Serotonin Syndrome after Sertraline Overdose in a Child: A Case Report by Joana Grenha, Ana Garrido, Hernani Brito, Maria José Oliveira, Fátima Santos

“…An 8-year-old girl with behavioral problems and medicated with risperidone and sertraline was admitted in the emergency department after she had taken voluntarily 1500 mg of sertraline (50 mg/kg). …”
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Web-Based Healthcare Delivery Integrated System to Forecast COVID-19 Hospitalizations in a Marginalized Patient Population: A Case Study in Broome County, New York by Anemone Kasasbeh, Elie Issa, Naseem Khan, Mehmet Yildirim, Amy Booth, Hiroki Sayama

“…The developed system allows the medical team to plan to ensure better bed management, less cancelation in elective surgeries, and fewer patients held in the emergency department, hence, better healthcare outcomes in the county. …”
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Implementation of a rapid host-protein diagnostic test for distinguishing bacterial and viral infections in adults presenting to urgent care centers: a pragmatic cohort study by Boaz Kalmovich, Daniella Rahamim-Cohen, Ilan Yehoshua, Sara Kivity, Noam Orvieto, Shirley Shapiro Ben David

“…Physicians reported MMBV aided patient management in 2494/2901 (86.0%) cases and contributed to avoiding emergency department referrals in 595/2901 (20.5%). Conclusions Implementing MMBV aided urgent care center physicians in their clinical decision-making and may have contributed to appropriate antibiotic use, better resource utilization, and patient management.…”
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Application of Skin Electrical Conductance of Acupuncture Meridians for Ureteral Calculus: A Case Report by Wu-Chou Lin, Yung-Hsiang Chen, Jian-Ming Xu, Der-Cherng Chen, Wen-Chi Chen, Chao-Te Lee

“…Renal colic is a common condition seen in the emergency department (ED). Our recent study showed that measures of electrical conductance may be used as supplementary diagnostic methods for patients with acute renal colic. …”
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Positive real-time PCR in pneumococcal meningitis 12 hours after initiation of antibiotic therapy – case report by Cem Thunstedt, Carla Palleis, Johannes Wischmann, Suzette Heck, Konstantinos Dimitriadis, Matthias Klein

“…We present the case of a 54-year-old female transferred to our emergency department with suspected bacterial meningitis, later diagnosed as an Austrian syndrome. …”
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Acute Pancreatitis Induced by Diabetic Ketoacidosis with Major Hypertriglyceridemia: Report of Four Cases by Karama Bouchaala, Mabrouk Bahloul, Sabrine Bradii, Hela Kallel, Kamilia Chtara, Mounir Bouaziz

“…Acute pancreatitis remains a common cause of emergency department consultations and a major cause for hospitalization. …”
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Survival and prognostic factors among different types of liposarcomas based on SEER database by Jiaqi Zhao, WenLi Du, XiaoLiang Tao, AiAi Li, Yi Li, Shuai Zhang

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Malignant Course of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Causing Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mahesh Anantha Narayanan, Christopher DeZorzi, Abhilash Akinapelli, Toufik Mahfood Haddad, Aiman Smer, Janani Baskaran, William P. Biddle

“…We present a case of sudden cardiac arrest caused by anomalous left anterior descending artery. 61-year-old African American female was brought to the emergency department after sudden cardiac arrest. Initial EKG showed sinus rhythm with RBBB and LAFB with nonspecific ST-T wave changes. …”
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Evolving prognostic paradigms in lung adenocarcinoma with brain metastases: a web-based predictive model enhanced by machine learning by Min Liang, Zhiwen Zhang, Langming Wu, Mafeng Chen, Shifan Tan, Jian Huang

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Factors in Vaccine Refusal by Patients Applying for COVID-19 PCR Test by Ferhat ARSLAN, Behcet AL, Gorkem Alper SOLAKOGLU, Omer Faruk GULSOY, Cagatay NUHOGLU, Sema AYTEN

“…Methods: The study was conducted prospectively in the emergency department of a tertiary hospital between 31.01.2022 and 31.05.2022. 1000 patients who applied for the COVID-19 PCR test and refused to be vaccinated were included. …”
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What Is New Since the Last (1999) Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines? by Louis-Philippe Boulet, Tony R Bai, Allan Becker, Denis Bérubé, Robert Beveridge, Dennis M Bowie, Kenneth R Chapman, Johanne Côté, Donald Cockcroft, Francine M Ducharme, Pierre Ernst, J Mark FitzGerald, Thomas Kovesi, Richard V Hodder, Paul O’Byrne, Brian Rowe, Malcolm R Sears, F Estelle R Simons, Sheldon Spier

