A study on outcome of intubation in Emergency Department, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia. by Mohd Alip, Rabiha

“…The most frequent intervention for difficult airway was by using bougie in 4 cases (44.4%). 57 case (43.3%) develop complication which were hypotension 49.1%, and cardiac arrest 33.3%. 2 factors showed significant association with successful intubation which were difficult airway and multiple attempts. …”
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Prediction of adverse cardiac events in emergency department patients with chest pain using machine learning for variable selection by Liu, Nan, Koh, Zhi Xiong, Goh, Junyang, Lin, Zhiping, Haaland, Benjamin, Ting, Boon Ping, Ong, Marcus Eng Hock

“…The primary outcome was a composite of MACE such as death and cardiac arrest within 72 h of arrival at the ED. For each patient, eight clinical signs such as blood pressure and temperature were measured, and a 5-min ECG was recorded to derive heart rate variability parameters. …”
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Global prevalence of basic life support training: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ng, Trina Priscilla, Eng, Sean Wai-Onn, Ting, Joel Xin Rui, Bok, Chermaine, Tay, Girvan Yang Hong, Kong, Joyce So Yeon, Stassen, Willem, Zhang, Lin, de Kleijn, Dominique P. V., Ong, Marcus Eng Hock, Blewer, Audrey L., Yeo, Jun Wei, Ho, Andrew Fu Wah

“…Background and Aims: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest exerts a large disease burden, which may be mitigated by bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillation. …”
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A survey on knowledge, attitude and confidence level of adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation among junior doctors in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia and Hospital Raja Peremp... by Fauzi, Mohd Hashairi Hj

“…Therefore it is important that they have adequate knowledge, positive attitude and good confidence level in managing cardiac arrests according to the current guidelines for resuscitation. …”
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Risk factors, management, and outcomes of amniotic fluid embolism: A multicountry, population-based cohort and nested case-control study by Fitzpatrick, K, van den Akker, T, Bloemenkamp, K, Deneux-Tharaux, C, Kristufkova, A, Li, Z, Schaap, T, Sullivan, E, Tuffnell, D, Knight, M

“…Using the most liberal case definition (UK) and adjusting for the severity of presentation when appropriate, women who died were more likely than those who survived to present with cardiac arrest (89% versus 40%, adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 10.58, 95% confidence interval [CI] 3.93–28.48, p < 0.001) and less likely to have a source of concentrated fibrinogen (40% versus 56%, aOR 0.44, 95% CI 0.21–0.92, p = 0.029) or platelets given (24% versus 49%, aOR 0.23, 95% CI 0.10–0.52, p < 0.001). …”

12th WINFOCUS world congress on ultrasound in emergency and critical care by Acar, Y, Tezel, O, Salman, N, Cevik, E, Algaba-Montes, M, Oviedo-García, A, Patricio-Bordomás, M, Mahmoud, MZ, Sulieman, A, Ali, A, Mustafa, A, Abdelrahman, I, Bahar, M, Ali, O, Kirchner, H, Prosen, G, Anzic, A, Leeson, P, Bahreini, M, Rasooli, F, Hosseinnejad, H, Blecher, G, Meek, R, Egerton-Warburton, D, Ćuti, EĆ, Belina, S, Vančina, T, Kovačević, I, Rustemović, N, Chang, I, Lee, JH, Kwak, YH, Kim, DK, Cheng, C-Y, Pan, H-Y, Kung, C-T, Ćurčić, E, Pritišanac, E, Planinc, I, Medić, MG, Radonić, R, Fasina, A, Dean, AJ, Panebianco, NL, Henwood, PS, Fochi, O, Favarato, M, Bonanomi, E, Tomić, I, Ha, Y, Toh, H, Harmon, E, Chan, W, Baston, C, Morrison, G, Shofer, F, Hua, A, Kim, S, Tsung, J, Gunaydin, I, Kekec, Z, Ay, MO, Kim, J, Kim, J, Choi, G, Shim, D, Lee, J-H, Ambrozic, J, Prokselj, K, Lucovnik, M, Simenc, GB, Mačiulienė, A, Maleckas, A, Kriščiukaitis, A, Mačiulis, V, Macas, A, Mohite, S, Narancsik, Z, Možina, H, Nikolić, S, Hansel, J, Petrovčič, R, Mršić, U, Orlob, S, Lerchbaumer, M, Schönegger, N, Kaufmann, R, Pan, C-I, Wu, C-H, Pasquale, S, Doniger, SJ, Yellin, S, Chiricolo, G, Potisek, M, Drnovšek, B, Leskovar, B, Robinson, K, Kraft, C, Moser, B, Davis, S, Layman, S, Sayeed, Y, Minardi, J, Pasic, IS, Dzananovic, A, Pasic, A, Zubovic, SV, Hauptman, AG, Brajkovic, AV, Babel, J, Peklic, M, Radonic, V, Bielen, L, Ming, PW, Yezid, NH, Mohammed, FL, Huda, ZA, Ismail, WNW, Isa, WYHW, Fauzi, H, Seeva, P, Mazlan, MZ

