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Filter by:The researchers investigate the use of a simplified electroencephalogram (point-of-care EEG) in the pediatric emergency department for children with impaired consciousness or an ongoing epileptic seizure ("status epilepticus"). In addition, the researchers will compare the simplified EEG with the conventional EEG in the epilepsy outpatient clinic.
Over 30,000 emergency abdominal operations (laparotomy, EmLAP) are performed in the UK annually and they are usually performed in adults over the age of 65. As such, it can be a risky operation with high chance of developing complications, including death, especially if there is frailty before the operation. Such patients are much more susceptible to infections or to have complications, such as wound breakdown, because of poor healing. Whilst some patients might be frail from the outset, surgery can cause patients to become frail ('surgical frailty'). This can happen in all age groups, not just the elderly and is not uncommon after an EmLap. This study aims to establish blood tests (biomarkers) associated with frailty, explore the ability of frailty markers measured before EmLAP to predict death after EmLAP, define changes in frailty in EmLAP patients and analyse the influence of frailty on quality of life post EmLAP. Over 2 years, 150 patients age ≥40 undergoing EmLAP in a hospital will be recruited and followed up for 90 days looking at different frailty markers. These include (a)blood tests (biomarkers) analysed in a special laboratory machine called mass spectrometer to identify chemical markers linked to frailty status (b)CT scan looking at muscle bulk (sarcopenia) (c)Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score, a scoring system assessing how much a patient can do (1 is fit; 9 is extremely frail). The investigators hope that these results will improve our understanding of frailty and lead to further research to improve outcomes for EmLAP patients.
Many patients who present to the emergency department (ED) receive a vast array of diagnostic tests, some of which might not be useful. Providers often feel obligated to order so many tests to protect themselves against the risk of being sued. The investigators believe if a standard of care providing legal protection for certain clinical conditions were agreed upon and followed, unnecessary testing would significantly decrease in the ED, which, in turn, would improve patient safety, augment the quality of care delivered, and increase patient satisfaction.
The main objective is to determine if ultrasound guided suprainguinal iliac fascia block leads in better clinical outcomes such as pain management or time to home discharge.
Background: Abdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for admission to the emergency department (ED). This study aimed to investigate the effect of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) performed during the initial evaluation phase of patients who presented to the ED with abdominal pain on diagnostic processes, length of stay (LOS) in ED, and hospitalization and healthcare costs. Methodology: This prospective, randomized, controlled, parallel group study was conducted with patients who presented to the Sakarya Education Research Hospital ED with abdominal pain from October 2019 to March 2020. Patients were divided randomly into two groups: control group where standard diagnostic strategies were applied and the POCUS group where POCUS was performed together with standard diagnostic strategies. All data were analyzed using IBM SPSS 21.
This study is to evaluate a tool capable of improved risk prediction regarding the 30-day mortality. The primary objective of this study is hospitalization, ICU-admission, morbidity and mortality in correlation with external validation of International Early Warning Score (IEWS) and decision-making processes regarding diagnosis, treatment and disposition in the ED.
Background: Patients with acute cardiovascular disease require out-of-hospital care during the most critical and vulnerable periods of their illness. Objectives: To evaluate the influence of music intervention in patients with an acute cardiovascular condition during their transfer in Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances. Method: A controlled, randomized experimental analytical study of cases and controls. The intervention group was exposed to relaxing music with sounds from nature. Data related to demographic factors, comorbidities, clinical constants, and drugs administered were gathered. The qualitative variables were summarized using counts and percentages, and the quantitative variables through means and standard deviations.
The increase in emergency room visits is partly related to the growing increase in unscheduled care, paradoxically associated with a decrease in the outpatient supply in the city. The "avoidable" passing rate is estimated at 43% in the last major DREES survey on hospital emergencies. Emergency services have been facing this challenge for years, but there is an urgent need to rethink its organizational model with the liberal system to meet this growing demand. Reorientation from the reception of emergencies is one of the avenues envisaged to face this challenge. It offers a different course from that of emergencies, provided that there are care structures equipped and adapted to unscheduled care. The Hospital in Saint-Denis is particularly faced with these challenges given a particular social ecosystem. Methodology : This single-center prospective observational study includes all adult patients sorted 4 and 5 by the reception organizing nurse, present during the survey. The reorientation is one of the solutions proposed in the context of reorganizing access to care throughout the territory, appearing as one of the major public health issues in the coming years, it is appropriate to ask the question on a local scale. particularly exposed to the problem of unscheduled care, if patients are eligible for reorientation The non-medical factors identified as limiting the reorientation are: the absence of social cover, the language barrier, the patients referred by the samu or the fire brigade or a doctor, the patients who came by ambulance (because considered in theory as in the impossibility to move or having already been the subject of a "regulation") Each 4 or 5 redirected patient is included and completes a questionnaire allowing the collection of information relating to their care pathways. Primary endpoint : Determine the proportion of patients not eligible for reorientation on non-medical criteria via a questionnaire, and identify the distribution of factors complicating reorientation Secondary endpoints : Identify the needs of patients re-orientated towards city medicine via the analysis of their passage to the emergency room, the reasons for their recourse to the emergency room (reasons, means and modes of arrival) their knowledge of the health system, and their relationship to general medicine
The primary objective of the study is to reduce hospital admission and decrease time to disposition through establishing an effective treatment protocol for AF and Atrial Flutter in the Emergency Department of Spectrum Health Lakeland. Secondary outcome is to measure if oral diltiazem is an effective HR controlling agent in AF RVR and Flutter.
To evaluate the effectiveness of music listening (with a musicotherapy application Music Care) on patients pain associated with care during wound suturing in the Adults emergency unit.