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Prevalence of Stroke and Diagnostic Performance of Emergency MRI in Acute Isolated Dizziness

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke is frequently misdiagnosed in patients presenting with acute isolated dizziness; the optimal imaging modality for this population remains debated. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of stroke among patients with isolated dizziness and to assess the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed ...
Xiao Hu, Sijia Liu, Xiaosan Wu, Sunhong Yan, Jie Shen, Lei Zhu, Xueyun Liu, Zijie Wang, Chu Chen, Tiannan Yang, Chuanqin Fang, Qi Li   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergency services to the rescue? [PDF]

, 2008
Drawing on some recent appellate decisions, this article argues that in appropriate cases emergency service providers should be held to owe a duty of care to go to the aid of those they know to be at physical risk.
Williams, K.
core  

Stakeholder perspectives on new ways of delivering unscheduled health care: the role of ownership and organisational identity [PDF]

, 2006
<b>Rationale, aims and objectives</b>: To explore stakeholder perspectives of the implementation of a new, national integrated nurse-led telephone advice and consultation service (NHS 24), comparing the views of stakeholders from different ...
Department of Health, Department of Health, Glaser B. G., Hallam L., Hopton J., Mark A. L., Marshall M., Miles M. B., NHS Executive, NHS Scotland, O'Donnell C. A., Pawson R., Pearce K., Pollock A. M., Scottish Executive, Smith J.   +15 more
core   +1 more source

Nurses' perception about risk classification in an emergency service.

Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2014
OBJECTIVE Get to know how nurses perceive the accomplishment of risk classification in an emergency service. METHODOLOGY In this qualitative study, 11 nurses were included with at least two months of experience in the risk classification of patients ...
C. C. de Souza, Aline Santos Diniz, Liliane de Lourdes Teixeira Silva, Luciana Regina Ferreira da Mata, T. Chianca   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Longitudinal Relationship Between Pain and Depression in People With Inflammatory Arthritis: A Narrative Review

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
As many patients with inflammatory arthritis (IA) have chronic pain, understanding how to best assess and manage pain in IA is a priority. Comorbid depression is prevalent in adults with IA, affecting 15% to 39% of people. Although pain and depression are thought to be associated in IA, this concept is largely based on cross‐sectional data.
Natasha Cox, Saeed Farooq, Helen Twohig, Ian C. Scott   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An analysis of ambulance re-contacts after non-conveyance: a retrospective cohort study in the Netherlands

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Non-conveyance is an increasing part of ambulance care and has to be safe. One of the indicators to measure safety is an ambulance re-contact within 72 h. However, solely measuring the percentage of re-contacts has limited validity as it lacks
Susanne E. de Loor, Tessa Verheij, Thomas Karol, Franciscus G. M. H. M. Cuppen, Frits van Dijk, Femke Goldstein, Joyce Janssen, Remco H. A. Ebben   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Celiac crisis, a rare and profound presentation of celiac disease: a case report

BMC Gastroenterology, 2018
Background Celiac crisis is a life-threatening manifestation of celiac disease and is rare in adults, with only a handful of cases documented worldwide and mostly in children.
Elizabeth Ann Forrest, Mark Wong, Srinivasa Nama, Siddharth Sharma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exploring patients’ profiles associated with the resolution of acute calcium pyrophosphate arthritis treatedwith colchicine and prednisone: post hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective The objective was to identify factors determining acute arthritis resolution and safety with colchicine and prednisone in acute calcium pyrophosphate (CPP) crystal arthritis. Methods We conducted a post hoc analysis of the COLCHICORT trial, which compared colchicine and prednisone for the treatment of acute CPP crystal arthritis, using a ...
Tristan Pascart, Laurène Norberciak, Pascal Richette, Pierre Robinet, Aurore Pacaud, Gauthier Marchasson, Thibault Rabin, Hélène Luraschi, Pierre Maciejasz, Anne‐France Georgel, Augustin Latourte, Hang‐Korng Ea, Sébastien Ottaviani, Charlotte Jauffret, Vincent Ducoulombier   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The behaviour of Eu, Pu, Am radionuclide at burning radioactive graphite in an oxygen atmosphere. Computer experiments

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2015
Be means of the method of computer thermodynamic simulation we studied the behaviour of the europium, plutonium and americium from the combustion of radioactive graphite in oxygen. Europe is in the form of condensed EuOCl, Eu2O3 and vapour EuO.
Kolbin T.S., Barbin N.M., Terentev D.I., Alekseev S.G.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outcome, quality of life and direct costs after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in an urban region of Switzerland

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2019
Background Considering the significant morbidity and mortality of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, only little data on survival or quality of life after successful resuscitation is available in Europe.
Raphael Ruch, Laura Stoessel, Philipp Stein, Michael Thomas Ganter, Daniel Anthony Button   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source