Ausgabe 1/2015
Inhalt (38 Artikel)
Nine out of ten trauma calls to a Norwegian hospital are avoidable: a retrospective analysis
Harald Stordahl, Eva Passas, Andreas Hopland, Erik Waage Nielsen
Emergency care capacity in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a service evaluation
Rachel M Coyle, Hooi-Ling Harrison
Predictors for outcome among cardiac arrest patients: the importance of initial cardiac arrest rhythm versus time to return of spontaneous circulation, a retrospective cohort study
Ida Wibrandt, Kristine Norsted, Henrik Schmidt, Jens Schierbeck
Subjective reasons why immigrant patients attend the emergency department
Ibrahim Mahmoud, Rob Eley, Xiang-Yu Hou
BMC Emergency Medicine reviewer acknowledgement 2014
Giulia Mangiameli
Patient safety incident capture resulting from incident reports: a comparative observational analysis
Martin A Reznek, Kevin A Kotkowski, Michael W Arce, Zachary K Jepson, Steven B Bird, Chad E Darling
Clinicopathological review of 156 appendicectomies for acute appendicitis in children in Ile-Ife, Nigeria: a retrospective analysis
Talabi O Ademola, Sowande A Oludayo, Olowookere A Samuel, Etonyeaku C Amarachukwu, Komolafe O Akinwunmi, Adejuyigbe Olusanya
Non-specific complaints in the ambulance; predisposing structural factors
Maaret Castrén, Lisa Kurland, Sofia Liljegard, Therese Djärv
Prospective study of recovery from copperhead snake envenomation: an observational study
Eric J Lavonas, Charles J Gerardo
Injury characteristics and outcome of road traffic accident among victims at Adult Emergency Department of Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a prospective hospital based study
Mohammed Seid, Aklilu Azazh, Fikre Enquselassie, Engida Yisma
A qualitative assessment of practitioner perspectives post-introduction of the first Continuous Professional Competence (CPC) guidelines for emergency medical technicians in Ireland
Shane Knox, Suzanne Dunne, Walter Cullen, Colum P Dunne
A remotely piloted aircraft system in major incident management: concept and pilot, feasibility study
Håkon B. Abrahamsen
Metabolic networks in a porcine model of trauma and hemorrhagic shock demonstrate different control mechanism with carbohydrate pre-feed
Elizabeth R. Lusczek, Tyrone Vincent, Daniel Lexcen, Vishwesh Kulkarni, Kristine Mulier, Greg Beilman
Police and clinician diversion of people in mental health crisis from the Emergency Department: a trend analysis and cross comparison study
Brian McKenna, Trentham Furness, Steve Brown, Mark Tacey, Andrew Hiam, Morgan Wise
Using routine clinical and administrative data to produce a dataset of attendances at Emergency Departments following self-harm
C. Polling, A. Tulloch, S. Banerjee, S. Cross, R. Dutta, D.M. Wood, P.I. Dargan, M. Hotopf
Changes in monthly unemployment rates may predict changes in the number of psychiatric presentations to emergency services in South Australia
Niranjan Bidargaddi, Tarun Bastiampillai, Geoffrey Schrader, Robert Adams, Cynthia Piantadosi, Jörg Strobel, Graeme Tucker, Stephen Allison
A spatial analysis of heat stress related emergency room visits in rural Southern Ontario during heat waves
Katherine E. Bishop-Williams, Olaf Berke, David L. Pearl, David F. Kelton
Patients presenting with acute poisoning to an outpatient emergency clinic: a one-year observational study in Oslo, Norway
Odd Martin Vallersnes, Dag Jacobsen, Øivind Ekeberg, Mette Brekke
Acute toluene intoxication–clinical presentation, management and prognosis: a prospective observational study
Carlos Rodrigo Camara-Lemarroy, René Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Roberto Monreal-Robles, José Gerardo González-González
Prevalence of injury and associated factors among patients visiting the Emergency Departments of Amhara Regional State Referral Hospitals, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Debrework Tesgera Bashah, Berihun Assefa Dachew, Bewket Tadesse Tiruneh
Cross-checking to reduce adverse events resulting from medical errors in the emergency department: study protocol of the CHARMED cluster randomized study
Yonathan Freund, Alexandra Rousseau, Laurence Berard, Helene Goulet, Patrick Ray, Benjamin Bloom, Tabassome Simon, Bruno Riou
Serum interleukin-6 level as an early marker of injury severity in trauma patients in an urban low-income setting: a cross-sectional study
Paul K. Okeny, Peter Ongom, Olivia Kituuka
Prevalence, outcomes and factors associated with adult in hospital cardiac arrests in a low-income country tertiary hospital: a prospective observational study
Davidson Ocen, Sam Kalungi, Joseph Ejoku, Tonny Luggya, Agnes Wabule, Janat Tumukunde, Arthur Kwizera
A retrospective analysis of ethnic and gender differences in alcohol consumption among emergency department patients: a cross-sectional study
Shahram Lotfipour, Victor Cisneros, Uzor C. Ogbu, Christopher Eric McCoy, Cristobal Barrios, Craig L. Anderson, Wirachin Hoonpongsimanont, Kristin Alix, Bharath Chakravarthy
Use of emergency care services by immigrants—a survey of walk-in patients who attended the Oslo Accident and Emergency Outpatient Clinic
Sven Eirik Ruud, Ruth Aga, Bård Natvig, Per Hjortdahl
Are prehospital treatment or conveyance decisions affected by an ambulance crew’s ability to access a patient’s health information?
