item: #1 of 640 id: aaem-1 author: Shojaei, Majid; Sabzeghabaei, Anita; Valaei Barhagh, Helia; Soltani, Soheil title: The Correlation between Serum Level of Vitamin D and Outcome of Sepsis Patients; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2019-01-11 words: 3813 flesch: 59 summary: Abstract: Introduction: The effect of vitamin D deficiency in manifestation of sepsis and its role as an important mediator in the immune system has received attention. By considering 20 – 50 ng/ml as the normal range of vitamin D, 61.6% of the patients had vitamin D deficiency. keywords: access; age; article; attribution; blood; care; commons; correlation; creative; data; day; deficiency; department; emergency; failure; findings; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; ill; increase; infection; iran; journal; level; license; mean; medicine; mortality; noncommercial; older; open; outcome; patients; present; prevalence; probability; results; risk; sepsis; sepsis patients; serum; serum level; significant; studies; study; terms; vitamin; vitamin d cache: aaem-1.pdf plain text: aaem-1.txt item: #2 of 640 id: aaem-10 author: Amini, Afshin; Eghtesadi, Razieh; Feizi, Ali Mohammad; Mansouri, Behnam; Kariman, Hamid; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Kabir, Ali title: Sonographic Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter as a Screening Tool for Detection of Elevated Intracranial Pressure date: 2018-11-13 words: 3342 flesch: 59 summary: Intracranial pressure, ICU: Intensive care unit, OND: Optic nerve diameter, ONSD: Optic nerve sheath diameter, mm: Millimeter; SD: Standard deviation This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Akhavan Malayeri A, Bavarian S, Mehdizadeh M. Sonograph- ic evaluation of optic nerve diameter in children with raised intracranial pressure. keywords: accident; age; bct; beheshti; brain; care; cases; cerebrovascular; children; cut; department; detection; diagnostic; diameter; eicp; elevated; emergency; findings; gcs; head; injury; intracranial; mean; measurement; med; medical; negative; nerve; onsd; optic; optic nerve; patients; positive; pressure; results; scan; sciences; sensitivity; shahid; sheath; sonographic; specificity; studies; study; trauma; ultrasonography; university; value; years cache: aaem-10.pdf plain text: aaem-10.txt item: #3 of 640 id: aaem-100 author: Pajoumand, Abdolkarim; Fahim, Farshid; Akhlaghdoust, Meisam; Zamani, Nasim; Amirfirooz, Zeinab; Dehdehasti, Mahnaz title: Rhabdomyolysis and Acute Poisoning; a Brief Report date: 2018-08-18 words: 2803 flesch: 62 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the association of serum CPK level in the first 24 hours with outcomes of poisoned patients. There was no significant correlation between serum CPK level and cause of poisoning (r= 0.16; p=0.51), age (r = -0.021; p = 0.651), sex (r = 0.131; p = 0.281), seizure (r = -0.022; p = 0.193), level of consciences (r = -0.138; p = 0.167), and duration of hospital stay (r= 0.242, p = 0.437). keywords: acute; admission; age; aki; cases; cause; center; correlation; cpk; cpk level; creatine; data; dialysis; higher; hospital; icu; injury; iran; kidney; level; mean; medical; mortality; need; outcomes; patients; phosphokinase; poisoning; research; rhabdomyolysis; sciences; seizure; serum; serum cpk; significant; study; tehran; toxicology; university cache: aaem-100.pdf plain text: aaem-100.txt item: #4 of 640 id: aaem-1004 author: Sharifi, Mehrdad; Asadi-Pooya, Ali Akbar; Mousavi-Roknabadi, Razieh Sadat title: Burnout among Healthcare Providers of COVID-19; a Systematic Review of Epidemiology and Recommendations : Burnout in healthcare providers date: 2021-02-10 words: 9788 flesch: 52 summary: A better level of knowledge of COVID-19 o Having confirmed or suspected medical staff with infection around • For cynicism: o Intermediate tile o Personnel agency o Working in isolation ward o Living in hospital dormitory o 3 or more night shifts weekly o A level of knowledge of COVID-19 o Having confirmed or suspected medical staff with infection around • For personal accomplishment: keywords: 2020; academic; access; anxiety; archives; article; attribution; author; burnout; care; central; clinical; commons; communication; control; coronavirus; counseling; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; covid-19 wards; creative; cross; data; depersonalization; depression; digital; disorder; doi; effective; electronic; emergency; emotional; environment; epidemiology; epub; evidence; exhaustion; factors; family; fatigue; findings; frontline; group; guidelines; hcps; health; healthcare; higher; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; iii; increase; infection; information; interventions; job; lack; levels; license; main; management; measures; medical; medicine; mental; mental health; meta; methods; mindfulness; noncommercial; nurses; open; organizational; pandemic; participants; patients; personal; physical; physicians; pmid; ppe; program; providers; psychological; pubmed; recommendations; related; residents; resilience; resources; review; safety; sciences; sectional; self; services; sharifi; shiraz; skills; sleep; social; staff; strategies; stress; stressors; studies; study; support; symptoms; systematic; table; terms; time; training; university; use; wards; work; working; workload; workplace cache: aaem-1004.pdf plain text: aaem-1004.txt item: #5 of 640 id: aaem-101 author: Amini, Afshin; arhami, ali; Kariman, Hamid; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Memary, Elham; Salimi, Sohrab; Shokrzadeh, Shahram title: Low-Dose Fentanyl, Propofol, Midazolam, Ketamine and Lidocaine Combination vs. Regular Dose Propofol and Fentanyl Combination for Deep Sedation Induction; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-10-16 words: 3180 flesch: 55 summary: Recovery time was a little longer in this group and both groups were similar regarding drug side effects and effect on vital signs. Using low-dose drugs can prevent manifestation of drug side effects. keywords: analgesia; article; blood; clinical; combination; comparison; data; deep; department; deviation; dose; drug; effects; emergency; fentanyl; group; induction; ketamine; lidocaine; low; mean; medical; midazolam; onset; patients; pediatric; pressure; propofol; psa; rate; recovery; regular; satisfaction; saturation; sedation; shahid; signs; standard; study; time; trial; vital cache: aaem-101.pdf plain text: aaem-101.txt item: #6 of 640 id: aaem-1014 author: Nojima, Tsuyoshi; Naito, Hiromichi; Obara, Takafumi; Tsukahara, Kohei; Nakao, Atsunori title: Plastic Bronchitis in a Five-Year-Old Boy Treated Using Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; a Case Report date: 2021-01-27 words: 2158 flesch: 48 summary: Abstract: Plastic bronchitis is an uncommon disorder marked by the production of bronchial casts and acute respiratory failure development. If patients infected with the influenza virus present acute respira- tory distress with total lung atelectasis, clinicians should consider the diagnosis of plastic bronchitis and the subsequent treatment interventions with ECMO in a severe cases. keywords: acute; article; blood; boy; bronchial; bronchitis; bronchoscopy; case; casts; chest; day; distress; ecmo; emergency; extracorporeal; failure; fibrin; figure; infection; influenza; lung; medicine; membrane; okayama; old; oxygenation; patients; plastic; pressure; report; respiratory; right; treatment; vein; venous; virus; year cache: aaem-1014.pdf plain text: aaem-1014.txt item: #7 of 640 id: aaem-102 author: Ghiyasvandian, Shahrzad; Khazaei, Afshin; Zakerimoghadam, Masoumeh; Salimi, Rasoul; Afshari, Ali; Mogimbeigi, Abbas title: Evaluation of Airway Management Proficiency in Pre-Hospital Emergency Setting; a Simulation Study date: 2018-07-02 words: 6661 flesch: 57 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Infrequency and low exposure to critically ill patients requiring airway management will lead to reduction in the skills and performance of the Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) over time. The present study was conducted primarily aiming to evaluate airway management in stationary ambulance simulations and identify the factors affecting Endotracheal Intubation (ETI) success rate. keywords: access; airway; airway management; ambulance; article; attempts; attribution; backup; backup airway; bag; bvm; care; checklist; co2; commons; cords; correct; creative; cuff; department; emergency; emts; endotracheal; eti; etis; ett; experience; factors; ghiyasvandian; hamadan; hospital; intubation; iran; journal; laryngeal; laryngoscope; license; management; mask; medical; medicine; methods; noncommercial; number; nursing; open; participants; patient; performance; placement; prehosp; previous; proficiency; rate; results; resuscitation; scenario; sciences; section; simulation; skills; stage; standard; status; study; success; success rate; successful; table; technicians; technique; tehran; terms; tidal; training; tube; university; valve; variables; ventilation; work; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-102.pdf plain text: aaem-102.txt item: #8 of 640 id: aaem-103 author: Shojaee, Majid; Sabzghabaei, Anita; Alimohammadi, Hossein; Derakhshanfar, Hojjat; Amini, Afshin; Esmailzadeh, Bahareh title: Effect of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure on Central Venous Pressure in Patients under Mechanical Ventilation date: 2017-01-08 words: 3004 flesch: 61 summary: 5 cmH2O increase in PEEP led to 2.47 ± 1.53 mean difference in CVP level. It seems that sex, history of cardiac failure, baseline CVP level, and hypertension do not have a significant effect in this regard. keywords: access; article; baseline; cardiac; central; cmh2o; cvp; different; effect; emergency; end; expiratory; failure; icu; increase; level; limitations; mean; mechanical; patients; peep; positive; present; pressure; raise; relationship; sciences; study; table; venous; ventilation; volume; zhongguo cache: aaem-103.pdf plain text: aaem-103.txt item: #9 of 640 id: aaem-104 author: Shahrami, Ali; Nazemi-Rafi, Masoomeh; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Amini, Afshin; Haji Aghajani, Mahammad title: Impact of Education on Trauma Patients Handover Quality; a Before-After Trial date: 2019-01-28 words: 3199 flesch: 57 summary: Intervention After the first phase (evaluation of patient handover be- fore education and checklist application) and during the weekly conference, the correct ways of handover process were taught to the same residents. Methods: In this before-after trial, handover process of trauma patients in an educational hospital was evaluated before and after education and application of a handover checklist, abbreviated as “WHO MISSED IP?”, using a questionnaire that consisted of 10 necessary items, which should be delivered during handover of trauma pa- tients. keywords: application; article; care; checklist; complete; data; department; duration; education; emergency; findings; handover; hospital; information; intervention; iran; items; medical; medicine; methods; nazemi; night; patients; period; post; pre; process; quality; rafi; residents; results; sciences; score; shahid; shahrami; shift; significant; study; transmission; trauma; trauma patients; university cache: aaem-104.pdf plain text: aaem-104.txt item: #10 of 640 id: aaem-1045 author: Cheah, Phee Kheng; Ongkili, Darlene F. ; Zaharuddin, Fatin Salwani; Hashim, Muammar Iqbal; Ho, Chiak Vun; Lee, Heng Gee; Cheah, Phaik Kin title: Discrepancy in Screening Performances of Different Rapid Test Kits for SARS-CoV-2; a Letter to Editor date: 2021-02-14 words: 1807 flesch: 53 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2021; 9(1): e9 Table 1: Results of three different rapid test kits (RTKs) of COVID-19 on 23 confirmed patients via Rt-PCR Age Gender Presentation PCR-RTK Time Gap RTK1 RTK2 RTK3 IgM IgM IgM IgM IgM IgM 52 Male Symptomatic exposure 13 Negative Negative Negative POSITIVE 25 Female Asymptomatic close contact 15 Negative Negative Negative Negative 26 Female Asymptomatic exposure 15 Negative Negative Negative POSITIVE 47 Female Asymptomatic exposure 15 Negative Negative Negative Negative 43 Female Symptomatic exposure 15 Negative Negative Negative POSITIVE keywords: asymptomatic; close; contact; covid-19; emergency; exposure; female; gap; health; igg; igm; kinabalu; kota; malaysia; negative; negative negative; negative positive; patients; pcr; positive; results; rtk; rtk1; rtk2; rtk3; rtks; sabah; study; test; time cache: aaem-1045.pdf plain text: aaem-1045.txt item: #11 of 640 id: aaem-105 author: Delavar Kasmaei, Hossein; Amiri, Marzieh; Negida, Ahmed; Hajimollarabi, Samaneh; Mahdavi, Nastaransadat title: Ketorolac versus Magnesium Sulfate in Migraine Headache Pain Management; a Preliminary Study date: 2017-01-08 words: 2139 flesch: 60 summary: The im- provement in pain score in magnesium sulfate group was greater than Ketorolac group after both one hour (6 vs 3; p < 0.001) and two hours (7 vs 5; p < 0.001). Efficacy of intravenous magnesium sulfate in the treatment of acute migraine attacks. keywords: acute; administration; arrival; article; baseline; beheshti; department; drug; effectiveness; emergency; group; headache; hospital; hours; iran; journal; ketorolac; magnesium; magnesium sulfate; management; mean; median; medical; medicine; migraine; pain; patients; sciences; scores; shahid; study; sulfate; tehran; treatment; university cache: aaem-105.pdf plain text: aaem-105.txt item: #12 of 640 id: aaem-1052 author: Alimohammadi, Hossein ; Shojaee, Majid ; Sohrabi, Mohammad Reza ; Salahi, Saman title: HEART Score in Predicting One-Month Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients with Acute Chest Pain; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study: Assessment of HEART scoring scale date: 2021-03-27 words: 3659 flesch: 63 summary: Novel emergency depart- ment risk score discriminates acute coronary syndrome among chest pain patients with known coronary artery disease. in a study titled “a prospective validation of the HEART score for chest pain patients at the emergency department” reached the result of 1.7% in low-risk group (18); and in a study by Mahler et al., this rate was reported to be less than 1% (14). keywords: accuracy; acs; acute; adverse; artery; backus; cardiac; cardiology; cases; characteristics; chest; chest pain; coronary; data; department; disease; emergency; events; factors; findings; group; heart; heart score; high; higher; hospital; hossein; incidence; low; mace; major; mean; medical; medicine; moderate; month; pain; patients; present; results; risk; score; study; syndrome; tehran; tool cache: aaem-1052.pdf plain text: aaem-1052.txt item: #13 of 640 id: aaem-1053 author: Ali, Sajjad; Zahid, Annam; Jamal, Syed Zahid; Khan, Samahir Tariq; Lohana, Nisha; Ahmed, Raahim; Mehdi, Nobia title: Cardiologists’ Knowledge and Perception towards American Heart Association Guidelines of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; a Letter to Editor date: 2021-01-02 words: 1789 flesch: 52 summary: Several studies from Pakistan have identified similar knowledge deficits regarding resuscitation guidelines among healthcare professionals (9, 10); however, no such research has been solely aimed at car- diologists. We, surveyed cardiologists’ theoretical knowledge of resuscitation guidelines, with an additional set of ques- tions directed to test presumptive correlational factors, in National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Pak- ∗Corresponding Author: Sajjad Ali; Department of Internal Medicine, Ziaud- din Medical University, Karachi, Pakistan. keywords: acls; advanced; aha; ali; american; article; association; cardiac; cardiologists; cardiopulmonary; cardiovascular; courses; cpr; diseases; draft; emergency; guidelines; healthcare; heart; hospital; journal; knowledge; life; medical; medicine; original; pakistan; participants; resuscitation; skills; support; training cache: aaem-1053.pdf plain text: aaem-1053.txt item: #14 of 640 id: aaem-1058 author: SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad ; Afsahi, Amir Masoud ; MohsseniPour, Mehrzad ; Behnezhad, Farzane ; Salehi, Mohammad Amin ; Barzegary, Alireza ; Mirzapour, Pegah ; Mehraeen, Esmaeil; Dadras, Omid title: Late Complications of COVID-19; a Systematic Review of Current Evidence date: 2021-01-20 words: 8582 flesch: 65 summary: p × × × – 37 Rey JR (63) Letter to editor Spain patients attended due to COVID-19 × p × p p × Tachyarrhythmia is also a common cardiovascu- lar complication in COVID-19 patients. keywords: academic; access; acute; american; analysis; archives; arterial; article; assessment; attribution; author; brain; cardiac; cardiovascular; case; cd cd; cd na; china; chronic; clinical; coagulation; commons; complications; consequences; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 infection; covid-19 patients; covid19; covid19 patients; creative; criteria; current; damage; data; databases; deep; department; disease; distress; dysfunction; e14; editor; embolism; emergency; et al; evidence; failure; fair fair; france; health; heart; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; ill; infection; injuries; intravascular; involvement; iran; italy; journal; khalkhal; klok; late; late complications; letter; license; liver; long; lung; manifestations; medical; medicine; mehraeen; multiple; myocardial; nervous; netherlands; neurological; nih; noncommercial; novel; open; organ; p p; papers; patients; pneumonia; population; potential; present; psychological; pulmonary; quality; report; research; respiratory; results; review; risk; sars; sciences; series; severe; seyedalinaghi; stroke; studies; study; symptoms; syndrome; system; systematic; table; tehran; term; therapy; thromboembolism; thrombosis; university; usa; vein; venous; wang; × p; × × cache: aaem-1058.pdf plain text: aaem-1058.txt item: #15 of 640 id: aaem-1059 author: Poorsarvi Tehrani, Poorya; Malek, Hamed title: Early Detection of Rhabdomyolysis-Induced Acute Kidney Injury through Machine Learning Approaches date: 2021-03-25 words: 3932 flesch: 61 summary: Table 2: Specificity and Sensitivity of different models (95% confidence interval) Methods: Models used in this paper utilized many inputs, which were extracted from the previously published dataset, but depending on the employed method, other inputs have also been considered. keywords: accuracy; acid; acute; aki; article; available; bam; best; biochemical; cpk; creatinine; data; dataset; day; different; earthquake; factors; information; injury; kidney; ldh; learning; machine; missing; models; network; neural; order; patient; potassium; records; results; second; sensitivity; specificity; state; support; test; train; training; uric; value; vector cache: aaem-1059.pdf plain text: aaem-1059.txt item: #16 of 640 id: aaem-106 author: Halimi Asl, Ali Asghar; Safari, Saeed; Parvareshi Hamrah, Mohsen title: Epidemiology and Related Risk Factors of Preterm Labor as an Obstetrics Emergency date: 2017-01-08 words: 4750 flesch: 62 summary: Al- though in most cases preterm births occur idiopathically, fe- tal, uterine, and placental factors as well as maternal chronic diseases, can affect preterm birth (17). Di- etary supplements taken before, but not after conception, were linked with a reduced rate of preterm birth; however, a placebo-controlled trial of vitamin supplementsin women before conception and 2 months after pregnancy, reported no effect on preterm birth rate (40, 41). keywords: access; amniotic; anomaly; article; attribution; birth; caesarian; care; cephalic; commons; consumption; creative; data; delivery; disease; emergency; factors; fetal; fluid; halimi; health; history; hospital; hypertension; infection; insufficiency; intercourse; iron; journal; labor; leak; license; medical; membranes; mother; multipartite; noncommercial; obstetrics; open; placenta; preeclampsia; pregnancy; prenatal; presentation; preterm; preterm birth; preterm labor; previous; rate; related; results; risk; risk factors; rupture; sciences; section; short; smoking; studies; study; systematic; table; tajrish; terms; time; uterine; vaginal; week; weight; women cache: aaem-106.pdf plain text: aaem-106.txt item: #17 of 640 id: aaem-1060 author: Shahverdy, Mohsen; Malek, Hamed title: Determining the Need for Computed Tomography Scan Following Blunt Chest Trauma through Machine Learning Approaches date: 2021-01-24 words: 3191 flesch: 58 summary: The present study proposed a decision tree- based model to determine whether a CT scan is necessary early on. Accordingly, the present study proposes a model to predict whether a chest CT scan is necessary, using ma- chine learning and artificial intelligence tools and a dataset collected from patients who underwent chest CT scans. keywords: access; accuracy; algorithms; article; attribution; binary; chest; column; commons; creative; data; dataset; decision; depth; emergency; high; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; learning; license; machine; medicine; methods; model; noncommercial; open; patients; ray; results; scan; sensitivity; study; table; terms; test; tomography; training; trauma; tree; validation; wall cache: aaem-1060.pdf plain text: aaem-1060.txt item: #18 of 640 id: aaem-1063 author: Rasras, Hammam; Beghi, Mustapha; Samti, Maryem; Ismaili, Nabila; El Ouafi, Noha title: Rare and Underestimated Association of Pulmonary Embolism and Olanzapine Therapy; Report of Two Cases: Pulmonary Embolism and Olanzapine Therapy date: 2021-02-05 words: 2305 flesch: 47 summary: Further studies, especially pharmacological studies that can confirm the un- derlying cause and find prophylactic treatments, especially for patients who already have thromboembolic risk factors, should be considered. 