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  1. To describe pre-hospital, emergency department and acute care assessment and management practices of senior clinicians for patients with acute traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) across Australia; and to descr...

    Authors: Lisa N. Sharwood, Shelly Dhaliwal, Jonathon Ball, Brian Burns, Oliver Flower, Anthony Joseph, Ralph Stanford and James Middleton
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:57
  2. Literature provides mixed results regarding the influence of large-scale sporting events on emergency department attendance. To contribute to the research on the subject, we sought to evaluate whether the broa...

    Authors: Jorge César Correia, Olivia Braillard, Christophe Combescure, Eric Gerstel and Hervé Spechbach
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:56
  3. Emergency medicine is characterized by a high patient flow where timely decisions are essential. Clinical decision support systems have the potential to assist in such decisions but will be dependent on the da...

    Authors: Niclas Skyttberg, Rong Chen and Sabine Koch
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:54
  4. Factitious disorder causing hypoglycemia is a psychiatric condition in which patients deliberately use blood sugar lowering medications to cause severe symptoms for the purposes of hospitalization or other pri...

    Authors: Ashruta Patel and Gary Daniels
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:53
  5. Secondary insults (SI), such as hypotension, hypoxia, and intracranial hypertension frequently occur after traumatic brain injury (TBI), and have a strong impact on patients’ clinical outcomes. The aim of this...

    Authors: Paola Cristina Volpi, Chiara Robba, Matteo Rota, Alessia Vargiolu and Giuseppe Citerio
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:52
  6. A new generation of ear thermometers with preheated tips and several measurements points should allow a more precise temperature measurement. The aim of the study was to evaluate if the ear temperature measure...

    Authors: Christian Backer Mogensen, Malene Bue Vilhelmsen, Johanne Jepsen, Lilian Keene Boye, Maiken Hjuler Persson and Florence Skyum
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:51
  7. We aimed to describe diagnosed acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and its care management and outcomes in emergency departments (EDs) and to determine related cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs).

    Authors: Asma Sriha Belguith, Kaouthar Beltaief, Mohamed Amine Msolli, Wahid Bouida, Hela Abroug, Manel Ben Fredj, Imen Zemni, Mohamed Habib Grissa, Hamdi Boubaker, Mohamed Hsairi and Samir Nouira
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:50
  8. Improved trauma management can reduce the time between injury and medical interventions, thus decreasing morbidity and mortality. Triage at the emergency department is essential to ensure prioritization and ti...

    Authors: Maria Lampi, Johan P. E. Junker, John S. Tabu, Peter Berggren, Carl-Oscar Jonson and Andreas Wladis
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:49
  9. A surgical airway is usually unpredictable in trauma patients. The aim of this study was to develop a predictable scoring system to determine the need for a surgical airway by using a database from a large mul...

    Authors: Kei Hayashida, Shokei Matsumoto, Mitsuhide Kitano and Junichi Sasaki
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:48
  10. Emergency Care has previously been identified as an area of significant concern regarding the prevalence of Adverse Events (AEs). However, the majority of this focus has been on the in-hospital setting, with l...

    Authors: Ian Howard, Bernard Pillay, Nicholas Castle, Loua Al Shaikh, Robert Owen and David Williams
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:47
  11. The management of childhood intussusception in our sub-region is still via surgical intervention. Currently, the gold standard of treatment is non-operative reduction. We sought to assess the suitability of hy...

    Authors: Ademola Olusegun Talabi, Olusola Comfort Famurewa, Kayode Taiwo Bamigbola, Oludayo Adedapo Sowande, Babalola Ishmael Afolabi and Olusanya Adejuyigbe
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:46
  12. The availability of prehospital trauma care is an important means of reducing serious injuries and fatalities associated with road traffic injuries (RTIs). Lay responders such as traffic police play an importa...

    Authors: Gift G. Lukumay, Menti L. Ndile, Anne H. Outwater, Dickson A. Mkoka, Mojgan Padyab, Britt-Inger Saveman and Susann Backteman-Erlanson
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:45
  13. In 2013 the Scandinavian Neurotrauma Committee (SNC) published updated guidelines for the initial management of minimal, mild and moderate traumatic head injuries (MTHI) that included serum analysis of protein...

    Authors: Arurann Ananthaharan, Gunnhild Kravdal and Truls Martin Straume-Naesheim
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:44
  14. In this study, we hypothesized that point of care testing (POCT) would reduce length of stay (LOS) in emergency department (ED) when compared to central laboratory testing and be a factor in patient discharge ...

