background: pneumothorax is common and life-threatening clinical condition which may require emergency treatment in emergency medicine departments. objectives: we aimed to reveal the epidemiological analysis of the patients admitted to the emergency department with pneumothorax. material and methods: this case-control and multi-center study was conducted in the patients treated with the diagnos...

There is significant interest in the secondary transport of the critically ill and injured. High profile cases entailing the long distance transfer of patients have highlighted the lack of availability of critical care beds and appropriate systems for transferring this patient group. These and other issues have culminated in the release of Comprehensive Critical Care by the Department of Health...

Critical care encompasses elements of emergency medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care, acute internal medicine, postsurgical care, trauma management, and retrieval. In metropolitan teaching hospitals these elements are often distinct, with individual specialists providing discrete services. This may not be possible in rural centres, where specialist numbers are smaller and recruitment and reten...

S port and exercise related injury is responsible for about 5% of the overall workload in the accident and emergency (A&E) department, and A&E specialists agree that they should have a broad knowledge and understanding of sports medicine issues. Yet, training in sports medicine is not a compulsory part of the curriculum for ‘‘Higher Specialist Training’’. We carried out a pilot study in Norther...

background orthopedic injuries are the most common types of injuries. to identify the main causes of injuries, collecting data in a standard manner at the national level are needed, which justifies necessity of making a minimum data set (mds). objectives the aim of this study was to develop an mds of the information management system for orthopedic injuries in iran. materials and methods this d...

introduction: accurate diagnosis and proper treatment of oncology patients presented to emergency department (ed) can dramatically enhance their quality of life and decrease their mortality rate. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate these patients from an epidemiologic point of view as well as identifying death-related factors. methods: in this retrospective cross-sectional study, all...

this text is a real-time description of an emergency medicine resident’s shift in an overcrowded emergency department (ed), tehran, iran.

Summary. The history of the creation and activity Chair Emergency Medicine Injury Surgery First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after acad. I.P. Pavlov is presented. main stages development chair are considered, scientific potential work its staff in system emergency urgent medical care for population city discribed. It noted that starting from 2012 members cooperation with specia...