Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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The Emergency Severity Index (ESI) is a new five-level triage instrument. The objective of this study was to determine whether there is an association between ESI triage status and short-term survival. ⋯ The ESI triage status is associated with six-month survival. Patients with the highest three triage groups experienced decreased survival during the follow-up period, whereas all patients in the two lowest triage strata survived at least six months.
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To determine whether warm lavage liquid ventilation (LV) would provide rapid cardiopulmonary rewarming in swine with severe hypothermia and ventricular fibrillation. ⋯ During cardiac arrest, warm lavage liquid ventilation may produce rapid cardiopulmonary rewarming.