8. Carrizo E, Fernandez V, Quintero J, Connell L, Ro- driguez Z, Mosquera M, et al. Coagulation and inflam- mation markers during atypical or typical antipsychotic treatment in schizophrenia patients and drug-free first- degree relatives. keywords: aggregation; antipsychotic; article; association; blood; cases; commons; drug; effects; embolism; events; factors; history; license; mechanisms; medicine; mohammed; olanzapine; open; oujda; patients; platelet; pulmonary; report; right; risk; schizophrenia; studies; study; therapy; thromboembolic; thrombosis; treatment; university; venous; vtd cache: aaem-1063.pdf plain text: aaem-1063.txt item: #19 of 640 id: aaem-1065 author: Samimian, Sedigheh; Ashrafi, Sadra ; Khaleghdoost Mohammadi, Tahereh; Yeganeh, Mohammad Reza; Ashraf, Ali ; Hakimi, Hamideh; Dehghani, Maryam title: The Correlation between Head of Bed Angle and Intra-Abdominal Pressure of Intubated Patients; a Pre-Post Clinical Trial: The correlation between HOB and IAP date: 2021-03-06 words: 5266 flesch: 61 summary: The impact of body posi- tion on intra-abdominal pressure measurement: a mul- ticenter analysis. Should we measure intra-abdominal pressures in every intensive care pa- tient? keywords: abdominal; age; agreement; airway; angle; article; bed; bias; body; care; changes; clinical; compartment; correlation; critical; data; degrees; diagnosis; disease; elevation; grade; head; hob; hob angle; hypertension; iah; iap; iaps; icu; increase; intensive; intra; iran; limit; mean; measurement; medical; medicine; mmhg; normal; patients; position; positive; pressure; prevalence; research; results; sciences; significant; standard; study; syndrome; terms; times; trauma; university; variables; wsacs cache: aaem-1065.pdf plain text: aaem-1065.txt item: #20 of 640 id: aaem-1068 author: Vlastarakos, Petros; Chondrogiannis, Konstantinos title: Video-Laryngoscopy-Assisted Fishbone Removal from the Upper Digestive Tract; a Letter to the Editor: video-laryngoscopy assisted fishbone removal date: 2021-01-05 words: 935 flesch: 49 summary: Ahmad RA, Ishlah W, Shaharudin M, Sathananthar K, Norie A. Posterior mediastinal abscess secondary to esophageal perforation following fish bone ingestion. Dear Editor, Fish bones are frequently lodged in the upper digestive tract, usually at the palatine tonsils, tongue base, valleculae, and pyriform sinuses. keywords: article; athens; digestive; editor; ent; fishbone; forceps; greece; journal; magill; patient; removal; responsibility; surgeon; technique; throat; tongue; tract; upper; video; vlastarakos cache: aaem-1068.pdf plain text: aaem-1068.txt item: #21 of 640 id: aaem-107 author: Aminiahidashti, Hamed; Bozorgi, Farzad; Montazer, Seyyed Hosein; Baboli, Majid; Firouzian, Abolfazl title: Comparison of APACHE II and SAPS II Scoring Systems in Prediction of Critically ill Patients’ Outcome date: 2017-01-08 words: 3447 flesch: 60 summary: Therefore, the present study was designed aiming to evaluate and com- pare the values of APACHE II and SAPS II models in predic- tion of 1-month mortality of critically ill patients presented to emergency department (ED). In contrast, Sungurtekin et al. showed higher value for SAPS II model compared to APACHE II (22). keywords: access; acute; age; apache; apache ii; article; assessment; attribution; calibration; care; chronic; commons; comparison; creative; critically; data; department; discriminatory; emergency; evaluation; figure; fit; health; high; hospital; ill; intensive; journal; license; mean; medical; medicine; models; month; mortality; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; physiology; prediction; present; rate; results; saps; saps ii; score; scoring; simplified; study; systems; terms; trauma; value cache: aaem-107.pdf plain text: aaem-107.txt item: #22 of 640 id: aaem-1070 author: Kazemifar, Amir Mohammad ; Yazdi, Zohreh; Bedram, Abbas; MAhmoudi, Javad ; Ziaee, Mojtaba title: Effects of Intravenous Lipid Emulsion on Tramadol-Induced Seizure; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2021-02-20 words: 3478 flesch: 55 summary: Despite the existence of numerous studies on ILE efficacy and the satisfactory findings in various xenobiotics toxicities, limited clinical researches have studied ILE in patients who have overdosed on tramadol and experienced seizures (8). Conclusion: The findings of this study supported ILE administration, as an adjunct to standard antidote protocols, in tramadol intoxication to prevent tramadol-induced seizures. keywords: access; administration; admission; antidote; article; attribution; blood; cases; clinical; commons; control; creative; data; department; dose; drug; effects; efficacy; emergency; emulsion; findings; group; history; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; ile; intervention; intoxication; intravenous; iran; license; lipid; mean; medical; medicine; noncommercial; occurrence; pain; patients; poisoning; qazvin; research; results; seizure; standard; studies; study; terms; toxicol; tramadol; university cache: aaem-1070.pdf plain text: aaem-1070.txt item: #23 of 640 id: aaem-1071 author: Toloui, Amirmohammad; Moshrefiaraghi, Donya ; Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Haji Aghajani, Mohammad title: Cardiac Complications and Pertaining Mortality Rate in COVID-19 Patients; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2021-02-13 words: 8716 flesch: 62 summary: Conclusion: Acute cardiac injury and abnormal serum troponin level were the most prevalent cardiac complications/abnormalities in COVID-19 patients. Further analysis revealed that the odds of mortality in COVID-19 patients with acute cardiac injury is 14.24 (OR = 14.24, 95% CI: 8.67 to 23.38) times higher than the COVID- 19 patients without acute cardiac injury. keywords: abnormal; access; acute; acute cardiac; analysis; arrest; articles; assessment; attribution; bias; blood; cardiac; cardiac complications; cardiac injury; cardiovascular; characteristics; chen; china; clinical; commons; complications; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 patients; covid19; creative; critical; data; deceased; disease; e18; emergency; et al; exposure; failure; failure[tiab; figure; heart; heterogeneity; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injury; item; journal; level; license; liu; medical; medicine; mortality; myocardial; noncommercial; novel; nr nr; number; odds; open; outcome; patients; prevalence; rate; related; reported; respiratory; retrospective; risk; sample; sars; search; serum; studies; study; table; terms; toloui; troponin; wang; wuhan; yang cache: aaem-1071.pdf plain text: aaem-1071.txt item: #24 of 640 id: aaem-108 author: Safari, Saeed; Najafi, Iraj; Hosseini, Mostafa; Baratloo, Alireza; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Mohammadi, Hamidreza title: 20-Day Trend of Serum Potassium Changes in Bam Earthquake Victims with Crush Syndrome; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2017-01-08 words: 3250 flesch: 61 summary: Studying the causes of mortality in crush syndrome patients in Marmara earthquake in Turkey showed that 42% of the cases that died due to crush syndrome had hyperkalemia (7). The present study aimed to evaluate the trend of potassium changes in crush syndrome patients of Bam earthquake. keywords: acute; admission; article; bam; changes; concentration; crush; crush syndrome; data; day; days; earthquake; fluid; hospitalization; hyperkalemia; injury; iran; kidney; level; mean; medical; najafi; nephrol; normal; patients; potassium; present; prevalence; resuscitation; rhabdomyolysis; safari; sciences; serum; study; syndrome; tehran; trauma; trend; university; victims cache: aaem-108.pdf plain text: aaem-108.txt item: #25 of 640 id: aaem-1083 author: Banavathu, Tejaswee ; Tripathi, Swapnil; Sukhadiya, Pankaj; Ahari, Kamlesh; Meena, Durga Shankar; Garg, Mahendra Kumar title: Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis with Thyroid Storm as the First Presentation of Graves’ disease; a Case Report date: 2021-02-17 words: 2525 flesch: 53 summary: Abstract: Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis is a rare endocrine emergency that manifests as acute onset muscle weakness and hypokalaemia secondary to thyrotoxicosis. Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is the acquired form of hypokalaemic paralysis, which usually oc- curs after the second or third decade of life. keywords: abscess; acute; analysis; article; blood; case; clinical; day; diagnosis; disease; emergency; features; graves; hyperthyroidism; hypokalaemic; india; involvement; journal; life; liver; medical; medicine; mmol; muscle; normal; paralysis; patient; periodic; periodic paralysis; potassium; presentation; report; respiratory; serum; state; storm; thyroid; thyrotoxic; tpp; tsh; weakness; weeks cache: aaem-1083.pdf plain text: aaem-1083.txt item: #26 of 640 id: aaem-109 author: Nouhjah, Sedigheh; R. Niakan Kalhori, Sharareh; Saki, Azadeh title: Risk factors of Non-fatal Unintentional Home Injuries among Children under 5 Years Old; a Population-Based Study date: 2017-01-08 words: 4197 flesch: 61 summary: Since only a limited number of child home injuries lead to hospitalization, this type of investigation may ignore small and limited emergencies. About 95% of child injuries and more than 80% of related deaths occur in low and middle-income countries (1, 4). keywords: access; age; ahvaz; analysis; article; attribution; birth; care; cases; children; city; commons; creative; data; emergency; factors; fatal; features; health; higher; home; home injuries; home injury; injuries; injury; iran; journal; jundishapur; level; license; living; mechanisms; medical; mother; non; noncommercial; old; open; p<0.001; poisoning; population; private; related; research; results; risk; school; sciences; study; terms; time; unintentional; university; world; www.jemerg.com; years cache: aaem-109.pdf plain text: aaem-109.txt item: #27 of 640 id: aaem-1092 author: Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mahdi ; Shahini, Ziba; Hashemi, Behrooz; Mirbaha, Sahar title: Mass Suicide of COVID-19 Patient's Survivors; a Clinical Experience date: 2021-01-13 words: 1550 flesch: 50 summary: For instance: Patients with COVID-19 (with mild to severe symptoms), pa- tients whose COVID-19 test has become positive, families, friends and colleagues of the patients, all healthcare work- ers, researchers who study COVID-19 in laboratories, peo- ple living in regions with high risk of COVID-19, those tak- ing care of elderly family members in their house, mothers, especially those who have 8 – 10-year-old children, pregnant women, child laborers and people who do not receive much attention, all people in any profession, patients with special mental diseases (such as obsessive compulsive disorder and mysophobia) and psychological patients who should con- sume medication (4). In addition, social emergency gets involved and sends a group of experts to take necessary measures. keywords: access; children; china; clinical; consultation; covid-19; death; department; emergency; epidemic; family; father; healthcare; hospital; iran; medical; medicine; members; mental; mother; old; patients; people; psychological; services; social; support; survivors; tablet cache: aaem-1092.pdf plain text: aaem-1092.txt item: #28 of 640 id: aaem-1096 author: Heidari Beigvand, Hazhir; Heidari, Kamran; Hashemi, Behrooz; Saberinia, Amin title: The Value of Lactate Dehydrogenase in Predicting Rhabdomyolysis-Induced Acute Renal Failure; a Narrative Review date: 2021-03-09 words: 3922 flesch: 51 summary: Given the importance of rhabdomyolysis-induced acute renal fail- ure, it is recommended that serum LDH level be measured at the time of admission to the emergency department and in the event of symptoms such as coma, convulsions, and el- evated body temperature during the hours after hospitaliza- tion in order to promptly start treatment if rhabdomyolysis is proven. Study design In this narrative review, the keywords prognosis, prognose, prognostic, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), rhabdomyolysis, emergency patients, and acute kidney injury or acute renal failure had been selected from MeSH medical dictionary. keywords: access; acute; acute kidney; acute renal; aki; analysis; articles; attribution; case; cell; clinical; commons; control; creative; cross; damage; dehydrogenase; department; diagnosis; disease; early; elevated; emergency; et al; failure; findings; heidari; high; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infarction; injury; iran; journal; kidney; kidney injury; lactate; lactate dehydrogenase; ldh; level; license; marker; medical; medicine; noncommercial; open; papers; patients; present; prognostic; renal; researchers; results; review; rhabdomyolysis; risk; sciences; sectional; serum; sickle; significant; studies; study; terms; university; useful; value cache: aaem-1096.pdf plain text: aaem-1096.txt item: #29 of 640 id: aaem-11 author: Hashemi, Behrooz; Baratloo, Alireza; Rahmati, Farhad; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Motamedi, Maryam; Safari, Saeed title: Emergency Department Performance Indexes Before and After Establishment of Emergency Medicine date: 2018-11-13 words: 2961 flesch: 57 summary: Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com 20 Emergency (2013); 1 (1): 20-23 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Emergency Department Performance Indexes Before and After Establishment of Emergency Medicine Behrooz Hashemi, Alireza Baratloo*, Farhad Rahmati, Mohammad Mehdi Forouzanfar, Maryam Motamedi, Saeed Safari Department of Emergency Medicine, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Abstract Introduction: Emergency department performance index (EPI) greatly influences the function of other hospital’s units and patient satisfaction. Key words: Emergency department performance index; emergency medicine; patient discharge; triage Cite this article as: Hashemi B, Baratloo A, Rahmati F, Forouzanfar MM, Motamedi M, Safari S. Emergency department performance indexes before and after establishment of emergency medicine. keywords: advice; beheshti; cases; cpr; cprs; data; department; discharge; disposed; emergency; epi; establishment; health; hospital; hour; increase; indexes; mean; medical; medicine; methods; minutes; number; patients; percentage; performance; period; present; sciences; second; shahid; study; tajrish; time; total; triage; unit; university; unsuccessful; ward cache: aaem-11.pdf plain text: aaem-11.txt item: #30 of 640 id: aaem-110 author: Safari, Saeed; Eshaghzade, Mehdi; Najafi, Iraj; Baratloo, Alireza; Hashemi, Behrooz; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Rahmati, Farhad title: Trends of Serum Electrolyte Changes in Crush syndrome patients of Bam Earthquake; a Cross sectional Study date: 2017-01-08 words: 3402 flesch: 61 summary: The present study was designed to evaluate the trend of changes in sodium, calcium, and phosphorus ions among crush syndrome patients. Conclusion: The results of the present study shows the 52.5% prevalence of hyponatremia, 100% hypocalcemia, and 90.5% hyperphosphatemia among crush syndrome patients of Bam earthquake victims on the first day of admission. keywords: 10th; admission; article; bam; calcium; changes; crush; data; day; days; earthquake; electrolyte; emergency; fluid; hospitalization; hyperphosphatemia; hypocalcemia; hyponatremia; imbalances; injury; journal; level; mean; medical; medicine; meq; patients; phosphorus; present; prevalence; results; safari; serum; sodium; study; syndrome; table; trend; victims cache: aaem-110.pdf plain text: aaem-110.txt item: #31 of 640 id: aaem-1108 author: Zamanian Azodi, Mona; Arjmand, Babak; Razzaghi, Mohammadreza; Rezaei Tavirani, Mostafa; Ahmadzadeh, Alireza; Rostaminejad, Mohammad title: Platelet and Haemostasis are the Main Targets in Severe Cases of COVID-19 Infection; a System Biology Study date: 2021-03-14 words: 3459 flesch: 54 summary: Marietta M, Ageno W, Artoni A, De Candia E, Gresele P, Marchetti M, et al. COVID-19 and haemostasis: a po- sition paper from Italian Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (SISET). Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein–protein interaction network. keywords: access; actb; action; activation; analysis; article; attribution; azodi; bioinformatics; biological; cases; cfhr1; cfi; commons; covid-19; creative; critical; deficiency; deps; disease; fga; fgb; fgg; fibrinogen; figure; gene; haemostasis; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infection; journal; license; main; map; medical; molecular; network; noncommercial; ontology; open; platelet; proteins; proteomics; research; rezaei; sciences; severe; signaling; study; tavirani; terms; thbs1; tln1; value; zamanian cache: aaem-1108.pdf plain text: aaem-1108.txt item: #32 of 640 id: aaem-111 author: Dinpanah, Hossein; Akbarzadeh Pasha, Abazar; Sanji, Mojtaba title: Potential Child Abuse Screening in Emergency Department; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2017-01-08 words: 3140 flesch: 61 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Designing a tool that can differentiate those at risk of child abuse with great diagnostic accuracy is of great interest. The present study was designed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of Escape instrument in triage of at risk cases of child abuse presenting to emergency department (ED). keywords: abuse; accuracy; age; area; article; babol; beheshti; cases; child; child abuse; children; curve; department; detection; diagnostic; emergency; escape; health; hospital; instrument; iran; journal; medical; negative; neglect; physical; positive; potential; present; questionnaire; questions; results; risk; roc; sciences; screening; sensitivity; shahid; standard; study; team; tool; university; years cache: aaem-111.pdf plain text: aaem-111.txt item: #33 of 640 id: aaem-112 author: Zamani Moghadam, Hamid; Hoseini, Seyed Taha; Hashemian, Amir Masoud; Sharif, Mohammad Davood title: The Relation of Q Angle and Anthropometric Measures with Ankle Sprain; a Case-control study date: 2017-01-08 words: 2573 flesch: 66 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Since most studies on ankle sprain are medical and sports-related and not much epidemiologic and etiologic data from the general population exist in this field, the present study evaluates the relationship between Q angle and anthropometric measures with ankle sprain in the general population. Methods: In the present case-control study, all of the patients over 18 years age presenting to emergency departments (ED) of two educational Hospitals, complaining from ankle sprain, were evaluated during more than 1 year. keywords: age; ankle; ankle sprain; bmi; body; case; control; correlation; data; degrees; emergency; factors; history; incidence; index; journal; mashhad; mass; mean; measures; medical; medicine; patients; population; present; risk; significant; sports; sprain; study; weight; years cache: aaem-112.pdf plain text: aaem-112.txt item: #34 of 640 id: aaem-1122 author: Zeinali.N, Faeze ; Mohammad Karimi, Naser; Jafari, Mohamadali; Akbarzadeh Moghadam, Ebrahim title: Rapid and Deep versus Normal Breathing in Salbutamol Inhalation Effectiveness; a Letter to Editor: comparison of 2 Inhalation Methods efficacy. date: 2021-05-26 words: 1982 flesch: 63 summary: Chogtu B, Holla S, Magazine R, Kamath A. Evaluation of relationship of inhaler technique with asthma con- trol and quality of life. Influence of inhaler technique on asthma and COPD control: a multicenter experience. keywords: analysis; article; asthma; asthmatic; baseline; breathing; breaths; control; copd; deep; department; dose; drug; effectiveness; emergency; flow; groups; inhalation; inhaler; journal; management; mdi; mean; medicine; minutes; normal; patients; pef; rapid; respiratory; sadoughi; salbutamol; shahid; significant; study; technique; tidal; treatment; trial; use cache: aaem-1122.pdf plain text: aaem-1122.txt item: #35 of 640 id: aaem-1123 author: Ansari Djafari, Anahita; Rahavian, Amirhossein; Javanmard, Babak; Montazeri, Saeed; Shahabi, Vahid; Hojati, Seyyed Ali; Ghiasy, Saleh; Hamidi, Ramin; khoshnevis, jalallodin title: Factors Related to Mortality in Patients with Fournier’s Gangrene or Necrotising Fasciitis; a 10-year Cross-Sectional Study date: 2021-04-17 words: 3448 flesch: 55 summary: Tuncel et al. reported a correlation between diabetes mel- litus (DM) and poor prognosis in FG patients (10), but Cor- coran et al. found no similar association in their research (8). E. coli, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Enterococcus and Bacteroides genera were the most common bacteriological microorganisms that had been isolated from FG patients in previous studies (15, 16). keywords: age; analysis; article; blood; cardiology; cases; center; chest; clinical; count; critical; data; deceased; department; disease; emergency; factors; fasciitis; fgsi; fournier; frequency; gangrene; haematocrit; heart; higher; hospital; immunosuppression; independent; iran; level; lower; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; multivariate; non; pain; parameters; patients; platelet; rate; related; research; respiratory; risk; sciences; score; serum; studies; study; survived; tehran; terms; university cache: aaem-1123.pdf plain text: aaem-1123.txt item: #36 of 640 id: aaem-1128 author: Rezaei-Tavirani, Mostafa; Rostami Nejad, Mohammad; Arjmand, Babak; Rezaei Tavirani, Sina; Razzaghi, Mohammadreza; Mansouri, Vahid title: Fibrinogen Dysregulation is a Prominent Process in Fatal Conditions of COVID-19 Infection; a Proteomic Analysis date: 2021-03-15 words: 3568 flesch: 60 summary: The guidelines of international society of thrombosis and haemostasis recommended anticoagulant therapy for COVID-19 patients (27). Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem M. Rezaei-Tavirani et al. 4 in COVID-19 patients (37). keywords: access; acute; analysis; article; cases; central; chains; china; clinical; coagulation; coronavirus; covid-19; crp; database; degree; dimer; disease; et al; fatal; fibrinogen; figure; free; hub; hubs; increase; infection; journal; liver; medical; medicine; molecular; network; nodes; open; orm1; orm2; patients; plasma; pneumonia; proteins; proteomics; research; respiratory; results; rezaei; sars; scale; sciences; secretion; severe; string; syndrome; tavirani; tehran; thrombosis; university; value; wang cache: aaem-1128.pdf plain text: aaem-1128.txt item: #37 of 640 id: aaem-113 author: Haji Aghajani, Mohammad; Haddadi, Mashyaneh; Saadat, Soheil title: Epidemiological Pattern of Injuries in Iran; a Nationwide Review of Seven Million Emergency Department Admissions date: 2017-01-08 words: 5649 flesch: 61 summary: Peden M. World report on road traffic injury prevention. Conclusion: This paper addresses where prevention measures are most urgently needed and offers insights which could be useful for injury prevention programs in Iran and other developing countries. keywords: access; admissions; age; areas; article; attempt; attribution; burns; care; cases; cause; common; countries; crash; creative; data; department; distribution; eds; emergency; epidemiology; fall; fatality; figure; frequency; groups; health; highest; home; hospitals; injured; injuries; injury; interventions; iran; iranian; journal; license; male; medical; mortality; national; need; noncommercial; open; organization; patients; pattern; place; population; prevention; programs; public; rate; ratio; result; risk; road; rtc; rural; saadat; safety; study; suicide; summer; surveillance; system; tehran; terms; traffic; trauma; trend; university; urban; violence; world; years cache: aaem-113.pdf plain text: aaem-113.txt item: #38 of 640 id: aaem-114 author: Valadkhani, Somayeh; Jalili, Mohammad; Hesari, Elham; Mirfazaelian, Hadi title: Validation of the North American Chest Pain Rule in Prediction of Very Low-Risk Chest Pain; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2017-01-05 words: 3920 flesch: 59 summary: Selker HP, Griffith JL, Patil S, Long WJ, d’Agostino R. A comparison of performance of mathematical predictive methods for medical diagnosis: identifying acute car- diac ischemia among emergency department patients. Methods: A prospective diagnostic accuracy study was conducted on consecutive patients 24 years of age and older presenting to the ED with the chief complaint of acute chest pain, during March 2013 to June 2013. keywords: acute; adverse; age; american; article; cad; cardiac; cases; characteristics; chest; chest pain; clinical; commons; coronary; data; day; decision; department; diagnostic; discharge; early; ecg; elevation; emergency; et al; group; hess; history; journal; level; low; medical; medicine; myocardial; nacpr; negative; normal; outcomes; pain; patients; performance; prediction; results; risk; rule; screening; second; sensitivity; specificity; study; syndrome; troponin; value; years cache: aaem-114.pdf plain text: aaem-114.txt item: #39 of 640 id: aaem-1140 author: Nithimathachoke, Adisak; Wichiennopparat, Wanawat title: High Incidence of Workplace Violence in Metropolitan Emergency Departments of Thailand; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2021-03-25 words: 5910 flesch: 55 summary: The workplace violence definitions in this study were assim- ilated with the definitions outlined by the World Health or- ganization, which consisted of physical violence and verbal violence. Physical violence was the use of physical force with or without an object against a person to threaten or harm i.e. punch, kick, bite, and push. keywords: academic; access; administration; age; area; article; attribution; available; bangkok; characteristics; commons; creative; cross; data; departments; eds; emergency; emergency departments; emergency medicine; experience; factors; healthcare; high; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; journal; license; measures; medical; medicine; metropolitan; nithimathachoke; noncommercial; number; nurses; open; participants; personnel; physical; physicians; prevention; previous; providers; questionnaire; rate; research; respondents; results; risk; secondary; sectional; security; shift; studies; study; survey; system; table; terms; tertiary; thailand; type; university; use; verbal; victim; violence; waiting; workers; working; workplace; workplace violence; year cache: aaem-1140.pdf plain text: aaem-1140.txt item: #40 of 640 id: aaem-1148 author: Rezvani Kakhki, Behrang; Miri, Mohsen; Talebi Doluee, Morteza; Sabeti Baygi, Zeynab; Abbasi Shaye, Zahra; Vafadar Moradi, Elnaz title: Tactile Method in Confirming Proper Endotracheal