We aim to identify the engagement strategies that higher education students, engaging in emergency online learning in low-resource settings, perceive to be effective. We conducted a sequential mixed-methods study based on Moore’s interaction fr...
Acute severe cardiac valve emergencies, such as acute severe mitral regurgitation (AMR) and acute severe aortic regurgitation (AAR), present significant challenges in terms of diagnosis and management. Handheld point-of-care ultrasound devices have e...
Emergency decision-making has become as one of the hot issues in recent years. The aim of emergency decision-making is to reduce the casualties and property losses. All the processes of emergency decision-making are full of incompleteness and hesitat...
In modern clinical practice, there is an increasing dependence on imaging techniques in several settings, and especially during emergencies. Consequently, there has been an increase in the frequency of imaging examinations and thus also an increased...
This study investigates rapid-setting, phosphate-based, chemically bonded phosphate ceramic (CBPC) composites for emergency pothole repair through a two-phase experimental approach. Phase I involved fundamental mix design experiments that systematica...
In the last 20 years, substantial improvements have been made in stroke recanalization treatment. Good outcomes after modern reperfusion treatment require the rapid and accurate identification of stroke patients. Several stroke rating scales are avai...
The benefits of using reinforcing fibers in latex-modified rapid-set cement preplaced concrete for emergency pavement repairs were examined in terms of strength, permeability, and durability as functions of the type of fiber. Single-type fibers, incl...
Airway management is central to the care of critically ill patients, yet it remains one of the most challenging interventions in emergency departments and intensive care units. Patients often present with severe physiological instability, limited car...
Background: Accurate, real-time data about response technologies, capabilities, and availabilities are key to effective emergency response logistics; this is particularly important in remote settings, such as in the Arctic, where limited infrastructu...
29 April 2021
Background: Little is known about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) as a decisive technology in the clinical management of COVID-19 patients. We aimed to systematically review and critically appraise the current evidence on AI applications for...
Cancer-related pain constitutes a dominant reason for admission to emergency services, and a significant patient and healthcare challenge. Evidence points to the rising prevalence of opioid misuse in this patient group. We sought to compare drug deli...
The emergency handover of critical patients is used to describe the moment when responsibility for the care of a patient is transferred from one critical patient care healthcare team to another, requiring the accurate delivery of information. However...
28 November 2021
The provision of person-centered care (PCC) for older adults in emergency settings is important. This short communication explores the complexity of providing comprehensive PCC for older adults in emergency settings, based on a synthesis of existing...
This paper presents an innovative methodology for the dynamic emergency response scheme selection (ERSS) problem in post-major natural disasters. It employs a combination of subjective and objective composite weights and the integrated ELECTRE-score...
Children who sustain major injuries are at risk of receiving insufficient pain relief and sedation, which can have physical and psychological repercussions. Heightened emotional distress can increase the likelihood of developing symptoms of post-trau...
Background/Objectives: A psychiatric consultation is a professional evaluation aimed at establishing a diagnosis, a prognosis, and developing a treatment plan. The objective was to assess psychiatric consultations (PCs) at the Community Mental Health...
30 June 2025
Moral injury is increasingly recognized as a significant concern among medical personnel and first responders, particularly in high-stress healthcare and emergency settings. This review aims to synthesize current evidence on the prevalence, risk fact...
Principles: Newly developed qualitative rapid bedside immunoassays for markers of cardiac injury represent a promising tool for emergency decision making in patients with chest pain, but they have been tested mainly in conditions of clinical investig...
15 March 2023
Child maltreatment is a phenomenon of great importance due to the significant socio-health implications related to it. Purpose of the study is assessing compliance child abuse clinical management with guidelines and suggest corrective actions to avoi...
Background/Objectives: Accurate patient weight estimation is critical for safe and effective drug dosing in emergency and critical care settings. Inaccurate estimates exceeding a 10% deviation from true weight can result in significant dosing errors...
Background and Objectives: Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death in developed countries. While ECG-gated coronary CT is commonly used to detect coronary artery stenosis, the potential of non-ECG-gated CT (NECE-CT) to reveal incidental my...
Background/Objectives: Patient handover is the process by which the responsibility for care is transferred from one health care professional to another. Given the lack of validated scales to assess the handover of critically ill patients, our aim was...
Background: Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) management begins in the pre-hospital setting, but clinicians are left with limited options for stabilisation during retrieval due to time and space constraints, as well as a lack of access to monitorin...
Background: Differentiation therapy is a cornerstone in treating hematologic malignancies, particularly acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Differentiation agents target molecular defects blocking myeloid differentiation. However, rapid differentiation can...
Introduction: Psychomotor agitation represents a complex medical emergency, particularly challenging in prehospital settings. Since March 2020, the incidence of psychomotor agitation has significantly increased. Rationale: Emergency Medical Services...
