emergency department guidelines to help coordinate care with primary care providers

... followed, with Arthur Slutsky (Toronto, Canada) directing his attack at ridiculing Robert Kacmarek (Boston, MA, USA) with the use of surreptitiously obtained holiday photographs of the latter, to remove ... leaks and suggested the use of ventilators, which are capable of monitoring inspiratory and expiratory tidal volumes early in acute respiratory failure, to identify insufficient ventilation as ... requirements are associated with a worse prognosis This study also serves to demonstrate the vital importance of attending to routine care, as this can achieve benefits equal to or greater than novel...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... 10 June to 10 July 2008 The total number of patients aged 75 years and over attending during this period was 467, with 265 females and 202 males The age range was from 75 to 101 years, with a ... prevalence of polypharmacy in elderly attenders to an emergency department - a problem with a need for an effective solution International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:22 ... years or over attending the ED: medication in the minors (ambulatory care area) was recognised to be an issue, usually in patients with minor injuries requiring a relatively brief intervention,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ... 4Division of Emergency Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 5University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 6Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran 7York Central Hospital, Toronto, Canada ... abstractor, helped with literature review, and edited the first draft of the manuscript RM provided statistical advice and analyzed the data HH helped with data abstraction AA helped with data...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... sepsis and septic shock Crit Care 2003, 7:232 Parkhe M, Myles PS, Leach DS, Maclean AV: Outcome of emergency department patients with delayed admission to an intensive care unit Emerg Med (Fremantle) ... EP; Society of Critical Care Medicine; American College of Emergency Physicians; Society of Academic Emergency Medicine; Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors; Emergency Medicine Residents ... transferred to the intensive care unit within 24 hours of ward admission from the ED had a significant increase in 30-day mortality (relative risk of 2.46) compared with patients admitted to the intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... patient and doctor Several other factors might influence, like interpretation of the laboratory result to the clinical presentation, the doctors level of experience, time allowed to attend the ... been shown to be marginally inferior to two laboratory assays in diagnosing AMI [10], and comparable to standard laboratory assays in analysis of D-dimer for DVT [11] All patients with suspected ... of care technology or standard laboratory service in an emergency department: is there a difference in time to action? A randomised trial Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... to an emergency department to seek further help (Hawton et al, 2002) The way forward The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (2008), in collaboration with the Department of Health, has issued guidelines ... adolescents with mental health-related problems go to the emergency department? Children and adolescents present to the emergency department when their actions, their behaviour or the way they appear to ... becomes intolerable to the people who feel responsible for caring for them The situation becomes intolerable when it is too upsetting, too frightening or too confusing to be coped with by the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 02:20

... Application to the Health -care Domain As a prominent use case, we applied our exploration system to the health -care domain With the advent of the internet and social media, patients now have access to ... exploration to proposition-based exploration Our model combines the textual entailment paradigm within the exploration process, with application to the health -care domain According to our model, ... collected a health -care corpus from the web, which contains more than 2M sentences and about 50M word tokens The texts deal with various aspects of the health care domain: answers to questions, surveys...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... opposed to changes in amounts outstanding; not to be confused with exchange rate adjusted changes in stocks In contrast to amounts outstanding, flow figures relate to periods of time and not to a ... counterparty sectors those banking offices lend to More generally, it allows central banks to closely monitor trends in the supply of credit (both cross-border and domestically sourced) to the non-financial ... exposures to particular countries and counterparty sectors Second, monitoring trends in the supply of bank credit (both cross-border and domestically sourced) to the different non-financial sectors...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... supposed to help? IMP student, Collin Sullivan ponders a new problem Two Initial Points to Keep in Mind • Don’t panic! You don’t have to know the answer to help Students need to learn how to be ... Homework helps you learn the most when it is done on time Lauren Richetti, an IMP student, presents a graph How to Help With Math Homework When The Answers Aren’t in the Book How to Help With Homework ... graph to help reveal patterns Try working backwards Sometimes the answer is given and you have to figure out how to get there Finally, always check your solution Try to find a different method to...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 12:20

