The American journal of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Evaluating community ED crowding: the Community ED Overcrowding Scale study.
The goals of this study were to (1) identify valid variables that correlate with emergency department (ED) crowding and (2) determine a model that could be used to accurately reflect the degree of ED crowding. ⋯ Five variables were highly correlated with community ED crowding and could be used to model the full set of all variables in explaining ED crowding.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest caused by self-inflicted intoxication: a multicenter retrospective cohort study.
The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology and outcomes of patients with therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) caused by self-inflicted intoxication. ⋯ Patients with OHCA caused by self-inflicted intoxication represented 2.6% of all OHCA patients. They showed a high rate of unwitnessed cardiac arrest and a very low rate of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Pesticides were the main cause of cardiac arrest, and these cases had a very high discharge to survival rate.