PURPOSE Emergency services are critical for high-quality healthcare service provision to support acute illness, trauma and disaster response. The greater availability of emergency services decreases waiting time, improves clinical outcomes and enhances local community well being. This study aims to assess United States (U.S.) acute care hospital staffs ability to provide emergency medical servi...

BACKGROUND There has been no previous study into the state of emergency medicine in Azerbaijan. As a legacy of the Soviet Semashko system, the "specialty" model of emergency medicine and integrated emergency departments do not exist here. Instead, pre-hospital emergency care is delivered by ambulance physicians and in-hospital care by individual departments, often in specialty hospitals. Emerge...

background: there is no clear data on the adherence of emergency medical services (ems) paramedics and hospital staff rather than those working in poisoning centers to the guidelines for managing acutely poisoned patients in developing countries. methods: during a 6-month period, all ems-managed poisoned patients along with those initially managed in a non-poisoning center before being referred...

Recently natural disasters and man-made calamities happened very frequently in Taiwan, some of which caused hundreds of inhabitants died and injured. The most important thing that makes the emergency medical treatment system work effectively during these catastrophes is dependent on the accuracy and immediacy of the information among ambulances, hospitals, fire bureaus, public health bureaus or...

introduction : although many protocols are available in the field of the prehospital medical care (pmc), there is still a notable gap between protocol based directions and applied clinical practice. this study measures the rate of protocol adherence in pmc provided for patients with chest pain and loss of consciousness (loc). method : in this cross-sectional study, 10 educated research assistan...

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...

OBJECTIVE To explore the views of undergraduate medical students regarding the presence and sources of barriers to effective feedback in their setting. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at the College of Medicine, Department of Medical Education, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from April to June 2010. A self-administere...

Neurosurgical coverage for hospital emergency and trauma call has been a growing controversy for several years. Hospital emergency department surveys show difficulty either in getting coverage of specialty services in the emergency room (ER), or trouble finding neurosurgeons to whom to refer emergency problems. The American College of Emergency Physicians surveyed 4444 hospital emergency depart...

OBJECTIVE To examine determinants of quality of care provided by pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) in tertiary European centers. METHODS Analysis of questionnaires was sent to directors of PEDs. Questionnaires were sent through the pediatric research group of the European Society for Emergency Medicine. Three major descriptive categories were included in a 28-point questionnaire: institu...

conclusions in this study, trauma intervention increased satisfaction in patients admitted to the emergency department. therefore, managers and personnel of hospitals and healthcare training centers are urged to implement trauma intervention in their hospitals or healthcare training centers. results the mean score for total satisfaction after trauma intervention in the experimental group (45.6 ...