Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection continues to be an important public health problem worldwide. Despite the availability of drugs that promote the cure of infection in more than 95% of cases, the identification of HCV carriers remains a major challenge. To evaluate a strategy for identifying HCV carriers based on combined criteria: screening in eme...
Published in African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence
Despite children representing a significant proportion of Emergency Unit (EU) attendances globally, it is concerning that many healthcare facilities are inadequately equipped to deliver paediatric resuscitation. The rapid availability of a full range of paediatric emergency equipment is critical for delivery of effective, best-practice resuscitatio...
peer reviewed / The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is forcing healthcare systems around the word to organise care differently than before. Prompt detection and effective triage and isolation of potentially infected and infectious patients are essential to preventing unnecessary community exposure. Since there are as yet no med...
Published in L'Encephale
This retrospective study aimed to achieve a better understanding of risk factors leading children and adolescents hospitalized in an emergency psychiatric ward to return visits, and to propose preventive devices. From January 2, 2010 through February 29, 2012, 180 children and adolescents younger than 17 years were hospitalized in a total of 261 st...
Bakgrund, att handlägga smärta innebär att identifiera, bedöma och lindra smärta hos patienter och är en central del av arbetet för sjuksköterskan på akutmottagningen. Studiens syfte var att undersöka och beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter gällande handläggning av smärtlindring till patienter på akutmottagning. Författarna valde att göra en empi...
Introduction : les nombreuses fins de vie aux urgences et l’évolution de la loi française ont permis l’évolution des recommandations concernant la mise en place des limitations et arrêt des thérapeutiques (LAT) dans le contexte de l’urgence. Nous avons étudié quelles étaient les pratiques des médecins réanimateurs et urgentistes impliqués dans ces ...
INTRODUCTION: En France, le nombre de suicides et de tentatives de suicides (TS) augmente. Les patients suicidants sont pris en charge au sein d’un réseau de soins ambulatoire et dans l’urgence au sein de l’hôpital. Le médecin généraliste (MG), qui connaît le patient et son histoire devrait avoir un rôle non négligeable dans la prise en charge de c...
Published in Annals of Ibadan postgraduate medicine
Medical literature has demonstrated that referral hospitals often receive inadequate information about the care and medications their patients received from referring hospitals. This study aimed to assess the completeness of referral letters, especially the medication history, for patient presenting at the children emergency room of a teaching hosp...
Published in BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundThe emergency department has been identified as an area within the health care sector with the highest reports of violence. The best way to control violence is to prevent it before it becomes an issue. Ideally, to prevent violent episodes we should eliminate all triggers of frustration and violence. Our study aims to assess the impact of ...
Published in European Journal of Pediatrics
In June 2009, the first influenza pandemic of the twenty-first century, due to the swine origin influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus, was declared. This study aimed to describe the epidemiological and clinical features, complications, lethality and risk factors for hospital admission of microbiologically confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1) 2009 infectio...
