background and objectives: the iranian ministry of health and medical education (mohme) has obligated health settings to follow the reference guidelines developed by the ministry in implementing of emergency department triage system. the present study aimed at auditing the compliance of emergency department triage system in shahid madani hospital, in terms of compliance with mohme guideline, an...

background: to identify and analyze factors that influence the grading and zoning management model of emergency triage as a first step in the improvement of the system. methods: questionnaires were used to extract data from clinical histories of 286 patients who attended the emergency department of binzhou central hospital (binzhou city, shandong province, china) from september to november of 2...

background sedation is a condition of reduced level of consciousness (loc) for a patient that is created to decrease irritability, anxiety, and restlessness. objectives in this study, we compared the sedative effect of oral administration of ketamine, midazolam, and atropine cocktail with diphenhydramine in the referent children to the emergency department. patients and methods based on the dou...

introduction: patient satisfaction is crucial to the long-run success in health care center. with regard to the highest patients’ referral to the emergency department and the existing challenges due to the patient’s need to urgent care, we aimed to evaluate health care services quality in this unit to find out whether the patients have different expectations from health care providers and if th...

Background and Purpose: The emergency severity index (ESI) triage system has been recommended by the Ministry of Health to classify patients at emergency departments. This study aimed to assess the validity of ESI system (version 4) in the emergency department of a teaching hospital. Outcome measures were hospitalization, emergency department (ED) length of stay, resource consumption, in-hospit...

Abdominal pain constitutes 5% of the causes of emergency admissions and is an important part in the practice of emergency services in all centers. Patients may suffer from acute surgical abdomen, acute abdomen with nonsurgical diseases or acute problems of chronic diseases. Abdominal pain is sometimes associated with acute trauma. Clinical assessment is a process where diagnosis and treatment m...

Purpose. Correct prehospital diagnosis of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) may accelerate and improve the treatment. We sought to evaluate the accuracy of prehospital diagnoses of ischemic heart diseases assigned by physicians. Methods. The Mobile Emergency Care Unit (MECU) in Odense, Denmark, services a population of 260.000. All admissions in 2009 concerning patients diagnosed in the IHD categor...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea Department of Anesthesiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea Department of Emergency Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, K...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate activities of a nurse led minor injuries unit based in a community hospital situated eight miles away from its sister district hospital in Crawley to demonstrate whether nurses can provide an alternative service. DESIGN "Walk in" service provided by emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) working within protocols and parameters with supervision from the accident and emergen...