Emergencias
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Identifying risk for status epilepticus with the ADAN scale: a prospective multicenter validation study.
Status epilepticus (SE) is a serious event associated with high mortality. This study aims to validate the recently developed ADAN (Abnormal speech, ocular Deviation, Automatisms, and Number of motor epileptic seizures) scale for detecting high risk for SE. ⋯ The ADAN scale is a prospectively validated, simple clinical tool for identifying patients in the ED who are at high risk for SE.
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Observational Study
Differences in toxicology reports and hospital emergency care for patients suspected of experiencing drug-facilitated crimes: an analysis according to gender.
To analyze gender-related differences in patient and care characteristics and in toxicology findings in suspected cases of drug facilitated crime (DFC). ⋯ The majority of victims of DFCs were female, and the crimes were mixed, involving involve alcohol, psychopharmaceuticals or street drugs. Female victims were more likely to be under the age of 25 years, be referred to the emergency service by a physician, be attended by a forensic physician for sexual assault, and have an alcoholpositive toxicology report. Women were also less likely to report a robbery or have a toxicology report identifying drugs or an unknown substance.
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To determine survival to discharge and neurological outcomes on long-term follow-up of pediatric patients attended for out of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). ⋯ In spite of the low incidence of shockable rhythm in pediatric OHCA, survival with a good neurological outcome is comparable to survival in adults. Children who are discharged after OHCA maintained or improved their neurological function over the long term.