this quasi-experimental study was aimed to investigate the effect of an in-service education, including symptoms, complications, and handling chemical and drug toxicities, in fulfilling the educational needs of emergency technicians in fars province

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...

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...

introduction: burns can be very destructive, and severely endanger the health and lives of humans. it maybe cause disability and even psychological trauma in individuals. . such an event can also lead to economic burden on victim’s families and society. the aim of our study is to evaluate epidemiology and outcome of burn patients referring to emergency department. methods: this is a cross-secti...

this was a prospective cross-sectional study of consecutive transported patients by emergency medical service (ems) to a referral hospital. the goal of this study was the evaluation of emergency medical technician intermediate prediction about their transported patients disposition in emergency department of imam khomeini hospital. 2950 patients were transported to this hospital, questionnaires...

results increase from 6.46 to 8.92 minutes in the average time from patient arrival to being visited by a physician (p < 0.001) and increase in average time from physician visit to receive the first nursing care from 7.68 to 15.89 minutes were significant (p < 0.001). the average waiting time for laboratory services was significantly decreased from 112.3 to 84.1 (p = 0.033). increase in the ave...

objective: most previous retrospective studies failed to show a consistent association between pre-hospital time intervals and mortality in trauma patients, bringing the recommendation of “transport fast to increase survival” under question. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of response time, scene time, and transport time with 24-hour in-hospital mortality.   methods: in th...

introduction: several mechanisms were introduced as causes of serum creatinine phosphokinase (cpk) raise in intoxicated patients. this study aimed to assess the relationship between serum cpk level in the first 24 hours and baseline characteristics as well as outcomes of these patients. methods: this one year retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted on all intoxicated patients, who wer...

conclusion pacs is highly accepted in all three emergency departments especially among specialists. pu, peu and change are factors influencing pacs acceptance. our study can be used as an evidence of pacs acceptance in emergency wards. results mean age of participants was 32.9 years (standard deviation [sd] = 6.08). participants with the specialty degree got a higher acceptance score than the t...

background: the present study assesses independent predictors of clinically important traumatic brain injury (citbi) in order to design a prognostic rule for identification of high risk children with mild head injury. materials and methods: in a retrospective cross-sectional study, 3,199 children with mild traumatic brain injury (tbi) brought to emergency ward of three hospitals in tehran, iran...