Association between ambient temperatures and injuries: a time series analysis using emergency ambulance dispatches in Chongqing, China by Zhi-Yi Chen, Hui Hu, Jun Yang, Dian-Guo Xing, Xin-Yi Deng, Yang Zou, Ying He, Sai-Juan Chen, Qiu-Ting Wang, Yun-Yi An, Ying Chen, Hua Liu, Wei-Jie Tan, Xin-Yun Zhou, Yan Zhang

“…The results of this study can help to identify the sensitive population with different injury mechanisms in extreme temperature environment, and provide reference for public health emergency departments to respond to relevant strategies in extreme temperature environment to minimize the potential risk to the public.…”
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A home-based, multidisciplinary liver optimisation programme for the first 28 days after an admission for acute-on-chronic liver failure (LivR well): a study protocol for a randomi... by Natalie LY Ngu, Edward Saxby, Thomas Worland, Patricia Anderson, Lisa Stothers, Anita Figredo, Jo Hunter, Alexander Elford, Phil Ha, Imogen Hartley, Andrew Roberts, Dean Seah, George Tambakis, Danny Liew, Benjamin Rogers, William Sievert, Sally Bell, Suong Le

“…Methods We will recruit adult patients with chronic liver disease from the emergency departments, in-patient admissions, and an ambulatory liver clinic of a multi-site quaternary health service in Melbourne, Australia. …”
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The Triage Capability of Laypersons: Retrospective Exploratory Analysis by Marvin Kopka, Markus A Feufel, Felix Balzer, Malte L Schmieding

“…Overcautious self-assessments (ie, overtriaging) may lead to overutilization of health care facilities and overcrowded emergency departments, whereas imprudent decisions (ie, undertriaging) constitute a risk to the patient’s health. …”
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Early Results of an Initiative to Assess Exposure to Firearm Violence in Ambulatory Care: Descriptive Analysis of Electronic Health Record Data by Nicole Cook, Megan Hoopes, Frances M Biel, Natalie Cartwright, Michelle Gordon, Marion Sills

“… Background Current research on firearm violence is largely limited to patients who received care in emergency departments or inpatient acute care settings or who died. …”
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Epidural hematoma in computed tomography scan-based scoring systems of traumatic brain injury by Seyed Mohammad Piri, Moein Khormali, Esmaeil Fakharian, Mahdi Sharif-Alhoseini

“…Computed tomography (CT) scan is the preferred modality to detect injuries and determine TBI patients' prognoses in emergency departments. Thus far, some scoring systems have been introduced for grading TBI based on CT scan findings, including the Marshal,[1] Rotterdam,[2] Helsinki,[3] Stockholm,[4] and NeuroImaging Radiological Interpretation System (NIRIS) [Table 1].[5] This letter aims to briefly raise issues regarding the scoring of epidural hematoma (EDH) in CT scan-based scoring systems of TBI.Epidural hematoma is the gathering of blood between the dura mater and the skull. …”
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¿Ha llegado la hora de la gestión de las listas de espera? Has the time arrived for the management of waiting lists? by E. Bernal

“…It is worth remembering that, except for the queues in the waiting rooms of health centers and emergency departments, waiting lists are mediated by the decision of the physician. …”
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Multi-Factor Triage Algorithm (MUFTA): Quantitative and Qualitative Ethical Factors on Triage Decisions During COVID-19 by Shamsuddin Ahmed, Rayan H. Alsisi

“…Furthermore, as Omicron outbreaks increase, hospital emergency departments will become overburdened with critically ill patients. …”
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A culturally adapted manual-assisted problem-solving intervention (CMAP) for adults with a history of self-harm: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial by Nusrat Husain, Tayyeba Kiran, Imran Bashir Chaudhry, Christopher Williams, Richard Emsley, Usman Arshad, Moin Ahmed Ansari, Paul Bassett, Penny Bee, Moti Ram Bhatia, Carolyn Chew-Graham, Muhammad Omair Husain, Muhammad Irfan, Ayesha Khaliq, Fareed A. Minhas, Farooq Naeem, Haider Naqvi, Asad Tamizuddin Nizami, Amna Noureen, Maria Panagioti, Ghulam Rasool, Sofiya Saeed, Sumira Qambar Bukhari, Sehrish Tofique, Zainab F. Zadeh, Shehla Naeem Zafar, Nasim Chaudhry

“…The study sites were all participating emergency departments, medical wards of general hospitals and primary care centres in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, and Quetta, Pakistan. …”
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Incidence of post open appendectomy incisional hernia in Erbil City by Saman Taher Barzinjy, Hailah Othman Habeeb

“… Background: since acute appendicitis is the most common presenting diseases in the surgical emergency departments, Appendectomy regarded as a common emergency surgical procedure that is done by the surgeons in the general surgery specialty. …”
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Diagnostic and Therapeutic Management of Urinary Tract Infections in Catalonia, Spain: Protocol for an Observational Cohort Study by Ana Moragas Moreno, Silvia Fernández-García, Carl Llor, Dan Ouchi, Ana García-Sangenís, Mònica Monteagudo, Ramon Monfà, Maria Giner-Soriano

