Necrotising Myositis, the Deadly Impersonator by A. Rahman, A. K. Abou-Foul, A. Yusaf, J. Holton, L. Cogswell

“…Patient 1, a previously well 38-year-old female, underwent various investigations in the emergency department for excessive lower limb pain and a skin rash. …”
Get full text

Musculoskeletal Corticosteroid Injection during COVID-19 Pandemic in Sabah: Is It Safe? by Mohamad Azwan Aziz, Redzal Abu Hanifah, Azmi Mohamed Mohd Nahar

“…Patients who received musculoskeletal corticosteroid injection were called by telephone and asked about visits to the emergency department or government health clinic for influenza-like illness symptoms or severe acute respiratory infection that would require screening of COVID-19. …”
Get full text

Time to initiation of dialysis and length of stay in hospitalized patients with kidney damage: a cross-sectional study by Douglas Vieira Gemente, Marcelo Rodrigues Bacci

“…METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary hospital, involving adults with kidney disease who were referred to the emergency department between 2014 and 2017. Primary outcomes included TID and mortality rates. …”
Get full text

Impact of worklist selection on point-of-care ultrasound workflow – a quality improvement project by Jonathan Rowland, Jessa Baker, Natassia Dunn, Matthew Whited, Soheil Saadat, J. Christian Fox

“…Methods A new workflow was created which automatically populated every registered Emergency Department (ED) patient into the worklist upon patient registration. …”
Get full text

The Importance of Risk and Subgroup Analysis of Nonparticipants in a Geriatric Intervention Study by Elizabeth Rosted, Ingrid Poulsen, Carsten Hendriksen, Lis Wagner

“…Patients ≥70 years discharged home after a short Emergency Department stay. 399 were requested to participate; 271 consented, whereas 128 refused. …”
Get full text

Emergency nurses’ disaster preparedness competencies: A focused mapping review and synthesis by Tshepo L. Motsepe, Shelley Schmollgruber

“…Setting: The study was conducted in emergency departments and trauma centres that respond to disasters and mass casualty incidents. …”
Get full text

The Diagnostic Value of Irisin in Pediatric Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain by Fatma Sarac, Sevgi Buyukbese Sarsu, Selman Yeniocak, Kamil Sahin, Esma Yucetas, Dogan Yildirim, Macit Koldas, Ozlem Uzun

“…Diagnosis of pediatric patients presenting to the Emergency Department with acute abdominal pain is not always easy. …”
Get full text

Healthcare Use for Pain in Women Waiting for Gynaecological Surgery by Sarah Walker, Wilma M. Hopman, Meg E. Carley, Elizabeth G. Mann, Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof

“…Lower body mass index (BMI < 30 versus ≥30) and anxiety and/or depression were associated with emergency department or walk-in visits but not visits to family doctors or specialists. …”
Get full text

Varicella-Zoster-Mediated Radiculitis Reactivation following Cervical Spine Surgery: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Doniel Drazin, George Hanna, Faris Shweikeh, Sunil Jeswani, Leah Lovely, Richard Sokolov, John C. Liu

“…Approximately ten days after surgery, the patient presented to the emergency department complaining of severe pain in his right upper extremity and a vesicular rash from his elbow to his second digit. …”
Get full text

The Utility of Non-Invasive Nasal Positive Pressure Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Near Drowning Patients by June Hyeong Kim, Kyung Hoon Sun, Yong Jin Park

“…Methods This retrospective study was conducted at a tertiary emergency department. NINPPV was administered for moderate ARDS caused by submersion or immersion in patients who were older than 18 years, from January 2015 to December 2018. …”
Get full text

Analysis of Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs after the Initiation of Biologic Treatment in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease by Sue Perera, Shibing Yang, Marni Stott-Miller, Joanne Brady

“…Generally, the proportion of patients having inpatient admissions and emergency department (ED) visits decreased after receiving the same biologic for 1 year compared with baseline, although the proportion having outpatient visits did not change. …”
Get full text

Pregnancy in an Asymptomatic Woman with Porencephalic and Arachnoid Cysts by Franco Pepe, Gianmarco Marchese, Gabriele Giuseppe Pepe, Elisabetta Zambrotta, Giulio Insalaco, Claudia Garraffo, Valeria La Rosa

“…The patient was accompanied by her mother who reported an episode of intracerebral hemorrhage after birth and also remembered access to the emergency department after generalized tonic-clonic seizure as an infant. …”
Get full text

A Large Intrathoracic Hiatal Hernia as a Cause of Complete Heart Block by Ali Abbood, Hareer Al Salihi, Jorge Parellada, Mario Madruga, S. J. Carlan

“…An 88-year-old female with a history of GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) was found to have a large hiatal hernia at endoscopy after she presented to the emergency department with nausea and abdominal pain. Prior to her scheduled surgical repair, she developed symptomatic third degree heart block which resolved with nasogastric tube deflation of the gastric contents. …”
Get full text

Acute Cholecystitis-like Presentation in an Adult Patient with Gallbladder Agenesis: Case Report and Literature Review by Nahla Elzubeir, Kevin Nguyen, Muhammad Nazim

“…A 35-year-old female presented to the emergency department with nausea, vomiting, and worsening right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain. …”
Get full text

PEDIATRIC OCULAR TRAUMA MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF EFFECTIVE INTRA-ORBITAL FOREIGN BODY IOFB EXTRACTION by Doni Setiawan, Liesa Z Subuh, Alexandria Stephanie Suparman, Yugos Juli Fitra

“…Conclusion: Precise and accurate initial management in the emergency department is crucial. Early diagnosis, aided by a 3D head CT scan, is instrumental in locating the IOFB and identifying the involved anatomical structures. …”
Get full text

Floor of the Mouth Hemorrhage Following Dental Implant Placement or Guided Bone Regeneration (GBR) in the Atrophic Interforaminal Mandible by Domenico Sfondrini, Stefano Marelli, Rachele Patriarca, Andrea Scribante, Lorenzo Preda, Gabriele Savioli, Giorgio Novelli, Alessandro Bardazzi

Get full text

The Role of Inspiratory Muscle Training in Sickle Cell Anemia Related Pulmonary Damage due to Recurrent Acute Chest Syndrome Attacks by Burcu Camcıoğlu, Meral Boşnak-Güçlü, Müşerrefe Nur Karadallı, Şahika Zeynep Akı, Gülsan Türköz-Sucak

“…There was no admission to emergency department due to acute chest syndrome in the following 12 months after commencing regular erythrocytapheresis. …”
Get full text

Fatal Retroperitoneal Bleeding Caused by Neurofibromatosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Patrick R. Moerbeek, Jesse M. van Buijtenen, Baukje van den Heuvel, Arjan W. J. Hoksbergen

“…A young female was brought into the emergency department with pulseless electrical activity (PEA) after local resection of neurofibromateous lesions. …”
Get full text

The New Recreational Transportation on the Street: Personal Mobility, Is It Safe? by Young Woo Kim, Won Bin Park, Jin Seong Cho, Sung Youl Hyun, Geun Lee

“…Cases of the personal mobility-related accident were collected based on electronic medical records and hospital emergency department-based injury in-depth surveillance data. …”
Get full text

Successful Expulsion of a Golf Ball from the Sigmoid Colon Using Volume Laxatives by James P. Grantham, Amanda Hii, Tim Bright, David Liu

“…Rectal foreign bodies form a surprisingly frequent cause of presentation to the emergency department. The materials inserted constitute a wide range of size, shape, and texture with each presenting a unique set of challenges. …”
Get full text