    Authors: Meri Kankaanpää, Marika Holma-Eriksson, Sami Kapanen, Merja Heitto, Sari Bergström, Leila Muukkonen and Veli-Pekka Harjola
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:43
  15. Paramedics work in a highly complex and unpredictable environment which is characterized by ongoing decision-making. Decisions made by paramedics in the prehospital setting have implications for patient safety...

    Authors: Gudrun Reay, James A. Rankin, Lorraine Smith-MacDonald and Gerald C. Lazarenko
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:42
  16. Pain management in the Emergency Department has often been described as inadequate, despite proven benefits of pain treatment protocols. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of our curren...

    Authors: Judith E. van Zanden, Susanne Wagenaar, Jozine M. ter Maaten, Jan C. ter Maaten and Jack J. M. Ligtenberg
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:40
  17. Sepsis and septic shock are common problems in intensive care units (ICUs). The mortality of patients with sepsis or septic shock is high. We investigated if reduction in the serum concentration of the cytokin...

    Authors: Pham Thi Ngoc Thao, Ton Thanh Tra, Nguyen Truong Son and Koji Wada
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:39
  18. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a major cause of mortality worldwide. When basic life support techniques are implemented quickly, the chance of survival is doubled. Therefore, this study evaluated public awa...

    Authors: Samiha Jarrah, Mahfuz Judeh and Mohannad Eid AbuRuz
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:37
  19. Physician chart documentation can facilitate patient care decisions, reduce treatment errors, and inform health system planning and resource allocation activities. Although accurate and complete patient chart ...

    Authors: Diane L. Lorenzetti, Hude Quan, Kelsey Lucyk, Ceara Cunningham, Deirdre Hennessy, Jason Jiang and Cynthia A. Beck
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:36
  20. Recurrent CT imaging is believed to significantly increase lifetime malignancy risk. We previously reported that high acuity, admitted trauma patients who received a whole-body CT in the emergency department (...

    Authors: Mary Matthews, Peter Richman, Scott Krall, Kimberly Leeson, K Tom Xu, Albert L Gest and Osbert Blow
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:34
  21. Every year, about 1.2 million people die through road traffic crashes worldwide. Majority of these deaths occur in Africa where most of their emergency medical services are underdeveloped. In 2004, Ghana estab...

    Authors: Mohammed-Najeeb Mahama, Ernest Kenu, Delia Akosua Bandoh and Ahmed Nuhu Zakariah
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:33
  22. Socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular morbidity have been previously reported showing direct associations between socioeconomic disadvantage and worse health outcomes. However, disagreement remains rega...

    Authors: George Mnatzaganian, Janet E Hiller, Jason Fletcher, Mark Putland, Cameron Knott, George Braitberg, Steve Begg and Melanie Bish
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:32
  23. Platelet variables, including platelet distribution width (PDW) and mean platelet volume (MPV), have been associated with outcome in critically ill patients. We evaluated these variables in patients after card...

    Authors: Antonella Cotoia, Federico Franchi, Chiara De Fazio, Jean-Louis Vincent, Jacques Creteur and Fabio Silvio Taccone
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:31
  24. Acute poisoning is a common chief complaint leading to emergency department visits and hospital admissions in developing countries such as Iran. Data describing the epidemiology of different poisonings, charac...

    Authors: Omid Mehrpour, Ayob Akbari, Firoozeh Jahani, Alireza Amirabadizadeh, Elaheh Allahyari, Borhan Mansouri and Patrick C. Ng
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:30
  25. Smuggling of illegal drugs by hiding them inside one’s own body, also called body packing, is a worldwide phenomenon. Cocaine is the most frequently transported drug. Body packing is a potentially lethal pract...

    Authors: Miriam Luginbühl, Timo Junker and Dagmar I. Keller
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:29
  26. Physician-staffed helicopter emergency services (HEMS) can provide benefit through the delivery of specialist competence and equipment to the prehospital scene and through expedient transport of critically ill...

    Authors: Daniel Kornhall, Robert Näslund, Cecilia Klingberg, Regina Schiborr and Mikael Gellerfors
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:28
  27. Falls are a common cause of hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality among the elderly in the United States. Evidence-based imaging recommendations for evaluation of delayed intracranial hemorrhage (DICH) are...

