Emergency medicine providers should be comfortable assessing and treating pediatric patients from the newly born through adolescence. Of the 124 million annual U.S. emergency visits, 23 million are for children younger than 15 years. Twenty percent of children have at least one emergency department visit per year. The age group with the highest emergency department use per capita is infants, wi...

Objective: Most previous retrospective studies failed to show a consistent association between pre-hospital time intervals and mortality in trauma patients, bringing the recommendation of “transport fast to increase survival” under question. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of response time, scene time, and transport time with 24-hour in-hospital mortality....

background:  emergency  medical  services  (ems)  staff  can  play  an  important  role  in  the survival and prevention of serious injuries to patients if they are in good physical and mental health and focus on doing their jobs with sufficient attention. therefore, a study was conducted to  investigate  attention  level  and  its  related  factors  in  night  shift  prehospital  emergency per...

an electrocardiogram (ecg) leads physicians to diagnose many potentially life-threatening cardiac, metabolic, electrolyte, and toxicological conditions. this study was designed to evaluate the competency of emergency medicine residents (emrs) in comparison with cardiologists in the interpretation of ecg when an interpretation checklist is used. this clinical trial was done in the emergency ward...

AIM To evaluate performance of a simplified algorithm and treatment instructions for emergency triage assessment and treatment (ETAT) of children presenting to hospital in developing countries. METHODS All infants aged 7 days to 5 years presenting to an accident and emergency department were simultaneously triaged and assessed by a nurse and a senior paediatrician. Nurse ETAT assessment was c...

Objective To investigate the mastery of emergency knowledge in one rescue team of power network in Taian. Methods We investigated emergency knowledge in one rescue team of power network in Taian by questionnaires, which include CPR skill, hemostasis, treatment of respiratory tract obstruction, drowning, electric shock, intoxication and spinal fractures. Results The members of the team have a li...

In true medical emergencies, informed consent is presumed or implied without application of the usual standard. In the litigation over the right to refuse treatment in psychiatry, a limited right for involuntarily committed patients to refuse treatment has been upheld, absent a finding of a psychiatric emergency. Increasingly, clinicians may find that their sole extrajudicial option in institut...

Retrospective analysis showed that 67 children had presented in Edinburgh with needlestick injuries on 70 occasions over five years. Worryingly, 10 children sustained injuries pretending to be intravenous drug abusers. Despite risks of hepatitis B and HIV infection, protection and follow up were inadequate. Publicity about discarded needles and a treatment plan for use in accident and emergency...