https://medicalresearch.be/index.php/jem <p>Journal of Emergency Medicine</p> <p>Physicians specializing in emergency medicine provide care for adult and pediatric patients in emergency situations. These specialists provide immediate decision making and action to save lives and prevent further injury. They help patients in the pre-hospital setting by directing emergency medical technicians and assisting patients once they arrive in the emergency department.<br /><br />Emergency medicine is also home to several subspecialties, including the following:<br /><br />• Anesthesiology critical care medicine<br />• Emergency medical services<br />• Hospice and palliative medicine<br />• Internal medicine / Critical care medicine<br />• Medical toxicology<br />• Pain medicine<br />• Pediatric emergency medicine<br />• Sports medicine<br />• Undersea and hyperbaric medicine</p> en-US Journal of Emergency Medicine https://medicalresearch.be/index.php/jem/article/view/54 <p>This was a cohort study using the registry data for survivors after out-of hospital cardiac arrest in the Kanto region at 2012 in Japan (SOS-KANTO 2012). Survivors who received advanced airway management (AAM) group and a BVM group were compared for confirmed cardiac output on EMS arrival and neurolgical outcome at 1 month. Favourable neurological outcome was defined as a score of one or two on the Cerebral Performance Categories Scale. Multivariable logistic regression was used to adjust the neurological outcome by age, gender, cardiac a etiology, during the study period, 1070 patients met the study criteria, among whom 199 (18.60%) belonged to the ROSC group. Five factors were eligible for multivariate logistic regression analysis for predicting ROSC. Accordingly, only adrenaline administration was independently and negatively associated with ROSC with an adjusted odds ratio of 0.722 (95% confidence interval: 0.522, 0.997) and a Hosmer–Lemeshow Chi-square of 5.84 (P = 0.665).</p> Travis green* Copyright (c) 2022 2022-01-28 2022-01-28 1 01 https://medicalresearch.be/index.php/jem/article/view/55 <p>Overutilization of the Accident and Emergency Department is study aimed to assess the triage accuracy of online symptom checkers, which would help determine the potential roles of symptom checkers in an Accident and Emergency Department setting. The research was conducted via web survey with the ambulance staff. The sampling size was 143 ambulance workers who participate in this study. A 30-item questionnaire and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were used to collect data. This study aimed to assess the pattern of use of EDs, factors contributing to the visits, geographical distribution and outcomes in people aged 65 years or older to a large hospital in Dublin. Health planning at a regional level should account for the significant number of older patients attending EDs. The use of GIS for health planning in particular can assist hospitals to improve their understanding of the origin of the cohort of older ED patients.</p> Michael Crawley* Copyright (c) 2022 2022-02-04 2022-02-04 1 01