12 March 2019
In October 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a meeting to identify key research needs, bringing together leading experts from WHO, WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management (Health-EDRM) Research Network...
Knowledge hiding—an intentional attempt to withhold or conceal knowledge from others—has been reported by recent studies to be a negative phenomenon in the workplace. Considering the importance of knowledge for organizational performance,...
Background/Objectives: The administration of parenteral medications is essential in managing acute arousal within the Behavioral Assessment Unit (BAU) of the emergency department (ED), where timely and effective intervention is critical. This study a...
19 February 2026
Hallux fractures, particularly those involving the proximal phalanx, can lead to significant functional impairments if not promptly managed. This report introduces a novel, minimally invasive technique for hallux fracture fixation using hypodermic ne...
To evaluate the advantages of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) virtual non-hydroxyapatite color mapping (VNHAP) in combination with standard bone CT (BCT) in the identification of subtle or occult traumatic fractures referred to emergency and a...
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the sustainable energy investments based on house of quality. For that, a hybrid decision-making approach to interval type 2 (IT2) fuzzy sets under the hesitancy is proposed. The novelties of the study are to c...
Real-time RT-PCR is used as a gold standard method for the diagnosis of COVID-19. Since real-time RT PCR is nucleic acid-based, it is a highly sensitive and specific test. However, this test takes 4–8 h to generate results and, in emergency set...
Objectives: This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated differences in job satisfaction scores between nurses and physicians, examining variation by (a) care setting (hospital, emergency department, outpatient, mixed), and (b) time period (pre...
In recent years, different types of emergency events have taken place frequently around the world. Emergencies need to be addressed in the shortest possible time since inappropriate or delayed decisions may result in severe secondary disasters and ec...
Background: Sepsis is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. Early recognition and treatment are essential for preventing progression to lethal outcomes. CRP and Complete Blood Count (CBC) are the initial preferred tests to distinguish bet...
Humanitarian rescue has become an important part of government emergency management in China. In order to select the optimal humanitarian rescue scheme accurately and in a timely manner in an emergency, reduce the harm of disasters to human life and...
Background: Acute viral respiratory infections are a major cause of morbidity among young children, with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) being the leading pathogen. In Jordan and globally, most RSV research has focused on hospitalized patients, whi...
Against the background of a major change in the world unseen in a century, emergencies with high complexity and uncertainty have had serious impacts on economic security and sustainable social development, making emergency management an important iss...
Hydrogen leakage and explosion accidents have obvious dangers, ambiguity of accident information, and urgency of decision-making time. These characteristics bring challenges to the optimization of emergency alternatives for such accidents. Effective...
Advances in flow cytometry enable the acquisition of large and high-dimensional data sets per patient. Novel computational techniques allow the visualization of structures in these data and, finally, the identification of relevant subgroups. Correct...
The causal set program and the Wolfram physics project leave open the problem of how a graph that is a (3+1)-dimensional Minkowski spacetime according to its simple geodesic distances could be generated solely from simple deterministic rules. This pa...
The objective of the present study was to determine the subjective impact of the pandemic due to COVID-19 on communication, as perceived by nurses working at emergency services and Intensive Care Units at various hospitals in the Region of Murcia (Sp...
To tackle preference conflicts and uncertainty in large-group emergency decision-making (LGEDM), this study proposes a probabilistic linguistic LGEDM method integrating the Louvain algorithm and group pressure model. First, expert weights are determi...
The presence of hope significantly influences how youth interpret possibilities and commit to future-oriented action. This qualitative study investigates how fifteen Black emerging adults, ages eighteen to twenty-five, living in a major United States...
As vehicles for implementing innovation-driven strategies, the strategic emerging industries are crucial for enhancing national competitiveness and sustainable development. Improving innovation performance in these industries has been a central focus...
In case of emergency, evacuation signs play an important role in guiding people to evacuate safety exits in large space buildings. Large space buildings are characterized by high ceilings and large areas. In the existing legislation and standards, th...
Extreme point-of-care (POC) testing for infections, as performed (endured) in low-resource settings, developing countries, tropical areas, or in conditions following emergency crises or natural disasters, must be undertaken under environmental, logis...
In this article, we combine the original VIKOR model with a triangular fuzzy neutrosophic set to propose the triangular fuzzy neutrosophic VIKOR method. In the extended method, we use the triangular fuzzy neutrosophic numbers (TFNNs) to present the c...
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the patterns, distribution, and circumstances of dental trauma (DT) cases at a German cranio-maxillofacial trauma center. Materials and Methods: This retrospect...
Background: In the wake of Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, the University of Parma, in partnership with Myanmar and Brazilian institutions, developed an asynchronous e-learning program to sustain healthcare education amid severe disruptions. The...
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