This study was conducted to compare the profile of patients attending the pediatric emergency services of a tertiary care teaching and referral hospital, Chandigarh, and a community level hospital in Ambala district, Haryana. Records of children (<or=12 years) attending emergency services over a period of one year; from 1st March 1999 to 28th February 2000, at both the health facilities were an...

OBJECTIVE To describe hospital admission and emergency visit rates and potential risk factors of prolonged hospitalisation and death among children in Hanoi. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study reviewed 212 216 hospitalisation records of children (aged 0-17) who attended the Vietnam National Children's Hospital in Hanoi between 2007 and 2014. Four indicators were analysed and reported: (1) rat...

1 Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Van Military Hospital, Van Askeri Hastanesi Altıntepe, Van, Turkey. 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Van Military Hospital, Van Askeri Hastanesi Altıntepe, Van, Turkey. Department of Emergency Medicine, Etimesgut Military Hospital, Etimesgut Asker Hastanesi Etimesgut, Ankara, Turkey. Department of Emergency Medicine, Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Research...

IOANA G. MORARU1, A.G. MORARU, M. ANDREI, IRINA CIORTESCU, P. PORR, T. IORDACHE, V. DRUG, M. DICULESCU, P. PORTINCASA, D.L. DUMITRASCU 12 Medical Department, “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 2Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Brasov, Romania 3Gastroenterology Department, “Elias” Clinical University Emergency Hospital, Buchare...

BACKGROUND Air pollution exposure is associated with hospital admissions and emergency room visits for cardiopulmonary disease and stroke. Iceland's capital area, Reykjavik, has generally low air pollution levels, but traffic and natural sources contribute to pollution levels. The objective of this study was to investigate temporal associations between emergency hospital visits and air pollutan...

MONICA MIHAELA CIRSTOIU1, IULIAN ANTONIAC2, LIANA PLES3, ELVIRA BRATILA4*, OCTAVIAN MUNTEANU1 1 Bucharest Emergency University Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynecology Department,169 Splaiul Independenþei, 050098, Bucharest, Romania 2 University Politehnica of Bucharest, Materials Science and Engineering Faculty, 313 Splaiul Independentei, 060042, Bucharest, Romania 3 Sfantul Ioan Emergency Hospital...

1 Emergency Department, Imam Reza Hospital, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah 67146, Iran 2 Radiology Department, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14117-13137, Iran 3 Emergency Department, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 14117-13137, Iran 4 Forensic Medicine Department, Loghman Hospital, Shahid Beheshti Univers...