Search Tag: emergency department
2025 12 Jul
Computed tomography (CT) has become a cornerstone of emergency department (ED) diagnostics due to its high sensitivity and rapid acquisition of detailed internal images. Emergency physicians (EPs) often initiate CT scans to guide urgent decisions, particularly in trauma and acute medical conditions. However, in settings where real-time radiologist...Read more
2025 12 Jul
Computed tomography (CT) has become a cornerstone of emergency department (ED) diagnostics due to its high sensitivity and rapid acquisition of detailed internal images. Emergency physicians (EPs) often initiate CT scans to guide urgent decisions, particularly in trauma and acute medical conditions. However, in settings where real-time radiologist...Read more
2025 12 Jul
Computed tomography (CT) has become a cornerstone of emergency department (ED) diagnostics due to its high sensitivity and rapid acquisition of detailed internal images. Emergency physicians (EPs) often initiate CT scans to guide urgent decisions, particularly in trauma and acute medical conditions. However, in settings where real-time radiologist...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) face increasing challenges related to patient flow, overcrowding and resource allocation. Predicting key outcomes such as patient length of stay (LOS) and disposition decision (DD) can significantly improve operational efficiency. However, existing machine learning (ML) models often lack transparency and transferability,...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) face increasing challenges related to patient flow, overcrowding and resource allocation. Predicting key outcomes such as patient length of stay (LOS) and disposition decision (DD) can significantly improve operational efficiency. However, existing machine learning (ML) models often lack transparency and transferability,...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) face increasing challenges related to patient flow, overcrowding and resource allocation. Predicting key outcomes such as patient length of stay (LOS) and disposition decision (DD) can significantly improve operational efficiency. However, existing machine learning (ML) models often lack transparency and transferability,...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) are often the first point of contact for patients in acute distress, yet they remain among the most overburdened areas in healthcare. Overcrowding, long wait times and clinician burnout are endemic challenges that compromise patient outcomes and staff morale. With artificial intelligence technologies gaining traction...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) are often the first point of contact for patients in acute distress, yet they remain among the most overburdened areas in healthcare. Overcrowding, long wait times and clinician burnout are endemic challenges that compromise patient outcomes and staff morale. With artificial intelligence technologies gaining traction...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) are often the first point of contact for patients in acute distress, yet they remain among the most overburdened areas in healthcare. Overcrowding, long wait times and clinician burnout are endemic challenges that compromise patient outcomes and staff morale. With artificial intelligence technologies gaining traction...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) are often the first point of contact for patients in acute distress, yet they remain among the most overburdened areas in healthcare. Overcrowding, long wait times and clinician burnout are endemic challenges that compromise patient outcomes and staff morale. With artificial intelligence technologies gaining traction...Read more
2025 06 Jul
Emergency departments (EDs) are often the first point of contact for patients in acute distress, yet they remain among the most overburdened areas in healthcare. Overcrowding, long wait times and clinician burnout are endemic challenges that compromise patient outcomes and staff morale. With artificial intelligence technologies gaining traction...Read more
2025 24 Feb
In emergency departments (EDs), radiology plays a critical role in diagnosing patient conditions. However, incidental abnormal findings—those unrelated to the primary reason for the patient's visit—are often overlooked, potentially leading to missed opportunities for early diagnosis. This is a significant patient safety issue, as undiagnosed conditions,...Read more
2024 24 Jul
Sepsis is a global health issue with high mortality and morbidity rates among hospitalised patients. To enhance the quality of sepsis management, the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) developed an evidence-based bundle comprising five key elements to be implemented within the first hours of sepsis recognition. These elements include fluid resuscitation...Read more
2024 05 Jun
Expanding the role of pharmacists in treating minor illnesses could potentially save millions in healthcare costs, according to new research led by Washington State University. The findings suggest that increasing pharmacists' clinical services, including prescribing medications, can enhance healthcare access amid a shortage of primary care providers....Read more
2018 13 Sep
Patients over 70 who present to the emergency department with sepsis have a higher disease severity, and therefore different risk stratification is needed, says Bas De Groot, Leiden University Medical Centre. He presented his recommendations at the European Society of Emergency Medicine annual congress, which met in Glasgow this week. Their...Read more
2018 13 Sep
Sepsis is a common and costly condition encountered by pre-hospital and emergency department (ED) clinicians. Early antibiotics improve outcomes for septic patients. Researchers from Intermountain Medical Center in Utah led a study to investigate the relationship between septic patients’ pre-hospital level of care and ED door-to-antibiotic time. ...Read more
2018 22 Aug
A simple laboratory score provides a safer and faster way to diagnose patients who visit the emergency department with heart attack symptoms. Developed by an international research team, the score can also identify patients at risk of subsequent heart issues after discharge, according to a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). ...Read more
2017 29 Aug
In a new study, researchers examined the ability of the recently described quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score (qSOFA) to predict outcomes in blunt trauma patients presenting to the emergency department (ED). They found that qSOFA scores are directly associated with adverse outcomes in blunt trauma victims. The findings are published in...Read more
2017 15 May
The creation of a chest pain unit (CPU) network in Germany has improved the quality of diagnosis and treatment of patients with chest pain in the country, resulting in a better prognosis for patients with acute coronary syndrome compared with patients in the emergency department (ED), according to an article published by Journal of the American College...Read more