The American journal of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study
Impact of hypotension after return of spontaneous circulation on survival in patients of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
To investigate the relationship between hypotension in the first 3h after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. ⋯ Among the patients who experienced ROSC after OHCA, post-ROSC hypotension was an independent predictor of survival.
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Emergency department (ED) crowding is associated with patient safety concerns, increased patients left without being seen (LWBS), low patient satisfaction, and lost ED revenue. The objective was to measure the impact of a revised triage process on ED throughput. ⋯ The revised triage intervention was associated with improvements in several ED throughput metrics and a reduction in LWBS.