“…DeanA24 Clinical outcomes in the use of lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pediatric pneumoniasAngela Hua, Sharon Kim, James TsungA25 Effectiveness of ultrasound in hypotensive patientsIsa Gunaydin, Zeynep Kekec, Mehmet Oguzhan AyA26 Moderate-to-severe left ventricular ejection fraction related to short-term mortality of patients with post-cardiac arrest syndrome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrestJinjoo Kim, Jinhyun Kim, Gyoosung Choi, Dowon ShimA27 Usefulness of abdominal ultrasound for acute pyelonephritis diagnosis after kidney transplantationJi-Han LeeA28 Lung ultrasound for assessing fluid tolerance in severe preeclampsiaJana Ambrozic, Katja Prokselj, Miha LucovnikA29 Optic nerve sheath ultrasound in severe preeclampsiaGabrijela Brzan Simenc, Jana Ambrozic, Miha LucovnikA30 Focused echocardiography monitoring in the postoperative period for non-cardiac patientsAsta Mačiulienė, Almantas Maleckas, Algimantas Kriščiukaitis, Vytautas Mačiulis, Andrius MacasA31 POCUS-guided paediatric upper limb fracture reduction: algorithm, tricks, and tipsSharad MohiteA32 Point-of-care lung ultrasound: a good diagnostic tool for pneumonia in a septic patientZoltan Narancsik, Hugon MožinaA33 A case of undergraduate POCUS (r)evolutionSara Nikolić, Jan Hansel, Rok Petrovčič, Una Mršić, Gregor ProsenA34 The Graz Summer School for ultrasound: from first contact to bedside application: three-and-a-half-day undergraduate ultrasound training: résumé after two years of continuous developmentSimon Orlob, Markus Lerchbaumer, Niklas Schönegger, Reinhard KaufmannA35 Usefulness of point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency room in a patient with acute abdominal painAlberto Oviedo-García, Margarita Algaba-Montes, Mayra Patricio-BordomásA36 Use of bedside ultrasound in a critically ill patient. …”

Welfare, physiological stress responses, and carcass and meat quality in goats subjected to different slaughter methods by Sabow, Azad Behnan

“…Based on EEG data, the LFHO animals had the highest changes of electrical activity of the brain at stunning point compared to other stunned animals. LFHB induced a cardiac arrest in all the goats contrary to LFHO and HFHB. …”
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The value of data fusion for predicting alarms in critical care by Hann, A, Tarassenko, K, Patterson, A, Barber, V, Young, D

“…Studies show that patients who have in-hospital cardiac arrests or unexpectedly require admission to an Intensive Care Unit frequently show physiological signs of deterioration prior to the event. …”

Reduction in infarct size, arrhythmias and chest pain by early intravenous beta blockade in suspected acute myocardial infarction. by Yusuf, S, Sleight, P, Rossi, P, Ramsdale, D, Peto, R, Furze, L, Sterry, H, Pearson, M, Motwani, R, Parish, S, Gray, R, Bennett, D, Bray, C

“…Significantly fewer atenolol-treated patients died by 10 days (the treatment period), had nonfatal cardiac arrests, developed heart failure, or suffered reinfarction.…”

A randomised controlled trial of the effect of continuous electronic physiological monitoring on the adverse event rate in high risk medical and surgical patients. by Watkinson, P, Barber, V, Price, J, Hann, A, Tarassenko, L, Young, J