... questionnaire was used to identify individuals with a diagnosis of diabetes and those with risk factors associated with a diagnosis of diabetes In 2004, the screening survey was mailed to a stratified ... such measures can be used to compare the incremental burden experienced by patients with diabetes and those without diabetes but with similar comorbidities and risk factors A frequently used generic ... this investigation was to compare EQ-5D scores of individuals diagnosed with diabetes and those with varying levels of cardiometabolic risk, using data from the Study to Help Improve Early evaluation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Representation to the Accident and Emergency department within 1-year of a fractured neck of femur David J Bryson1, Scott Knapp1, Rory G Middleton1 , Murtuza Faizi1, Hardik Bhansali2, ... a hip fracture Methods We used an A&E coding database to identify patients who had presented to a University Hospital emergency department with a fractured neck of femur between January 2002 and ... fractures with emphasis placed upon the establishment of multidisciplinary care plans and secondary prevention Patients who suffer a hip fracture should expect to receive care that is compliant with...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... al [3] (1997; 1333 primary care patients in USA) found impaired HRQoL in comparison to patients with lower severity of alcohol dependence, a normal population, and patients without alcohol disorders, ... scores of longterm quitters were similar to those of non-smokers Substance use not only impairs HRQoL but increases health care utilization, i.e emergency department (ED) http://www.hqlo.com/content/3/1/77 ... applicable to patients with only minor medical disorders [19] The SF-36-questionnaire used in this investigation is considered to be a "validated global quality of life measure" in patients with (multiple)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... pain is the most common presentation to US emergency departments [9] Emergency department overcrowding has been associated with delayed care in patients with severe pain [10,11] This case highlights ... 25 August 2011 Accepted: 13 October 2011 Published: 13 October 2011 References McCaig LF, Nawar EW: National hospital ambulatory medical care survey: 2004 Emergency Department summary Adv Data ... Transvaginal evisceration progressing to peritonitis in the emergency department: a case report International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011 4:66 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... benefit from this availability Up to 30% of patients treated with antiepileptics continue to experience breakthrough seizures and often present to an emergency department [22,23] This puts substantial ... features, which in turn may help in increasing or decreasing the index of suspicion in patients presenting with seizure-like symptomatology One major study reported that subjects with two seizure-like ... needed to rapidly obtain an EEG: a headset with integrated electrodes, an analog front-end and analogto-digital convertor electronics, a digital EEG transmitter and battery module that plugs in to...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... medical care during the pregnancy with the following question: “Have you been to a health care professional (OB, family practitioner, midwife) for care during this pregnancy?” Patients were asked to ... not seem to be related to language barriers leading to misunderstanding or failure to receive appropriate guidelines for folic acid supplementation We found that those who identified a primary ... would be the term most familiar to patients to describe a folic acid-containing supplement Patients were asked to self-identify their race and primary language with free-text spaces in which the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... to the investigators after being kept at the Pathology Department (at 4-8°C) for days as required in accordance with the RHH Pathology serum protocol After the transfer, serum samples were stored ... conducted in two phases over a total period of 18 months Patients who had presented to the emergency department for over 12 h prior before blood sampling were excluded Moderate to severe asthma exacerbation ... more achievable by emergency department staff in our setting Respiratory function tests were performed with a Vitalograph ® Compact spirometer (Buckingham, UK) Page of brought to room temperature,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... test result in the ED records All patients with a preliminary positive test were offered a Western Blot confirmatory test They were also linked to care with the hospital’s Division of Infectious ... how to increase the numbers of patients who agree to be screened, which remains only 50-60% of all those eligible [15] Author details Department of Emergency Medicine, The George Washington University ... mammography by age and family history of breast cancer JAMA 1993, 270:2444-50 14 Kelen GD, Rothman RE: Emergency department- based HIV testing: too little, but not too late Ann Emerg Med 2009, 54:65-71...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... couples were associated with late presentation to HIV/AIDS care To improve presentation to HIV/AIDS care interventions, whether designed to promote HIV testing or early entry into care, should target ... beliefs of people living with HIV/AIDS were not associated with late presentation to HIV/AIDS care (P > 0.05) Variables which showed association with late presentation to HIV/AIDS care in the bivariate ... HIV positive individuals tested with sickness/symptoms were 2.62 times more likely to present late to HIV/AIDS care than those tested without HIV related symptoms at first HIV diagnosis [OR =...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... University of Toronto, 200 Elizabeth Street, Toronto, M5G 2C4, Canada 3Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, 155 College Street, Suite 425, Toronto, M5T 3M6, ... motivation is to review how a condition is diagnosed and treated Our motivation is rather to bring existing national guidelines together into a cohesive simplified easy -to- use tool that renders ... Malawi has committed to further scale-up HIV/AIDS treatment [1,5] One important strategy to successfully scale-up access to ART is to decentralize HIV/AIDS services to rural primary care centers [1,6]...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... given and hot packs were applied to groins and axillae 0800 Arrival to Hospital Patient arrived to medical center with no palpable pulses Monitor showed PEA with bradycardia of HR 31/minute CPR ... achieved with veno-venous hemofiltration, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodialysis [11,12] Femoral-femoral vascular cannulation for CPB was selected to avoid complications associated with sternotomy, ... converted to sinus rhythm with HR 66/minute, but shortly thereafter went into pulseless V-tach An amiodarone bolus of 300 mg was administered IV followed by gm calcium IV The patient went into V-fib...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21