Emergency department
How to diagnose hepatic encephalopathy in the emergency department
... Introduction. Blood ammonia-measurements are often performed in the emergency departments to diagno- se or rule out hepatic encephalopathy (HE). However, the utility and correct interpretation of ammonia levels is ...
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Idiopathic Spontaneous Pneumoperitoneum: a case description and emergency department management.
... the emergency department for 24 hours of intermittent abdomi- nal pain, moderate intensity, located mainly in the epigastrium but spread to the rest of the upper abdomen, mild postprandial exacerbation, ...
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Characterization, conservation and loss of dignity at the end of life in the emergency department A qualitative protocol
... Incorporating the perspectives of patients and their relatives into the study of issues related to end-of-life care is a necessary step to improve the care of these patients (Díaz-Cortés, et al., 2017, Marck et al., ...
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Design and evaluation of analytical tools for emergency department management based on machine learning techniques
... The triage system currently in use in most specialized care public hospitals that possess an emergency department in the Madrid Health Authority (“Servicio Madrileño de Salud”) is the Manchester Triage ...
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Acute Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation in the Emergency Department
... the emergency department, it is vitally important that these departments implement appropriate treatment that increases the likelihood that sinus rhythm will be restored and that establishes prophylaxis for ...
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Implementación de la Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) en el departamento de atención médica continua (AMC)
... (Canadian Emergency Departament Triage and Acuity Scale: CTAS) se establecera la relation nivel de triage y el indice de ingreso hospitalario, asi como caracteristicas de sexo y ...
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Afebrile pneumonia (whooping cough) syndrome in infants at Hospital Universitario del Valle, Cali, 2001 2007
... These data support the hypothesis that most of the patients re- viewed, acquired the disease by airway, possibly caused by viral infection and did not require antibiotics such as macrolides. According to data reported in ...
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Consumo de alcohol y violencia en los servicios de urgencia: resultados regionales del Estudio Colaborativo de Alcohol y Accidentes de la Organizacin Mundial de la Salud
... As is common with other emergency department stud- ies, cases also cannot be assumed to be representative of those with injuries who do not seek medical attention. All analyses reported here are based on ...
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Biomarcadores de dao miocrdico
... an emergency department with suspected ...an emergency department, the diagnostic yield of both troponins is not ...either emergency readmissions or mortality from any ...
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A New Paradigm in Gallstones Diseases and Marked Elevation of Transaminases: An Observational Study
... Background. In clinical practice, it is assumed that a severe rise in transaminases is caused by ischemic, viral or toxic hepatitis. Nevertheless, cases of biliary obstruction have increasingly been associated with ...
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Percepción en enfermeras y médicos del sistema de triaje en el Servicio de Urgencias de un Hospital Clínico Universitario español
... the Emergency Department of the University Hospital Complex of Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), in June 2012, nursing staff started to perform triage, based on the MTS, using ALERT®TRIAGE7 ...the ...
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Lesiones relacionadas con cadas en menores de 20 aos de edad que fueron tratados en departamentos de emergencias de Nicaragua, 2004
... overall emergency department (ED) visits by children and adolescents age 0-14 years in 2004, with 13 426 being seen for nonfatal unintentional injuries (rate of ...
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Are inflatable play structures really safe for our children?
... We carried out a prospective study of injuries second- ary to inflatable play structure accidents that attended the Paediatric Emergency Department at our Hospital Uni- versitario Son Espases. This is the ...
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Estratificación del riesgo en el dolor torácico en urgencias. Revisión sistemática
... Title: Importance of risk stratification in chest pain in the emergency department. Systematic review. Chest pain is a frequent reason for consultation in Emergency Department. Is ...
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Part 10.5: Near-Fatal Asthma http:circ.ahajournals.orgcgicontentfull11224_supplIV-139 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is
... 12. Ratto D, Alfaro C, Sipsey J, Glovsky MM, Sharma OP. Are intravenous corticosteroids required in status asthmaticus? JAMA. 1988;260:527–529. 13. Rowe BH, Spooner CH, Ducharme FM, Bretzlaff JA, Bota GW. Early ...
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Ensayo clínico aleatorizado sobre la eficacia de un equipo multidisciplinar en la morbimortalidad de pacientes ancianos atendidos en un servicio de urgencias. Diseño y resultados preliminares
... the Emergency Department are ran- domized to the control arm or the intervention ...the Emergency Specialist and, if conside- red adequate, a recommendation to modify the treatment is sent to the ...
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Comprehensive Care Home Unit: reduction of hospital resources during influenza outbreaks. Sergio Salmern Ros, Silvia Lozoya Moreno, Julin Sols Garca del Pozo, Ral Salmern Ros, Laura Plaza Carmona, Pedro Abizanda Soler. Rev Esp Salud Pblica.2018;92:November 2 e201811080.
... Methods: We retrospectively described the clinical activity of the Unit during the influenza outbreaks of seasons 2016/2017 and 2017/2018. We selected sociodemographical variables, functional assessment scales (Katz ...
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Carl Schmitt Today. Terrorism, “Just” War, and the State of Emergency, de Alain de Benoist (Reseñas).
... El ilósofo francés Alain de Benoist dedica su obra Carl Schmitt Today. Terrorism, “Just” War, and the State of Emergency, al análisis de la tesis de que la Guerra al Terror llevada a cabo por George W. Bush se ...
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Cannabis A Short Review
... It is important to distinguish between users of scientifically‐approved, legitimate cannabis‐based medications and those who seek to use “medical” cannabis as a shield for legitimizing general cannabis use. A 2007 study ...
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Signal functions for measuring the ability of health facilities to provide abortion services: an illustrative analysis using a health facility census in Zambia
... Figure 1 presents the percentage of facilities (in total and by level) fulfilling the TOP and PAC criteria under our three scenarios. Under the strictest interpretation, the Zambian law scenario in a ...
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