“…It includes relevant published studies and observations or comments regarding what are considered to be the main issues in asthma management in children and adults in office, emergency department, hospital and clinical settings. Asthma is still insufficiently controlled in a large number of patients, and practice guidelines need to be integrated better with current care. …”
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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Paracetamol and Ibuprofen in the Management of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Neonates: A Randomized Controlled Trial by S. Mohsin Ali Shah, Shaista Azeem Khan, Faran Sadiq, Ruba Gul, Faizan Sadiq, Misbah Ullah Khan, Muhammad Khalid Khan, Faryal Uzma, Arooj Khan, Sabir Khan

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Case Report: Surgery combined with extracorporeal membraneoxygenation for acute type A aortic dissection complicated with acute myocardial infarction by Jianming Xia, Yan Qiu, Shuo Chang, Ying Feng, Heng Zhang, Xiaoqi Wang

“…How to improve the treatment of these patients remains a critical challenge for cardiovascular surgeons.Case presentationAll three patients who experienced chest pain were admitted to emergency department of our hospital. The 12-lead electrocardiogram revealed ST-segment depression, myocardial enzyme levels were significantly elevated. …”
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Determining Risk Factors of Bleeding in Patients on Warfarin Treatment by Evren Uygungül, Cuneyt Ayrik, Huseyin Narci, Semra Erdoğan, İbrahim Toker, Filiz Demir, Ulas Karaaslan

“…We performed a 1-year retrospective chart review of emergency department patients using warfarin. A total of 65 patients with bleeding disorder (study group) and 63 patients without bleeding (control group) were included, making up a total of 128 subjects. …”
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Liquefied Petroleum Gas Poisoning in a Child: A Case Report from a Low-Middle Income Country by Abid Jamali, Latif Shamasuddin, Aimen Yunus, Nadeem Ullah Khan

“…With the increasing use of LPG, a rise in poisoning cases has been observed.Case report: We are reporting the case of a 5-year-old male who presented to the pediatric emergency department with unconsciousness lasting approximately 30 minutes after being found near an LPG cylinder in the kitchen. …”
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The Utility of Neuromotor Retraining to Augment Manual Therapy and Vestibular Rehabilitation in a Patient with Post-Concussion Syndrome: A Case Report by Andrew Teare-Ketter, Alyssa LaForme Fiss, Jeffrey Ebert

“…# Background and Purpose Less than half of patients discharged from the emergency department post-concussion receive patient education or follow-up care, and 10-20% of individuals will develop symptoms that last longer than six months. …”
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Global Dynamic Impression for Differentiating Between Epileptic and Psychogenic Nonepileptic Seizures: A Feasibility Study by Linor Avraham, Ronen Spierer, Raz Winer, Noam Bosak, Danielle Wasserman, Moshe Herskovitz

“…We asked physicians and nurses from the emergency department, internal medicine department, neurology department, and medical students to classify the videos before and after learning the GDI principle. …”
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Cross-Cultural Validation of the English Chronic Pain Myth Scale in Emergency Nurses by Geraldine Martorella, Anaïs Lacasse, Michelle Kostic, Glenna Schluck

“…Utilization of the emergency department (ED) by patients seeking relief from chronic pain (CP) has increased. …”
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Pituitary Metastatic Composite Tumors: A Case Report with Next-Generation Sequencing and Review of the Literature by Matthew Helton, Muhammad Abu-Rmaileh, Kevin Thomas, Murat Gokden, Alissa Kanaan, Analiz Rodriguez

“…A 74-year-old man presented to the emergency department with left vision loss for 3 months. …”
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Pneumoscrotum as Complication of Blunt Thoracic Trauma: A Case Report by Eftychios Lostoridis, Konstantinos Gkagkalidis, Nikolaos Varsamis, Nikolaos Salveridis, Georgios Karageorgiou, Spyridon Kampantais, Paraskevi Tourountzi, Konstantinos Pouggouras

“…We report the case of an 82-year-old male who was transferred to the Emergency Department with signs of respiratory distress after a blunt chest trauma. …”
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