“…The primary outcome was the proportion of patients experiencing one or more major adverse events, including urgent staff calls, changes to higher care levels, cardiac arrests or death, in 96 h following randomisation. …”

Early intravenous atenolol treatment in suspected acute myocardial infarction. Preliminary report of a randomised trial. by Yusuf, S, Ramsdale, D, Peto, R, Furse, L, Bennett, D, Bray, C, Sleight, P

“…In hospital, fewer atenolol patients died (4 vs 9), had non-fatal cardiac arrests (2 vs 6), or required therapy for heart-failure (36 vs 47). …”

Characteristics of automated external defibrillator coverage in Philadelphia, PA, based on land use and estimated risk by Chrisinger, B, Grossestreuer, A, Laguna, M, Griffis, H, Branas, C, Wiebe, D, Merchant, R

“…<strong>Aim</strong> Approximately 424,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) occur in the US annually. As automated external defibrillators (AED) are an important part of the community response to OHCA, we investigated how well the spatial demand (likelihood of OHCA) was met by the spatial supply (AEDs) in a dense urban environment. …”

Quality metrics for the evaluation of Rapid Response Systems: Proceedings from the third international consensus conference on Rapid Response Systems by Subbe, CP, Bannard-Smith, J, Bunch, J, Champunot, R, Devita, MA, Durham, L, Edelson, DP, Gonzalez, I, Hancock, C, Haniffa, R, Hartin, J, Haskell, H, Hogan, H, Jones, DA, Kalkman, CJ, Lighthall, GK, Malycha, J, Ni, MZ, Phillips, AV, Rubulotta, F, So, RK, Welch, J, International Society For Rapid Response Systems

“…The conference recommended that hospitals should collect data on cardiac arrests and their potential predictability, timeliness of escalation, critical care interventions and presence of written treatment goals for patients remaining on general wards. …”

A total blood volume or more transfused during pregnancy or after childbirth: individual patient data from six international population-based observational studies by McCall, S, Van Den Akker, T, Kurinczuk, J, Stanworth, S, Knight, M, Et al.

“…There was no difference in maternal mortality; however, variable proportions of women had cardiac arrests, renal failure and thrombotic events from 0-16%. …”

The incidence, characteristics, management and outcomes of anaphylaxis in pregnancy: a population-based descriptive study by McCall, S, Bunch, K, Brocklehurst, P, D'Arcy, R, Hinshaw, K, Kurinczuk, J, Lucas, N, Stenson, B, Tuffnell, D, Knight, M

“…Two women died (5%), 14 (38%) women were admitted to intensive care and seven women (19%) had one or more additional severe maternal morbidities, which included three haemorrhagic events, two cardiac arrests, one thrombotic event and one pneumonia. …”

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on emergency department attendances and acute medical admissions by Reschen, ME, Bowen, J, Novak, A, Giles, M, Singh, S, Lasserson, D, O'Callaghan, C

“…There were fewer ED attendances with common non-respiratory illnesses including cardiac diagnoses, but no change in cardiac arrests. COVID-19 was the commonest diagnosis amongst medical admissions during the first wave and there were fewer diagnoses of pneumonia, myocardial infarction, heart failure, cellulitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, urinary tract infection and other sepsis, but not stroke. …”

Evaluation of the feasibility and performance of early warning scores to identify patients at risk of adverse outcomes in a low-middle income country setting by Beane, A, De Silva, A, De Silva, N, Sujeewa, J, Rathnayake, R, Sigera, P, Athapattu, P, Mahipala, P, Rashan, A, Munasinghe, S, Jayasinghe, K, Dondorp, A, Haniffa, R

“…</p> <h4>Results</h4> <p>Of the 16 386 patients included, 502 (3.06%) had one or more adverse outcomes (cardiac arrests, unplanned intensive care unit admissions and transfers). …”

Novelty detection with extreme value theory in vital-sign monitoring by Hugueny, S, Samuel Hugueny

“…<p>Every year in the UK, tens of thousands of hospital patients suffer adverse events, such as un- planned transfers to Intensive Therapy Units or unexpected cardiac arrests. Studies have shown that in a large majority of cases, significant physiological abnormalities can be observed within the 24-hour period preceding such events. …”