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 ...

orf is a mucocutaneous disease that occurs when non-intact skin comes into contact with contaminated sheep saliva. the lesions may complicate to lymphangitis or secondary bacterial infection, but systemic complications such as erythema multiforme, maculopapular rash, and generalized lymphadenopathy are rare. in this paper, we present two cases of erythema multiforme following orf disease.

1James Kwan, MBBS, BSc(Hons), MMed(ClinEpi), MRCSEd, FACEM, FCEM, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2Cherri Hobgood, MD, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 3Venkataraman Anantharaman, MBBS (S’pore), FRCP (Edin), FRCS Ed (A&E), FAMS, FIFEM, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore 4Glen Bandiera, BASc, MD, MEd, FRCPC, St. Michael's Hospital, U...

BACKGROUND Medicine is a profession that carries certain risks. One risky area of practice is the emergency department. Emergency physicians diagnose and treat a high volume of patients, and are also responsible for preparing reports for forensic cases. In this study, we aim to investigate emergency physicians' legal-administrative problems and reveal their level of understanding on forensic ca...

We were impressed by an article recently published on the American College of Emergency Physicians website, titled “The ACEP logo: what it really means” [1]. When Art Auer designed the well-known logo, the missing square among the 64 represented the absence of emergency medicine from the framework of organized medicine in the USA in 1968. Bitter to observe, today, SIMEU—the Italian Society of E...

OBJECTIVE In 2003, we published a study on the Israeli workforce in emergency medicine (EM). We repeated the study in 2012 to assess changes in the workforce that have occurred in the interval decade. METHODS This is an observational cross-sectional study of the physician workforce in EM in Israel in 2012. An online survey was sent to the ED medical directors of all general hospitals in Israe...

The article "Research in accident and emergency medicine" was offered up for debate.' It asks important questions and raises some important issues. We would like to contribute some views on these and other issues, based on our experience in full time research. A historical perspective: lessons from around the world When searching for direction in an attempt to develop a strategy for research in...

introduction: evaluation of students’ learning in clinical education system is one of the most important and challenging issues that facilities in this field have been facing. the present study aimed to evaluate the role of feedback during evaluation in increasing emergency medicine residents’ clinical skills. method: the present experimental study was performed on all second year emergency med...