The American journal of emergency medicine
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Review Meta Analysis
Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients with admission hyperglycemia and diabetes after mechanical thrombectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) is a severe complication of revascularization therapy. We aimed to investigate the association of admission hyperglycemia and sICH after mechanical thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke. ⋯ In patients of acute ischemic stroke treated with mechanical thrombectomy, the risk of sICH was associated with admission hyperglycemia but possibly not with a history of diabetes.
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Unscheduled Care Access in the United States-A Tale of Two Emergency Departments.
Rural communities face challenges in accessing healthcare services due to physician shortages and limited unscheduled care capabilities in office settings. As a result, rural hospital-based Emergency Departments (ED) may disproportionately provide acute, unscheduled care needs. We sought to examine differences in ED utilization and the relative role of the ED in providing access to unscheduled care between rural and urban communities. ⋯ The use and role of EDs by Medicare beneficiaries appears to be substantially different between urban and rural areas. This suggests that the ED may play a distinct role within the healthcare delivery system of rural communities that face disproportionate barriers to care access.