Intubation in Emergency Setting; a Letter to Editor: Confirm intubation date: 2021-05-09 words: 1194 flesch: 57 summary: Methods such as capnography, tracheal sonography and chest-X-ray, were introduced for verification of proper tracheal intubation but they have their own limi- tations (4, 5). There have been many techniques to confirm proper intubation, but none of them are applica- ble in all conditions. keywords: authors; cases; chest; confirmation; department; emergency; endotracheal; ett; faculty; intubation; iran; mashhad; medical; medicine; method; patients; placement; positive; proper; results; sciences; study; tactile; technique; tube; university cache: aaem-1148.pdf plain text: aaem-1148.txt item: #41 of 640 id: aaem-115 author: Nejati, Amir; Teymourian, Houman; Behrooz, Leili; Mohseni, Gholamreza title: Pain Management via Ultrasound-guided Nerve Block in Emergency Department; a Case Series Study date: 2017-01-05 words: 3209 flesch: 60 summary: Un- der sterile conditions, using a 20 or 22 gauge lumbar punc- ture needle, 50 cc syringe and an extension tube, ultrasound- guided nerve block was performed by a trained emergency physician according to the standard guidelines. A. Nejati et al. 2 efficacy of nerve blocks and no serious side effects have been reported (2, 6, 7). keywords: access; analgesia; anesthesiology; article; axillary; block; case; department; difference; effects; efficacy; emergency; femoral; hospital; injection; journal; level; likert; locations; management; mean; medical; medicine; method; nerve; nerve block; pain; patients; physicians; plexus; procedure; reduction; results; satisfaction; satisfied; scale; sciatic; significant; site; study; tehran; time; ultrasound; vomiting cache: aaem-115.pdf plain text: aaem-115.txt item: #42 of 640 id: aaem-1153 author: Kamarullah, William; Nurcahyani, Nurcahyani; Josephine, Claudia Mary; Multazam, Rachmatu Bill; Ghaezany Nawing, Aqila title: Corticosteroid Therapy in Management of Myocarditis Associated with COVID-19; a Systematic Review of Current Evidence date: 2021-04-16 words: 4568 flesch: 56 summary: Khalid N, Chen Y, Case BC, Shlofmitz E, Wermers JP, Rogers T, et al. COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) and the Heart - An Ominous Association. (12), Hu et al. keywords: access; acute; administration; articles; assessment; attribution; authors; available; azithromycin; bias; cardiogenic; case; clinical; commons; coronavirus; corticosteroid; cov-2; covid-19; creative; day; days; disease; dobutamine; dose; et al; evidence; failure; female; fulminant; fulminant myocarditis; heart; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; human; hydroxychloroquine; immunoglobulin; improvement; intravenous; license; low; male; methylprednisolone; myocarditis; myopericarditis; noncommercial; norepinephrine; open; outcomes; patients; reports; respiratory; review; risk; sars; search; severe; shock; studies; study; syndrome; systematic; terms; therapy; treatment; unclear; usa; use cache: aaem-1153.pdf plain text: aaem-1153.txt item: #43 of 640 id: aaem-1155 author: Pishgahi, Mehdi; Karimi Toudeshki, Kimia; Safari, Saeed; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Echocardiographic Abnormalities as Independent Prognostic Factors of In-Hospital Mortality among COVID-19 Patients date: 2021-02-24 words: 3957 flesch: 57 summary: The present study aims to investigate the echocardiography findings in COVID-19 patients and possible correlations be- tween the findings and the disease outcome. Conclusion: Our study showed that cardiac involvement is a prevalent complication in COVID-19 patients. keywords: access; age; analysis; artery; article; attribution; cardiac; cardiovascular; cases; commons; coronavirus; covid-19; creative; dilation; disease; dysfunction; echocardiography; effusion; embolism; factors; findings; heart; history; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypertension; independent; involvement; iran; ischemic; license; main; medical; mortality; noncommercial; open; pasp; patients; pleural; present; prognostic; pulmonary; rate; ref; right; risk; sciences; study; tehran; terms; thrombosis; university; ventricular; yes cache: aaem-1155.pdf plain text: aaem-1155.txt item: #44 of 640 id: aaem-1157 author: Khazaei, Afshin; Esmaeili, Maryam; Masoumi, Habib; Navab, Elham title: Prevalence and Related Factors of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Emergency Medical Technicians; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2021-04-30 words: 5671 flesch: 61 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem A. Khazaei and et al. 8 Table 1: Relationship between the mean total PCL-5 score of each cluster with having or not having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) PCL-5 Clusters Total PTSD P* Lee J-K, Choi H-G, Kim J-Y, Nam J, Kang H-T, Koh S-B, et al. Self-resilience as a protective factor against develop- ment of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in po- lice officers. keywords: access; age; air; alterations; article; attribution; bases; care; checklist; cognition; commons; creative; criteria; critical; disorder; emergency; ems; emts; events; experience; exposure; factors; health; higher; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; iran; items; journal; license; linear; management; mean; medical; medicine; mental; missions; month; negative; noncommercial; number; nursing; open; p<0.001; participants; personnel; post; prehospital; present; prevalence; previous; ptsd; rate; regression; related; relationship; reported; results; risk; road; sciences; score; shifts; status; stress; studies; study; symptoms; technicians; tehran; terms; total; training; traumatic; university; work; years cache: aaem-1157.pdf plain text: aaem-1157.txt item: #45 of 640 id: aaem-116 author: Miri, Mir Mohammad; Goharani, Reza; Sistanizad, Mohammad title: Deep Vein Thrombosis among Intensive Care Unit Patients; an Epidemiologic Study date: 2017-01-05 words: 3236 flesch: 61 summary: other hand, it is likely that increased physician awareness of DVT risk factors and increased utilization of noninvasive imaging have led to a higher diagnosis rate (18). Means to improve DVT prophylaxis should in- clude increasing physicians awareness through training and the implementation of procedures to assess DVT risk during hospitalization, along with the application of evidence-based guidelines for DVT prophylaxis and treatment in both med- ical and surgical patients (23). keywords: acute; age; apache; article; attribution; care; characteristics; clinical; commons; creative; data; deep; doppler; dvt; evaluation; factors; guidelines; health; hospital; hossein; icu; imam; incidence; intensive; iran; length; license; mean; medical; mortality; patients; population; prophylaxis; pulmonary; rate; results; risk; shahid; stay; study; surgery; surgical; tehran; thromboembolism; thrombosis; unit; vein; vein thrombosis; venous; vte; years cache: aaem-116.pdf plain text: aaem-116.txt item: #46 of 640 id: aaem-1167 author: Bouillon-Minois, Jean-Baptiste; Raconnat, Julien; Clinchamps, Maelys; Schmidt, Jeannot; Dutheil, Frédéric title: Emergency Department and Overcrowding During COVID-19 Outbreak; a Letter to Editor date: 2021-03-25 words: 1437 flesch: 64 summary: Furthermore, emergency departments are identified as high-risk settings for medical errors and adverse events (7), concerning up to 10% of admissions. At the same time, several complaints are growing by approximately 1% per year, which may involve a rise of complementary inves- tigations by fear of missing a diagnosis, increasing the time spent in emergency departments, and the stress of both pa- tients and physicians (8). keywords: academic; admissions; article; available; beds; bouillon; clermont; covid-19; days; department; emergency; ferrand; france; hospital; lockdown; medicine; minois; number; overcrowded; overcrowding; patients; stress; year cache: aaem-1167.pdf plain text: aaem-1167.txt item: #47 of 640 id: aaem-117 author: Sheikh Motahar Vahedi, Hojat; Bagheri, Aida; Jahanshir, Amirhosein; Seyedhosseini, Javad; Vahidi, Elnaz title: Association of Lymphopenia with Short Term Outcomes of Sepsis Patients; a Brief Report date: 2019-01-20 words: 2767 flesch: 64 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Studies have claimed that low lymphocyte count is independently correlated with 28-day survival of sepsis patients. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the value of lymphopenia in predicting the short-term outcome of sepsis patients. keywords: admission; age; article; blood; cases; cell; characteristics; commons; count; creative; day; days; department; emergency; expired; group; higher; hospital; icu; license; lymphocyte; lymphopenia; male; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; need; outcome; patients; probability; score; sepsis; septic; severe; shock; sofa; study; tehran; value cache: aaem-117.pdf plain text: aaem-117.txt item: #48 of 640 id: aaem-1172 author: Mirkarimi, Talayeh; Salek, Mohammad; Modirian, Ehsan; namdar, Peyman title: Delayed post-traumatic Tension Hydropneumocephalus; a Case Report of Conservative Treatment date: 2021-02-27 words: 2134 flesch: 53 summary: Delayed tension pneumocephalus is among neurosurgery emergencies usually treated with early surgical intervention and dura defect restoration, but this patient received non-surgical treatment without any serious problem during the six-month follow-up. Tension pneumocephalus occurs when intracranial accumulation of air causes high pressure on the brain as compared to extracranial pressure. keywords: air; article; brain; case; conservative; department; diagnosis; emergency; fever; follow; frontal; head; headache; history; hydropneumocephalus; intracranial; iran; journal; management; medical; mild; neurological; neurosurgery; patient; pneumocephalus; posttraumatic; pressure; qazvin; rare; report; response; review; right; scan; surgical; tension; tension pneumocephalus; trauma; traumatic; treatment cache: aaem-1172.pdf plain text: aaem-1172.txt item: #49 of 640 id: aaem-1177 author: Saberian, Peyman ; Rafiemanesh, Hosein ; Sadeghi, Mostafa ; Hasani-Sharamin, Parisa ; Dadashi, Fatemeh ; Baratloo, Alireza title: The Geographical Distribution of Probable COVID-19 Patients Transferred by Tehran Emergency Medical Services; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2021-03-10 words: 4492 flesch: 58 summary: In order to cover this population over the area of 730 square kilometers in Tehran, Tehran EMS center had 217 stations and 250 am- bulances in the city, and 2200 technicians throughout the duration of this study. All probable cases of COVID-19 who were transferred to the hospitals following contact with Tehran EMS during the study period were enrolled. keywords: access; age; article; attribution; cases; commons; correlation; covid-19; creative; data; disease; distribution; districts; emergency; ems; epidemic; figure; geographical; gis; health; highest; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; incidence; information; iran; license; male; medical; months; noncommercial; number; open; patients; period; population; probable; rate; spread; study; tehran; terms cache: aaem-1177.pdf plain text: aaem-1177.txt item: #50 of 640 id: aaem-118 author: Saberian, Peyman; Tavakoli, Nader; Ramim, Tayeb; Hasani Sharamin, Parisa; Shams, Elham; Baratloo, Alireza title: The Role of Pre-Hospital Telecardiology in Reducing the Coronary Reperfusion Time; a Brief Report date: 2019-02-05 words: 3395 flesch: 55 summary: A pooled analysis of randomized clinical trials comparing primary percuta- neous coronary intervention and in-hospital fibrinolysis in acute myocardial infarction patients. The plan is preparation of angioplasty equipped centers for 7 days a week and 24 hours a day to carry out PCI for STEMI patients in the shortest time possible, preferably less than 90 minutes. keywords: acute; american; article; cardiac; center; coronary; department; device; diagnosis; difference; ecg; electrocardiogram; elevation; emergency; ems; fmc; groups; heart; hospital; important; infarction; interval; iran; journal; management; mean; medical; medicine; myocardial; patients; pci; pre; prehospital; reperfusion; role; sciences; segment; significant; stemi; study; symptom; tehran; telecardiology; terms; time; triage; university cache: aaem-118.pdf plain text: aaem-118.txt item: #51 of 640 id: aaem-1187 author: Eshagh Hoseini, seyed Jalal ; Vahedian, Mostafa; Sharifi, Alireza title: Comparing the Accuracy of Ohmann and Alvarado Scoring Systems in Detection of Acute Appendicitis; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2021-05-05 words: 3515 flesch: 58 summary: Based on the results of the current study, OSS has higher sensitivity and NPV than Alvarado scoring system in diagnosis of AA, but Alvarado score has higher specificity and PPV than Ohmann score. The evaluation of the validity of Alvarado, Eskeli- nen, Lintula and Ohmann scoring systems in diagnosing acute appendicitis in children. keywords: abdominal; accuracy; acute; age; alvarado; appendectomy; appendicitis; article; ass; cases; characteristics; commons; count; data; detection; diagnosis; emergency; findings; iran; journal; license; medical; medicine; negative; npv; ohmann; oss; pain; parameters; patients; point; positive; ppv; qom; reported; results; rlq; sciences; scores; scoring; sensitivity; specificity; studies; study; surgery; systems; tenderness; university; value; years cache: aaem-1187.pdf plain text: aaem-1187.txt item: #52 of 640 id: aaem-119 author: Paydar, Shahram; Moghaninasab, Abdoshahid; Asiaei, Elham; Sabetian Fard Jahromi, Golnar; Bolandparvaz, Shahram; Abbasi, Hamidreza title: Outcome of Patients Underwent Emergency Department Thoracotomy and Its Predictive Factors date: 2014-07-05 words: 3423 flesch: 64 summary: Figure 1: Survival estimation of EDT patients. Conclusion: The findings of the pre- sent study showed that the survival rate of trauma patients underwent EDT was 1.7%. keywords: access; addition; arrival; article; blood; blunt; cardiac; cases; chest; cpr; department; duration; edt; emergency; factors; findings; hospital; injury; mean; medical; mmhg; mortality; open; outcome; p=0.04; patients; penetrating; performing; predictive; present; pressure; rate; results; sbp; sciences; shahid; studies; study; surg; survival; survived; systolic; table; terms; thoracotomies; thoracotomy; time; trauma; university cache: aaem-119.pdf plain text: aaem-119.txt item: #53 of 640 id: aaem-12 author: Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Khosravi, Shaghayegh; Khavanin, Ali; Derakhshandeh, Niloufar title: Report of 267 Cases of Scorpion Bite Referring to an Emergency Department during One Year date: 2018-11-13 words: 1892 flesch: 63 summary: Methods: The present case series has evaluated the victims of scorpion bite, who had been hospitalized in Razi Hospital, Ahwaz city, from March 2011 to April S Table 1: Details of scorpion bite victims  Particulars Number (%) Location of incident City 196 (73.5%) Village 71 (26.5%) Scorpion family Hemiscorpius lepturus 185 (69.3%) There are thousands of cases and a number of deaths due to scorpion bite every year in the country. keywords: age; ahwaz; androctonus; bite; blood; body; cases; city; common; data; death; department; details; emergency; health; hemiscorpius; hospital; insufficiency; involved; iran; limb; lower; mean; medical; patients; persian; present; renal; report; sciences; scorpion; study; type; university cache: aaem-12.pdf plain text: aaem-12.txt item: #54 of 640 id: aaem-120 author: Hashemi, Behrooz; Motamedi, Maryam; Etemad, Mania; Rahmati, Farhad; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Kaghazchi, Fatemeh title: An Audit of Emergency Department Accreditation Based on Joint Commission International Standards (JCI) date: 2014-06-30 words: 2843 flesch: 50 summary: The impact of hospital accreditation on quality of care: perception of Lebanese nurses. The mean of total ED accreditation score in the first period was 60.4±30.15 percent and in the second period 68.9±22.9 Figure 1: The percentage of progress in performing the ac- creditation standards of emergency department. keywords: accreditation; admission; analysis; assessment; audit; capability; care; collection; competency; data; department; emergency; evaluation; file; health; hospital; improvement; iran; jci; medical; nurse; patient; period; physician; quality; responsible; results; sciences; score; shohadaye; staffs; standards; study; subheadings; tajrish; terms; training; university cache: aaem-120.pdf plain text: aaem-120.txt item: #55 of 640 id: aaem-1201 author: Yaseri, Mehdi; Soleimani-Jelodar, Rahim; Rostami, Zohreh; Shahsavari, Saeed; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Is Social Distancing Policy Effective in Controlling COVID-19? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis date: 2021-05-25 words: 3181 flesch: 59 summary: Changes in the level and trend of daily new cases and daily deaths before and after the implementation of social distancing plan were evaluated using interrupted time series (ITS) analysis in STATA software. Conclusion: It Could be concluded that social distancing plan directly affects the new daily cases and new daily deaths. keywords: 95%ci; analysis; article; cases; changes; coef.=; covid-19; daily; daily cases; daily new; data; day; deaths; decrease; disease; distancing; distancing plan; effective; health; impact; implementation; incidence; interrupted; intervention; iran; journal; measures; new; new cases; new deaths; number; outbreak; plan; policy; public; results; series; significant; social; social distancing; study; tehran; terms; time; trend; variable cache: aaem-1201.pdf plain text: aaem-1201.txt item: #56 of 640 id: aaem-1208 author: Babaie, Javad ; Pashaei asl, Yousef ; Naghipour, Bahman ; Faridaalaee, Gholamreza title: Cardiovascular Diseases in Natural Disasters; a Systematic Review: Cardiovascular Diseases in Disasters date: 2021-05-04 words: 12280 flesch: 66 summary: p p p × P. Gregg Gree- nough 2008 Hurricane Katrina 2005 C.S p p × p p p p p MA Krousel- Wood 2008 Hurricane Katrina 2005 C.S p p p × p p p × T Islam 2008 Hurricane Katrina 2005 CO p p p p p p p × Sandeep Gautam 2009 Hurricane Katrina 2005 O p p p p p p p p Martha I. Arrieta 2009 Hurricane Katrina 2005 Q p p × × p p p p p Tatsuo Aoki 2013 Great East Japan 2011 C.S p p ? keywords: 2012; 2013; 2016; academic; access; acute; american; ami; analysis; appropriate; archives; areas; articles; association; attribution; awaji; babaie; bias; blood; c.s p; cardiac; cardiology; cardiovascular; care; changes; chronic; circulation; clinical; co p; commons; comparison; control; coronary; creative; criteria; cvds; data; decrease; delafontaine p; destruction; disaster; diseases; drugs; e36; earthquake; east; east japan; effect; emergency; et al; factors; fukushima; great; great east; group p; hanshin; health; heart; higher; home; htn; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; huang; hurricane; hypertension; impact; incidence; increase; individuals; infarction; international; iran; japan; japan earthquake; japanese; journal; journal p; kario; katrina; lack; license; lo p; long; management; medical; medication; medicine; mental; morning; mortality; muntner p; myocardial; nakamura; natural; ncds; new; niigata; noncommercial; northridge; ob p; observed; official; ohira; open; outcome p; p christina; p description; p kaisen; p kenichi; p masafumi; p p; p satoshi; p tetsuya; p ×; patients; pressure; prevalence; public; publication; quality; rate; related; research; results; review; risk; scale; sciences; self; sichuan; society; storm; stress; studies; study; survey; systematic; tabriz; tanaka; terms; time; treatment; tsunami; typhoon; university; yasumura; years; zhang; × × cache: aaem-1208.pdf plain text: aaem-1208.txt item: #57 of 640 id: aaem-121 author: Amini, Afshin; Munesan, Mohammad Reza; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Kariman, Hamid; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza; Shahrami, Ali; Shojaee, Majid title: Quality of Life in EmergenQuality of Life in Emergency Medicine Specialists of Teaching Hospitalscy Medicine Specialists of Teaching Hospitals date: 2014-04-05 words: 3093 flesch: 60 summary: Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on emergency medicine physicians in 10 teaching hospitals of Iran in 2011. This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on emergency medicine physicians in 10 teaching hos- pitals of Iran in 2011. keywords: age; alcohol; article; average; beheshti; blood; bmi; burnout; emergency; emergency medicine; exercise; factors; good; hdl; health; high; hospitals; hypertension; iran; ldl; life; low; medical; medicine; personal; physical; physicians; poor; present; qol; quality; questionnaire; risk; satisfaction; sciences; screening; shahid; specialists; study; table; terms; tests; university; weight; work; years cache: aaem-121.pdf plain text: aaem-121.txt item: #58 of 640 id: aaem-1210 author: Ashrafi, Farzad ; Ommi, Davood ; Zali, Alireza ; Khani, Sina ; Soheili, Amirali ; Arab-Ahmadi, Mehran ; Behnam, Behdad ; Nohesara, Shabnam; Semnani, Farbod ; Fatemi, Alireza ; Salari, Mehri ; Jalili khoshnood, Reza ; Vahidi, Mohammad ; Ayoobi-Yazdi, Niloofar ; Hosseini Toudeshki, Saeed ; Sobhrakhshankhah , Elham title: Neurological Manifestations and their Correlated Factors in COVID-19 Patients; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2021-04-27 words: 3532 flesch: 51 summary: Patients with neurological manifestations were significantly older (p = 0.04), had greater body mass index (BMI) (p = 0.02), longer first symptom to admission duration (p < 0.001) and were more frequently opium users (p = 0.03) compared to COVID-19 patients without neurological symptoms. We found that patients with neurolog- ical symptoms were significantly older (p = 0.005), had higher BMI (p = 0.02), longer hospitalization (p = 0.002), and longer first symptom to admission duration (p < 0.001) compared to COVID-19 patients without neurological symptoms. keywords: access; age; article; ashrafi; attribution; blood; bmi; cases; center; commons; count; covid-19; creative; data; design; disease; editing; findings; headache; higher; hospital; ill; impairment; infection; iran; laboratory; license; literature; lymphocyte; manifestations; manuscript; mean; medical; methodology; neurological; neurological manifestations; neutrophil; noncommercial; open; original; patients; prevalence; research; reviewing; sciences; seizure; stable; stroke; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; university; writing cache: aaem-1210.pdf plain text: aaem-1210.txt item: #59 of 640 id: aaem-1217 author: Najari, Fares; Malekpour-Alamdari, Nasser; Baradaran Kial, Ideh; Najari, Dorsa; Mirzaei, Sahar title: Prolonged Fever; a Case Report of Medical Malpractice date: 2021-07-03 words: 2457 flesch: 52 summary: Also, few cases of retained hemodialysis catheters have been reported. As mentioned earlier, limited cases of retained catheters as for- eign bodies have been reported. keywords: access; article; atrium; beheshti; blood; bodies; body; case; catheter; catheterization; cava; central; chest; emergency; failure; femoral; fever; foreign; hemodialysis; high; internal; iran; journal; left; medical; medicine; months; najari; old; open; patient; prolonged; renal; report; right; sciences; shaldon; site; study; surgery; tehran; university; vein; vena; venous; year cache: aaem-1217.pdf plain text: aaem-1217.txt item: #60 of 640 id: aaem-122 author: Aminiahidashti, Hamed; Hosseininejad, Seyed Mohammad; Montazer, Hosein; Bozorgi, Farzad; Goli khatir, Iraj; Jahanian, Fateme; Raee, Behnaz title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ascites Fluid Gross Appearance in Detection of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis date: 2014-07-21 words: 1910 flesch: 53 summary: Table 1 shows the results of diagnostic tests of ascites fluid appearance in detection of SBP. Table 1: The results of diagnostic tests of ascites fluid appearance in detection of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis  Diagnostic tests Value (%) 95% confidence interval Accuracy 71.2 60.5-80.0 Sensitivity 46.9 30.8-63.6 Specificity 87.5 75.3-94.1 Positive predictive ratio 71.4 50.0-86.2 Negative predictive ratio 71.2 58.6-81.2 Positive likelihood ratio 3.8 1.6-8.6 Negative likelihood ratio 0.6 0.4-0.8 keywords: accuracy; appearance; ascites; ascites fluid; bacterial; cases; cirrhotic; color; department; detection; diagnostic; emergency; fluid; gross; hepatol; laboratory; medical; negative; paracentesis; patients; peritonitis; positive; results; sbp; sciences; sensitivity; specificity; spontaneous; study; university cache: aaem-122.pdf plain text: aaem-122.txt item: #61 of 640 id: aaem-1229 author: Bahardoust, Mansour ; Karimi Behnagh, Arman ; Bagherifard, Abolfazl ; Khodabandeh, Mehrdad ; Emami, Sayed Ali ; Ghasemi Assl, Shakiba ; Najd Mazhar, Farid title: Comparing the Severity of Injury and Trauma Pattern between Scooter and Street Motorcycle Riders; a Prospective Cohort Study date: 2021-06-08 words: 4753 flesch: 60 summary: A review of risk factors and patterns of motorcycle injuries. Khorasani-Zavareh D, Sadeghi-Bazargani H. Epidemio- logical pattern of motorcycle injuries with focus on rid- ing purpose: Experience from a middle-income country. keywords: access; accident; age; analysis; article; attribution; bahardoust; common; creative; data; death; emergency; factors; frequency; group; head; helmet; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injuries; injury; iran; license; lower; medical; medicine; mortality; motorbike; motorcycle; motorcycle riders; noncommercial; odds; open; outcomes; patients; pattern; rate; reports; riders; riding; risk; safety; sciences; scooter; severe; severity; speed; standard; street; study; terms; time; traffic; trauma; type; university; use; vehicle; vespa; years cache: aaem-1229.pdf plain text: aaem-1229.txt item: #62 of 640 id: aaem-123 author: Avila Alvarez, Albert Alejandro; Parra, Jose Fernando; Buitrago, Diego Andres; Rodriguez, Fernando; Moreno, Atilio title: Gastric Perforation and Phlegmon Formation by Foreign Body Ingestion date: 2014-06-10 words: 1641 flesch: 51 summary: Key words: Stomach; cellulitis; phlegmon; foreign body Cite this article as: Avila Alvarez AA, Parra JF, Buitrago DA, Rodriguez F, Moreno A. Gastric perforation and phlegmon formation by foreign body ingestion. The patient had a prolonged course because she did not report a history of foreign body ingestion and the initial evaluating physicians had no suspicion about possible foreign body ingestion and may have missed important findings on physical exami- nation. keywords: abdomen; acute; arrow; article; bodies; body; bogotá; case; colombia; course; d.c; department; emergency; examination; figure; foreign; formation; gastric; gastrointestinal; ingestion; medical; objects; patient; perforation; phlegmon; physical; report; slow; stomach; university cache: aaem-123.pdf plain text: aaem-123.txt item: #63 of 640 id: aaem-1230 author: Almasi, Sohrab; Rabiei, Reza; Moghaddasi, Hamid; Vahidi-Asl, Mojtaba title: Emergency Department Quality Dashboard; a Systematic Review of Performance Indicators, Functionalities, and Challenges : Quality dashboard in emergency department date: 2021-06-17 words: 6281 flesch: 59 summary: Inclusion and exclusion criteria The inclusion criteria were: 1) papers written in English; 2) papers on ED quality dashboards; and 3) papers on per- formance indicators and functionalities of ED quality dash- boards. 