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Materias / palabras clave: emergency medicine, trauma, acute care surgery, critical care medicine, urgent healthcare, prehospital medicine; Medicine: Internal medicine: Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid

ABSTRACT Background and Aims Effective pain management remains a critical component of emergency care. However, patient‐related beliefs and misconceptions about pain medication can pose significant barriers to adequate...

Background Strengthening emergency care systems could reduce death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet many struggle to provide timely, high-quality care. LMICs also face growing risks from cl...

Background Acute neurological presentations are common in emergency settings. These are managed with a high rate of misdiagnosis in about one-third of cases. This is the first description of a consultant-led model within...

Violência sexual contra a mulher é uma das expressões da violência baseada no gênero, que tem como origem o desequilíbrio de poder existente entre homens e mulheres, com maior ou menor intensidade, em todos os paí...

Background: South Africa’s population experiences high rates of gender-based violence (GBV), with primary care emergency centres (ECs) often being the first point of contact for victim-survivors of violence. The abili...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Pediatrics; Medicine: Internal medicine: Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid

Introduction The obstetric complications remain the leading cause of death in women of reproductive age and their neonates in low and middle-income countries. These deaths are largely preventable through providing qualit...

ObjectiveTo understand the basic situation, training status, and training needs of pre-hospital emergency personnel in Chengdu, and to provide a scientific basis for developing standardized and unified pre-hospital train...

ABSTRACT Objective: To develop an indicator matrix to assess the quality of care provided to older adults in Emergency Care Units. Method: Applied methodological study, conducted in three stages, between September 2023...

Abstract Background Belgium’s emergency services face several public health challenges, including increasing patient numbers and a shortage of medical staff. Against this backdrop, there is a risk that current organisa...

Abstract Background Infectious diseases are a leading cause of Paediatric Emergency Department (PED) visits worldwide, characterised by significant clinical variability in both presentation and severity. Literature highl...

ObjectivePediatric direct inguinal hernia (DIH) is an extremely rare congenital abdominal wall defect, accounting for less than 4% of all pediatric inguinal hernias. Its clinical manifestations overlap highly with indire...

Hamzah Aweidah,1 Ravid Ben-Avi,1 Malak Sultan,2 Zenaa Mittwalli,2 Marina Abdallah,2 Aviya Benyamin,2 Hadas Ben-Eli1,2 1Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah Medical Organization and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University...

Abstract Introduction The Emergency Medical Service Benefit Score (EBS) was recently developed from the former Helicopter Benefit Score (HBS) to provide a standardized tool for evaluating the benefits of prehospital inte...

Abstract Introduction Emergency departments (EDs) suffer from crowding due to patients with low urgency, whose treatment is often inappropriate. This study aimed to describe the proportion of avoidable, non-urgent ED vis...

Aim: Ischemic hepatitis (IH), also called hypoxic hepatitis, is a form of acute hepatocellular injury often seen in advanced heart failure (HF) with hemodynamic compromise. However, its prevalence and prognostic signific...

Abstract Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) needs inter-disciplinary care through pre-hospital resuscitation, emergency and neurosurgical care, neurocritical care, and structured neurorehabilitation to maximize surv...

Joel Nabeshya,1,2 Elizabeth Atiang,1 Charity Kwarikunda,1 Rachel Luwaga,1 Vallence Niyonzima1 1Department of Nursing, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda; 2Department of Emergency and Critical C...

Abstract Background Suicide attempts constitute a significant public health emergency, with Emergency Departments (EDs) serving as a primary point of contact for individuals in acute psychiatric crisis. This observationa...

Abstract Background Sex/gender bias have been well-documented in clinical medicine. However, few studies have assessed sex/gender disparities specifically in major trauma care. This scoping review aims to explore sex and...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Surgery; Medicine: Internal medicine: Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Internal medicine: Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine: Internal medicine: Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid