Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Comparative Study
A risk scoring system to identify emergency department patients with heart failure at high risk for serious adverse events.
There are no validated guidelines to guide physicians with difficult disposition decisions for emergency department (ED) patients with heart failure (HF). The authors sought to develop a risk scoring system to identify HF patients at high risk for serious adverse events (SAEs). ⋯ Many HF patients are discharged home from the ED and then suffer SAEs or death. The authors have developed an accurate risk scoring system that could ultimately be used to stratify the risk of poor outcomes and to enable rational and safe disposition decisions.
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The goal of this study was to determine the association of first pass success with the incidence of adverse events (AEs) during emergency department (ED) intubations. ⋯ When performing orotracheal intubation in the ED, first pass success is associated with a relatively small incidence of AEs. As the number of attempts increases, the incidence of AEs increases substantially.
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Editorial Historical Article
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of Academic Emergency Medicine.