6. Conclusion and suggestion The findings of the current study indicated that applying key performance indicators for ED quality dashboard, includ- ing quality of care, patient flow, timeliness, costs, and re- sources, could improve utilization management and qual- ity of care. keywords: abs; academic; access; alert; article; attribution; authors; care; challenges; collection; commons; creative; customization; dashboard; data; department; design; display; drill; electronic; emergency; emergency department; et al; flow; functionalities; health; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; indicators; information; integration; key; lack; license; management; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; needs; noncommercial; number; open; p aronsky; p france; p franklin; p hester; p mazor; p mcgeorge; p p; p rasmussen; p staib; p yoo; papers; patients; performance; performance indicators; processes; quality; real; reporting; research; resource; results; review; search; status; studies; study; systematic; systems; table; technology; terms; time; timeliness; title; tracking; usa; use; wears cache: aaem-1230.pdf plain text: aaem-1230.txt item: #64 of 640 id: aaem-1231 author: Akhlaghdoust, Meisam ; Safari, Saeid; Davoodi, Poorya ; Soleimani, Shaghayegh ; Khorasani, Maryam ; Raoufizadeh, Fatemeh ; Karimi, Hosna ; Etesami, Elahe ; Hamzehloei, Zeynab ; Sadeghi, Seyedeh Sara ; Heidaresfahani, Ladan ; Ebadi Fard Azar, Tooba ; Afshari Badrloo, Haniyeh title: Awareness of Iranian Medical Sciences Students Towards Basic Life Support; a Cross-Sectional study date: 2021-05-20 words: 3236 flesch: 64 summary: The Findings in this cross-sectional study showed low aware- ness of BLS among medical sciences students. Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem M. Akhlaghdoust and et al. 4 awareness of medical sciences students regarding BLS. keywords: age; american; arrest; article; attribution; awareness; basic; bls; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; chest; commons; compression; cpr; creative; cross; depth; emergency; heart; international; iran; knowledge; level; license; life; low; mean; medical; medical sciences; medical students; mouth; noncommercial; number; ohca; open; participants; questionnaire; questions; research; results; resuscitation; sciences; sciences students; score; sectional; students; study; support; tehran; university cache: aaem-1231.pdf plain text: aaem-1231.txt item: #65 of 640 id: aaem-1237 author: Tantarattanapong, Siriwimon; Chonwanich, Nut; Senuphai, Wannipha title: Validation of Songklanagarind Pediatric Triage Model in the Emergency Department; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2021-05-20 words: 4186 flesch: 56 summary: Over-triage was defined as patients in pediatric triage levels 1, 2, or 3 who used <2 resources, or pediatric triage level 1 patients who were not admitted to the hospital (6). Conclusion: SPT showed good correlation of hospital admission rates and resource utilization with pediatric triage level of urgency. keywords: access; admission; analysis; appropriateness; article; assessment; attribution; commons; creative; data; department; developed; emergency; esi; factors; fever; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; level; license; medicine; model; noncommercial; number; nurses; open; patients; pediatric; pediatric triage; phase; physician; protocol; rates; resource; results; shock; signs; songklanagarind; spt; study; terms; thailand; triage; university; utilization; validity; version; vital cache: aaem-1237.pdf plain text: aaem-1237.txt item: #66 of 640 id: aaem-124 author: Tafakhori, Abbas; Siroos, Bahaadin; Ghabaii, Mojdeh; Harirchain, Mohammad Hossein; Tajdini, Masih; Kumar Garg, Sushil title: Hashimoto Encephalopathy in Case of Progressive Cognitive Impairment; a Case Report date: 2014-07-26 words: 1528 flesch: 49 summary: Key words: Encephalopathy; unconsciousness; cognition disorders; immunoglobulins, thyroid-stimulating; neuro- logic Manifestations Cite this article as: Tafakhori A, Siroos B, Ghabaii M, Harirchain MH, Tajdini M, Kumar Garg S. Hashimoto encephalopathy in case of progressive cognitive impairment; a case report. Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com 144 Emergency 2014; 2 (3): 144-146 CASE REPORT Hashimoto Encephalopathy in Case of Progressive Cognitive Impairment; a Case Report Abbas Tafakhori1, Bahaadin Siroos1*, Mojdeh Ghabaii1, Mohammad Hossein Harirchain1, Masih Tajdini1, Sushil Kumar Garg2 1. keywords: acute; anti; antibodies; article; blood; case; cerebral; clinical; cognitive; department; diagnosis; disorders; emergency; encephalopathy; figure; findings; fluid; hashimoto; heterogeneous; manifestations; matter; medical; neurol; neurological; neurology; normal; patients; report; sciences; studies; tehran; terms; thyroid; treatment; university; white cache: aaem-124.pdf plain text: aaem-124.txt item: #67 of 640 id: aaem-1247 author: Rasooli, Fatemeh; Bagheri, Farideh; Sadatnaseri, Azadeh; Ashraf, Haleh; Bahreini, Maryam title: Comparison of Emergency Echocardiographic Results between Cardiologists and an Emergency Medicine Resident in Acute Coronary Syndrome date: 2021-07-27 words: 4343 flesch: 52 summary: According to the routine protocol, patients are emergently visited by emergency medicine residents, stabilized, and then visited by internal medicine residents by request for car- diology visits. Focused cardiac ul- trasound (FOCUS) by emergency medicine residents in patients with suspected cardiovascular diseases. keywords: acceptable; accuracy; acs; acute; agreement; article; assessment; cabg; cardiac; cardiologists; care; coefficient; commons; comparison; coronary; data; department; disposition; echocardiography; effusion; ejection; em resident; emergency; emergency medicine; estimation; focused; fraction; function; heart; history; journal; left; license; low; lvef; mean; medical; medicine; motion; negative; patients; pericardial; physicians; point; predictive; resident; results; risk; rwma; score; specialists; standard; study; syndrome; tehran; timi; training; ultrasound; university; ventricular; wall cache: aaem-1247.pdf plain text: aaem-1247.txt item: #68 of 640 id: aaem-125 author: Hashemi, Behrooz; Pishgahi, Mehdi; Maleki, Marzieh title: Worsened Dysrhythmia after Chemical Cardioversion with Digoxin; a Case of Malpractice date: 2014-07-14 words: 1475 flesch: 52 summary: Management of patients with atrial fibrillation. 4. Kaushik M, Sharma M, Ganju N. Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome presenting as atrial fibrillation with wide-QRS complexes. keywords: accessory; article; atrial; beheshti; case; conduction; department; ecg; emergency; fibrillation; figure; heart; medical; normal; parkinson; pathway; patients; problems; qrs; rate; sciences; shahid; syndrome; tachycardia; tajrish; university; ventricular; white; wolff; wpw cache: aaem-125.pdf plain text: aaem-125.txt item: #69 of 640 id: aaem-1250 author: Haji Aghajani, Mohammad; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Aghamohammadi, Moazzameh; Pourhoseingholi, Asma; Taherpour, Niloufar; Sistanizad, Mohammad; Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Asadpoordezaki, Ziba; Miri, Reza title: Electrocardiographic Findings and In-Hospital Mortality of COVID-19 Patients; a Retrospective Cohort Study date: 2021-06-12 words: 6150 flesch: 56 summary: Although several studies have been performed to evaluate the prognostic value of electro- cardiographic findings for mortality of COVID-19 patients, most of these studies have a small sample size and they only assess the relationship between electrocardiographic find- ings at the time of admission and patients’ overall mortality (12). It was also found that the presence of sinus tachycardia and abnormal R Wave progres- sion in precordial leads, both in the first and the second ECG of patients has a significant independent relationship with in-hospital mortality in COVID-19 patients. keywords: abnormal; access; admission; analysis; arrhythmia; article; atrial; attribution; block; cardiac; changes; commons; contraction; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; depression; disease; ecg; ecgs; electrocardiographic; elevation; emergency; factors; fibrillation; findings; heart; hospital; hospital mortality; hospitalization; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; independent; interval; journal; leads; license; medical; medicine; mortality; noncommercial; open; patients; premature; presence; prognostic; progression; risk; second; segment; severe; sinus; study; supraventricular; table; tachycardia; terms; time; university; wave; yes cache: aaem-1250.pdf plain text: aaem-1250.txt item: #70 of 640 id: aaem-126 author: Kalantarimeibodi, Mohammad title: Door to Electrocardiography (ECG) and Needle Times in Patients with Myocardial Infarction date: 2018-12-02 words: 546 flesch: 62 summary: Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com Emergency (2014);2(4): 150 150 LETTER TO EDITOR Door to Electrocardiography (ECG) and Needle Times in Patients with Myocardial Infarction Mohammad Kalantari Meibodi* Emergency Medicine Trauma Research Center, Shiraz Medical University, Shiraz Iran *Corresponding Author: Mohammad Kalantari Meibodi; Department of Emergency Medicine, Nemazi Hospital, Zand Avenue, Zand Square, Shiraz 71937-11351, Iran. Based on the current standards, less than 10 and 30 minutes are esti- mated for appropriate door to electrocardiography (ECG) and door to needle times, respectively (2). keywords: door; ecg; emergency; heart; hospital; infarction; iran; mean; med; minutes; myocardial; needle; patients; shiraz; time cache: aaem-126.pdf plain text: aaem-126.txt item: #71 of 640 id: aaem-1266 author: Tantarattanapong, Siriwimon; Hemwej, Thanaporn title: Door-to-antibiotic Time and In-hospital Mortality of Elder Patients Presenting to Emergency Department with Sepsis; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2021-06-11 words: 4956 flesch: 59 summary: Conclusion: Door-to-antibiotic time was not associ- ated with in-hospital mortality in elderly sepsis patients in this study. The secondary outcomes were the factors that affected the delay in antibiotic initiation and the most prevalent sources of in- fection in elderly sepsis patients who visited the ED. 2.5. keywords: academic; access; administration; age; analysis; antibiotic; antibiotic time; archives; arrival; article; attribution; blood; body; care; characteristics; commons; creative; critical; data; delay; department; door; e44; elderly; emergency; factors; fever; group; higher; hospital; hospital mortality; hour; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infection; initiation; iqr; license; median; medicine; mortality; news; noncommercial; open; outcomes; patients; prince; rate; sepsis; septic; severe; shock; significant; songkla; study; tantarattanapong; temperature; terms; thailand; time; university; years cache: aaem-1266.pdf plain text: aaem-1266.txt item: #72 of 640 id: aaem-1267 author: Ghadimi, Neda ; Hanifi, Nasrin; Dinmohammadi, Mohammadreza title: Factors Affecting Pre-Hospital and In-Hospital Delays in Treatment of Ischemic Stroke; a Prospective Cohort Study date: 2021-07-24 words: 4849 flesch: 63 summary: that absence of awareness of stroke symptoms, patients’ be- liefs and misconceptions about the prime symptoms, and failure to consult an individual after the onset of the symp- toms resulted in longer delays in hospital arrival and time- to-treatment for stroke patients (11, 12, 17, 19, 22-27). In Iran, the stroke code (Code 724) was announced by Iran’s Ministry of Health to the medical universities in 2016 to treat stroke patients more effectively. keywords: access; acute; ais; arrival; article; attribution; brain; care; causes; center; code; commons; consultation; creative; data; delay; door; e52; early; emergency; ems; et al; factors; families; hospital; hospital delay; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; interval; iran; ischemic; ischemic stroke; license; longer; mean; medical; medicine; min; minutes; neurology; noncommercial; onset; open; participants; patients; perception; pre; prehospital; questionnaire; research; results; risk; rtpa; scan; sciences; scu; stroke; study; symptoms; table; terms; time; transfer; treatment; unit; variables; zanjan cache: aaem-1267.pdf plain text: aaem-1267.txt item: #73 of 640 id: aaem-127 author: Hosseini, Marjan; Karami, Zohreh; Janzadeh, Atousa; Jameie, Seyed Behnamedin; Haji Mashadi, Zahra; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Nasirinezhad, Farinaz title: The Effect of Intrathecal Administration of Muscimol on Modulation of Neuropathic Pain Symptoms Resulting from Spinal Cord Injury; an Experimental Study date: 2018-12-02 words: 4430 flesch: 61 summary: Physiology Research Center, Department of Physiology, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Abstract Introduction: Neuropathic pain can be very difficult to treat and it is one of the important medical challenging about pain treatments. Thus, the present study was performed to evaluate the pain alleviating effect of intrathecal injection of different doses of muscimol as GABAA receptor agonist in spinal cord injury (SCI) model of neuropathic pain. keywords: access; administration; allodynia; analysis; animals; article; attribution; beheshti; causes; chronic; cold; commons; copyright; cord; creative; difference; dorsal; doses; drug; effect; effectiveness; emergency; gabaa; hind; hour; hyperalgesia; injury; intrathecal; iran; license; management; mechanical; mechanical allodynia; mechanisms; medical; minutes; model; muscimol; neuropathic; neuropathic pain; noncommercial; open; p<0.001; pain; patients; paw; present; rats; receptor; rights; sciences; shahid; significant; spinal; studies; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; test; thermal; time; treatment; university; withdrawal; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-127.pdf plain text: aaem-127.txt item: #74 of 640 id: aaem-1271 author: Tantarattanapong, Siriwimon; Keeratipongpun, Keerati title: Predictive Factors of 30-day Adverse Events in Acute Heart Failure after Discharge from Emergency Department; a Historical Cohort Study date: 2021-09-01 words: 4631 flesch: 60 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2021; 9(1): e58 Table 1: Comparing the baseline characteristics between acute heart failure patients with and without 30-day adverse outcome Variables 30-day adverse event p value With (n=81) Without (n=340) Age (year) Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem S. Tantarattanapong and K. Keeratipongpun 4 Table 2: Comparing the clinical presentations and laboratory findings between acute heart failure patients with and without 30-day adverse outcome Variables 30-day adverse event p value With (n=81) Without (n=340) NYHA functional class at the ED I 0 keywords: 0.001; acute; adj; administration; adverse; adverse events; ahf; analysis; anemia; article; commons; copd; creative; criteria; data; day; day adverse; days; department; discharge; disease; diuretic; emergency; european; events; factors; failure; follow; heart; heart failure; hospital; iii; intravenous; kidney; license; malignancy; median; medicine; minutes; mortality; nyha; patients; precipitating; predictive; rate; risk; sodium; study; terms; time; underlying; valvular; variables cache: aaem-1271.pdf plain text: aaem-1271.txt item: #75 of 640 id: aaem-1272 author: Masoumi, Babak; Azizkhani, Reza; Heydari, Farhad; Zamani, Majid; Nasr Isfahani, Mehdi title: The Role of Cardiac Arrest Sonographic Exam (CASE) in Predicting the Outcome of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; a Cross-sectional Study: Cardiac Arrest Sonographic Exam date: 2021-06-26 words: 5099 flesch: 55 summary: Rate of ROSC in previous studies on cardiac arrest patients with cardiac activity range from 24% to 73% (5). Accuracy of point-of-care focused echocardiography in predicting outcome of resuscitation in cardiac arrest patients: a systematic review and meta- analysis. keywords: absence; access; activity; admission; arrest; article; asystole; attribution; cardiac; cardiac activity; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary; care; cases; circulation; commons; cpr; creative; department; discharge; electrical; emergency; hospital; hospital discharge; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; initial; license; life; medicine; non; noncommercial; open; patients; pea; presence; pseudo; pulseless; rate; resuscitation; reversible; rhythm; rosc; shockable; standstill; studies; study; support; survival; table; terms; true; ultrasonography; ultrasound cache: aaem-1272.pdf plain text: aaem-1272.txt item: #76 of 640 id: aaem-1278 author: Hadipourzadeh, Mehdi ; Ebrahimi, Sara ; Ziaeefar, Pardis ; Zamani, Nasim; Falahati, Hassan ; Roberts, Darren M ; Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein title: Comparing the Clinical Characteristics, Laboratory Findings, and Outcomes between Epidemic and Episodic Methanol Poisoning Referrals; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2021-06-12 words: 5033 flesch: 51 summary: Poisoning risk may be higher during methanol outbreaks due to the higher methanol concentrations, requiring more hemodialysis sessions for persistent metabolic acidosis. Double trouble: methanol outbreak in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Iran–a cross- sectional assessment. keywords: access; acidosis; admission; alcohol; article; attribution; beheshti; blood; cases; clinical; commons; concentration; creative; data; death; dehydrogenase; emergency; epidemic; episodic; factors; group; hassanian; hemodialysis; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; intoxication; iran; laboratory; lactate; ldh; license; medical; medicine; metabolic; methanol; methanol poisoning; mmhg; moghaddam; noncommercial; open; outbreak; outcomes; patients; poisoning; presentation; rate; respiratory; risk; sciences; serum; sessions; significant; signs; study; symptoms; table; terms; time; toxicology; university; visual cache: aaem-1278.pdf plain text: aaem-1278.txt item: #77 of 640 id: aaem-128 author: Jahanshir, Amirhosein; Karimialavijeh, Ehsan; Motahar Vahedi, Hojjat Sheikh; Momeni, Mehdi title: Smartphones and Medical Apps in the Practice of Emergency Medicine in Iran date: 2017-01-05 words: 3136 flesch: 58 summary: Conclusion: The findings of present study showed that smartphones are very popular among Iranian interns and residents in emergency department and a substantial number of them own a smartphone and are using medical apps regularly in their clinical practice. The reliability of medical apps is also under debate (14). keywords: access; age; android; applications; apps; article; attribution; care; clinical; commons; creative; daily; data; department; drug; emergency; evidence; hospital; information; international; interns; ios; iran; license; market; medical; medical apps; medicine; mobile; noncommercial; number; open; operating; participants; patient; physicians; popular; practice; questionnaire; residents; respondents; results; smartphone; students; study; survey; systems; terms; use; web cache: aaem-128.pdf plain text: aaem-128.txt item: #78 of 640 id: aaem-1281 author: Nasr Isfahani, Mehdi ; Nasri Nasrabadi, Elahe title: Comparison of Digital (Two-finger) and Video Laryngoscopy Methods during Nasogastric Tube Insertion in Intubated Patients: Digital (Two-finger) and Video Laryngoscopy Methods during NGT Insertion date: 2021-08-16 words: 4782 flesch: 56 summary: There is a variety of NGT insertion methods for intubated pa- tients in EDs, among which Digital and Video Laryngoscopy are two routine methods that can be employed (6). Results: The mean duration of NGT insertion in group A was significantly higher than that of group B (19.07 ± 2.07 vs 11.53 ± 2.16 seconds; P value=0.001). keywords: access; addition; article; attempt; attribution; better; blind; bmi; clinical; commons; creative; data; devices; digital; digital method; duration; emergency; factors; finger; group; group b; higher; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; insertion; intubated; intubation; isfahan; laryngoscopy; laryngoscopy method; license; mean; medicine; method; nasogastric; ngt; ngt insertion; noncommercial; o2sat; open; patients; present; pressure; rate; results; satisfaction; sbp; significant; study; success; success rate; successful; terms; trial; tube; tube insertion; value; video; video laryngoscopy cache: aaem-1281.pdf plain text: aaem-1281.txt item: #79 of 640 id: aaem-1286 author: Shaterian, Negin; Abdi, Fatemeh; Atarodi Kashani, Zahra; Shaterian, Negar; Darvishmotevalli, Mohammad title: Facemask and Respirator in Reducing the Spread of Respiratory Viruses; a Systematic