Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been repeatedly used to rescue patients with cardiopulmonary arrest. However, its clinical utility in endocrine emergencies remains unclear. Herein, we describe a case series of 12 patients presenting with refractory shock secondary to endocrine emergencies who were rescued by ECMO support. Patients were identified between 2005 and 2012 from our EC...

Study Objective. We describe and contrast medical to psychobehavioral emergency visits made by a cohort of adults with intellectual disabilities. Methods. This was a study of 221 patients with intellectual disabilities who visited the emergency department because of a psychobehavioral or medical emergency. Patient profiles are described and logistic regression was used to assess predictors of p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the maternal health and fetal outcome in hepatitis C with obstetrical haemorrhagic emergencies. STUDY DESIGN An observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit-I, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Hospital, Hyderabad, Sindh, from January 2009 to December 2010. METHODOLOGY All the women admitted during th...

The following set of papers concerning contaminants in plastic were presented at a workshop held in association with the International Seminars on Planetary Emergencies, 36th Session, Erice, Sicily, 19th–24th August, 2006 (Ragiani, 2006). The World Federation of Scientists was founded in 1973, and since then the Erice International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies have been hel...

Constant increase of human population result in more and more people living in emergency dangerous regions. In order to protect them from possible emergencies we need effective solution for decision taking in case of emergencies, because lack of time for taking decision and possible lack of data. One among possible methods of taking such decisions is shown in this article.

Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted the need to strengthen mental health systems following emergencies, including natural and manmade disasters. Mental health services need to be informed by culturally attuned evidence that is developed through research. Therefore, there is an urgent need to establish rigorous ethical research practice to underpin the evidence-base for ...

nterest in decompressive craniectomy (DC) to manage neurological emergencies including stroke has waxed and waned for decades. The best evidence for the use of DC is in patients with refractory cerebral edema related to large territory ischemic stroke. Although many publications have evaluated the role of craniectomy in managing neurological emergencies, none outline care priorities for patient...

On the one hand there are the emergency surgery departments that burden themselves with almost all of the surgical emergencies that come into the hospital (40% of interviewed surgeons) (excluding hyperspecialist environments) and on the other hand there are hospitals without an emergency surgery department in which surgical emergencies are subdivided among the various general and specialized su...

BACKGROUND The health needs of children and adolescents in humanitarian emergencies are critical to the success of relief efforts and reduction in mortality. Measles has been one of the major causes of child deaths in humanitarian emergencies and further contributes to mortality by exacerbating malnutrition and vitamin A deficiency. Here, we review measles vaccination activities in humanitarian...

Pre-hospital immediate care is ‘the provision of skilled medical help at the scene of an accident or medical emergency and during transportation to hospital’ (1). Although this widely accepted definition places equal emphasis on both traumatic injury and medical emergencies, trauma tends to dominate training courses and discussions (2). Medical emergencies generally only feature in the context ...