Acute medicine & surgery
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Acute medicine & surgery · Jan 2021
Comparison of Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores in predicting bacteremia in the emergency department.
The emergency department requires simple and useful clinical indicators to identify bacteremia. This retrospective study explored the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) and quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) scores for predicting bacteremia. ⋯ The SIRS score was a more sensitive indicator than the qSOFA score for predicting bacteremia.
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Acute medicine & surgery · Jan 2021
Emergency abdominal surgeries remain unchanged in the COVID-19 affected environment: A single-center experience at a community hospital in Japan.
This study assessed whether emergency abdominal surgeries were changed in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-affected environment at a community hospital in Japan, with the goal of planning and preparing hospital resources against the further spread of COVID-19. ⋯ Although the situation of the pandemic was different between countries and regions, the number of emergency surgeries in our hospital remained unchanged, and those patients visited the emergency room no later than usual.