Review date: 2021-08-16 words: 8293 flesch: 57 summary: A cluster randomized clinical trial comparing fit-tested and non-fit-tested N95 respirators to medical masks to prevent respiratory virus infection in health care workers. Surgical mask (33%) Influenza B P_value=0.19 P_value=0.32 Adenoviruses Daily hand wash P_value=0.21 Respiratory syncytial virus Chandini Raina Mac- Intyre (2009) (25) Parainfluenza viruses 1,2 and 3 Household contacts P2 mask (32.4%) P_value=0.12 Yes:8% No:92% Human metapneu- movirus Coronavirus OC43 Using soap for washing hand P_value=0.87 Picornaviruses Rhinoviruses Enteroviruses Uncharacterized no Sequenced picor- naviruses *These percentages were reported from 37 health care workers who were tested for SARS-CoV-2 and participated in interviews in this study. keywords: 9(1; academic; access; analysis; archives; article; attribution; care; clinical; cloth; cohort; commons; consort; contact; control; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; creative; department; different; diseases; distance; duration; e56; effect; efficacy; emergency; equipment; et al; facemask; group; h1n1; hand; hcws; health; healthcare; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hygiene; illness; important; infected; infection; influenza; interventions; iran; lack; license; like; macintyre; masks; medical; medicine; mers; mesh; methods; n95; noncommercial; number; open; outcome; p_value>0.05; pandemic; participants; patient; people; percentage; personnel; ppe; prevention; protective; public; quality; respiratory; respiratory viruses; results; review; risk; sample; sars; sciences; shaterian; size; spread; staff; studies; study; surgical; symptoms; syndrome; systematic; table; terms; transmission; trial; type; university; viruses; workers cache: aaem-1286.pdf plain text: aaem-1286.txt item: #80 of 640 id: aaem-1289 author: Alipoor, Elham; Hosseinzadeh-Attar , Mohammad Javad; Salehi, Shiva; Dahmardehei, Mostafa; Yaseri, Mehdi; Emami, Mohammad Reza; Hajian, Mehdi ; Rezayat, Seyed Mahdi; Jazayeri, Shima title: Effect of Collagen Hydrolysate and Fish Oil on High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Glucose Homeostasis in Patients with severe Burn; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2021-07-05 words: 6010 flesch: 57 summary: Adding omega-3 FAs to collagen was associated with clinical, but not statistical, improvement in insulin resistance and sig- nificant decrease of hs-CRP levels compared to the control group throughout the study, which suggests the synergistic effects of collagen and omega-3 FAs. Thus, considering the importance of alleviating post-burn pathophysiological disorders with appropriate intervention and given the promising effects reported for collagen and omega-3 FAs in non-burn studies, this trial aimed to assess the effect of collagen hydrolysate and omega-3 FAs on in- flammation and glucose homeostasis in patients with major burns. keywords: access; acids; anti; article; attribution; baseline; burns; care; changes; clinical; collagen; collagen+omega-3; commons; control; creative; crp; department; differences; effects; emergency; end; enteral; fas; fatty; fbg; fish; formula; glucose; group; healing; high; homa; homeostasis; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hydrolysate; inflammation; inflammatory; injury; insulin; intervention; iran; levels; license; lower; major; medical; medicine; metabolic; noncommercial; nutrition; oil; omega-3; open; patients; post; preto; protein; randomized; resistance; response; results; sciences; severe; significant; stress; studies; study; supplementation; surg; table; tbsa; tehran; terms; test; total; trial; university; values; week-2; weeks; wound cache: aaem-1289.pdf plain text: aaem-1289.txt item: #81 of 640 id: aaem-129 author: Esmailian, Mehrdad; Zamani, Majid; Azadi, Fatemeh; Ghasemi, Faezeh title: Inter-Rater Agreement of Emergency Nurses and Physicians in Emergency Severity Index (ESI) Triage date: 2018-12-02 words: 2624 flesch: 68 summary: This study was aimed to evaluate the accuracy of emergency nursing triage using ESI. For example, Goransson et al demon- strated that registered nurses triage had only 58% agreement with the expected acuity rating. keywords: access; accuracy; acuity; agreement; article; canadian; care; department; emergency; esi; esmailian; groups; hospital; index; initial; inter; interval; iran; isfahan; kappa; knowledge; level; manchester; med; medical; minutes; nurses; nursing; patients; physicians; rater; reliability; results; sciences; severity; study; system; table; terms; time; triage; university; van cache: aaem-129.pdf plain text: aaem-129.txt item: #82 of 640 id: aaem-13 author: Delavar Kasmaei, Hosein; Baratloo, Alireza; Soleymani, Maryam title: A 33-year-old woman with severe postpartum headache date: 2018-11-13 words: 1586 flesch: 52 summary: However, it is likely that the dramatic changes occurring after delivery are the most signif- icant factors, intensified by the relatively long time spent in bed after CS and CS itself seems to contrib- ute little to cerebral vein thrombosis (5, 6). However, cerebral vein thrombosis remains a po- tentially life-threatening complication. keywords: anticoagulation; article; beheshti; brain; cases; cerebral; cortical; department; diagnosis; emergency; factors; figure; headache; hospital; imaging; intracranial; magnetic; medical; mri; neurology; postpartum; pregnancy; resonance; sciences; severe; shahid; shohadaye; tajrish; thrombosis; treatment; university; vein; venous cache: aaem-13.pdf plain text: aaem-13.txt item: #83 of 640 id: aaem-130 author: Zohrevandi, Behzad; Tajik, Hosna title: A Survey of Patients' Satisfaction in Emergency Department of Rasht Poursina Hospital date: 2018-12-02 words: 2967 flesch: 60 summary: The mean score of total satisfac- tion of ED patients was 106.94±13.62 (range: 72-144). The mean score of total satisfaction of ED patients was 106.94±13.62 (range: 72-144). keywords: aspects; behavioral; care; comfort; department; emergency; health; hospital; iran; length; level; mean; medical; number; nurse; patients; physical; physicians; poursina; quality; questions; rasht; residential; satisfaction; sciences; scores; sections; services; shift; significant; stay; study; time; total; university; waiting cache: aaem-130.pdf plain text: aaem-130.txt item: #84 of 640 id: aaem-1305 author: Mehdi, Zainab; Bhardwaj , Nidhi ; Aggarwal, Jyoti ; Kaur, Narinder ; Singh, Brijdeep title: Facial Nerve Palsy with Total Ophthalmoplegia; a Novel Presentation of Fungal Invasion date: 2021-07-28 words: 3501 flesch: 46 summary: He received a total dose of 4125 milligrams of amphotericin B. Due to advanced fun- gal invasion of left optic nerve and subsequent thrombosis of ophthalmic artery, his left eye could not be salvaged. Facial nerve palsy is mostly attributed to peripheral neuropa- thy in patients with advanced diabetes mellitus. keywords: access; acquisition; acute; artery; article; attribution; blood; case; cavernous; cerebral; clinical; commons; contrast; cranial; creative; data; days; debridement; department; diabetes; editing; emergency; endoscopic; eye; facial; figure; fungal; history; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infection; intracranial; invasion; invasive; journal; left; license; literature; loss; lower; manuscript; medical; medicine; mehdi; mellitus; mucormycosis; multiple; nasal; nerve; noncommercial; occlusion; open; ophthalmoplegia; optic; orbital; palsy; patient; presentation; retinal; review; rhino; right; search; sinus; terms; therapy; thrombosis; total; treatment; wall cache: aaem-1305.pdf plain text: aaem-1305.txt item: #85 of 640 id: aaem-131 author: Salman, Saad; Idrees, Jawaria; Hassan, Fahad; Idrees, Fariha; Arifullah, Mashaal; Badshah, Sareer title: Predictive Factors of Suicide Attempt and Non-Suicidal Self-Harm in Emergency Department date: 2018-12-02 words: 2812 flesch: 58 summary: In the present study, the predictive factors of suicide attempt and non-suicidal self-harm were evaluated in patients referred to emergency department (ED) with these problem. Methods: The total number of 45 pa- tients with suicide attempt or self-harm admitted to ED were included. keywords: admission; adolescents; analysis; anxiety; attempt; baseline; clinical; data; department; depression; disorders; emergency; factors; family; follow; hamilton; harm; health; history; hopelessness; independent; injury; intent; items; life; medical; non; pakistan; patients; period; peshawar; physical; predictive; quality; scale; self; social; study; suicidal; suicidal self; suicidality; suicide; table; time; university cache: aaem-131.pdf plain text: aaem-131.txt item: #86 of 640 id: aaem-1316 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Rafiei Alavi, Seyedeh Niloufar; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Gubari, Mohammed I M ; Zareie Shab Khaneh, Amirali ; Karimi Ghahfarokhi, Maryam; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Active and Passive Immunization with Myelin Basic Protein as a Method for Early Treatment of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury; a Meta-Analysis date: 2021-08-30 words: 6777 flesch: 53 summary: It should be kept in mind that publica- tion bias was not observed in either active immunization (p = 0.131) or passive immunization studies (p = 0.272) The most impor- tant sources of heterogeneity in active immunization were differences in SCI models, route of administration, time interval between SCI and transplantation, and type of vaccine used. keywords: a91; abs; access; active; active immunization; administration; analysis; animals; article; assessment; attribution; basic; bias; cells; commons; contusion; cord; cord injury; creative; data; effect; experiments; female; function; heterogeneity; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; immune; immunization; injury; interval; journal; key; license; mbp; medicine; meta; method; model; moderate; motor; myelin; neuroscience; noncommercial; open; outcome; p p; passive; passive immunization; protein; rats; recovery; results; risk; sci; search; severe; smd; spinal; spinal cord; studies; study; terms; time; title; transection; transplantation; traumatic; treatment; vaccination; wang cache: aaem-1316.pdf plain text: aaem-1316.txt item: #87 of 640 id: aaem-132 author: Jelodar, Sina; Yadollahi, Mahnaz; Jafari, Peyman; Sabetian Jahromi, Golnar; Khalili, Hoseynali; Abbasi, Hamidreza; Bolandparvaz, Shahram; Paydar, Shahram title: Potential Risk Factors of Death in Multiple Trauma Patients date: 2018-12-02 words: 2716 flesch: 66 summary: The aim of this study was to identify independent risk factors of death in trauma patients. The purpose of this study was determining potential risk factors of death in trauma patients. keywords: abnormal; access; age; analysis; article; blood; data; death; department; disease; emergency; factors; fracture; gcs; head; hospital; independent; injury; iran; iss; medical; mortality; multiple; national; neck; patients; predictive; predictors; presence; pressure; pulse; pupil; rate; research; results; risk; sciences; score; shahid; shiraz; size; study; trauma; treatable; type; university; vertebral; years; yes cache: aaem-132.pdf plain text: aaem-132.txt item: #88 of 640 id: aaem-1325 author: Jandaghian, Setareh; Vaezi, Atefeh; Manteghinejad, Amirreza; Nasirian, Maryam; Vaseghi, Golnaz; Haghjooy Javanmard, Shaghayegh title: Red Blood Cell Distribution Width (RDW) as a Predictor of In-Hospital Mortality in COVID-19 Patients; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2021-10-13 words: 5067 flesch: 58 summary: In the current study, the possible association between ele- vated RDW on admission and mortality risk in COVID-19 pa- tients was assessed and as assumed, elevated RDW was asso- ciated with mortality in COVID-19 patients. As shown by the results of our study, an elevated RDW at the time of admission in COVID-19 patients is associated with a higher mortality rate (21.2% in patients with elevated RDW compared to 7.8% in patients with normal RDW ) in all age groups. keywords: access; admission; age; analysis; article; association; attribution; blood; blood cell; care; cases; cell; cell distribution; clinical; commons; covid-19; creative; data; disease; distribution; distribution width; elevated; elevated rdw; groups; hazard; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; intensive; iran; isfahan; laboratory; license; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; non; noncommercial; normal; open; patients; predictor; rate; rdw; red; research; respiratory; results; risk; saturation; sciences; severe; significant; study; table; terms; unit; university; value; width; years cache: aaem-1325.pdf plain text: aaem-1325.txt item: #89 of 640 id: aaem-133 author: Rasoulinejad, Seyed Ahmad; Sadeghi, Mahmoud; Montazeri, Mohammad; Hedayati Goudarzi, Hesam; Montazeri, Mahmood; Akbarian, Nadali title: Clinical Presentation and Microbial Analyses of Contact Lens Keratitis; an Epidemiologic Study date: 2018-12-02 words: 2987 flesch: 55 summary: Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of all patients with contact lens induced corneal ulcers admitted to the teaching hospitals of Babol, Iran, from 2011- 2013. Although corneal ulcer is a rare complica- tion of contact lens wear, increasing in the number of lens wearers and the risk of blindness, provide im- portant reasons to evaluate patients with contact lens induced corneal ulcers (9, 10). keywords: acuity; age; article; awareness; babol; care; cases; causative; clinical; clk; contact; contact lens; corneal; culture; disinfection; emergency; eye; eyes; infectious; iran; keratitis; lens; lenses; loss; mean; medical; microbial; ocular; ophthalmol; ophthalmologist; outcome; pain; patients; pseudomonas; redness; results; risk; sciences; soft; staphylococcus; study; treatment; ulcers; university; vision; visual; wearers; years; young cache: aaem-133.pdf plain text: aaem-133.txt item: #90 of 640 id: aaem-1335 author: Bidari, Ali; Jafarnejad, Shabahang; Alaei Faradonbeh, Nazanin title: Effect of Queue Management System on Patient Satisfaction in Emergency Department; a Randomized Controlled Trial date: 2021-09-05 words: 4287 flesch: 56 summary: Waiting time has been weighed as a signif- icant determinant of patient satisfaction. there are two types of waiting time: 1) keywords: academic; actual; actual waiting; article; attribution; bidari; care; commons; control; control group; creative; data; department; effect; emergency; emergency department; emergency medicine; group; health; higher; hospital; increase; information; intervention; intervention group; iran; level; license; management; management system; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; parents; patient; patient satisfaction; pediatric; perception; queue; queue management; room; satisfaction; service; stress; study; system; terms; time; triage; waiting; waiting time cache: aaem-1335.pdf plain text: aaem-1335.txt item: #91 of 640 id: aaem-134 author: Sadr Mohammadi, Rezvan; Mahdian, Mehrdad; Bidaki, Reza; Mostafavi, Seyed-Ali title: Essential Thrombocytosis Following Multiple Psychic Traumas date: 2018-12-02 words: 1574 flesch: 52 summary: Key words: Stress disorders, post-traumatic; thrombocytosis; case management; case reports Cite this article as: Sadr Mohammadi R, Mahdian M, Bidaki R, Mostafavi SA. This report has introduced an individual exposure to traumatic stress which has currently lower social sup- port with higher rates of post-traumatic stress and as- sociated disorders. keywords: acute; associated; blood; boscarino; case; cell; chronic; clinical; count; cytokines; department; disorders; emergency; essential; exposure; immune; iran; lymphocyte; medical; multiple; patient; platelet; psychic; ptsd; rafsanjan; report; research; sciences; severe; stress; thrombocytosis; thrombosis; traumas; traumatic; university; years cache: aaem-134.pdf plain text: aaem-134.txt item: #92 of 640 id: aaem-135 author: Montazeri, Mohammad; Farhangi, Bahman; Montazeri, Mahmood title: Pneumatic Rupture of Rectosigmoid; a Case Report date: 2018-12-02 words: 1696 flesch: 60 summary: Discussion: Pneumatic rectosigmoid rupture usually happen follow- ing the joke and in work places using compressed air. Multiple perforations of colon after compressed air injury. keywords: abdominal; air; babol; case; colon; compressed; diagnosis; emergency; event; fun; high; injury; medical; pain; patient; perforation; peritoneal; pneumatic; pneumoperitoneum; pressure; rectosigmoid; rectum; report; respiratory; rupture; symptoms; time; university; volume cache: aaem-135.pdf plain text: aaem-135.txt item: #93 of 640 id: aaem-136 author: Motamedi, Maryam; Baratloo, Alireza; Majidi, Alireza; Rahmati, Farhad; Shahrami, Ali title: Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma; a Case Report date: 2018-12-02 words: 2063 flesch: 57 summary: Key words: Hematoma, epidural, spinal; back pain; case reports Cite this article as: Motamedi M, Baratloo A, Majidi A, Rahmati F, Shahrami A. Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma; a case report. Matsumura A, Namikawa T, Hashimoto R, et al. Clinical management for spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma: diagnosis and treatment. keywords: article; beheshti; blood; case; conservative; deficit; department; diagnosis; disease; emergency; epidural; examination; hematoma; history; hospital; knees; low; male; medical; medicine; mri; neurologic; old; pain; patient; pressure; rare; report; sciences; severe; shahid; spinal; spontaneous; sshe; surgery; terms; time; treatment; university cache: aaem-136.pdf plain text: aaem-136.txt item: #94 of 640 id: aaem-1360 author: Farrokhi, Mehrdad; Yarmohammadi, Bardia ; Mangouri, Amir ; Hekmatnia, Yasaman ; Bahramvand, Yaser ; Kiani, Moein ; Nasrollahi, Elham ; Nazari-Sabet, Milad ; Manoochehri-Arash, Niusha ; Khurshid, Maria ; Mosalanejad, Shima ; Hajizadeh, Vida ; Amani-Beni, Reza ; Moallem, Masoumeh ; Farahmandsadr, Maryam title: Screening Performance Characteristics of Ultrasonography in Confirmation of Endotracheal Intubation; A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2021-10-26 words: 5278 flesch: 58 summary: (28) 2017 75 ED 61.1 62.7 Dynamic Linear 0 DV Masoumi et al. James SL, Castle CD, Dingels ZV, Fox JT, Hamilton EB, Liu Z, et al. keywords: academic; access; accidents; accuracy; analysis; archives; article; assessment; attribution; cap; capnography; commons; confirmation; creative; curvilinear; data; diagnostic; different; dynamic; e68; emergency; endotracheal; endotracheal tube; esophageal; et al; factors; farrokhi; figure; health; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injuries; injury; intubation; iran; license; linear; location; medical; medicine; meta; noncommercial; open; patients; placement; pooled; ratio; research; results; risk; road; sciences; sensitivity; specificity; static; studies; study; systematic; tehran; terms; traffic; trauma; tube; tube placement; ultrasonography; university; © chou; © karacabey; © zamani; © © cache: aaem-1360.pdf plain text: aaem-1360.txt item: #95 of 640 id: aaem-1363 author: Haji Aghajani, Mohammad; Asadpoordezaki, Ziba; Haghighi , Mehrdad; Pourhoseingoli, Asma; Taherpour, Niloufar; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Sistanizad, Mohammad title: Effect of Underlying Cardiovascular Disease on the Prognosis of COVID-19 Patients; a Sex and Age-Dependent Analysis date: 2021-09-29 words: 4728 flesch: 57 summary: Conclusion: COVID-19 patients with a history of car- diovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary artery disease, especially those in specific age and sex groups, are high-risk patients for in-hospital mortality. We also evaluated the effect of drugs previously used by COVID-19 patients, including Beta blockers, Angiotensin Converting Enzyme inhibitors (ACEi), Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARB), anticoagulants, and antiplatelet drugs, on their outcome. keywords: access; acei; age; analysis; angiotensin; arb; artery; article; association; attribution; beheshti; cardiovascular; clinical; commons; coronary; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; data; dead; death; different; disease; disorders; drugs; effect; estrogen; factor; females; history; hospital; hospitalization; htn; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypertension; infection; iran; journal; license; medical; medications; medicine; model; mortality; multivariable; noncommercial; old; open; outcome; patients; previous; protective; receptor; research; results; risk; severe; sex; shahid; significant; studies; study; tehran; terms; underlying; univariate; university; variables; years; yes cache: aaem-1363.pdf plain text: aaem-1363.txt item: #96 of 640 id: aaem-137 author: Eizadi, Parisa; Jalili, Mohammad; Dehpour, Ahmadreza title: Oral Oxycodone Compared With Intravenous Morphine Sulfate for Pain Management of Isolated Limb Trauma; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-08-26 words: 3500 flesch: 57 summary: Also mean pain score in oxycodone group was 7.35 ± 1.55 at the time Secondary outcomes Dizziness was reported more frequently in morphine sul- fate group compared to oxycodone group. keywords: access; acute; administration; adverse; analgesic; analysis; article; attribution; clinical; commons; creative; data; department; drug; effective; effects; emergency; groups; intravenous; journal; license; limb; management; mean; medical; minutes; morphine; noncommercial; open; opioid; oral; oxycodone; pain; participants; patients; randomized; results; sciences; score; similar; study; sulfate; table; tehran; terms; time; trauma; trial; university cache: aaem-137.pdf plain text: aaem-137.txt item: #97 of 640 id: aaem-1376 author: Heydari, Farhad; Azizkhani, Reza; Ahmadi, Omid; Majidinejad, Saeed; Nasr-Esfahani, Mohammad; Ahmadi, Ahmad title: Physiologic Scoring Systems versus Glasgow Coma Scale in Predicting In-Hospital Mortality of Trauma Patients; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2021-09-23 words: 4300 flesch: 62 summary: Conclusion: It seems that REMS is more accurate than GCS, ISS, and MEWS in predicting in-hospital mortality ≥ 24 hours of multiple trauma patients. Data gathering After multiple trauma patients arrived at the ED, the triage nurse evaluated them on the basis of Emergency Severity In- dex (ESI) version 4, and then, the patients were transferred to the emergency room according to the level of the triage. keywords: access; admission; age; article; attribution; auc; calculated; coma; commons; creative; data; department; early; emergency; emergency medicine; gcs; glasgow; hospital; hospital mortality; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injuries; injury; isfahan; iss; license; mean; medical; medicine; mews; modified; mortality; multiple; noncommercial; open; patients; predictor; rapid; rate; rems; results; scale; score; scoring; severity; study; systems; terms; trauma; trauma patients; triage; variables; warning cache: aaem-1376.pdf plain text: aaem-1376.txt item: #98 of 640 id: aaem-138 author: Mirhaghi, Amir; Ebrahimi, Mohsen title: Regression to Middle Effect May Threaten Validity of Triage Scales; a Letter to Editor date: 2018-10-24 words: 986 flesch: 66 summary: Their error remains as low as possible when they choose triage level 3. Triage level 3 is a safe category because it fits a significant portion of incoming patients and it differs only one level from triage level 2 or 4 in case of wrong selection. Almost six percent of the intensive care unit (ICU) patients were assigned to triage level 4 and 5 (2). keywords: acuity; care; effect; emergency; kim; ktas; level; mashhad; medical; middle; nurses; patients; regression; scale; triage; validity cache: aaem-138.pdf plain text: aaem-138.txt item: #99 of 640 id: aaem-1381 author: Goodarzi, Afshin ; Khodaveisi, Masoud ; Abdi, Alireza ; Salimi, Rasoul ; Oshvandi, Khodayar title: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcomes of Patients with COVID-19; a One-Year Survey date: 2021-11-04 words: 6397 flesch: 57 summary: Mir T, Sattar Y, Ahmad J, Ullah W, Shanah L, Alraies MC, et al. Outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest