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ECMO use and mortality in adult patients with cardiogenic shock: a retrospect...
Background Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is increasingly used in resuscitation of critically ill patients with documented improved survival. Few studies describe... -
Management of potentially life-threatening emergencies at 74 primary level ho...
Background While the capacities to care for and epidemiology of emergency and critically ill patients have been reported for secondary and tertiary level hospitals in Mongolia,... -
Reasons for encounter by different levels of urgency in out-of-hours emergenc...
Background Frequencies of reasons for encounter (RFEs) in emergency primary care out-of-hours (OOH) services are relevant for planning of capacities as well as to target the... -
Ambulance use is not associated with patient acuity after road traffic collis...
Background Africa accounts for one sixth of global road traffic deaths—most in the pre-hospital setting. Ambulance transport is expensive relative to other modes of pre-hospital... -
Weaknesses and capacities affecting the Prehospital emergency care for victim...
Introduction:Prehospital emergency care is a vital and integral component of health systems, particularly in resource-constrained countries like Uganda. It can help to minimize... -
The impact of the Boko Haram insurgency in Northeast Nigeria on childhood was...
Background This research examines the relationship between violent conflict and childhood wasting in Northeast Nigeria, where residents have been subjected to fighting between... -
Accuracy of acute burns diagnosis made using smartphones and tablets: a quest...
Background Remote assistance for burns by medical experts can support nurses and general physicians in emergency care with diagnostic and management advice. Previous studies... -
Facilitating HIV/AIDS and HIV testing literacy for emergency department patie...
Background Although this has not been fully studied, videos and pictorial brochures might be equivalent methods of delivering HIV/AIDS and HIV testing information to emergency... -
Including refugees in disease elimination:challenges observed from a sleeping...
Background Ensuring equity between forcibly-displaced and host area populations is a key challenge for global elimination programmes. We studied Uganda’s response to the recent... -
Implementing blended learning in emergency airway management training: a rand...
Background While emergency airway management training is conventionally conducted via face-to-face learning (F2FL) workshops, there are inherent cost, time, place and manpower... -
Anxiety about anxiety: a survey of emergency department provider beliefs and ...
Background Approximately 80% of patients presenting to emergency departments (ED) with chest pain do not have any true cardiopulmonary emergency such as acute coronary syndrome... -
Application of the emergency medical services trigger tool to measure adverse...
Background Emergency Care has previously been identified as an area of significant concern regarding the prevalence of Adverse Events (AEs). However, the majority of this focus...
