Background: Experimental research shows that laywomen express higher levels of empathy than men to pain suffering behaviors in others and female practitioners interact with and may prescribe different levels of pain medication to patients than male practitioners. Objectives: In this study we conduct a small medical records review to examine the possibility that female emergency department nurse...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Among adults presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute asthma, we sought to determine the prevalence of obesity, and the relation of body mass index (BMI) to asthma severity in this high-risk population. DESIGN Multicenter, prospective cohort study. SETTING Twenty-six North American EDs. PARTICIPANTS Five hundred seventy-two patients aged 18 to 54 years prese...

105 inTroducTion Civilian Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS) has a long history in the United States. Enormous progress has been made during the past ten years in developing professional and operational standards within the field. However, to date, there still exists no standard of care within TEMS specifically, and more broadly for high threat pre-hospital trauma care. Current civilian ...

the emergency severity index (esi) is a five-level triage system that has shown promising reliability and validity. according to esi algorithm, in the presence of danger zone respiratory rate (rr), heart rate (hr) or oxygen (o2) saturation, patients should be up-triaged from esi level 3 to 2 hence, the current study aimed to investigate the value of the measurement of vital signs in predicting ...

Acute obstructive respiratory emergencies in children are a common cause of emergency department visits. The severity of these conditions ranges from mild, self-limited disease to life-threatening forms of rapidly progressive airway obstruction. A high index of suspicion is necessary for prompt diagnosis and treatment. This review discusses general principles of assessing and managing respirato...

Background Perforation is the second most frequent complication of colonic cancer (c.c.). It represents 0.8%–3.7% of all c.c. surgically treated and 10%–26% of those operated on in emergency. The resection rate of c.c. perforations is increased in the last decade reaching 95% or more. Hinchey classification, Mannheim Peritonitis Index (M.P.I.) (5) and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluat...

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a frequent presentation to the emergency departments with a rising incidence and a great variability in clinical severity and outcome. The aim of this review is to offer a succinct presentation on acute pancreatitis scoring systems and the use of different imaging methods in severity prediction: Ranson criteria, Glasgow criteria, Hong Kong Score, Acute Physiology and ...

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the use of systemic immune-inflammation index obtained by hemogram parameters in determining clinical severity pneumonia. Material and methods: was conducted retrospectively with a total 6,802 patients diagnosed viral bacterial pneumonia from January 1, 2013, through 2023, at emergency department tertiary hospital. The patients’ age, gender, white b...