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Filter by:Traumatic brain injury is combination damage that occurs as a result of a chain reaction of various metabolic events that develop after primary damage caused by trauma. Pathological events such as lactic acidosis, electrolyte imbalance, increased inflammation that occur during traumatic brain injury leads to poor prognosis in patients. The retrospective study was conducted to investigate the effect of factors that may cause secondary damage, especially electrolyte imbalance and blood glucose levels, on mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing emergency surgery due to head trauma.
The investigators hypothesize that the implementation of a checklist in acute severe hypertension would result in improving short and long-term outcomes of patients with acute severe hypertension treated in the emergency department (ED). The investigators hypothesize that in the short-term, a checklist would improve the diagnosis and management of end-organ damage as well as reduce the length of stay of acute severe hypertensive patients in the ED. The investigators hypothesize that the checklist will result in better compliance with anti-hypertensive medications than without the checklist at six-month post-discharge.
In children and adolescents (older than 6 years in age) who arrive in the pediatric emergency department because they have been having 5 days or less of abdominal pain (possible appendicitis), will patients who are treated with ketorolac get just as much pain relief as those patients treated with morphine? To answer this research question, we will need a large number of patients in a study. To ensure we have enough patients, we must include many hospitals in different cities and provinces in the same study. Before doing this, though, we must first test a smaller version of the study in our center at McMaster Children's hosptial. The goal of doing this at McMaster first is to make sure or understand: 1. We can enroll enough people in our study over 1 year 2. We can make sure that all the information we collect from patients is complete and nothing is missing 3. Reasons behind why people don't want to participate in the study 4. How satisfied patients and their caregivers were with the study
Introduction: Neck pain is a global public health concern, that ranked 4th highest health condition in terms of disability as measured by years lived with disability. The aim of this study is to compare the efficiency of one-session mesotherapy application with systemic therapy in treating neck pain related to cervical disk herniation. Methods: This is a prospective parallel randomized controlled trial conducted with patients admitted to our emergency department with neck pain related to cervical disc herniation. A mixture of thiocolchicoside, lidocaine and tenoxicamwas administered via mesotherapy in one group, and intravenous administration of dexketoprofen was applied to the other group. We compared the changes in pain intensity at 60thminute, 120thminute and 24th hours after treatment using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS),and adverse effects of the treatment methods among the study groups.
Aim Acute migraine attack is a clinical condition that is frequently encountered in emergency departments and varies from patient to patient in terms of treatment modalities. There are many different treatments whose effectiveness has been proven by concrete evidence(1). Drug treatments applied to patients are generally given intravenously or intramuscularly. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, metoclopramide and intravenous magnesium therapy is generally used for treatment in emergency departments (1). The effectiveness of supraorbital nerve blockade and great occipital nerve blockade in migraine treatment and prophylaxis has been proven in many studies(2-6). The aim of this study is to discuss the effectiveness of supraorbital and great occipital nerve blockade treatments in acute migraine attack, when combined or used individually.
The autonomous response of fighter and attack pilots who attend sessions in a flight simulator will be evaluated by measuring and analyzing heart rate variability (HRV).
Cardiovascular disease, and in particular ischemic heart disease, is the main cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide today (1). Myocardial infarction (MI) presents the most serious clinical entity through its short-term life threatening involvement. The many advances in the management of IDM during the acute phase, namely the increasingly frequent and effective use of reperfusion means (angioplasty and thrombolysis) as well as pharmacological progress, in particular, the management of anti-thrombotic treatment has enabled a significant reduction in intra-hospital mortality, in the medium and long term (2). In fact, the mortality rate dropped from 25-30% before the creation of the cardiac intensive care units (ICUS) around the 1960s, to around 16% in the 1980s and reaching 4 to 6% today. In the latest data from the French FAST MI 2015 register (French Registry of Acute ST-Elevation or Non-ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction) mortality was 2.8% in hospital (3) and 5.3% at 6 months (4). Nevertheless, mortality rates diverge from one register to another and are generally higher compared to randomized controlled clinical trials. In our country, due to the aging of the Tunisian population (currently the oldest population in Africa), as well as the rise in the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors (5), the incidence of IDM is clearly increasing. However, our local specificities concerning the management of this pathology and the intra-hospital mortality which results from it, remain little described despite the importance of these data in the development of personalized algorithms and the improvement of the quality of this support. the management of CAD ST + in the public sector poses more and more efficiency problems and moves away from international recommendations in our country, an assessment of our national situation is necessary. The objectives of the study are, primary, the incidence of new cases that consult the emergency room for CAD ST + and the treatment delivered to the emergency room, in particular the nature of the treatment for obstruction (primary angioplasty or thrombolysis). Secondary, the evaluation of hospital complications and the future of patients on D30 and after one year from the inclusion's day.
Access to surgery is reported to be significantly lower in low income countries like Nigeria, and upwards of 5 billion people globally lack safe access to surgery. The investigators intend to answer the question, what is the burden of access to acute care surgery alongside their determinants in the University College Hospital, Ibadan (UCH). The expected results from this study will provide basis for evidence-based policy aimed at improving time-to-emergency surgery and thus improve outcomes. A cross-sectional doctors' survey and a prospective case records review would be the study designs; using a minimum of fifty-one participants and case records respectively. The doctors will be selected randomly from all the surgical services and the emergency department in the UCH, ensuring a fairly equal allocation. The case notes will be of patients in the UCH requiring emergency surgery that had surgeries. Data from this study will be entered and analysed using STATA/MP 15.0 (Stata Corp, College station, TX).
COVID-19, which emerged in China in December 2019, has become a pandemic with its spread to many countries of the world. Emergency departments also carried out an important part of the fight against pandemics in our country/Turkey. The emergency department including an intensive care unit is very few in this country/Turkey and the only hospital, which has an Emergency Intensive Care Unit (EICU) in Istanbul, is the study center. Therefore, this retrospective study aimed to provide useful information about how an effective EICU should be, especially how to use them during pandemic periods.
A multi-centre, observational cohort study will be carried out in consecutive patients operated on for urgent digestive pathology. Two cohorts will be defined: the 'pandemic' cohort, which will include all patients [COVID-19-positive or negative] operated on for emergency digestive pathology during the months of March to June 2020; and the control cohort, which will include all patients operated on for emergency digestive pathology during the months of March to June 2019. Information will be gathered on demographic characteristics, clinical and analytical parameters, scores on the usual risk scales for quality management in a General Surgery service (POSSUM, P-POSSUM and LUCENTUM scores), prognostic factors applicable to all patients, specific factors for patients infected with SARS-CoV-2, complications and postoperative mortality (at 30 and 90 postoperative days). In the pandemic cohort it will be detailed whether or not the patient was infected with SARS-CoV-2. The main objective will be to determine the incidence of postoperative complications and mortality. This variable will be analysed in the "full analysis set" population. Secondary objective will be to develop a specific postoperative risk propensity model for SARS-CoV-2 infected patients.