Tag: Emergencies / First Aid

Authors say greater adoption of fall assessments and prevention strategies needed

Use of sedatives, physical restraints varied by patient and EMS system characteristics

From 2012 to 2021, emergency department visit rates increased from 48.6 to 74.8 visits per 1,000 adults

Trip killers were mainly discussed in reference to LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine

SDOH needs more likely in emergency department encounters, despite significantly lower screening rates in emergency department versus primary care

Black patients less likely to receive tissue plasminogen activator and endovascular thrombectomy than White patients

In unadjusted analyses, Black and Hispanic patients have increased odds of emergency department discharge against medical advice

Study models costs of telemedicine intervention to ambulance transfers

Some disparities seen in injury, treatment, and outcomes based on neighborhood opportunity scores

65.1 percent of the injured subjects were female, and about 68 percent were younger than 10 years