BACKGROUND Despite the publication and dissemination of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support guidelines, variability in the use of drugs during resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest may exist between different Emergency Medical Services throughout North America. The purpose of this study was to characterize the use of such drugs and evaluate their relationship to cardiac arrest outcome...

objective: to examine the inter-rater reliability of triages performed by the electronic triage system (ets) which has recently developed and used in hospital emergency department (ed). methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted prospectively and studied 408 visitors of tabriz imam reza hospital’s ed. the variables of interest were age, sex, nurse-assigned triage category, physician-assi...

background: to identify and analyze factors that influence the grading and zoning management model of emergency triage as a first step in the improvement of the system. methods: questionnaires were used to extract data from clinical histories of 286 patients who attended the emergency department of binzhou central hospital (binzhou city, shandong province, china) from september to november of 2...

Emergency visits are rising nationally, whereas the number of emergency departments is shrinking. However, volume has not increased uniformly at all emergency departments. It is unclear what factors account for this variability in emergency volume growth rates. The objective of this study was to test the association of hospital and population characteristics and the effect of hospital closures ...

BACKGROUND Treatment times for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients presenting to percutaneous coronary intervention hospitals have improved dramatically over the past 10 years, particularly for patients using emergency medical services. Limited data exist regarding treatment times and outcomes for patients who develop STEMI after hospital admission. METHODS AND RESULTS With th...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the use of emergency and non-urgent ambulance transport services by people aged 65 years and over. SETTING The study was undertaken in Queensland where the Queensland Ambulance Services (QAS) is the sole provider of emergency pre-hospital and non-urgent ambulance services for the entire state. METHODS The age and sex of 351,000 emergency and non-urgent cases treated...

Emergency department has always been a problem for the health system in most countries (1). In Iran, organizing hospital emergency has been on the agenda since the start of the 10th government cabinet, as poor services and delays in attending to emergency patients had led to patient dissatisfaction and a major cause of complaint from hospital emergency departments(2). Furthermore, considering t...

establishing of total quality management in any organization including emergency medical services need to an appropriate tool to help developing, implementing and evaluating of quality programs. the objective of this study was to develop a valid and reliable tool for self assessing enabler criteria of iran ems centers according to european foundation for quality management (efqm) model.the stud...

introduction: since most studies on ankle sprain are medical and sports-related and not much epidemiologic and etiologic data from the general population exist in this field, the present study evaluates the relationship between q angle and anthropometric measures with ankle sprain in the general population. methods: in the present case-control study, all of the patients over 18 years age presen...

introduction:   renal transplantation are admitted to emergency department (ed) more than normal population. the present brief report aimed to determine the reasons of renal transplant patients’ ed visits. methods: this retrospective case series study analyzed the reasons of renal transplant recipients’ admission to one ed between 2011 and 2014. the patient data were collected via a checklist a...