background activities of daily living (adl) are an important indicator of health and independence in elderly. it provides useful information for proper planning in the field of elderly care. trauma in elderly population is frequent and can negatively affect the independence in adl. objectives the purpose of the present study was to evaluate elderly independence in activities of daily living (ad...

Objective: The authors want to examine the prevalence of all impulse control disorders (ICD) among patients examined in a French psychiatric emergency ward and to compare patients with and without ICD. Method: 210 consecutive patients examined in a psychiatric emergency ward were included. We used the Minnesota Impulsive Disorders Interview, a semi-structured clinical interview assessing impuls...

background: more psychiatric visits, especially non-emergency ones, to emergency departments (eds) of general hospitals have been observed in recent years. the aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of psychiatric visits to the ed of rasoul-e-akram hospital, tehran, iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, during a two-month period, all psychiatric presentations and consult...

introduction: emergency department is the most important part of a hospital and it seems that 24-hour presence of emergency medicine specialist can be effective in improving the performance of this ward. therefore, the present study was performed with the aim of studying the effect of 24-hour presence of emergency medicine specialists in the emergency department of shahid bahonar hospital, kerm...

ICU mortality caught our eye: an interesting viewpoint article on preventable mortality by Dijkema and colleagues [1], and a research paper on the impact of ICU admission during morning rounds on mortality by de Souza and colleagues [2]. It appeared to us that an important factor to avoid preventable ICU deaths is not mentioned: the time period before the critically ill patient is finally admit...

BACKGROUND Head trauma is the main cause of disabilities and death among young people, and the side effects of head trauma pose some of the greatest medical challenges. Rapid diagnosis and the use of proper treatments can prevent more severe brain damage. The purpose of this research was to determine the quality of nursing services provided to brain trauma patients in hospitals in Guilan Provin...

Objective: Classify conditions leading to ST segment elevation on electrocardiogram in conditions other than acute myocardial infarction. Design: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Setting: Emergency Department of Medicine, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Duration: 6 months from 1-52006 to 31-10-2006. Patients and Methods: Total 100 patients were included. Brief history and clinical examination was pe...

INTRODUCTION The objective of the study was to assess home medication data collected at the Emergency Department in a tertiary hospital. It also aimed to identify whether any possible deficiencies in this collection were translated as reconciliation errors on admission, to analyse and classify these data and identify the pharmacological groups involved. METHOD A prospective observational stud...

BACKGROUND Neutropenic fever in patients receiving chemotherapy is a medical emergency and should be treated promptly within 1 h with antibiotics as specified within the 2009 NCAG report on chemotherapy services. AIM To determine door-to-assessment, door-to-treatment and door-to-investigation intervals for patients with febrile neutropenia who presented to the inpatient Oncology Ward, the out...

Introduction The increasing demand for hospital beds, an ageing population and shorter hospital stays have resulted in increased patient acuity and greater risk of clinical deterioration. This can have life threatening consequences which include in-hospital cardiac arrest, unplanned admission to the intensive care units (ICU) and death. Rapid Response Systems (RRS) or Medical emergency Teams (M...