Owono Etoundi, Joel Noutakdie Tochie, Arlette Junette Mbengono Metogo and Jacqueline Ze Minkande
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:23

    The original article was published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2019 19:26

  39. Videolaryngoscopy (VL) has become a popular method of intubation (ETI). Although VL may facilitate ETI in less-experienced rescuers there are limited data available concerning ETI performed by paramedics durin...

    Authors: Joachim Risse, Christian Volberg, Thomas Kratz, Birgit Plöger, Andreas Jerrentrup, Dirk Pabst and Clemens Kill
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:22
  40. An overwhelming proportion of road traffic deaths and injuries in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) occur in prehospital environments. Lay first responders such as police officers play an important role...

    Authors: Menti L. Ndile, Gift G. Lukumay, Karin Bolenius, Anne H. Outwater, Britt-Inger Saveman and Susann Backteman-Erlanson
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:21
  41. Patients in need of acute health care do not always contact the most suitable health care service provider. Contacting out-of-hours primary care for an urgent problem may delay care, whereas contacting emergen...

    Authors: Linda Huibers, Anders H. Carlsen, Grete Moth, Helle C. Christensen, Ingunn S. Riddervold and Morten B. Christensen
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:20
  42. This article is a report of designing a rapid and effective guide for paramedics who take care of patients in a pre-hospital setting to answer developing demands.

    Authors: Fatemeh Shirzad, Fatemeh Hadi, Seyede Salehe Mortazavi, Maryam Biglari, Hassan Noori Sari, Zeinab Mohammadi, Mehrdad Kazemzade Atoofi and Seyed Vahid Shariat
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:19
  43. Point of care serum lactate measurement is emerging as an adjunct to prehospital clinical assessment and has the potential to guide triage and advanced treatment decision-making. In this study we aimed to asse...

    Authors: E. ter Avest, J. Griggs, J. Wijesuriya, M. Q. Russell and R. M. Lyon
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:18
  44. There are many high-volume trauma centers in limited resource environments where a thorough clinical examination of patients may contribute to a more economical, accurate, and widely applicable method of deter...

    Authors: Andrés Isaza-Restrepo, Julián Andrés Quintero-Contreras, Jorge Escobar-DiazGranados and Ángela María Ruiz-Sternberg
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:17
  45. Previous work has indicated that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, measured by the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) within 60 days of trauma exposure, can reliably produce likelihood esti...

    Authors: Willem F. van der Mei, Anna C. Barbano, Andrew Ratanatharathorn, Richard A. Bryant, Douglas L. Delahanty, Terri A. deRoon-Cassini, Betty S. Lai, Sarah R. Lowe, Yutaka J. Matsuoka, Miranda Olff, Wei Qi, Ulrich Schnyder, Soraya Seedat, Ronald C. Kessler, Karestan C. Koenen and Arieh Y. Shalev
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:16

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Emergency Medicine 2020 20:53

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