International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019 Background Cardiopulmonary arrest may result in high mortality rate in hospitals where the rapid response team is not implemented. A rapid response system can recognize patients at high risk of cardiopulmonary arrest and provide the needed medical ...
Awad Al-Omari +2 more
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A novel streamlined trauma response team training improves imaging efficiency for pediatric blunt abdominal trauma patients [PDF]
, 2019 Background/purpose The morbidity and mortality of children with traumatic injuries are directly related to the time to definitive management of their injuries.
Cross, Keith +5 more
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BMC Infectious DiseasesBackground The causative agents of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome remain unknown in 68–75% of the cases. In Nepal, the cases are tested only for Japanese encephalitis, which constitutes only about 15% of the cases. However, there could be several organisms,
Shrestha Rajeev +9 more
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Artificial intelligence algorithm for predicting cardiac arrest using electrocardiography
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2020 Background In-hospital cardiac arrest is a major burden in health care. Although several track-and-trigger systems are used to predict cardiac arrest, they often have unsatisfactory performances.
Joon-myoung Kwon +5 more
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Effectiveness of Bradycardia as a Single Parameter in the Pediatric Acute Response System [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2014 BACKGROUND: Various tools for the acute response system (ARS) predict and prevent acute deterioration in pediatric patients. However, detailed criteria have not been clarified.
Yu Hyeon Choi +4 more
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Stroke Severity Affects Timing: Time From Stroke Code Activation to Initial Imaging is Longer in Patients With Milder Strokes. [PDF]
, 2018 Optimizing the time it takes to get a potential stroke patient to imaging is essential in a rapid stroke response. At our hospital, door-to-imaging time is comprised of 2 time periods: the time before a stroke is recognized, followed by the period after ...
Dhamoon, Mandip +4 more
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Resuscitation Plus, 2020 Aim: To test National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) versus a single-parameter system to identify critically ill general medical patients in the emergency department (ED), by 1) testing NEWS2s prediction of and association with primary outcome ‘mortality’
Stine Engebretsen +4 more
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BMC Primary CareBackground Antibiotics are often prescribed without a C-Reactive Protein (CRP) level, an inflammatory marker used to guide treatment decisions, due to delays in obtaining laboratory results.
Matthew Atkins +8 more
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Managing clinical uncertainty: an ethnographic study of the impact of critical care outreach on end‐of‐life transitions in ward‐based critically ill patients with a life‐limiting illness [PDF]
, 2018 © 2018 Crown copyright. Journal of Clinical Nursing © 2018 John Wiley & Sons LtdRapid response teams, such as critical care outreach teams, have prominent roles in managing end-of-life transitions in critical illness, often questioning appropriateness of
Mclellan, Jude +4 more
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Predictive validity of the CriSTAL tool for short-term mortality in older people presenting at Emergency Departments: a prospective study [PDF]
, 2011 © 2018, The Author(s). Abstract: To determine the validity of the Australian clinical prediction tool Criteria for Screening and Triaging to Appropriate aLternative care (CRISTAL) based on objective clinical criteria to accurately identify risk of death ...
ME Silverman +39 more
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