    Authors: Nolan Mann, Kellen Welch, Andrew Martin, Michael Subichin, Katherine Wietecha, Lauren E. Birmingham, Tiffany D. Marchand and Richard L. George
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:27
  28. Primary care patients are often cited as a cause of Emergency Department overcrowding (ED). The aim of this study was to evaluate a physician led redirection procedure of selected patients towards an out of ho...

    Authors: Charles Morin, Jacques Choukroun and Jean-Christophe Callahan
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:26
  29. Multiresistant bacteria (MRB) is an increasing problem. Early identification of patients with MRB is mandatory to avoid transmission and to target the antibiotic treatment. The emergency department (ED) is a k...

    Authors: Christian B. Mogensen, Helene Skjøt-Arkil, Annmarie T. Lassen, Isik S. Johansen, Ming Chen, Poul Petersen, Karen V. Andersen, Svend Ellermann-Eriksen, Jørn M. Møller, Marc Ludwig, David Fuglsang-Damgaard, Finn Nielsen, Dan B. Petersen, Ulrich S. Jensen and Flemming S. Rosenvinge
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:25
  30. The association between burnout and patient safety has been analyzed in many studies for nurses, physicians, and residents. However, studies concerning prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) workers are ...

    Authors: Natalie Baier, Karsten Roth, Susanne Felgner and Cornelia Henschke
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:24
  31. Medical professionals together with other first responder teams are the first to attend an emergency or disaster. Knowledge and training in emergency and disaster preparedness are important in responding effec...

    Authors: Waheeb Nasr Naser and Huda Ba Saleem
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:23
  32. There is little data describing pediatric emergencies in resource-poor countries, such as Pakistan. We studied the demographics, management, and outcomes of patients presenting to the highest-volume, public, p...

    Authors: Nadir Ijaz, Matthew Strehlow, N. Ewen Wang, Elizabeth Pirrotta, Areeba Tariq, Naseeruddin Mahmood and Swaminatha Mahadevan
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:22

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  33. Although this has not been fully studied, videos and pictorial brochures might be equivalent methods of delivering HIV/AIDS and HIV testing information to emergency departments (ED) patients. It also is not kn...

    Authors: Roland C. Merchant, Tao Liu, Melissa A. Clark and Michael P. Carey
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:21
  34. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly used in resuscitation of critically ill patients with documented improved survival. Few studies describe ECMO use in cardiogenic shock. This study exa...

    Authors: Rayan El Sibai, Rana Bachir and Mazen El Sayed
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:20
  35. The use of big data and machine learning within clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) has the potential to transform medicine through better prognosis, diagnosis and automation of tasks. Real-time applicat...

    Authors: Warren M. Perry, Rubayet Hossain and Richard A. Taylor
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:19
  36. Management of stable patients with abdominal stab wound remains controversial, particularly for those with no clear indications for explorative laparotomy. We evaluated the risk of intra-abdominal injury in st...

    Authors: Igor Jeroukhimov, Itay Wiser, Yehuda Hershkovitz, Zahar Shapira, Kobi Peleg, Ricardo Alfici, Adi Givon and Boris Kessel
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:18
  37. Liberal use of oxygen in an emergency situation is common. Today, most health care professionals do not adjust the amount of oxygen given when a saturation of 100% or a PaO2 which exceeds the normal range is r...

    Authors: Anna S. M. Dobbe, Renate Stolmeijer, Jan C. ter Maaten and Jack J. M. Ligtenberg
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:17
  38. Poor communication during patient handover is recognised internationally as a root cause of a significant proportion of preventable deaths. Data used in handover is not always easily recorded using ambulance b...

    Authors: David Fitzpatrick, Douglas Maxwell and Alan Craigie
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:16
  39. 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
  40. Traumatic injuries continue to be an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. Despite the high burden of injury in Ethiopia, the occurrence and health impact have not received due at...

    Authors: Abel Negussie, Andarge Getie, Elias Manaye and Tamrat Tekle
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:14
  41. Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) are popular rescue systems despite inconsistent evidence in the scientific literature to support their use for primary interventions, as well as for inter-facility ...

    Authors: Damien Di Rocco, Mathieu Pasquier, Eric Albrecht, Pierre-Nicolas Carron and Fabrice Dami
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:13
  42. 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
  43. In Mozambique, and other low-income countries (LICs), there is little information on the burden of child maltreatment (CM). Emergency care services (ECS) play an important role in recognizing, treating, and in...

    Authors: Liliana Pinto, Adriana Lein, Raquel Mahoque, David W. Wright, Scott M. Sasser and Catherine A. Staton
    Citation: BMC Emergency Medicine 2018 18:11
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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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