“…MethodsThe study is a population-based observational cohort study including adults with a diagnosis of UTI registered in the Information System for the Development of Research in Primary Care (in Catalan: Sistema d’informació per al desenvolupament de la investigació en atenció primària), the Minimum Basic Data Sets of Hospital Discharges and Emergency Departments (in Catalan: Conjunt mínim bàsic de dades a l’hospitalització d'aguts i d’atenció urgent), and data from the Hospital Dispensing Medicines Register (in Catalan: Medicació hospitalària de dispensació ambulatòria) of Catalonia from the period between 2012 and 2021. …”
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Inter-observer and intra-observer variability in ultrasound assessment of gastric content and volume in critically ill patients receiving enteral nutrition by Héctor Andrés Ruiz Ávila, Carmelo José Espinosa Almanza, Cindy Yohana Fuentes Barreiro

“…Abstract Background The assessment of gastric content and volume using bedside ultrasound (US) has become a useful tool in emergency departments, anesthesiology departments and inpatient wards, as it provides a rapid and dynamic assessment of the gastric content of patients, which, allows making decisions regarding the risk of regurgitation or the need to adjust the strategy used to induce general anesthesia in patients with a full stomach. …”
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Abstract 1122‐000235: Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Hemorrhage Detection in CTs and MRI Scans: A Systematic Review by Susmita Chennareddy, Roshini Kalagara, Stavros Matsoukas, Jacopo Scaggiante, Colton Smith, Shahram Majidi, Johanna Fifi, J Mocco, Christopher Kellner

“…As ICH treatment relies on in‐hospital neuroimaging findings, one potential barrier in the effective management of ICH includes increased time to ICH detection and treatment, particularly due to delays in imaging interpretation in busy hospitals and emergency departments. Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven software has recently been developed and become commercially available for the detection of Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH) and Chronic Cerebral Microbleeds (CMBs). …”
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A tale of excess: the curious case of the woman with 1447 emergency visits by M. Sagué Vilavella, A. Giménez Palomo, A. Àvila-Parcet, T. Fernández Plaza, L. Navarro Cortés, G. Oretega Hernández, M. Pons Cabrera, L. Tardón Senabre, M. Vázquez

“…Results A 26-year-old woman from Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), diagnosed with mild intellectual disability, made 1447 emergency visits between 2009 and 2021 (figure 1). 946 visits (65%) took place in psychiatric emergency departments (EDs), whilst 353 (24%) in non-psychiatric EDs and 148 (10%) in urgent primary care. …”
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Compliance and patient satisfaction with treatment settings recommended by the medical on-call service 116117 in Germany using computer-assisted structured initial assessment: a cr... by Martin Scherer, Ingmar Schäfer, Jan Hendrik Oltrogge, Dagmar Lühmann, Agata Menzel, Tobias Herrmann, Gerald Willms

“…Objectives In order to reduce the use of emergency departments, computer-assisted initial assessment was implemented at the medical on-call service 116117. …”
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E-scooter attitudes and risk-taking behaviours: an international systematic literature review and survey responses in the West Midlands, United Kingdom by Nathalie Burt, Nathalie Burt, Zubair Ahmed, Zubair Ahmed, Zubair Ahmed

“…Our study points to risk-taking behaviours by riders being associated with admissions into hospital emergency departments. We conclude that well maintained infrastructure could improve the safety of both e-scooter riders and vulnerable pedestrians, whilst education and enforcement of clear rules may reduce risk-taking behaviour. …”
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Acute patients discharged without an established diagnosis: risk of mortality and readmission of nonspecific diagnoses compared to disease-specific diagnoses by Rasmus Gregersen, Marie Villumsen, Katarina Høgh Mottlau, Cathrine Fox Maule, Hanne Nygaard, Jens Henning Rasmussen, Mikkel Bring Christensen, Janne Petersen

“…Methods Register-based cohort study including hospital courses beginning in emergency departments across 3 regions of Denmark during March 2019–February 2020. …”
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Premature death after self-harm: a multicentre cohort study. by Bergen, H, Hawton, K, Waters, K, Ness, J, Cooper, J, Steeg, S, Kapur, N

“…METHODS: We undertook a cohort study of patients of all ages presenting to emergency departments in Oxford, Manchester, and Derby, UK, after self-poisoning or self-injury between Jan 1, 2000, and Dec 31, 2007. …”

Optic nerve sheath diameter: a mean of detecting raised intracranial pressure in adult traumatic and non-traumatic patients by Mohd Ali, Mohd Raffiz

“…This noninvasive technique can be a useful adjunct to the current invasive intracranial catheter monitoring, and has wide potential clinical applications in district hospitals, emergency departments and intensive care units. …”
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Analysis of the Relationship between Laboratory Biomarkers and the Severity of COVID-19 at Kaliwates General Hospital Jember by Nadzir Ansharullah Akbar, Angga Mardro Rahardjo, Dita Diana Parti, Elly Nurus Sakinah

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A Technology-Enhanced Intervention for Violence and Substance Use Prevention Among Young Black Men: Protocol for Adaptation and Pilot Testing by Chuka Emezue, Niranjan S Karnik, Blaine Reeder, Michael Schoeny, Rickey Layfield, Amie Zarling, Wrenetha Julion

“…Those presenting to emergency departments with firearm-related injuries also report recent substance use. …”
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