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...

Children who require emergency care have unique needs, especially when emergencies are serious or life-threatening. The majority of ill and injured children are brought to community hospital emergency departments (EDs) by virtue of their geography within communities. Similarly, emergency medical services (EMS) agencies provide the bulk of out-of-hospital emergency care to children. It is impera...

Pre-hospital emergency care plays a vital role in saving human lives making it an important part of the health care sector. Efficiency and effectiveness of operations is crucial especially when dealing with life-threatening situations that require immediate and specialised response. In Crete, the National Centre for Emergency Care has established several innovative practices to improve public s...

objective: to assess the availability of trauma care services in a district referral hospital of southern india. methods: this was a cross-sectional study being performed during 2013 in a tertiary healthcare centre in southern indian. a detailed assessment of trauma care services was done in a 400 bed speciality hospital which is an apex referral hospital in the public health system using a che...

background due to the high number of road accidents in iran, pre-hospital care plays a vital role in saving the lives of trauma patients. although several studies have been conducted on the pre-hospital emergency status and its indicators, there are no comprehensive studies presenting its status. objective therefore, this review examines iranian studies conducted on pre-hospital emergency statu...

introduction this study determines the effect of prehospital time and advanced trauma life support interventions for trauma patients transported to an our trauma center. materials and methods this study was a retrospective study of trauma victims presenting to a trauma center in central iran by emergency medical services (ems) and hospitalized for more than 24 hours. demographic and injury char...

BACKGROUND Not much is known about emergency care delivered in patients' homes or other out-of-hospital settings. This study aims to describe out-of-hospital emergency staff's experiences of encountering and counseling patients and their family members. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional design was applied. Data were collected from a hospital district in Finland from emergency care staff v...

BACKGROUND Nearly all Dutch citizens have a general practitioner (GP), acting as a gatekeeper to secondary care. Some patients bypass the GP and present to the emergency department (ED). To make best use of existing emergency care, Dutch health policy makers and insurance companies have proposed the integration of EDs and GP cooperatives (GPCs) into one facility. In this study, we examined ED u...

background and purpose: the emergency severity index (esi) triage system has been recommended by the ministry of health to classify patients at emergency departments. this study aimed to assess the validity of esi system (version 4) in the emergency department of a teaching hospital. outcome measures were hospitalization, emergency department (ed) length of stay, resource consumption, in-hospit...