Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is one of the most common trauma-related diagnoses treated in emergency departments, especially among the geriatric population. Higher age alone is often an indication for a computed tomography (CT) scan, even when,…
In Sweden with about 10 million inhabitants, there are about one million primary ambulance missions every year. Among them, around 10% are assessed by Emergency Medical Service (EMS) clinicians with the primary symptom of dyspnoea. The risk of death…
This study evaluates the potential use of ChatGPT in aiding clinical decision-making for patients with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) by assessing the quality of responses it generates for clinical care.
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening condition requiring rapid risk stratification for optimal management. The Pulmonary Embolism Advanced Cardiac Evaluation (PEACE) Score is a novel tool integrating clinical, laboratory, and…
Despite advances in trauma care, traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) shows significantly poorer outcomes compared to non-traumatic cardiac arrest, with mortality rates exceeding 96%. However, no standardized protocol exists for appropriate cardiopulmonary…
Disasters are becoming more frequent globally. In the past years, Saudi Arabia has been exposed to various disasters. Public awareness of disasters and disaster preparedness/response are deemed important to reduce risks, injury, or even death from…
Healthcare improvement at all levels involves systematic and continuous assessment of the system’s operations, efficiency, and effectiveness to ensure quality care. Likewise, in Emergency Medical Services; performance measurement and root cause…
Successful recruitment of study participants is a challenging component of research, and recruitment barriers are amplified in safety-net hospital (SNH) settings. However, engaging historically underrepresented groups in research is critically…
Cardiopulmonary arrest is one of the most important emergency situations in hospitals. Although cardiopulmonary resuscitation has long been the first step in these conditions, the low success rate of this process is still a major concern in treatment…
The capillary refill test is widely used in pediatric emergency medicine and critical care although its validity and reliability are debated. Naked eye estimation is the recommended method for capillary refill time (CR time) assessment. The goal of…