Emergency and Critical Care

An Overview of Hydrogen Sulfide Suicides Based on Police Data in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan

Incidence of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a general intensive care unit (ICU)

Incidence of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a general intensive care unit (ICU)

Non-visible penetrating brain trauma: a case report

Objective: One of the most frequent causes of death and acquired disability in the pediatric population is the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). TBI is secondary to falls, road traffic and vehicle collisions, child abuse and assaults. Penetrating brain injury is a severe form of traumatic brain injury. Blunt head injury is more frequent than TBI in children, but the second one carries a poor progno...

The Epidemiology, Therapeutic Patterns, Outcome, and Challenges in Managing Septic Shock in a Sub-Saharan African Intensive Care Unit: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Septic shock (SS) is a health priority in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is a dearth of data in this regard. Objective: This study aimed to determine the epidemiology, therapeutic patterns, outcome, and challenges in managing SS in a tertiary intensive care unit (ICU) of sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: The hospital file...

Effective Approach to Potassium Permanganate Poisoning: Case Report and Review of Literature

Background: Potassium permanganate (PP) is a highly corrosive and deadly agent with a reported lethal dose of 10 g in adults. In this report, successful treatment of a patient poisoned with three times the lethal dose of PP is presented, and effective and early approach to such emergency toxicologic condition is discussed. Case Presentation:A 24-year-old woman presented to emergency room of our...

بررسی ارتباط تنش اخلاقی با خودکارآمدی در پرستاران شاغل در بخش‌های ویژه و اورژانس مراکزآموزشی درمانی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی جندی شاپور اهواز سال 1393

Background and Objective: Moral distress is one of the major problems of nurses, which may happen due to various reasons. Moral distress has several consequences such as, low self-esteem, job dissatisfaction and depression. Nurses in critical care units and emergency departments experience more moral distress situations because of their special work. Hence, this study aimed to investigat...