Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Dec 2022
Evaluating Stroke Code Activation Pathway in Emergency Departments study.
To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of Code Stroke activations in an ED and determine predictors of a final diagnosis of stroke or transient ischemic attack (TIA) diagnosis. ⋯ In a cohort of patients requiring Code Stroke activation in an ED, increased age, systolic blood pressure and weakness and speech impairment increased the risk of stroke. Prehospital notification was associated with lower door to needle times for patients undergoing thrombolysis.
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Emerg Med Australas · Dec 2022
Emergency Department adult presentations from the COVID-19 hotel quarantine program in Victoria, Australia: a retrospective cohort study of admissions and presenting complaints.
The present study aims to describe presentations to the designated ED from the Victorian COVID-19 hotel quarantine program. ⋯ The study demonstrates that the number of ED presentations from quarantine was low (<1 presentation/day). COVID Quarantine Victoria and Alfred Health put significant resources into the program to allow most returned international travellers to be safely cared for within a hotel and thus reduce the burden on the public hospital system.
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Emerg Med Australas · Dec 2022
Clean the skin: Reducing blood culture contamination in the emergency department.
To determine whether blood culture contamination (BCC) rates could be decreased in the ED by an educational programme. ⋯ This educational intervention focusing on skin clean time did not significantly decrease BCC rates in a setting of an already low (<3%) BCC rate.