in COVID-19 patients: A proportional prevalence meta- analysis. CPR success rate among patients with in-hospital CPR was also higher than patients with out-of-hospital CPR. keywords: 0(0; access; administration; age; american; analysis; arrest; arrival; article; association; asystole; attribution; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; cardiovascular; care; cases; characteristics; circulation; commons; council; covid-19; cpr; cpr success; creative; data; discharge; disease; doses; duration; dysrhythmias; emergency; epinephrine; findings; goodarzi; hamadan; heart; high; hospital; hospital cardiac; hospital discharge; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; interval; iran; journal; license; lower; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; noncommercial; open; outcomes; participants; patients; present; prevalence; primary; rate; resuscitation; rhythm; rosc; sciences; shockable; significant; studies; study; success; survival; terms; time; university; ventricular; yes cache: aaem-1381.pdf plain text: aaem-1381.txt item: #100 of 640 id: aaem-1384 author: Najafi, Baharak; Shadnia, Shahin; Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein; Heydarian, Amir; Mahdavinejad, Arezou; Zamani, Nasim title: Fentanyl versus Methadone in Management of Withdrawal Syndrome in Opioid Addicted Patients; a Pilot Clinical Trial date: 2021-09-13 words: 2938 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords: Methadone; Fentanyl; Substance withdrawal syndrome; Drug therapy; Intensive care units Cite this article as: Najafi B, Shadnia S, Hassanian-Moghaddam H, Heydarian A, Mahdavinejad A, Zamani N. Fentanyl versus Methadone in Management of Withdrawal Syndrome in Opioid Addicted Patients; a Pilot Clinical Trial. Abstract: Introduction: The most effective treatment for withdrawal syndrome in Opioid-dependent patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) remains unknown. keywords: administration; care; clinical; cows; data; dependent; dose; drug; duration; fentanyl; groups; hospital; icu; icus; iran; medical; medication; methadone; minutes; opiate; opioid; patients; range; sciences; score; signs; similar; stay; study; substance; symptoms; syndrome; tehran; treatment; university; use; withdrawal; withdrawal syndrome cache: aaem-1384.pdf plain text: aaem-1384.txt item: #101 of 640 id: aaem-1389 author: Azizkhani, Reza; Shahnazari Sani, Maysameh; Heydari, Farhad; Saber, Mina; Mousavi, Sarah title: Topical Lidocaine plus Diclofenac as a Local Anesthetic Agent in Central Venous Catheterization; a Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial date: 2021-09-15 words: 4286 flesch: 55 summary: Another measure to reduce injection pain is to use topical anesthesia. Most clinicians believe that the local anesthetic injection will cause more pain than subsequent procedures, such as anchoring the catheter to the skin with sutures or eventually threading the dilator over the guidewire (4). keywords: access; analgesia; anesthetics; article; attribution; catheter; central; clinical; combination; commons; cream; creative; cvc; data; diclofenac; difference; effective; effects; emergency; emla; group; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injection; insertion; iran; isfahan; journal; license; lidocaine; local; lower; mean; medical; medicine; noncommercial; open; pain; patients; physician; present; prilocaine; randomized; results; satisfaction; sciences; scores; site; study; table; terms; topical; trial; university; venous; xyla cache: aaem-1389.pdf plain text: aaem-1389.txt item: #102 of 640 id: aaem-139 author: Bozorgi, Farzad; Shayesteh Azar, Massoud; Montazer, Seyed Hossein; Chabra, Aroona; Heidari, Seyed Farshad; Khalilian, Alireza title: Ability of Ultrasonography in Detection of Different Extremity Bone Fractures; a Case Series Study date: 2017-05-01 words: 2613 flesch: 55 summary: The aim of the present study is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in detection of extremity bone fractures. The aim of the present study is to evalu- ate the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in detection of extremity bone fractures. keywords: bedside; bone; bone fractures; care; cases; clinical; department; detection; diagnosis; different; emergency; extremity; extremity bone; false; femur; fractures; hospital; humerus; iran; journal; long; lower; medical; medicine; negative; orthopedic; patients; plain; positive; present; prevalence; radiography; results; sari; sciences; sensitivity; standard; study; trauma; true; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; upper cache: aaem-139.pdf plain text: aaem-139.txt item: #103 of 640 id: aaem-1391 author: Asadabadi, Leili; Soltani Nejad, Kamran; Zolfagharnasab, Atefeh; Mobasher, Mina title: Proposing an Emergency Medicine Ethical Guideline; a Qualitative Study date: 2022-01-01 words: 5113 flesch: 44 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Emergency medicine physicians face major ethical challenges in their practices. In this regard, the findings of this study sheds light on a more rational solu- tion to the ethical issues in emergency medicine physicians’ relationship with patients, other professionals, students, re- searchers, and communities. keywords: academic; access; american; analysis; article; association; attention; attribution; care; challenges; codes; commons; community; components; concepts; countries; creative; department; documents; emergency; emergency medicine; emergency physicians; english; ethical; ethics; experts; group; guideline; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; important; iran; kerman; license; main; making; medical; medicine; necessary; noncommercial; nursing; open; order; patients; persian; philippine; physicians; practice; present; principles; professional; qualitative; quality; related; relationship; research; responsibility; results; review; rights; sciences; situations; specialists; step; students; studies; study; terms; university; usa cache: aaem-1391.pdf plain text: aaem-1391.txt item: #104 of 640 id: aaem-1396 author: Bagherian, Farhad; Kalani, Navid; Rahmanian, Fatemeh; Abiri, Samaneh; Hatami, Naser; Foroughian, Mahdi; John Mehramiz, Neema; Shahi, Behzad title: Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning Mortality Rate in Iran; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2021-10-03 words: 4339 flesch: 60 summary: This study aimed to determine a pooled estimate of ALP poisoning mortality rate in Iran. Methods: The present study was a systematic review and meta-analysis of the mortality rate of ALP poisoning in Iran. Despite the ban on the public sale of rice pills since 2012, Iran has a high number of ALP poisoning cases (intentional or accidental). keywords: academic; access; acute; age; alp; alp poisoning; aluminum; aluminum phosphide; analysis; article; attribution; bias; cases; clinical; commons; country; creative; data; e66; emergency; et al; female; figure; fill; forensic; high; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; iran; iranian; jahrom; journal; license; mean; medical; medicine; meta; mortality; mortality rate; noncommercial; open; patients; phosphide; phosphide poisoning; plot; poisoning; pooled; publication; rate; results; rice; sciences; shadnia; studies; study; survivors; tehran; terms; toxicology; trim; university cache: aaem-1396.pdf plain text: aaem-1396.txt item: #105 of 640 id: aaem-1399 author: Almukhambetova, Elmira; Almukhambetov, Murat; Musayev, Abdugani; Yeshmanova, Ainur; Indershiyev, Vildan; Kalhodzhaeva, Zhadira title: Remote Analysis and Transmission System of Electrocardiogram in Prehospital Setting; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2022-01-01 words: 3092 flesch: 51 summary: The overall sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of ECG analysis device in diagno- sis of ECG abnormalities were 83.8% (95%CI: 82.6 – 84.9), 95.5% (95%CI: 95.1 – 95.8), and 93.3% (95%CI: 92.9 – 93.7), respectively. The overall sensitivity, specificity, and ac- curacy of ECG analysis device in diagnosis of ECG abnormal- ities were 83.8% (95%CI: 82.6 – 84.9), 95.5% (95%CI: 95.1 – 95.8), and 93.3% (95%CI: 92.9 – 93.7), respectively. keywords: 99,6; abnormalities; access; accuracy; almaty; analysis; article; atrial; attribution; automatic; cardiac; cardiologist; cardiology; care; cases; commons; conclusion; creative; data; device; diagnostic; ecg; ecgs; electrocardiogram; emergency; findings; health; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; interpretation; introduction; journal; kazakhstan; left; license; medical; monitoring; noncommercial; number; open; paramedic; patient; prehospital; recording; remote; results; sensitivity; setting; specialist; specificity; study; system; teams; time; transmission; ventricular; visits cache: aaem-1399.pdf plain text: aaem-1399.txt item: #106 of 640 id: aaem-14 author: Baratloo, Alireza; safari, saeed; Rouhipour, Alaleh; Hashemi, Behrooz; Rahmati, Farhad; Motamedi, Maryam; Forouzanfar, Mohammadmehdi; Haroutunian, Pauline title: The Risk of Venous Thromboembolism with Different Generation of Oral Contraceptives; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2018-11-13 words: 6604 flesch: 59 summary: Studies with the least bias were given a score of “good;” studies in which there was a possibility of bias, but their results had not been influenced, were given a score of “fair;” and studies with obvious indications of bias and elimination of large amounts of data or great discrepan- cies in reporting the outcomes were given a general score of “poor.” Santamaría A, Mateo J, Oliver A, et al. Risk of thrombosis associated with oral contraceptives of women from 97 families with inherited thrombophilia: high risk of thrombosis in carriers of the G20210A mutation of the prothrombin gene. keywords: access; adjusted; age; analysis; article; attribution; authors; baratloo; beheshti; bias; bmi; bmj; calculated; cases; cohort; combined; commons; confounders; contraception; contraceptives; controls; copyright; creative; data; different; drug; dvt; effect; emergency; estrogen; et al; factors; fair; figure; fold; generation; generation ocs; good; higher; hormone; incidence; license; low; medical; meta; model; noncommercial; nonusers; ocs; odds; open; oral; potential; present; publication; quality; rate; results; review; rights; risk; sciences; second; shahid; studies; study; systematic; terms; therapy; thromboembolism; thrombosis; university; use; users; venous; venous thromboembolism; vte; women; year cache: aaem-14.pdf plain text: aaem-14.txt item: #107 of 640 id: aaem-140 author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa; Anvari, Ali; Soltani Delgosha, Reaza; Kariman, Hamid title: Protocol Adherence for Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Management in the Emergency Department; a Clinical Audit date: 2017-01-05 words: 2938 flesch: 60 summary: Surviving Sep- sis Campaign Management Guidelines Committee: Sur- viving Sepsis Campaign guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock. Institute for Healthcare Improvement also recommend protocols for resuscitation of severe sepsis and septic shock patients in the first four hours of diagnosis. keywords: adherence; administration; antibiotic; audit; blood; care; central; compliance; department; emergency; excellent; fair; flow; guidelines; high; hour; management; measures; medical; medicine; patients; poor; post; pre; pressure; protocol; rate; residents; score; sepsis; septic; septic shock; severe; severe sepsis; shock; standard; study; therapy; training cache: aaem-140.pdf plain text: aaem-140.txt item: #108 of 640 id: aaem-1403 author: Pakniyat, Abdolghader; Akhbari , Kourosh ; Radfar, Fatemeh title: Advance Without Cut and Retrograde Removal of Embedded Fishhook; Introducing a Novel Technique date: 2022-01-01 words: 1277 flesch: 60 summary: After the skin and hook were prepped with be- tadine solution, in order to reduce the pain, skin overlying the point of the hook was anesthetized, either by local infiltration with 1 percent lidocaine or by digital block. The choice of removal technique is different and depends on anatomical location of the affected body part, the depth of penetration, and type and size of fish- hook. keywords: advance; article; available; barb; barbed; body; cut; department; emergency; fishhook; injury; iran; medical; medicine; needle; removal; retrograde; sciences; skin; study; technique; tissue; university; wound cache: aaem-1403.pdf plain text: aaem-1403.txt item: #109 of 640 id: aaem-141 author: Kashani, Parvin; Mirbaha, Sahar; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Meschi, Farahnaz; Baratloo, Alireza title: The Prevalence of Personality Disorders among Emergency Nurses Based on MMPI-2 Questionnaire; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2017-01-05 words: 3153 flesch: 59 summary: The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of personality disorders among emergency nurses. History of an unpleasant event in the past year was the only effective factor in existence of personality disorders in the studied nurses. keywords: article; beheshti; burnout; clinical; data; department; disorders; emergency; event; existence; factors; history; hysteria; international; iran; job; journal; mean; medical; medicine; mental; mmpi-2; nurses; nursing; personality; personality disorders; pollyannaish; present; prevalence; questionnaire; recent; shahid; somatization; stress; studied; study; table; tehran; test; university; unpleasant; working; workplace; year; yes cache: aaem-141.pdf plain text: aaem-141.txt item: #110 of 640 id: aaem-142 author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa; Safari, Saeed; Alavi-Moghaddam, Hamideh title: Screening Characteristics of TIMI Score in Predicting Acute Coronary Syndrome Outcome; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2017-01-05 words: 3477 flesch: 60 summary: Methods: This diagnostic accuracy study was designed to evaluate the screening performance characteristics of TIMI score in predicting 30-day outcomes of mortality, myocardial infarction (MI), and need for revascular- ization in patients presenting to ED with complaint of typical chest pain and diagnosis of unstable angina or Non-ST elevation MI. Total sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value, and positive and negative likelihood ratio of TIMI score were 20 (95% CI: 17 - 24), 99 (95% CI: 97 - 100), 98 (95% CI: 93 - 100), 42 (95% CI: 39 - 46), 58 (95% CI: 14 - 229), and 1.3 (95% CI: 1.2 - 1.4), respectively. keywords: accuracy; acute; adverse; angina; cad; cardiac; characteristics; chest; coronary; day; diagnostic; disease; ecg; elevation; emergency; findings; heart; high; journal; likelihood; low; medical; mortality; need; negative; outcome; pain; patients; positive; predictive; ratio; revascularization; risk; score; screening; sensitivity; specificity; study; system; timi; unstable; value cache: aaem-142.pdf plain text: aaem-142.txt item: #111 of 640 id: aaem-1421 author: Motazedian, Gholamreza; Aryanpoor, Poorya; Rahmanian, Ehsan; Abiri, Samaneh; Kalani, Navid; Hatami, Naser; Bagherian, Farhad; Etezadpour, Mohammad; Farzaneh, Roohie; Maleki, Fatemeh; Foroughian, Mahdi; Ghaedi, Mojtaba title: Incidence of Pediatric Perforated Appendicitis during the COVID-19 Pandemic; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2022-01-01 words: 3664 flesch: 56 summary: This study aimed to compare the pooled event rate of pediatric perforated appendicitis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to compare the pooled event rate of pediatric perforated appendicitis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. keywords: abdomen; abdominal; academic; access; acute; acute appendicitis; analysis; appendicitis; article; attribution; bias; cases; children; commons; covid-19; creative; department; diagnosis; disease; emergency; era; et al; figure; heterogeneity; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; incidence; iran; jahrom; journal; license; march; medical; medicine; noncommercial; open; pain; pandemic; patients; pediatric; perforated; perforated appendicitis; perforation; prevalence; research; review; risk; sciences; studies; study; surgery; surgical; systematic; terms; title; university cache: aaem-1421.pdf plain text: aaem-1421.txt item: #112 of 640 id: aaem-1422 author: Akhavan, Hossein; Habibzadeh, Seyed Reza; Maleki, Fatemeh; Foroughian, Mahdi; Ahmadi, Sayyed Reza; Akhavan, Reza; Abbasi, Bita; Shahi, Behzad; kalani, navid; Hatami, Naser; Mangouri, Amir; Jamalnia, Sheida title: Accuracy of CREST Guideline in Management of Cellulitis in Emergency Department; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2021-11-03 words: 3834 flesch: 49 summary: Y Y NA Y Y N N N N Y Y Y Hashem, 2015 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y Claeys, 2015 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Claeys, 2018 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Marwick, 2011 Y Y Y Y Y N Y N Y Y Y Y Marwick, 2012 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N: no; NA: not addressed; Y: yes. The quality of the studies was evaluated using Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) checklist for cohort studies. keywords: access; accuracy; analysis; antimicrobial; appropriate; area; article; attribution; auroc; cellulitis; claeys; classification; clinical; cohort; commons; creative; crest; department; emergency; empirical; figure; guideline; heterogeneity; hospitalization; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infections; iran; journal; license; management; marwick; medical; medicine; meta; noncommercial; open; outcomes; patients; pooled; results; review; sciences; skin; soft; studies; study; support; terms; treatment; university; y n; y y cache: aaem-1422.pdf plain text: aaem-1422.txt item: #113 of 640 id: aaem-1425 author: Funakoshi, Hiraku; Aso, Shotaro; Homma, Yosuke; Onodera, Ryuta; Tahara, Yoshio title: Nifekalant versus Amiodarone for Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Refractory Shockable Rhythms; a Post Hoc Analysis date: 2022-01-01 words: 4834 flesch: 52 summary: Comparing outcomes In crude data, the proportions of admission after ROSC in nifekalant group were not significantly different from those in amiodarone group (64.3% vs. 56.6%, p = 0.32). The proportions of 30-day survival in nifekalant group were not significantly different from those in amiodarone group (31.0% vs 20.1%, p = 0.09). keywords: access; administration; admission; aed; amiodarone; analysis; anti; arrest; arrhythmia; article; association; attribution; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; care; circulation; commons; cpr; creative; data; day; difference; ecmo; emergency; favourable; groups; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; jaam; japan; license; management; medical; medicine; neurological; nifekalant; noncommercial; ohca; outcome; overlap; patients; prehospital; propensity; proportions; refractory; registry; resuscitation; risk; rosc; score; spontaneous; study; survival; table; terms; treatments; use; variables; ventricular; weight cache: aaem-1425.pdf plain text: aaem-1425.txt item: #114 of 640 id: aaem-143 author: Zamani Moghadam, Hamid; Sharifi, Mohamad Davood; Rajabi, Hasan; Mousavi Bazaz, Mojtaba; Alamdaran, Ali; Jafari, Niazmohammad; Hashemian, Seyed Amir Masoud; Talebi Deloei, Morteza title: Screening Characteristics of Bedside Ultrasonography in Confirming Endotracheal Tube Placement; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2017-02-07 words: 3408 flesch: 53 summary: Emergency tracheal intubation: complications associated with repeated laryngoscopic attempts. According to this concept, early detection of misplacement of tracheal tube is important and can be lifesaving. keywords: accuracy; airway; article; attribution; capnography; characteristics; chou; clinical; commons; confirmation; correct; creative; department; diagnostic; emergency; endotracheal; endotracheal tube; esophageal; hospital; intubation; iran; journal; license; likelihood; mashhad; medical; medicine; methods; negative; noncommercial; patients; placement; positive; predictive; present; proper; residents; resuscitation; sciences; screening; sensitivity; specificity; studies; study; test; time; tracheal; tube; tube placement; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; value cache: aaem-143.pdf plain text: aaem-143.txt item: #115 of 640 id: aaem-1430 author: Ominato, Hisataka; Kumai, Takumi; Harabuchi, Yasuaki title: Removal of Coin Cell Lithium Battery Lodged in the Pediatric Pharyngoesophageal Junction by Rigid Esophagoscopy; a Case Report date: 2022-01-01 words: 1890 flesch: 48 summary: Various removal methods, including rigid esophagoscopy, should be con- sidered for removing lithium coin cell batteries. Coin cell lithium batteries are 5–25 mm in diameter, making them susceptible to lodging in the pediatric pharyn- goesophageal junction (2). keywords: asahikawa; batteries; battery; bodies; body; button; case; cathode; cell; cell lithium; coin; coin cell; complications; endoscopy; esophageal; esophagoscopy; esophagus; figure; flexible; forceps; foreign; ingestion; junction; lithium; lithium battery; mucosa; pediatric; pharyngoesophageal; removal; rigid; upper cache: aaem-1430.pdf plain text: aaem-1430.txt item: #116 of 640 id: aaem-144 author: Rafiq, Muhammad Salman; Rafiq, Maria; Rafiq, Muhammad Imran; Salman, Seema Gul; Hafeez, Sania title: Doing Pre-operative Investigations in Emergency Department; a Clinical Audit date: 2017-01-05 words: 3863 flesch: 53 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Pre-operative investigations for emergency surgical patients differ between centers. The present audit was carried out to evaluate the condition of doing pre-operative investigations for three common surgical emergencies compared to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines and local criteria. keywords: acute; analysis; appendicitis; audit; blood; cases; cbc; chest; clinical; complete; cost; count; criteria; cxr; data; department; dollars; ecg; emergency; guidelines; hernia; hospital; investigations; local; markers; nice; operative; patients; pre; ray; rupees; stay; surgery; surgical; tests; unnecessary; urea; urine; viral; years cache: aaem-144.pdf plain text: aaem-144.txt item: #117 of 640 id: aaem-1448 author: Ejaz, Taymmia; Saadia, Sheema; Akhlaq, Safia; Aziz, Adil; Ahmed, Muhammad Arslan; Siddiqui, Aisha Fareed title: Clinical Features and Outcomes of Acute Chlorine Gas Inhalation; a Brief Report date: 2022-02-14 words: 3412 flesch: 55 summary: Results: 38 patients with mean age of 33.1 ± 8.1 years presented to ED with history of chlorine gas exposure (100% male). Participants All patients with history of chlorine gas exposure at the Engro Plant from 6th March to 14th March 2020 presenting to Emer- gency department and those hospitalized in Aga Khan Uni- versity Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan were included in the study. keywords: accidental; acute; aga; article; cases; chest; chlorine; chlorine gas; clinical; common; cough; data; department; dyspnea; ejaz; emergency; examination; exposure; features; findings; gas; health; history; hospital; industrial; invasive; karachi; khan; laboratory; management; march; mean; medicine; non; outcomes; oxygen; pakistan; patients; physical; pneumomediastinum; presenting; pulmonary; ray; respiratory; results; review; sever; stay; studies; study; symptoms; table; university; ventilation cache: aaem-1448.pdf plain text: aaem-1448.txt item: #118 of 640 id: aaem-1449 author: Wu, Chin-Chu; Lin, Aming Chor-Ming title: A 25-Year-Old Chronic Ketamine User with Urinary Symptoms; a Case Report date: 2022-01-31 words: 1272 flesch: 51 summary: Long-term ketamine use may cause lower urinary tract symptoms and voiding dysfunction. Lower urinary tract symptoms may be associated with chronic urinary infection and ketamine- associated ulcerative cystitis. keywords: abuse; bladder; case; chronic; department; emergency; heart; hong; hospital; journal; ketamine; kong; lower; medical; memorial; old; pain; scan; shin; small; symptoms; taipei; taiwan; tract; urinary; use; year cache: aaem-1449.pdf plain