BACKGROUND:In patients with chest pain who arrive at the emergency department(ED)by ambulance,venous access is frequently established prehospital,and could be utilized to sample blood.Prehospital blood sampling may sa...
BACKGROUND In developed countries,the economic feasibility of using ultrasound in ambulances before arriving at the hospital has been achieved through comprehensive studies,and this of course does not apply to Arab co...
BACKGROUND: Communication failure in prehospital emergency medicine can affect patient safety as it does in other areas of medicine as well. We analyzed the database of the critical incident reporting system for preho...
BACKGROUND: Point-of-care ultrasound(US) is a proven diagnostic imaging tool in the emergency department(ED). Modern US devices are now more compact, affordable and portable, which has led to increased usage in auster...
To the Editor:Airway management is a crucial skill for emergency physician, who's often called to deal with difficult airways and requests for quick, simple and effective responses, as the many factors responsible f...
AIM:To evaluate the performance of the specific French Vittel "Pre-Hospital(PH) resuscitation" criteria in selecting polytrauma patients during the pre-hospital stage and its potential to increase the positive predict...
BACKGROUND: Epinephrine is recommended in advanced cardiac life support guidelines for use in adult cardiac arrest, and has been used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation since 1896. Yet, despite its long time use and in...