OBJECTIVE End-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) monitoring has numerous clinical applications in the emergency setting. This study was designed to explore the current availability and utilization patterns for continuous ETCO2 monitoring in pediatric emergency departments. METHODS A Web-based survey was distributed to directors of all accredited pediatric emergency medicine fellowship programs in t...

To understand trends in emergency medicine and interprofessional roles in delivering this care, we analyzed a 10-year period (1995-2004) by provider, patient characteristics, and diagnoses. The focus was on how doctors, physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) share emergency medicine visits. The National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey of over 1 billion "weighted" emerg...

objective: most previous retrospective studies failed to show a consistent association between pre-hospital time intervals and mortality in trauma patients, bringing the recommendation of “transport fast to increase survival” under question. the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of response time, scene time, and transport time with 24-hour in-hospital mortality.   methods: in th...

conclusions this study showed that the employees in the kashan pems obtained half of the score of organizational commitment and about two-thirds of the job involvement score. therefore, the higher level managers of the emergency medical system are advised to implement some strategies to increase the employees’ job involvement and organizational commitment. materials and methods this cross-secti...

results based on the findings, most of the participants (64.5%) were aged 30 - 39 years old. 84% of the cases were female and 97.3% had a bachelor’s degree. the average perceived knowledge of nurses was 2.43 ± 1.01. the nurses had the highest familiarity with triage and lowest knowledge in epidemiology and decision-making. conclusions lack knowledge of nurses regarding response to disaster situ...

Rare diseases are not well known by physicians acting in emergency departments, and taking care of RD patients in the emergency setting can prove challenging for them. Emergency situations can result from the rare disease itself or be unrelated to it, but most often need particular measures to be taken. In order to guide the emergency practitioner in a very practical way to take care of a patie...