text: aaem-1449.txt item: #119 of 640 id: aaem-145 author: Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza; Shojaee, Majid; Kashani, Parvin; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Aghajani Nargesi, Dorrin; Amini Esfahani, Mohammad Reza title: Predictive Factors of Poor Outcome in Road Traffic Injures; a Retrospective Cohort Study date: 2017-01-05 words: 4620 flesch: 64 summary: Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com H. Hatamabadi et al. 6 Figure 1: Patient outcomes. Abstract: Introduction: Road traffic injuries (RTI) are among the most important health problems worldwide as they cause more than 1.2 million deaths and 50 million injuries each year. keywords: access; accidents; article; attribution; cause; commons; consciousness; countries; creative; data; death; disability; emergency; factors; follow; hatamabadi; health; hospitalization; hours; important; independent; injuries; injury; iran; iss; license; loss; medical; mild; moderate; mortality; multiple; need; noncommercial; open; organ; outcome; patients; poor; present; rate; recovery; road; rti; sciences; severe; study; table; terms; time; traffic; trauma; university; ventilator; year cache: aaem-145.pdf plain text: aaem-145.txt item: #120 of 640 id: aaem-1453 author: Ebrahimi, Mohsen; Arab, Mohammad Mohsen; Zamani Moghadam, Hamid; Jalal Yazdi, Majid; Rayat doost, Esmail; Foroughian, Mahdi title: Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Thromboembolism using Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Troponin I; a Brief Report: Diagnostic value of serum troponin and natriuretic peptide levels in pulmonary thromboembolism date: 2022-01-08 words: 2593 flesch: 58 summary: Kucher et al. showed that pro-BNP higher than 90 pg/ml could predict the risk of mortality as well as need for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and mechan- ical ventilation in PTE patients (9). In a meta-analysis by Lega et al., increased pro-BNP and troponin levels were directly related to worse prognosis in PTE patients (10). keywords: accuracy; acute; angiography; article; best; bnp; brain; cardiology; cases; department; diagnosis; embolism; emergency; european; failure; heart; iran; journal; levels; mashhad; medical; medicine; natriuretic; patients; point; pro; probnp; pte; pulmonary; risk; sciences; sensitivity; specificity; study; suspected; thromboembolism; troponin; university; ventricular cache: aaem-1453.pdf plain text: aaem-1453.txt item: #121 of 640 id: aaem-146 author: Karimi, Ebrahim; Aminianfar, Mohammad; Zarafshani, Keivan; Safaie, Arash title: The Accuracy of Emergency Physicians in Ultrasonographic Screening of Acute Appendicitis; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2017-01-05 words: 3477 flesch: 50 summary: Area under the receiver operating character- istic (ROC) curve, sensitivity, specificity, positive and nega- tive predictive value, positive and negative likelihood ratio and finally, Brier score of the emergency physician and ra- diologist for acute appendicitis diagnosis were compared. Area under the ROC curve of ultrasonography in appendicitis diagnosis was 0.78 (95% CI: 0.69 – 0.86) for emergency physician and 0.88 (95% CI: 0.81 – 0.94) for radiologist (p = 0.052). keywords: access; accuracy; acute; analysis; appendicitis; appendix; area; article; attribution; clinical; commons; creative; curve; detection; diagnosis; emergency; emergency physician; figure; findings; hospital; imaging; journal; license; medical; medicine; mri; negative; noncommercial; open; patients; physician; positive; present; radiologist; reported; results; sciences; score; screening; studies; study; tehran; terms; ultrasonography; university; value; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-146.pdf plain text: aaem-146.txt item: #122 of 640 id: aaem-1466 author: Namazi, Mohammad Hasan; Mazloomi, Seyedeh Slimeh; Kalate Aghamohammadi, Mohammad title: Correlation Between TIMI Risk Score and the Number of Vessels Involved in the Angiographic Study; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2022-02-14 words: 3836 flesch: 62 summary: This study was conducted to assess the correlation of the number of oc- cluded vessels with TIMI risk score. Methods: This prospective cross-sectional study was designed to evaluate the correlation between TIMI score, and the number of vessels involved in the angiographic study of NSTEMI and UA patients presenting to emergency department. keywords: access; acute; angina; angiographic; artery; article; attribution; cad; cardiac; cardiology; commons; coronary; correlation; creative; data; department; disease; ecg; elevation; emergency; factors; history; infarction; journal; license; mean; medical; mohammad; myocardial; namazi; non; noncommercial; nstemi; number; patients; presence; results; risk; risk score; score; segment; significant; stenosis; study; terms; timi; timi risk; timi score; unstable; vessels cache: aaem-1466.pdf plain text: aaem-1466.txt item: #123 of 640 id: aaem-147 author: Dadpour, Bita; Tajoddini, Shahrad; Rajabi, Maliheh; Afshari, Reza title: Mushroom Poisoning in the Northeast of Iran; a Retrospective 6-Year Epidemiologic Study date: 2017-01-10 words: 2688 flesch: 54 summary: Among them, 100 species are responsible for most of the cases of mushroom poisoning. This study aimed to evaluate the epi- demiologic pattern of mushroom poisoning among patients referred to the main toxicology center of Mashhad province located in North-east of Iran. keywords: admission; amanita; article; cases; center; clinical; coagulation; epidemiologic; hepatic; higher; inr; iran; journal; laboratory; mashhad; mean; mechanical; medical; mortality; mushroom; mushroom poisoning; need; outcome; patients; penicillin; period; poisoning; profile; province; ptt; rate; relationship; research; sciences; significant; species; study; symptoms; time; toxicology; treatment; university; values; ventilation cache: aaem-147.pdf plain text: aaem-147.txt item: #124 of 640 id: aaem-1472 author: Heidari, Razieh; Ghadamzadeh, Mostafa; Bahardoust, Mansour; Khezrian, Forugh; Moradkhani, Afrooz; Ghadimi, Parmida; Bagheri, Seyed Morteza title: Association of CT Scan Parameters with the Risk of Renal Angiomyolipoma Rupture; a Brief Report date: 2022-01-01 words: 2950 flesch: 61 summary: In addition, several other risk factors have also been re- ported to be associated with AML rupture in recent studies (5). Many precipitating factors trigger AML rupture, preg- nancy plays an important role in tumor growth and rupture, genetic alteration is also the innate reason for tumor rupture (5). keywords: aml; amls; analysis; aneurysm; angiomyolipoma; article; association; cases; cect; characteristics; contrast; density; diagnosis; factors; fat; groups; iran; journal; lesion; mean; medical; medicine; ncct; non; number; parameters; patients; renal; results; risk; ruptured; scan; size; studies; study; tehran; tomography; total; tumor; university cache: aaem-1472.pdf plain text: aaem-1472.txt item: #125 of 640 id: aaem-1474 author: Sheikh, Sadaf; Shamim, Faisal title: Video Laryngoscopy in Emergency Airway Management - a Paradigm Shift from ‘I’ to ‘We’; a Letter to Editor date: 2022-03-20 words: 992 flesch: 60 summary: The reason is that there are numerous VL designs that require various techniques. Knowing the risks and benefits of emergency airway management and devices used is required for safe practice. keywords: airway; article; blade; editor; emergency; experience; hospital; intubation; laryngoscopy; macintosh; management; med; paradigm; shift; standard; technical; trainee; video; view cache: aaem-1474.pdf plain text: aaem-1474.txt item: #126 of 640 id: aaem-148 author: Vathanalaoha, Karin; Oearsakul, Thakul; Tunthanathip, Thara title: Predictive Factors of Survival and 6-Month Favorable Outcome of Very Severe Head Trauma Patients; a Historical Cohort Study date: 2017-01-10 words: 4819 flesch: 64 summary: Mauritz W, Leitgeb J, Wilbacher I, Majdan M, Janciak I, Brazinova A, et al. Outcome of brain trauma patients who have a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3 and bilateral fixed and dilated pupils in the field. Phe- unpathom et al. reported that 15.8-29% of trauma patients in the emergency room had head injuries and the most com- mon mechanism of head injury was road traffic accidents (1). keywords: access; analysis; article; attribution; basal; brain; brisk; cistern; classification; coma; commons; creative; emergency; factors; favorable; gcs; glasgow; group; head; hemorrhage; injury; journal; license; light; month; mortality; noncommercial; open; outcome; patent; patients; present; pupillary; pupils; rate; reactivity; ref; response; results; scale; scan; scores; severe; significant; study; survival; table; terms; test; trauma; univariate; value; yes cache: aaem-148.pdf plain text: aaem-148.txt item: #127 of 640 id: aaem-1480 author: Heydari, Farhad; Ahmadi, Omid; Golshani, Keihan; Derakhshan, Sirous title: Point-Of-Care Ultrasonography for Diagnosis of Medial Collateral Ligament Tears in Acute Knee Trauma; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2022-06-09 words: 3243 flesch: 59 summary: patients had MCL injury, while POCUS showed that 57 (22.8%) patients had MCL injuries (Table 1). Finally, the findings of POCUS and MRI were compared in diagnosing MCL injury. keywords: access; accuracy; acute; article; care; collateral; data; department; diagnosis; emergency; examination; findings; imaging; injuries; injury; isfahan; knee; ligament; mcl; mean; medial; medicine; modality; mri; negative; npv; open; orthopedic; patients; pocus; point; positive; ppv; results; second; sensitivity; specificity; standard; study; tears; trauma; ultrasonography; ultrasound; value cache: aaem-1480.pdf plain text: aaem-1480.txt item: #128 of 640 id: aaem-1483 author: Khari, Sorour ; Zandi, Mitra; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Glasgow Coma Scale Versus Physiologic Scoring Systems in Predicting the Outcome of ICU admitted Trauma Patients; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2022-04-09 words: 5770 flesch: 65 summary: Llompart-Pou JA, Chico-Fernández M, Sánchez-Casado M, Salaberria-Udabe R, Carbayo-Górriz C, Guerrero- López F, et al. Scoring severity in trauma: comparison of prehospital scoring systems in trauma ICU patients. Therefore, the present study aimed to compare the value of Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and physiologic scoring systems in predicting mortality and poor outcome of trauma patients. keywords: accuracy; acute; age; article; auc; blood; care; coma; coma scale; comparison; curve; diagnostic; different; early; emergency; gaps; gcs; glasgow; glasgow coma; heart; higher; hospital; icu; injuries; injury; intensive; mean; medicine; mews; mortality; negative; news; open; outcome; patients; performance; physiologic; poor; positive; prediction; pressure; rapid; raps; rate; rems; results; revised; rts; scale; score; scoring; scoring systems; sensitivity; study; systems; systolic; trauma; trauma patients; trauma score; traumatic; unit; value; variables; warning; wpss cache: aaem-1483.pdf plain text: aaem-1483.txt item: #129 of 640 id: aaem-1484 author: Sazgar, Mohammad; Montazer, Seyed Hossein ; Hosseininejad, Seyed Mohammad ; Jahanian, Fatemeh ; Rezaimehr, Behkam; Behbohaninia, Mohammad; Aminiahidashti, Hamed title: Clinical Predictors of Testicular Torsion in Patients with Acute Scrotum; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-01-11 words: 3071 flesch: 60 summary: Testicular torsion is an important and critical issue in patients with acute scrotum referring to emergency department (ED). This study aimed to de- termine the diagnostic accuracy of clinical variables in predicting the presence of testicular torsion. keywords: acute; age; area; article; cases; characteristics; clinical; count; data; department; dysuria; emergency; iran; left; lower; mazandaran; medical; medicine; pain; patients; presence; reflex; sari; sciences; scrotum; sole; study; surgery; testicular; testicular torsion; time; torsion; university; urology; variables; vomiting; wbc cache: aaem-1484.pdf plain text: aaem-1484.txt item: #130 of 640 id: aaem-149 author: Jokar, Abolfazl; Cyrus, Ali; Babaei, Maryam; Taheri, Majid; Almasi-Hashiani, Amir; Behzadinia, Ezatollah; Yazdanbakhsh, Arash title: The Effect of Magnesium Sulfate on Renal Colic Pain Relief; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2017-01-10 words: 3709 flesch: 59 summary: By re- ducing the acetylcholine in the nerve terminals, magnesium sulfate could be effective in this regard. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of magnesium sulfate on acute renal colic pain relief. keywords: access; acute; additional; analgesia; arak; article; attribution; baseline; blood; colic; commons; control; creative; drug; effect; emergency; groups; infusion; intervention; intravenous; journal; license; magnesium; magnesium sulfate; mean; medical; minute; morphine; noncommercial; open; pain; patients; postoperative; pressure; protocol; pulse; randomized; rate; relief; renal; renal colic; sciences; severity; significant; standard; study; sulfate; terms; treatment; trial; university; vas cache: aaem-149.pdf plain text: aaem-149.txt item: #131 of 640 id: aaem-1498 author: Yeganeh, Ali; Tavakoli, Nader; Soleimani, Mohammad; Taheri, Seyed Nima; Cheraghiloohesara, Sahand title: Inferior Hip Dislocation in a 60-Year-Old Man; a Case Report date: 2022-02-27 words: 2299 flesch: 56 summary: Keywords: Hip dislocation; joint dislocations; case reports; Wounds and Injuries Cite this article as: Yeganeh A, Tavakoli N, Soleimani M, Taheri SN, Cheraghiloohesara S. Inferior Hip Dislocation in a 60-Year-Old Man; a Case Report. Introduction As the most stable joint, the hip requires much energy to be dislocated; so, hip dislocations comprise 5% of all joint dis- locations (1). keywords: anterior; article; bearing; case; closed; complications; department; dislocation; emergency; figure; fracture; hip; hip dislocation; inferior; iran; joint; journal; left; literature; medical; motion; normal; open; orthopaedic; pain; patient; pelvic; radiograph; range; reduction; report; review; room; scan; surgery; traumatic; weeks cache: aaem-1498.pdf plain text: aaem-1498.txt item: #132 of 640 id: aaem-15 author: Rao, Dinesh; Sood, Divya; Pathak, P; Dongre, Sudhir. D title: Causes of Sudden Cardiac Death on Autopsy Findings; a Four-Year Report date: 2018-11-13 words: 3736 flesch: 67 summary: Department of Pathology, Sapthagiri Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Bangalore, India Abstract Introduction: Incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) has been steadily increasing all over the world. Causes of sudden cardiac death on autopsy findings; a four-year report. keywords: access; affected; age; artery; article; attribution; autopsy; beheshti; cardiac; cases; cause; circulation; commons; copyright; coronary; creative; death; disease; emergency; female; figure; forensic; group; heart; hospital; hours; incidence; income; india; infarction; lad; left; license; main; major; male; medical; myocardial; noncommercial; occlusion; onset; open; pathology; period; population; present; ratio; rights; scd; sciences; shahid; study; sudden; symptoms; terms; university; www.jemerg.com; year cache: aaem-15.pdf plain text: aaem-15.txt item: #133 of 640 id: aaem-150 author: Bozorgmehr, Rama; Bahrani, Vanousheh; Fatemi, Alireza title: Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Its Responsible Germs; an Epidemiological Study date: 2017-01-10 words: 3708 flesch: 52 summary: In addition, in pediatric ICU, the most common germs in sputum of pneumonia patients were staphylococ- cus aureus, pseudomonas aeruginosa, and enterobacter (22). Epidemiological Factors of Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia (VAP) among ICU patients in Valiasr Hospital of Arak. 2012. keywords: acinetobacter; age; antibiotic; article; associated; baumannii; care; cases; clinical; common; critical; data; days; diseases; drug; fever; germs; hospital; hypothermia; icu; infections; intensive; intubation; iran; journal; klebsiella; leukocytosis; leukopenia; mechanical; medical; medicine; mortality; pathogens; patients; pneumonia; present; prevalence; purulent; rate; resistance; respiratory; responsible; sciences; sputum; study; symptoms; type; vap; ventilator cache: aaem-150.pdf plain text: aaem-150.txt item: #134 of 640 id: aaem-1507 author: Zare Dehnavi, Ali ; Salehi, Mohammadreza ; Arab Ahmadi, Mehran ; Asgardoon, Mohammad Hossein ; Ashrafi, Farzad ; Ahmadinejad, Nasrin ; Behkar, Atefeh ; Hamidi Farahani, Ramin ; Hashemi, Hassan ; Tafakhori, Abbas ; Shahali, Hamze ; Rahmani, Mohammad ; Ranjbar Naeini, Alireza title: Clinical, Laboratory and Imaging Characteristics of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients with Neurologic Involvement; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-01-30 words: 6561 flesch: 55 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Although neurologic involvement and neuroimaging abnormalities have been frequently identi- fied in COVID-19 patients, the underlying factors remain unclear. Study population All adult (≥18 years old) hospitalized COVID-19 patients with positive real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain re- action (RT -PCR) test and a neuroimaging study (including brain and/or spine imaging) following the emergence of any acute neurologic manifestation during hospital stay were in- cluded in the study. keywords: abnormalities; abnormality; academic; access; acute; age; altered; american; analysis; archives; article; attribution; brain; cases; cells; cerebral; characteristics; clinical; cns; commons; consciousness; count; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; crp; data; dehnavi; delirium; disease; doi; emergency; encephalopathy; esr; et al; factors; findings; focal; headache; hemorrhagic; higher; hospitalized; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infection; involvement; iran; ischemic; journal; laboratory; license; lung; manifestations; medical; medicine; mri; nervous; neuroimaging; neurological; neurology; neutrophil; new; non; noncommercial; open; patients; prevalence; protein; rate; review; sciences; score; seizure; severe; severity; society; studies; study; symptoms; system; table; tehran; terms; thrombosis; total; underwent; university; variables; venous; zare cache: aaem-1507.pdf plain text: aaem-1507.txt item: #135 of 640 id: aaem-1508 author: Ozsarac, Murat; Yurumez, Yusuf ; Karakayalı, Onur title: A 27-year-old Female Patient with Acute nausea/vomiting and Pelvic pain; a Photo Quiz date: 2022-04-24 words: 1195 flesch: 51 summary: What is your diagnosis? 2. Diagnosis Intravenous contrast-enhanced abdominopelviccomputed tomography (CT) scan shows dilatation in the left gonadal vein and dilated vascular structures in the left parauterine area (figure 2) in favor of pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS). Comprehen- sive review of pelvic congestion syndrome: causes, symp- toms, treatment options. keywords: abdominopelvic; article; case; causes; chronic; congestion; contrast; department; diagnosis; doppler; emergency; female; figure; lower; medicine; nausea; normal; pain; patient; pcs; pelvic; scan; syndrome; tomography; ultrasound; veins; venous; vomiting cache: aaem-1508.pdf plain text: aaem-1508.txt item: #136 of 640 id: aaem-151 author: Asgarzadeh, Setareh; Feizi, Bahareh; Sarabandi, Farhad; Asgarzadeh, Morteza title: Thoracic Injury Rule out Criteria in Prediction of Traumatic Intra-thoracic Injuries; a Validation Study date: 2017-01-10 words: 3285 flesch: 57 summary: Methods: The present study is a prospective cross-sectional study that has been carried out to evaluate the accuracy of TIRC model in screening blunt multiple trauma patients in need of CXR for ruling out intra-thoracic injuries. In TIRC model age >60 years, hemodynamic instability, loss of consciousness, crepitation in auscultation, decreased pulmonary sounds, thoracic skin abrasion, and shortness of breath are factors predicting intra-thoracic injuries (7). keywords: abrasion; accuracy; age; article; calibration; care; chest; clinical; criteria; critical; curve; cxr; data; diagnostic; emergency; factors; findings; high; hospital; injuries; injury; intra; journal; medical; medicine; model; need; negative; pain; patients; pneumonia; positive; prediction; presence; present; respiratory; risk; rule; sciences; screening; skin; study; tenderness; thoracic; thoracic injuries; tirc; traumatic; value; ventilator; years cache: aaem-151.pdf plain text: aaem-151.txt item: #137 of 640 id: aaem-1510 author: Farahmand Rad, Reza; Zolfaghari Sadrabad, Akram; Jafari, Mohammadali; Ghilian, Marzieh title: Efficacy of Sumatriptan/Placebo versus Sumatriptan/Propofol Combination in Acute Migraine; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2022-04-14 words: 4625 flesch: 58 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of propofol + sumatriptan combination in comparison with sumatriptan alone in the management of acute migraine headaches. Methods: This triple- blind clinical trial involved patients who referred to two emergency departments with acute migraine headaches. keywords: 2019; access; acute; administration; adverse; article; attribution; cases; chest; clinical; combination; commons; control; creative; department; dose; drug; effective; effects; efficacy; emergency; group; headache; hour; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypotension; injection; international; intervention; intravenous; journal; license; management; mean; medical; medicine; migraine; minutes; nausea; noncommercial; number; open; pain; participants; patients; placebo; present; propofol; randomized; rate; recurrence; reduction; relief; results; score; study; sumatriptan; symptoms; terms; tightness; treatment; trial; yazd cache: aaem-1510.pdf plain text: aaem-1510.txt item: #138 of 640 id: aaem-1513 author: Shirinzadeh-Dastgiri, Ahmad; Saberi, Ali; Vakili, Mohammad; Marashi, Sayed Mahdi title: 21-Year-Old Female with Pneumothorax and Massive Air Leak Following Blunt Trauma; a Photo Quiz date: 2022-04-09 words: 1177 flesch: 55 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2022; 10 (1); e24 Patients with pulmonary hydatid cyst usually present with nonspecific symptoms including chest pain, cough, dyspnea, or fever. Diagnosis The chest x-ray showed huge pneumothorax on the left side, severe contralateral shift of the mediastinum and trachea to the right, and collapsed left lung displaced rightwards (Fig- ure 1, left); axial chest CT scan in the mediastinal window showed crumpled laminated membrane, suggestive for col- lapsed membrane of ruptured hydatid cyst following com- plete detachment into the pleural cavity (Figure 2; serpent sign; red arrows). keywords: air; article; case; cavity; chest; cyst; department; diagnosis; emergency; figure; hydatid; iran; left; medical; medicine; membrane; patient; pleural; pneumothorax; pulmonary; ray; rupture; scan; shirinzadeh; sign; surgery; trauma cache: aaem-1513.pdf plain text: aaem-1513.txt item: #139 of 640 id: aaem-1514 author: Haji Aghajani, Mohammad; Miri, Reza; Sistanizad, Mohammad; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Pourhoseingholi, Asma; Asadpoordezaki, Ziba; Sadeghi, Roxana; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Risk Factors of Readmission in COVID-19 Patients; a Retrospective 6-Month Cohort Study date: 2022-06-20 words: 4529 flesch: 59 summary: Abstract: Introduction: The available literature regarding the rate of readmission of COVID-19 patients after discharge is rather scarce. Thus, the aim in the current study was to evaluate the readmission rate of COVID-19 patients and the components affecting it, including clinical symptoms and relevant laboratory findings. keywords: acad; access; age; analysis; arch; arterial; article; attribution; blood; cardiovascular; cases; clinical; commons; complications; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; data; discharge; disease; factors; findings; follow; health; hospital; hospitalization; hossein; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; imam; iran; license; mean; med; medical; noncommercial; older; open; patients; phone; present; pressure; rate; readmission; readmitted; results; risk; sciences; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; university