Blood gas readings at the emergency door flag who is most likely to die
A retrospective German cohort study finds that anemia, acidosis and low bicarbonate on initial point-of-care blood gas analysis were independently ...
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Stroke and seizures dominate neurological emergencies in Somali hospital cohort
A prospective cohort at a Mogadishu tertiary referral hospital found ischaemic stroke, epilepsy and haemorrhagic stroke were the leading neurological ...
Policies Can Embed Stigma in Healthcare, Review Maps How to Fix Them
A narrative review maps anti-stigma considerations for developing, implementing, and evaluating healthcare policies that embed structural stigma against people with ...
Hospital AI platform lifts brain bleed detection accuracy in three-month real-world trial
A three-month clinical deployment in Oslo showed that radiologist feedback through the NeoMedSys platform raised VIOLA-AI's brain bleed detection sensitivity ...
Sepsis Kills One in Three Patients in Mogadishu Emergency Department, Prospective Cohort Finds
A prospective cohort of 169 sepsis patients at a Mogadishu tertiary emergency department found an in-hospital mortality rate of 30.2 ...
French trial to test support program for relatives after emergency department deaths
A cluster randomized trial in 31 French emergency departments will test whether proactive communication, family involvement and bereavement support reduce ...
Six-hour lactate clearance outperforms initial lactate for predicting 28-day mortality in older emergency department patients with sepsis
In a retrospective cohort of older emergency department patients with sepsis, six-hour lactate clearance showed the best discrimination for 28-day ...
Early CRP changes track whether antibiotics work in bacteremia patients
A retrospective Israeli study found that early rises in C-reactive protein were associated with appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy in patients ...
Blood enzyme GSTP-1 tracks heart failure severity in emergency patients
A prospective observational study of 120 patients found serum GSTP-1 rose stepwise across NYHA functional classes and was associated with ...
Mobile messaging questionnaire lets injured ED patients self-report histories into the EMR
A messaging-platform questionnaire linked to the EMR was completed by 31.8 percent of injured emergency department patients in Seoul who ...
Nurse-led sepsis model lifts 1-hour bundle adherence and survival in emergency resuscitation room
A retrospective propensity-matched study at a Chinese tertiary hospital found that an emergency nurse-led systematic septic shock nursing model raised ...
Emergency Departments Bear the Brunt of Care for Men with Opioid Use Disorder and Criminal-Legal Involvement
A cross-sectional study of 159 men with opioid use disorder and criminal-legal involvement in an urban safety-net system found that ...
Closing gaps in evidence-based care for Acute Myocardial Infarction in northern Tanzania: insights from a prospective study
A prospective emergency-department study in northern Tanzania found low use of AMI diagnostic testing and treatment, while modeling suggested substantial ...
Empathy at the core: a qualitative study of patient experience in an urban and rural emergency department setting
Interviews with 56 emergency-department patients found that empathy was the central influence on care experience across an urban academic center ...
Twenty-Hospital IMSS Registry Tracks Hip Fracture Care Gaps in 2024
The IMSS 2024 multicenter registry of 1,095 hip fracture patients across twenty Mexican hospitals found low in-hospital mortality but only ...
Canada Builds a National Emergency Department Registry to Track Opioid Poisonings in Real Time
Canadian researchers are establishing the CEDRN Opioid Registry, a national emergency department registry designed to capture harmonized data on suspected ...
Most treated GI cancer patients used emergency care in retrospective cohort
A retrospective cohort of 2,278 chemotherapy-treated gastrointestinal cancer patients found that 88.1% visited an emergency department and 86.5% were admitted ...
Qualitative study identifies factors shaping medication management during emergency department-to-home transitions
A qualitative study involving 23 stakeholders at one teaching hospital identified system, provider and patient factors that can hinder medication ...
Emergency Rooms See Steady Climb in Child and Teen Poisoning Cases, Five-Year Study Finds
A five-year retrospective study at a Chinese tertiary hospital found emergency visits for acute poisoning among children and adolescents rose ...
ChatGPT Falls Short at Spotting Children’s Elbow Fractures on X-rays
A prospective study of 412 children found that GPT-5.2 Instant missed nearly half of elbow fractures on radiographs, with sensitivity ...
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