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 reliability of standard meteorological drought indices based on measurements of precipitation is limited by the spatial distribution and quality of currently available rainfall data. Furthermore, they reflect only one component of the surface hydrologic cycle, and they cannot readily capture nonprecipitation-based moisture inputs to the land surface system (e.g., irrigation) that may temper...

background : this study was carried out to evaluate activities in different branches of science in iran compared to other countries over the past 35 years. methods : e ssential science indicators (esi ) and web of science from (thomson reuters isi) and scimago journal & country rank (sjr) were searched for scientometrics data . esi indicated place of iran among other countries in all 22 scienti...

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...

introduction: triage is a response to the problem of overcrowding in emergency departments (eds) and accuracy of decisions made by the triage unit affects the ultimate outcome of eds. this study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge of triage among last year medical students in shiraz university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional analytical study whose subjects were all t...