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Filter by:The aim of this study is to assess whether a computer-assisted prescription allows a reduction of the overall number of inappropriate PAR in emergency departments.
This study evaluates the Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI) program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to care for older adults in the emergency department. Half of the patients will be cared for by a standard ED team plus the GEDI team, while half of the patients will receive usual ED care.
With the development of society, the number of emergency critical operations is increasing year by year. Traditionally, the patient's systemic and circulatory status is indirectly assessed by testing and blood pressure heart rate. There are cases where the diagnosis is imperfect and the results are unreliable. Preoperative POU rapid ultrasound is a preoperative bedside ultrasound evaluation method first proposed by the Anesthesiology Department of Huaxi Hospital (three engineering units). This project will cooperate with Huaxi Hospital to explore whether the effect of intraoperative anesthesia management under POU guidance is better than traditional anesthesia management. This study will provide a new preoperative evaluation anesthesia management program for emergency critically ill patients with important clinical and social significance.
Triage is an important component of emergency care (EC). It aims to sort patients based on the urgency of their condition such that the highest acuity patients are prioritised for assessment and treatment. Grounded in the ethical principles of equity and justice, triage is necessary whenever there is a mismatch between demand for EC and the availability of resources. Globally, a large number of triage scales are in use. These differ in the data required to categorise patients as well as the number of tiers. Developed settings tend to utilise five-tier systems. Little is known about the prevalence of triage in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in the Pacific region. There is also limited evidence about the utility, validity and reliability of triage scales in these contexts. While a landmark study in a paediatric Emergency Department (ED) in Malawi demonstrated that training staff in emergency skills, introducing triage and improving flow substantially reduced case fatality rates, the mortality reduction attributable to triage is unknown. A small number of triage scales have been developed for resource-limited (RL) environments. The most widely studied is the four-tier South African Triage Scale (SATS), which has demonstrated reasonable reliability and validity. In the Pacific region, SATS has provided a foundation for the three-tier Solomon Islands Triage Scale (SITS), which has recently been piloted in Honiara. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also recently released a three-tier triage scale. Neither of these instruments has been validated. Although the potential value of triage systems in resource-limited EDs is increasingly recognised, the current evidence base is limited. The impact on process indicators (eg, time to assessment) and clinical outcomes (eg, mortality) for time-critical conditions is largely unknown. This study aims to address this knowledge gap.
In daily practice, midline laparotomy is an incision frequently performed by surgeons to achieve a rapid and wide access to the abdomen. However, incisional hernia stands as the most common complication following this type of incision, with an incidence reaching up to 20% and even higher in the case of emergency laparotomy. A recent randomized controlled trial compared small bite sutures and large bite closure of elective midline laparotomy and reported a significant decrease of incisional hernia rate from 18% to 5.6% in favor of small-bite technique. These promising results were subsequently confirmed in a wide-scale multicenter double-blinded randomized trial, the STITCH study. The investigators will conduct this randomized controlled trial to compare the small tissue bite (SB) technique and the large bite (LB) technique for closure of emergency midline laparotomy. The main outcome of the study will be the incidence of incisional hernia within one year after surgery.
Inspired by the Acute Care for Elders program at Mount Sinai Hospital, this study aims to improve care for elderly patients in four hospitals of Chaudière-Appalaches. Focusing on improving transitions between hospital and the community, this project will help professionals to adapt best practices to local context in transition of care for the elderly.
The conventional standard-dose scanner leads to a significantly greater X-ray exposure than the standard X-ray. Recently, technological innovations like the ULD ("Ultra Low Dose") scanner have been developed to reduce the dose of X-rays delivered to the patient. The general purpose of this study is to validate the ULD scanner in case of emergency trauma of the dorsolumbar spine, pelvis and / or extremities.
Preoxygenation prior to general anaesthesia prolongs safe apnea time. Proper preoxygenation is always a challenge in emergency surgery. The aim of our study is to estimate problems encountered during preoxygenation, their risk factors and ways of solving them.
The objective of NEOPOPI is to conduct a population pharmacokinetic study of metronidazole in neonates, in order to evaluate and optimize neonatal dose regimen. There will be no change to the medication treatment received by participants. An opportunistic pharmacokinetic sampling approach will be followed: samples will be scavenged from blood or cerebrospinal fluid drawn for routine biochemical tests. In this way, no additional invasive tests will be needed.
Compare between cefepime versus routine antibiotics as a prophylactic antibiotic during emergency cesarean section in a tertiary center of obstetric care