Articles: emergency-department.
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Observational Study
Adverse Drug Event Nonrecognition in Emergency Departments: An Exploratory Study on Factors Related to Patients and Drugs.
Many adverse drug events (ADEs) are not identified by emergency physicians. Research has been done to study risk factors for ADEs and help emergency physicians diagnose ADEs. However, no research has specifically examined the causes underlying a lack of attribution of ADEs to medications in emergency department (ED) patients. ⋯ Our results emphasize the importance of searching for ADEs in patients with daily polypharmacy or whose chief complaint does not seem to be drug related.
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Geriatric problems frequently go undetected in older patients in emergency departments (EDs), thus increasing their risk of adverse outcomes. We evaluated a novel emergency geriatric screening (EGS) tool designed to detect geriatric problems. ⋯ The novel EGS is feasible, identifies previously undetected geriatric problems, and predicts determinants of subsequent care.
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Noninvasive regional cerebral oxygen saturation for neurological prognostication of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A prospective multicenter observational study.
To investigate the association between regional brain oxygen saturation (rSO2) at hospital arrival and neurological outcomes at 90 days in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). ⋯ The rSO2 at hospital arrival can predict good neurological outcome at 90 days after OHCA.