OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a medical emergency team (MET) on the incidence of unexpected cardiac arrest and death. DESIGN Comparison of retrospective data (pre-MET) before introduction of MET with prospective data after introduction of MET system (post-MET). SETTING Tertiary care pediatric hospital. PATIENTS A total of 104,780 admissions during a 41-month period pre-MET; 138,424...

INTRODUCTION Despite years of declining smoking prevalence, tobacco use is still the leading preventable contributor to illness and death in the United States, and the effect of past tobacco-use control efforts has not fully translated into improvements in health outcomes. The objective of this study was to use a life course model with multiple competing causes of death to elucidate the ongoing...

The implementation of a computerized certification medical cause of death in CHU Souro Sanou of Bobo Dioulasso is a pilot study of dematerialization of the declaration of death. The goal is to increase the reliability of mortality statistics in order to reduce preventable death in hospitals in Africa. The device created on the basis of an analysis of the existing will achieve the following resu...

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the biggest challenge of all sports emergencies, as it leading cause preventable deaths in both professional and recreational athletes. There also an ongoing concern about COVID-19-associated pathology among athletes because myocarditis important SCD during exercise. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy represents 24% Unexplained Death (normal heart at autopsy) 34% SCD. To ...

Adverse events (AEs) occur in health care and may result in harm to patients especially in the field of surgery. Our objective was to analyze AEs in surgical patient care from a nationwide perspective and to analyze the frequency of AEs that may be preventable. In total 19,141 randomly selected admissions in 63 Swedish hospitals were reviewed each month during 2013 using a 2-stage record review...

Introduction: The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine exacts a heavy death toll throughout Ukraine. Morbidity and mortality warfighters vulnerable civilian communities are inversely proportional to quality access viable medical evacuation chain. military inspector is one option fill the gap in prehospital medicine reduce morbidity by providing damage control resuscitation/surgery (DCR/DCS). Method...

BACKGROUND Although our understanding of medical adverse events has increased substantially over the last decade, little is known about iatrogenic adverse events (IAEs) in the coronary care unit (CCU). We sought to determine the frequency and potential preventability of IAEs in the CCU of a tertiary care center. METHODS AND RESULTS We undertook a retrospective cohort study evaluating the hosp...

The title of this article may seem abrasive, but the stakes are human lives that affected by E. coli infections and drinking water contaminations lead copper. First all, research targets a new urgent understanding common cause for outbreaks, which results in many illnesses deaths every year. As part world-wide problem, infects more than 73,000 people kills 60 year U.S. alone. Also connection ex...

Catastrophic haemorrhage from extremity injuries has for a long time been the single most common cause of preventable death in the military environment. The effective use of extremity tourniquets has increased the survival of combat casualties, and exsanguination from isolated limb injuries is no longer the most common cause of death. Today, the most common cause of potentially preventable deat...