期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background The northern regions of the Nordic countries have common challenges of sparsely populated areas, long distances, and an arctic climate. The......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Drug-related emergency department (ED) visits are escalating, especially for stimulant use (i.e., cocaine and psychostimulants such as meth......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has challenged healthcare g......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background The city of Freiburg has been among the most affected regions by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. In out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Pain is one of the most common, yet challenging problems leading to emergency department (ED) presentation, despite the availability of a w......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Introduction Recent studies have shown the prognostic value of capillary refill time (CRT) and suggested that resuscitation management guided by CRT m......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) due to trauma is rare, and survival in this group is infrequent. Over the last decades, several new p......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background: Prehospital stroke trials will inevitably recruit patients with non-stroke conditions, so called stroke mimics. We undertook a pre-specifi......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Refractory out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is associated with extremely poor outcomes. However, in selected patients extracorporeal c......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Swedish Emergency Departments (EDs) see 2.6 million visits annually. Sweden has a strong tradition of health care databases, but informatio......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Patient-reported experience measures aim to capture the patient's perspective of what happened during a care encounter and how it happened.......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background During the Syrian civil war, patients were initially treated on-site in Syria and later transferred to medical centers in Israel. Relevant ......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Objective Passive leg raise (PLR) can be used as a reversible preload challenge to stratify patients according to preload response. We aim to evaluate......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background Pre-clinical psychiatric emergencies are generally treated by emergency medical staff. The subsequent clinical treatment is often condition......
期刊: BMC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, 2022; 22 (1)
Background: Medical emergency teams (METs) have been implemented to reduce hospital mortality by the early recognition and treatment of potentially li......