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Background: Nurses make complex triage decisions within emergency departments, which significantly affect
patient outcomes. Understanding how nurses make these decisions and why they deviate from triage algorithms
facilitates interventions that…

Background: Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a rare inherited illness characterised by recurrent swellings. Four
percent of HAE attacks are life threatening throat swellings requiring urgent medical intervention. The aim of
this study was to gain an…

Background: Across a range of fields, including healthcare, heuristics are typically conceived as a source of bias and systematic error. However, research across the
psychological and management sciences shows that intuition and heuristics are also…

Introduction: Leadership during major incidents has been described as challenging and dependent on the nontechnical skills of leaders. The complex tunnel environment contributes to an even more challenging incident
response. Hence, this study aims…

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…

Overcrowding in emergency departments (ED) is a major public health issue, leading to increased workload and exhaustion for the teams, resulting poor outcomes. It seems interesting to be able to predict the admissions of patients in the ED.

The use of emergency tourniquets among military personnel has helped to dramatically reduce battlefield deaths and has recently gained popularity in the civilian sector. Yet, even well-trained individuals can find it difficult to assess proper…

The ongoing opioid epidemic in the United States has reinforced the need to provide multimodal and non-opioid pain management interventions. The PAMI-ED ALT program employed a multifaceted approach in the Emergency Department (ED) developing…