Search Tag: emergency department

ICU Management

Eusem18-sepsis-in-the-over-70s-presents-differently

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

ICU Management

Improving-antibiotic-initiation-for-sepsis-pre-hospital

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

ICU Management

Qsofa-in-blunt-trauma-victims-risk-assessment

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