The 4 August 2020 Port of Beirut blast caused material damage to an estimated 77,000 apartments located across 10,000 buildings within a 3 km radius the blast, impacting around 300,000, people predominantly in municipality Karantina, which is situated adjacent Beirut. shed light on instability and unsustainable development approach city since well before French mandate circa 1921–1940. impact p...

Background Measuring and understanding main determinants of length of stay (LOS) in emergency departments (EDs) is critical from an operations perspective, since LOS is one of the main performance indicators of ED operations. Therefore, this study analyzes both the main and interaction effects of four widely-used independent determinants of ED-LOS.   Methods The analysis...

Background. Thrombolytic therapy (rt-PA) is approved for ischemic stroke presenting within 4.5 hours of symptoms onset. The rate of utilization of rt-PA is not well described in developing countries. Objectives. Our study examined patient characteristics and outcomes in addition to barriers to rt-PA utilization in a tertiary care center in Beirut, Lebanon. Methods. A retrospective chart review ...

a Division of Emergency Critical Care, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA b Department of Emergency Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA c Departments of Critical Care Medicine & Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA d Department of Surgery/ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Science Cente...

Brandon CARTER, Patrick PETER and Alejandro GANGUI Département d’Astrophysique Relativiste et de Cosmologie, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, UPR 176, CNRS, 92195 Meudon (France), 2 International Center for Theoretical Physics, P. O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy, 3 International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy. Email: [email protected], [email protected], gangu...