Search Tag: emergency medicine
2018 10 Sep
Today, at the 12th European Congress of Emergency Medicine in Glasgow, data from the TRIAGE III study were presented, evidencing that use of suPARnostic® Quick Triage shortened patients’ stay at emergency departments by 6.5 hours and allowed a significantly higher proportion of patients to be discharged within 24 hours. The study measured the effect...Read more
2018 01 Jun
What happens before patients arrive in the ICU? We know that status pre-ICU is associated with outcomes after patients leave the ICU. We also know that we want patients to come to the ICU only if it is needed. This ties in to having an adequate emergency medicine system and innovative techniques in trauma as well as monitoring hospital patients...Read more
2018 01 Jun
Presents the main principles of the Norwegian acute healthcare system. Norway is a rather small country with a population of about 5.3 million. More than half of these inhabitants are located in and around the larger cities, with about a million in the capital region of Oslo. Hence, significant parts of the country are rural, with fjords...Read more
2018 01 Jun
The ongoing economic crisis in Greece and inflow of refugees has led to changes to the pre-hospital emergency medicine services. Greece is a country of 10.1 million inhabitants, half of whom live in six cities: Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Patra, Larissa and Ioannina. In recent years the country drew media attention because of the financial...Read more
2018 24 Feb
Welcome to the Best Ski CME in Emergency Medicine! Relax, Escape, Enjoy... Find Rocky Mountain Winter EM Conference on Social Media Read more
2017 29 Jul
Point-of-care ultrasound is used on a daily basis to help assess and treat patients attending the emergency department London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital relies on point-of-care ultrasound to help assess and treat patients in its emergency department. EMED consultant Dr Parmy Deol explained: “The emergency department uses ultrasound...Read more
2017 16 Jun
Point-of-care ultrasound is helping clinicians at the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre to assess a wide range of patients Point-of-care (POC) ultrasound is now commonly used in emergency departments throughout the UK. These instruments provide valuable insight for the assessment of both trauma and non-trauma patients, as well as...Read more
2017 05 Jun
At the Euroanaesthesia Congress in Geneva this year, experts discussed the unusual and challenging problem of performing emergency medical procedures during space missions. Dr Matthieu Komorowski, Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK explains that there are missions planned to the Moon and Mars in the coming...Read more
2017 29 May
Point-of-care ultrasound plays an important role in the emergency sector, enabling hospital clinicians and paramedics responding to an urgent call for medical assistance to assess a patient’s condition. Dr Matthew Reed, an Emergency Medicine consultant at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, explained how ultrasound contributes to the management of...Read more
2017 11 Feb
1. Search for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Drowning Victims Using a drone to locate submerged drowning victims could save time by transmitting aerial video of the search area to a tablet. A simulated study from Scandinavia (Claesson et al. 2017), of 20 searches for a manikin using a drone compared to a search party of lifesavers alone, found...Read more
2017 22 Mar
SWESEM is the Swedish Society for Emergency Medicine, the national association for Swedish Emergency Physicians. We are happy to see Emergency Medicine become a primary specialty in Sweden 2015. Find SWESEM on Social Media Read more