Ollie Zorab, Maria Robinson, Ruth Endacott
Screening of mental health and substance users in frequent users of a general Swiss emergency department
Francis Vu, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Olivier Hugli, Katia Iglesias, Stephanie Stucki, Sophie Paroz, Marina Canepa Allen, Patrick Bodenmann
Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
Zohair A. Al Aseri, M. Owais Suriya, Hosam A. Hassan, Mujtaba Hasan, Shaffi Ahmed Sheikh, Adel Al Tamimi, Mashhoor Alshathri, Najeeb Khalid
Risk stratification by abbMEDS and CURB-65 in relation to treatment and clinical disposition of the septic patient at the emergency department: a cohort study
Asselina A. Roest, Jan Tegtmeier, Joris J. Heyligen, Jeanette Duijst, Andrea Peeters, Hella F. Borggreve, Astrid ML Oude Lashof, Coen DA Stehouwer, Patricia M. Stassen
Sepsis in hemodialysis patients
Gilbert Abou Dagher, Elie Harmouche, Elsy Jabbour, Rana Bachir, Dina Zebian, Ralphe Bou Chebl
Assessing the association between occupancy and outcome in critically Ill hospitalized patients with sepsis
Dean W. Yergens, William A. Ghali, Peter D. Faris, Hude Quan, Rachel J. Jolley, Christopher J. Doig
Prehospital triage accuracy in a criteria based dispatch centre
Fabrice Dami, Christel Golay, Mathieu Pasquier, Vincent Fuchs, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Olivier Hugli
Physicians’ use of pain scale and treatment procedures among children and youth in emergency primary care - a cross sectional study
Svein-Denis Moutte, Christina Brudvik, Tone Morken
Emergency medical services transport delays for suspected stroke and myocardial infarction patients
Ashley Pedigo Golden, Agricola Odoi
Adding physical therapy services in the emergency department to prevent immobilization syndrome – a feasibility study in a university hospital
Yannick Tousignant-Laflamme, Ann-Marie Beaudoin, Anne-Marie Renaud, Stephanie Lauzon, Marie-Catherine Charest-Bossé, Louise Leblanc, Maryse Grégoire
A majority of rural emergency departments in the province of Quebec use point-of-care ultrasound: a cross-sectional survey
Pierre Léger, Richard Fleet, Julie Maltais- Giguère, Jeff Plant, Éric Piette, France Légaré, Julien Poitras
The probability of readmission within 30 days of hospital discharge is positively associated with inpatient bed occupancy at discharge – a retrospective cohort study
Mathias C. Blom, Karin Erwander, Lars Gustafsson, Mona Landin-Olsson, Fredrik Jonsson, Kjell Ivarsson
Patient education and follow-up as an intervention for hypertensive patients discharged from an emergency department: a randomized control trial study protocol
Julie Gleason-Comstock, Alicia Streater, Joel Ager, Allen Goodman, Aaron Brody, Laura Kivell, Aniruddha Paranjpe, Jasmine Vickers, LynnMarie Mango, Rachelle Dawood, Phillip Levy