June 2024 - 12 articles
Emergency medical teams (EMTs) often face complex tasks during humanitarian medical interventions. These are often accompanied by complex challenges. One such example is medical documentation and the consequent processing of secure data. The gathered...
Burnout represents a concern for all healthcare providers, particularly emergency medical care specialists for whom burnout outcomes have been well documented. What remains unknown is the effect of burnout on redeployed medical specialists during the...
Injury is the leading cause of death and disability amongst those between 0 and 16 years of age. Routinely associated with a social gradient of health, childhood injury is reportedly higher in rural and regional areas. A retrospective cross-sectional...
Emergency Departments (ED) play a vital role within the health system, representing the ‘front door’ to hospitals, the first point of hospital contact for patients who are undifferentiated and may be critically ill. They also serve as a s...
Orthopedic emergencies due to fractures are one of the main reasons for surgical intervention. The distal radius is a structure prone to fractures, particularly in young people. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the success rate of met...
A 15-year-old girl was admitted to the Pediatric Emergency Department due to abdominal discomfort, anorexia, diarrhea, emesis, and weight loss. An inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis was suspected and a complete endoscopic investigation was deemed n...
Procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) in the emergency department (ED) presents a crucial aspect of emergency medicine, enabling the execution of painful or distressing procedures with minimal patient discomfort. This narrative review delineates th...
Emergency department physicians uncommonly associate myopericarditis with bacterial infection and, even more rarely, encounter myopericarditis caused by meningococcal infection. This case report describes a 38-year-old man who presented with chest pa...
Introduction: Metformin, a commonly used oral antihyperglycemic drug, poses a rare risk related to the development of metformin-associated lactic acidosis (MALA). The Extracorporeal Treatments in Poisoning (EXTRIP) group recommended intermittent haem...
This review compares the efficacy of video laryngoscopy (VL) with that of direct laryngoscopy (DL) in adult patients with difficult airways who require emergency intubation. Intubation and laryngoscopy are critical in emergency settings, and VL has e...
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