introduction: patient satisfaction is crucial to the long-run success in health care center. with regard to the highest patients’ referral to the emergency department and the existing challenges due to the patient’s need to urgent care, we aimed to evaluate health care services quality in this unit to find out whether the patients have different expectations from health care providers and if th...

procalcitonin (pct) is a precursor peptide for the hormone calcitonin and is frequently increased in overt sepsis. the aim of this study was to test diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin among patients with positive systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) in identifying sepsis. in this cross sectional study, from 563 patients with positive sirs admitted through the emergency department of...

acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. chest pain due to suspected acute coronary syndrome (acs) is responsible for a large and increasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. current practice for suspected acs involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom onset to diagnose myocardial i...

introduction:  treatment of rapid ventricular response arterial fibrillation (rapid af) varies depending on the decision of the in-charge physician, condition of the patient, availability of the drug, and the treatment protocol of the hospital. the present study was designed aiming to compare iv digoxin and amiodarone in controlling the heart rate of patients presenting to emergency department ...

Background In recent years, ketamine has been the most used sedative in Emergency Department (ED) procedures for pain management. Therefore, this study evaluated ketamine associated vomiting (KAV) in children requiring sedation. Materials and Methods This is a prospective, randomized, and open trial study carried out on children of ages 3 months to 13 years requiring sedation for medical diagn...