Articles: hospital-emergency-service.
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Emerg Med Australas · Jun 2022
Observational StudyEmergency intubation practices in a tertiary teaching hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia: A prospective observational study.
Intubation is an important competency for emergency doctors. Emergency patients are often unstable, with undifferentiated conditions. There is little time to prepare these patients prior to intubation and so ED intubation may differ from intubation in intensive care units and operating theatres. The present study aims to describe the characteristics of emergency intubation after an administrative policy change within a tertiary teaching hospital in Jakarta, allowing non-anaesthetists to perform intubation in the ED. ⋯ The first-pass success rate is comparable with international data. Non-anaesthetic physicians must improve their experience to achieve a favourable success rate. The data on complications highlight the need for improvement in Indonesian ED intubation practices.
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Observational Study
Model to predict risk for hospital admission and indicate the safety of reverse triage in a hospital emergency department: a prospective validation study.
To prospectively validate a model to predict hospital admission of patients given a low-priority classification on emergency department triage and to indicate the safety of reverse triage. ⋯ The validated model is able to identify risk for hospitalization among patients classified as low priority on triage. Patients identified as having high risk of hospitalization could be offered preferential treatment within the same level of priority at triage, while those at low risk of admission could be referred to a more appropriate care level on reverse triage.