Rocco, Nicola Montagna, Giacomo Di Micco, Rosa Benson, John Criscitiello, Carmen Chen, Li Di Pace, Bruno Esgueva Colmenarejo, Antonio Jesus Harder, Yves Karakatsanis, Andreas
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The oncologist
The rapid spread of COVID-19 across the globe is forcing surgical oncologists to change their daily practice. We sought to evaluate how breast surgeons are adapting their surgical activity to limit viral spread and spare hospital resources. A panel of 12 breast surgeons from the most affected regions of the world convened a virtual meeting on April...
Fiest, Kirsten M. Krewulak, Karla D. Plotnikoff, Kara M. Kemp, Laryssa G. Parhar, Ken Kuljit S. Niven, Daniel J. Kortbeek, John B. Stelfox, Henry T. Parsons Leigh, Jeanna
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BMC Medicine
BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has placed sustained demand on health systems globally, and the capacity to provide critical care has been overwhelmed in some jurisdictions. It is unknown which triage criteria for allocation of resources perform best to inform health system decision-making. We sought to summarize and describe existing triage tools ...
Schmid, Bonaventura Feuerstein, Doreen Lang, Corinna N. Fink, Katrin Steger, Rebecca Rieder, Marina Duerschmied, Daniel Busch, Hans-Jörg Damjanovic, Domagoj
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BMC Emergency Medicine
BackgroundTypical lung ultrasound (LUS) findings in patients with a COVID-19 infection were reported early on. During the global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, LUS was propagated as a useful instrument in triage and monitoring. We evaluated LUS as a rapid diagnostic triage tool for the management of patients with suspected COVID-19 in the emergency departmen...
Tsui, Eva L. H. Lui, Carrie S. M. Woo, Pauline P. S. Cheung, Alan T. L. Lam, Peggo K. W. Tang, Van T. W. Yiu, C. F. Wan, C. H. Lee, Libby H. Y.
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
BackgroundThis is the first study on prognostication in an entire cohort of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients in the city of Hong Kong. Prognostic tool is essential in the contingency response for the next wave of outbreak. This study aims to develop prognostic models to predict COVID-19 patients’ clinical outcome on day 1 and day 5 of hospita...
Asmar, Samer Zeeshan, Muhammad Khurrum, Muhammad Con, Jorge Chehab, Mohamad Bible, Letitia Latifi, Rifat Joseph, Bellal
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The Journal of surgical research
Changes in the shock index (ΔSI) can be a predictive tool but is not established among pediatric trauma patients. The aim of our study was to assess the impact of ΔSI on mortality in pediatric trauma patients. We performed a 2017 analysis of all pediatric trauma patients (age 0-16 y) from the ACS-TQIP. SI was defined as heart rate(HR)/systolic bloo...
Hu, Fen Yang, Jian Yang, Bing Xiang Zhang, Feng-Jiang Yu, Si-Hong Liu, Qian Wang, Ai-Ling Luo, Dan Zhu, Xiao-Ping Chen, Jie
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Nurse education in practice
Few studies have comprehensively examined the effectiveness of simulation-based triage education on clinical reasoning of nursing students. This study evaluated the impact of a simulation-based triage exercise on nursing students' self-reported clinical reasoning ability. Three cohorts of third-year nursing students were divided into intervention g...
Lancaster, Elizabeth M Wu, Bian Iannuzzi, James Oskowitz, Adam Gasper, Warren Vartanian, Shant Wick, Elizabeth Hiramoto, Jade Eichler, Charles Lobo, Errol
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With the aggressive resource conservation necessary to face the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, vascular surgeons have faced unique challenges in managing the health of their high-risk patients. An early analysis of patient outcomes after pandemic-related practice changes suggested that patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia have been p...
Marckmann, Georg Neitzke, Gerald Schildmann, Jan Michalsen, Andrej Dutzmann, Jochen Hartog, Christiane Jöbges, Susanne Knochel, Kathrin Michels, Guido Pin, Martin
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Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin
Angesichts der beginnenden COVID-19-Pandemie haben die deutschen Krankenhäuser ihre intensivmedizinischen Kapazitäten erhöht. Trotz optimaler Nutzung erscheint es möglich, dass die intensivmedizinischen Ressourcen nicht mehr für alle Patienten ausreichen, die ihrer bedürfen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden von einer multidisziplinären Autorengruppe u...
Seker, Fatih Bonekamp, Susanne Rode, Susanne Hyrenbach, Sonja Bendszus, Martin Möhlenbruch, Markus A
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Clinical neuroradiology
This study aimed at comparing short-term clinical outcome after thrombectomy in patients directly admitted (DA) to a comprehensive stroke center with patients secondarily transferred (ST) from a primary stroke center. In a prospective regional stroke registry, all stroke patients with a premorbid modified Rankin scale (mRS) score 0-2 who were admit...
Azoulay, Élie Beloucif, Sadek Guidet, Bertrand Pateron, Dominique Vivien, Benoît Le Dorze, Matthieu
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Critical Care
SARS-CoV-2 has caused a global pandemic unprecedented in size, spread, severity, and mortality. The influx of patients with severe or life-threatening disease means that in some cases, the available medical resources are not sufficient to meet the needs of all patients. Hence, healthcare providers may be forced to make difficult choices about which...
