The American journal of emergency medicine
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To determine the association between emergency department point-of-care cardiac ultrasonography (POCUS) utilization and time to pericardial effusion drainage during an 8-year period when the emergency ultrasound program was established at our institution. ⋯ POCUS was associated with an earlier time to intervention for pericardial effusions after adjustment for multiple confounding factors. Failure to diagnose pericardial effusion in the ED using any diagnostic testing including POCUS, was associated with increased 28-day mortality.
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Identifying which patients with COVİD-19 have a high risk of severe illness is essential to optimizing management and resource utilization strategies. ⋯ In this external validation of the Covichem score, we found that it performed worse than in the original derivation and validation study, even with the assistance of a new cutoff.