Anesthesia in Emergency Medicine

Cardiac enzyme in emergency medicine

Objective: Acute chest pain is an important and frequently occurring symptom in patients. Chest pain is often a sign of ischemic heart disease. Chest pain due to suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is responsible for a large and ijncreasing number of hospital attendances and admissions. Current practice for suspected ACS involves troponin testing 10–12 hours after symptom o...

Decision Support Systems in Anesthesia, Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine

Decision support systems (DSS) in the context of anesthesia, critical care and intensive care medicine consist of several components: the ‘brain’, which integrates a variety of input parameters and delivers as output various informative data which can help the physicians to perform better. They might be considered as ‘automated textbooks’ which by the use of a digitalized infrastructure not onl...

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Regional Anesthesia in Trauma Medicine

Regional anesthesia is an established method to provide analgesia for patients in the operating room and during the postoperative phase. While regional anesthesia offers unique advantages, as shown by the recent military experience, it is not commonly utilized in the prehospital or emergency department setting. Most often, regional anesthesia techniques for traumatized patients are first utiliz...

Telemedicine in Emergency Medicine

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunications for medical diagnosis and patient care. Telecommunication technology allows for the provision of medical services to sites that are physically separated from the provider. The telemedicine communication link usually involves standard telephone service through high speed, wide bandwidth transmission of digital signals in conjunction with computer enh...