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Ambulance Diversion: A Solution or Problem?

Namık Kemal Tıp Dergisi, 2021
Aim:Ambulance diversion (AD) is defined as redirection of ambulance to an emergency department (ED) different from the initially intended ED with the purpose of both appropriate use of hospital sources for selected patients and relief of ED overcrowding.
Mehmet Ali CEYHAN, Gültekin Günhan DEMİR   +1 more
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Volume of intensive care unit patients in the emergency department: Clinical experience in a training and research hospital

Medicine Science, 2020
There is an increasing tendency for critically ill patients to present to emergency departments (EDs). In this study, it was aimed to assess patients who presented to the ED and admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) and to identify waiting times in ...
Murat Guzel, Sener Cindoruk, Mehmet Tevfik Demir, Mehmet Yorgun, Erdinc Yavuz, Emre Ozgen, Murat Yucel, Ahmet Baydin   +7 more
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Impact of Emergency Department-Initiated Buprenorphine on Repeat Emergency Department Utilization

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023
Introduction: Recent studies have demonstrated the promise of emergency department (ED)-initiated buprenorphine/naloxone (bup/nx) for improving 30-day retention in outpatient addiction care programs for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD).
Rachel M. Skains, Lindy Reynolds, Nicholas Carlisle, Sonya Heath, Whitney Covington, Kyle Hornbuckle, Lauren Walter   +6 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Visits — United States, January 1, 2019–May 30, 2020

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020
On March 13, 2020, the United States declared a national emergency to combat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As the number of persons hospitalized with COVID-19 increased, early reports from Austria (1), Hong Kong (2), Italy (3), and California (4 ...
Kathleen P. Hartnett, A. Kite-Powell, Jourdan DeVies, M. Coletta, T. Boehmer, J. Adjemian, A. Gundlapalli   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trends in Emergency Department Visits and Hospital Admissions in Health Care Systems in 5 States in the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2020
This cross-sectional study examines trends in emergency department visits and visits that led to hospitalizations during a 4-month period leading up to and during the COVID-19 outbreak in the US.
M. Jeffery, G. D'Onofrio, H. Paek, T. Platts-Mills, W. Soares, J. Hoppe, N. Genes, Bidisha Nath, E. Melnick   +8 more
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Impact of flexible noise control (FNC) image processing parameters on portable chest radiography

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract There is a lack of understanding in the performance of flexible noise control (FNC) processing, which is used in digital radiography on a scanner vendor and has four parameters each involving multiple options. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of FNC on portable chest imaging. An anthropomorphic chest phantom was imaged using
Krystal M. Kirby, Liqiang Ren, Timothy R. Daly, Yasmeen K. Tandon, Brian J. Bartholmai, Beth A. Schueler, Zaiyang Long   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency department provider in triage: assessing site‐specific rationale, operational feasibility, and financial impact

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021
Emergency department (ED) crowding is recognized as a critical threat to patient safety, while sub‐optimal ED patient flow also contributes to reduced patient satisfaction and efficiency of care. Provider in triage (PIT) programs—which typically involve,
Brian J. Franklin, Kathleen Y. Li, David M. Somand, Keith E. Kocher, Steven L. Kronick, Vikas I. Parekh, Eric Goralnick, A. Tyler Nix, Nathan L. Haas   +8 more
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Impact of Covid-19 on the Visit of Pediatric Patients with Injuries to the Emergency Department in Korea

Children, 2021
The total number of pediatric emergency department (PED) visitors has decreased worldwide since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak. We hypothesized that this might also affect the number of PED visits due to injuries.
Arum Choi, Woori Bae, Kyunghoon Kim, Sukil Kim   +3 more
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Early Self‐Proning in Awake, Non‐intubated Patients in the Emergency Department: A Single ED’s Experience During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Academic Emergency Medicine, 2020
Objective Prolonged and unaddressed hypoxia can lead to poor patient outcomes. Proning has become a standard treatment in the management of patients with ARDS who have difficulty achieving adequate oxygen saturation.
N. Caputo, R. Strayer, R. Levitan
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Variations in volume of emergency surgeries and emergency department access at a third level hospital in Milan, Lombardy, during the COVID-19 outbreak

BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background During the recent outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), Lombardy was the most affected region in Italy, with 87,000 patients and 15,876 deaths up to May 26, 2020.
Laura Castoldi, Monica Solbiati, Giorgio Costantino, Elena Casiraghi   +3 more
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