cache: aaem-1514.pdf plain text: aaem-1514.txt item: #140 of 640 id: aaem-1516 author: Rosenow, Christian; Aguirre, Sophia; Polveroni, Thomas; Ginsberg, Zachary; Pollock, Jordan; Traub, Stephen; Rappaport, Douglas title: Resident Productivity in the Emergency Department After Implementation of an Automated Patient Assignment System; a Brief Report date: 2022-04-30 words: 2476 flesch: 52 summary: Other EDs have instituted automated assignment systems to algorith- mically distribute patients. While automated assignment systems have been shown to be effective for emergency physicians, to our knowledge, no pre- vious study has investigated this automated assignment sys- tem with residents, either emergency medicine (EM) or non- EM. keywords: article; assignment; assignment system; average; care; day; department; emergency; figure; hour; implementation; increase; iqr; length; medicine; non; number; pace; patient; post; productivity; residents; rotation; self; shift; study; system; time; visits; volume; year cache: aaem-1516.pdf plain text: aaem-1516.txt item: #141 of 640 id: aaem-152 author: Vafaei, Ali; Heidari, Kamran; Hosseini, Mohammad-Ali; Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa title: Role of Feedback during Evaluation in Improving Emergency Medicine Residents’ Skills; an Experimental Study date: 2017-01-10 words: 3657 flesch: 56 summary: In most clinical courses, evaluation methods do not have sufficient efficiency for assessment of clinical skills (3-5). Investigators in medical ed- ucation field assessed some methods of clinical evaluation such as performance observation, 360 degree evaluation, ob- jective structured clinical examination, mini-clinical evalu- ation exercise (Mini-CEX) and direct observation of proce- dural skills (DOPS), which have been used for evaluation of medical students and their clinical environments. keywords: access; article; attribution; beheshti; chest; clinical; commons; creative; data; dops; education; emergency; evaluation; feedback; findings; groups; hakim; hospital; hossein; imam; iran; learning; license; loghman; mean; medical; medicine; method; noncommercial; open; participants; patients; present; procedure; residents; sciences; scores; second; shahid; significant; skills; students; study; tehran; terms; trauma; ultrasonography; university; year cache: aaem-152.pdf plain text: aaem-152.txt item: #142 of 640 id: aaem-1526 author: Bazyar, Jafar; Farrokhi, Mehrdad; Salari, Amir; Safarpour, Hamid; Khankeh, Hamid Reza title: Accuracy of Triage Systems in Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents; a Systematic Review date: 2022-04-30 words: 8784 flesch: 64 summary: Abstract: Introduction: To prioritize patients to provide them with proper services and also manage the scarce resources in emergencies, the use of triage systems seems to be essential. Results: 13 studies on the accuracy of triage systems were reviewed. keywords: access; accuracy; algorithm; articles; asav; attribution; bazyar; black; care; casualty; casualty triage; commons; correct; creative; different; disaster; emergencies; emergency; esi; green; health; high; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; immediate; incidents; increase; index; indicators; individuals; injured; injury; iran; level; license; mass; med; medical; method; mptt; negative; noncommercial; open; overall; patients; people; performance; person; positive; predictive; prioritization; rapid; rate; reliability; research; resources; results; review; salt; sensitivity; services; severity; sieve; simple; specificity; start; start triage; studies; study; systematic; systems; terms; time; tool; trauma; treatment; triage; triage accuracy; triage level; triage system; use; validity; values; world; yellow cache: aaem-1526.pdf plain text: aaem-1526.txt item: #143 of 640 id: aaem-153 author: Shojaee, Majid; Feizi, Bahareh; Miri, Reza; Etemadi, Jalil; Feizi, Amir Hossein title: Intravenous Amiodarone versus Digoxin in Atrial Fibrillation Rate Control; a Clinical Trial date: 2017-01-30 words: 2462 flesch: 59 summary: Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study, rapid AF patients with relative contraindication for calcium channel blockers or beta-blockers who had received amiodarone experienced both higher (about 2 times) treatment success and a more rapid (about 2.5 times) response compared to those who received IV digoxin. Discussion Based on the findings of the present study, rapid AF patients with relative contraindication for calcium channel blockers or beta-blockers who had received amiodarone experienced both higher (about 2 times) treatment success and a more rapid (about 2.5 times) response compared to those who re- ceived IV digoxin. keywords: acute; amiodarone; atrial; beta; blockers; calcium; cardiac; channel; contraindication; control; department; digoxin; drug; emergency; failure; fibrillation; group; heart; hospital; iran; journal; line; patients; present; rapid; rate; relative; response; rhythm; study; tehran; treatment cache: aaem-153.pdf plain text: aaem-153.txt item: #144 of 640 id: aaem-1534 author: Bazzi, Ali; Ghazanfari, Mohammad Javad; Norouzi, Masoumeh; Mobayen, Mohammadreza; Jafaraghaee, Fateme; Emami Zeydi, Amir; Osuji, Joseph; Karkhah, Samad title: Adherence to Referral Criteria for Burn Patients; a Systematic Review date: 2022-06-02 words: 5466 flesch: 60 summary: This systematic review aimed to assess the adherence to referral criteria for burn patients. 51.88% of burn patients had met ≥ 1 referral criteria. keywords: aba; access; adherence; appropriate; areas; article; associated; association; attribution; author; bba; burn; burn patients; care; center; chemical; children; commons; creative; criteria; data; e43; electrical; emergency; emsb; et al; face; figure; ghazanfari; hands; highest; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injuries; injury; iran; license; lowest; management; medical; medicine; midwifery; mobayen; national; nbcr; non; noncommercial; nursing; open; overall; patients; quality; rate; referral; referral criteria; retrospective; review; scalds; school; sciences; search; studies; study; systematic; table; tbsa; terms; thickness; trauma; university; van; wcp; year cache: aaem-1534.pdf plain text: aaem-1534.txt item: #145 of 640 id: aaem-1535 author: Nguyen, Lan Thi; Do, Dang Hai; Thai, An Duc; Nguyen, Hoa Thi title: Right Upper Quadrant Pain Following Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography; a Case Report date: 2022-03-16 words: 2086 flesch: 53 summary: Discussion The number of ERCP procedures has been increasing in re- cent years, and ERCP is becoming a practical tool for clini- cians in diagnosing and treating HPB diseases (4, 5). 4. Kroner, P.T., et al., Use of ERCP in the United States over the past decade. keywords: abdominal; acute; article; bile; biliary; case; cholangiopancreatography; common; complications; department; duct; emergency; endoscopic; ercp; figure; hanoi; hospital; management; necrotizing; nguyen; open; pancreatitis; patient; perforation; peritonitis; report; retrograde; right; score; severe; sphincterotomy; study; surgical; year cache: aaem-1535.pdf plain text: aaem-1535.txt item: #146 of 640 id: aaem-154 author: Nakhjavan-Shahraki, Babak; Baikpour, Masoud; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Nikseresht, Zahra Sadat; Abiri, Samaneh; Mirzay Razaz, Jalaledin; Faridaalaee, Gholamreza; Pouraghae, Mahboob; Shirzadegan, Sahar; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Rapid Acute Physiology Score versus Rapid Emergency Medicine Score in Trauma Outcome Prediction; a Comparative Study date: 2017-01-30 words: 4532 flesch: 58 summary: Since a limited number of variables have been included in RAPS and REMS models, assessing and calculating the score based on them is feasible and they can be easily used in EDs. Accordingly, the present study aimed to assess and compare the prognostic value of RAPS and REMS models for in-hospital mortality and poor outcome of trauma patients presenting to ED. keywords: access; acute; age; analysis; article; attribution; baikpour; calculated; calibration; care; commons; creative; data; department; disability; eds; emergency; emergency medicine; hospital; iran; journal; level; license; medical; medicine; model; mortality; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; performance; physiology; poor; poor outcome; predictive; prognostic; rapid; rapid emergency; raps; rate; rems; rems model; sciences; score; scoring; study; systems; tehran; terms; trauma; trauma patients; university; value; variables; www.jemerg.com; yousefifard cache: aaem-154.pdf plain text: aaem-154.txt item: #147 of 640 id: aaem-1541 author: Megarbane, Bruno; Gouda, Ahmed S. title: Intravenous Lipid Emulsion for treating Tramadol-Induced Seizures: Surprising but Worth Considering for Future Studies; a Letter to Editor date: 2022-02-09 words: 1375 flesch: 56 summary: Seizure risk is dose-dependent, more marked in patients with existing seizure disorders or previous seizure history. Multiple seizure risk is also low (6). keywords: article; authors; clin; clinical; concentration; decrease; distribution; doi; dose; editor; emulsion; hospital; ile; intravenous; lipid; logp; mégarbane; paris; patients; phila; pmid; pubmed; risk; seizure; toxicity; toxicol; tramadol cache: aaem-1541.pdf plain text: aaem-1541.txt item: #148 of 640 id: aaem-1543 author: Singh, Abhishek; Soni, Kapil Dev; Singh, Yudhyavir; Aggarwal, Richa; Venkateswaran, Vineeta ; Ashar, Mohd Suhail ; Trikha, Anjan title: Alveolar Arterial Gradient and Respiratory Index in Predicting the Outcome of COVID-19 Patients; a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-04-14 words: 4387 flesch: 54 summary: The relationship This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem A. Singh et al. 4 Table 1: Demographic and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 patients Parameter Overall (n-215) Survivor (n-154) Dead (n=61) P Age ( Year) 51.92 ±17.89 49.52 ±17.49 58.05 ±17.55 0.022 Gender Male 141 (65.6) 93 (60.4) 48 (78.7) 0.017 Female 74 (34.4) 61(39.6) 13(21.3) Length of stay Mean ± SD 12.84 ± 9.31 13.50 ± 9.36 11.16 ± 9.05 0.097 Comorbidities Any type 114 (53.3) 71(46.4) 43 (70.5) 0.002 HTN 80 (37.4) 52 (34) 28 (45.9) 0.142 DM 56 (26.2) 35 (22.9) 21 (34.4) O.118 CKD 22 (10.3) 13 (8.5) 9 (14.8) 0.266 Malignancy 12 (5.6) 3 (1.9) 9 (14.8) 0.001 TB 4 (1.9) 2 (1.3) 2 (3.3) 0.68 Vital signs Fever °c 25 (11.6) 19 (13.4) 6 (9.8) 0.63 HR (/minutes) 99.46 ± 21.12 95.38 ± 18.71 109.43 ± 23.41 0.001 SBP (mmHg) 127.97 ± 21.89 127.36 ± 21.37 129.44 ± 23.22 0.53 DBP (mmHg) 78.10 ± 12.93 78.25 ± 12.23 77.75 ± 14.60 0.80 RR (/minute) 24.26 ± 5.62 23.64 ± 5.11 25.57 ± 6.44 0.03 SaO2 (%) 94.89 ± 6.25 95.16 ± 5.34 94.21 ± 8.14 0.32 Laboratory Parameters Hb (mg/dl) 11.00 ± 2.45 10.98 ± 2.39 11.04 ± 2.62 0.88 WBC (×103 ) 12.03 ± 8.07 11.28 ± 8.29 13.85 ± 7.27 0.03 PLT (×103 ) 227.80 ± 194.01 237.46 ± 214.18 204.46 ± 131.91 0.26 Urea (mg/dl) 59.81 ± 58.79 47.91 ± 35.80 89.37 ± 87.89 0.001 Creatinine(mg/dl) 1.61 ± 2.58 1.40 ± 2.09 2.14 ± 3.48 0.06 Sodium(mEq/L) 134.52 ± 9.00 133.18 ± 7.61 137.34 ± 10.94 0.003 Potassium(mmol/L) 4.23 ± 0.82 4.21 ± 0.76 4.26 ± 0.95 0.732 Bilirubin(mg/dl) 1.32 ± 3.09 1.03 ± 1.51 2.06 ± 5.20 0.02 SGOT(U/L) 173.54 ± 1122.61 71.16 ± 146.95 414.14 ± 2033.93 0.04 SGPT(U/L) 89.66 ± 210.40 58.38 ± 105.16 163.16 ± 340.57 0.001 TP(g/dl) 6.28 ± 0.99 6.36 ± 0.94 serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; TP: total protein; GB: globulin; ALP: alkaline phosphatase; INR: international normalized ratio; aPTT: activated partial thromboplastin time; Fio2: fraction of inspired oxygen; P/F ratio: ratio of arterial partial pressure of oxygen to inspired fractional concentration of oxygen; A-a gradient: alveolar arterial oxygen gradient; RI: respiratory index. keywords: 0.001; access; admission; age; alveolar; analysis; ards; arterial; article; attribution; auc; blood; care; clinical; commons; covid-19; creative; critical; curve; data; disease; fio2; gas; gradient; higher; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; index; india; intensive; license; med; mmhg; mortality; non; noncommercial; open; outcome; oxygen; oxygen gradient; patients; pneumonia; predictive; predictors; pressure; rate; ratio; respiratory; retrospective; severe; study; survivors; terms; unit; value; ventilation cache: aaem-1543.pdf plain text: aaem-1543.txt item: #149 of 640 id: aaem-1545 author: Hosseini_Shokouh, Sayyed_Morteza; Mohammadi, Kasra; Yaghoubi, Maryam title: Optimization of Service Process in Emergency Department Using Discrete Event Simulation and Machine Learning Algorithm date: 2022-06-08 words: 4702 flesch: 58 summary: Conclusion Using the studied optimization method creates a significant improvement in patient waiting time and the optimization of patient stream in the ED is possible through appropriate allocation of the human and material resources. As a result, long patient waiting times and overcrowding are common problems in EDs all over the world. keywords: access; algorithm; article; attribution; average; care; commons; creative; data; department; different; discrete; eds; efficiency; emergency; engagement; event; experiments; fast; health; healthcare; hospital; hospitalization; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; improvement; iran; license; medical; method; model; noncommercial; number; open; optimization; patients; percentage; physician; process; research; resources; results; service; simulated; simulation; study; system; table; terms; time; track; triage; units; waiting cache: aaem-1545.pdf plain text: aaem-1545.txt item: #150 of 640 id: aaem-155 author: Nakhjavan-Shahraki, Babak; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Hajighanbari, Mohammad Javad; Baikpour, Masoud; Mirzay Razaz, Jalaledin; Yaseri, Mehdi; Shahsavari, Kavous; Mahdizadeh, Fatemeh; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Worthing Physiological Score vs Revised Trauma Score in Outcome Prediction of Trauma patients; a Comparative Study date: 2017-10-30 words: 3972 flesch: 58 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Awareness about the outcome of trauma patients in the emergency department (ED) has become a topic of interest. Accordingly, the present study aimed to compare the rapid trauma score (RTS) and worthing physiological scoring system (WPSS) in predicting in-hospital mortality and poor outcome of trauma patients. keywords: access; article; attribution; auc; calibration; commons; creative; department; emergency; figure; good; hospital; iran; journal; level; license; medical; medicine; model; mortality; noncommercial; open; outcome; overall; patients; performance; physiological; poor; prediction; prognostic; rapid; rate; revised; rts; sciences; score; scoring; study; system; table; tehran; terms; trauma; university; value; wpss; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-155.pdf plain text: aaem-155.txt item: #151 of 640 id: aaem-1553 author: Hassanzad, Maryam; Ghaffaripour, Hosseinali; Rekabi, Mahsa; Mirzendehdel, Mahsa; Sadati, Elham; Elahimehr, Nasrin; Derakhshanfar, Hojjat title: Nurses' Knowledge Regarding Oxygen Therapy; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-05-18 words: 4087 flesch: 61 summary: Lemma G. Assessment of nurses knowledge, attitude and practice about oxygen therapy at emergency depart- ments of one federal and three regional hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [Internet]. Abstract: Introduction: Oxygen therapy, if done correctly, can save patients’ life promptly. keywords: access; age; areas; article; care; commons; correct; current; daneshvari; data; degree; demirel; different; emergency; experience; health; hospital; humidification; icu; kazan; knowledge; level; masih; masks; mean; med; months; nurses; open; oxygen; oxygen therapy; patient; present; proper; questionnaire; questions; relationship; relevant; respiratory; results; score; significant; studies; study; therapy; use; variables; ward; work; years cache: aaem-1553.pdf plain text: aaem-1553.txt item: #152 of 640 id: aaem-1554 author: Rahimi, Mitra ; Kargar, Alireza ; Hazegh Fetratjoo, Delara ; Hosseini, Sayed Masoud ; Mahdavinejad, Arezou ; Shadnia, Shahin title: Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of 907 Cases with Naltrexone Intoxication; a 14-Year Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-05-01 words: 3474 flesch: 53 summary: Among patients with naltrexone poisoning, 25 patients were intubated (2.8%), and three passed away. Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 5 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2022; 10(1): e34 ciated with greater need for intubation and more extended hospital stays among patients with naltrexone poisoning. keywords: access; age; agitation; analysis; article; attribution; blood; cases; characteristics; clinical; commons; creative; cross; data; demographic; disorder; dose; drug; hakim; high; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; intoxication; intubation; iran; laboratory; license; loghman; mean; medical; mortality; naltrexone; nausea; noncommercial; opioid; patients; poisoning; records; sciences; sectional; studies; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; treatment; university; use; vomiting; withdrawal; years cache: aaem-1554.pdf plain text: aaem-1554.txt item: #153 of 640 id: aaem-1555 author: Yazdanbakhsh, Mehrnoosh; Saghaei Dehkordi, Somayeh title: An Overview of Published Articles in Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine in 2021 date: 2022-02-27 words: 2271 flesch: 60 summary: Yousefifard M, Toloui A, Ahmadzadeh K, I M Gubari M, Madani Neishaboori A, Amraei F, et al. Risk Factors for Road Traffic Injury-Related Mortality in Iran; a System- atic Review and Meta-Analysis. Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2022; 10(1): e18 EDITORIAL An Overview of Published Articles in Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine in 2021 Mehrnoosh Yazdanbakhsh1, Somayeh Saghaei Dehkordi1∗ 1. keywords: academic emergency; acute; analysis; archives; articles; case; complications; covid-19; dehkordi; disease; e18; editor; emergency medicine; february; hospital; iran; journal; karimi; letter; madani; management; medical; meta; mortality; neishaboori; original; overview; papers; patients; report; review; saghaei; studies; study; systematic; tajrish; tehran; toloui; year; yousefifard cache: aaem-1555.pdf plain text: aaem-1555.txt item: #154 of 640 id: aaem-156 author: Feizi, Bahareh; Taghdisi, Shahram; Etemadi, Jalil; Feizi, Amir Hossein; Asgarzadeh, Setareh; Kamal, Sepideh title: Early vs Late Coronary Angiography and Intervention Following Thrombolytic Therapy; a Cohort Study date: 2017-01-30 words: 3289 flesch: 56 summary: In line with this study, Collet et al. However, a study by Ed- mond et al. showed that there is no difference between vari- ous time intervals of PCI after fibrinolytic therapy, and results and side effects are similar (22). keywords: acute; adverse; american; angina; angiography; angioplasty; article; cardiac; cardiology; coronary; difference; early; effects; elevation; emergency; fibrinolytic; follow; groups; heart; hospital; hours; infarction; intervention; iran; journal; major; medical; month; mortality; myocardial; open; outcomes; patients; pci; percutaneous; phenomenon; present; reflow; results; significant; stemi; study; surgical; surgical intervention; tehran; therapy; thrombolytic; time; treatment; trial; unstable cache: aaem-156.pdf plain text: aaem-156.txt item: #155 of 640 id: aaem-1561 author: Abiri, Samaneh; Chegin, Mehdi; Soleimani, Reza; Hatami, Naser; Kalani, Navid; Rayatdoost, Esmail title: Propofol + Granisetron vs. Propofol + Metoclopramide in Symptom Management of Acute Migraine Headache; a Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2022-03-05 words: 4349 flesch: 54 summary: The number of patients with resistant nausea and vomiting 60 minutes after treatment was significantly higher in metoclopramide group (30.0% versus 10.0%; p = 0.033). The number of patients with resistant nausea and vomiting 60 minutes after treatment was significantly higher in metoclopramide group (30.0% versus 10.0%; p = 0.033). keywords: access; acute; article; attribution; blind; blood; cases; clinical; combination; commons; creative; data; department; double; effects; emergency; granisetron; groups; headache; heart; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; incidence; iran; jahrom; journal; license; management; mean; medical; medicine; metoclopramide; migraine; minutes; nausea; noncommercial; number; ondansetron; open; pain; patients; postoperative; pressure; prevention; propofol; randomized; rate; research; resistant; results; sciences; severity; similar; study; terms; treatment; trial; university; vomiting cache: aaem-1561.pdf plain text: aaem-1561.txt item: #156 of 640 id: aaem-1562 author: Majidinejad, Saeed; Heidari, Farhad; Chitgarian, Amir title: Skin Cooling to Reduce the Pain Associated with Local Anesthetic Injection; a Randomized Controlled Trial date: 2022-03-10 words: 2962 flesch: 56 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem S. Majidinejad et al. 4 fect of pre-cooling on local anesthetic injection pain at differ- ent sites while we only included patients with arm/forearm wounds. Pre-cooling for pain reduction in dental procedures is also well described (12). keywords: access; age; anesthetic; arm; article; attribution; bicarbonate; buffered; commons; control; cooling; creative; cryotherapy; cube; data; department; emergency; forearm; group; ice; injection; intervention; isfahan; laceration; license; lidocaine; local; lower; mean; med; medicine; methods; noncommercial; pain; patients; pre; procedures; randomized; reduction; results; sciences; skin; sodium; study; terms; trial; wound cache: aaem-1562.pdf plain text: aaem-1562.txt item: #157 of 640 id: aaem-1563 author: Ansari Djafari, Anahita; Javanmard, Babak; Rahavian, Amirhossein; Rafiezadeh, Ahmad Reza Rafiezadeh; Borumandnia, Nasrin ; Hojjati, Seyyed Ali; Hosseininia, Seyyed Mohammad ; Karami, Hormoz title: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Referrals with Urologic Complaints; a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-05-17 words: 3841 flesch: 53 summary: To save facilities and resources for urgent cases and COVID-19 patients, all outpatient and elec- tive activities were postponed by most of the world’s hospi- tals (6). These steps freed up more facilities and hospital beds for COVID-19 patients and de- creased the length of hospital stay for patients with urolog- ical complaints. keywords: admission; advice; article; attribution; bladder; cancer; center; chief; commons; complaint; complications; covid-19; covid-19 period; creative; data; emergency; flank; follow; frequency; gross; group; health; hematuria; hospital; impact; iran; license; male; medical; medical advice; non; noncommercial; number; outbreak; outcomes; pain; pandemic; patients; penile; period; pre; renal; research; revisit; sciences; shahid; stone; study; surgery; terms; testis; time; treatment; university; urologic; urology; yazd cache: aaem-1563.pdf plain text: aaem-1563.txt item: #158 of 640 id: aaem-1565 author: Khari, Sorour; Salimi Akin Abadi, Atefe; Pazokian, Marzieh; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: CURB-65, qSOFA, and SIRS Criteria in Predicting In-Hospital Mortality of Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients; a Prognostic Accuracy Study date: 2022-05-10 words: 4051 flesch: 62 summary: Conclusion: It seems that the performance of SIRS, CURB-65, and qSOFA is similar in predicting the ICU mortality of COVID-19 patients. Current evidence from developed countries approve of the utility of the qSOFA, CURB-65, and SIRS for predicting the outcomes related to COVID-19 patients, including the need for ICU admission or mortality (8, 11-13). keywords: 0.001; accuracy; admission; age; article; assessment; auc; beheshti; blood; care; clinical; covid-19; covid-19 patients; criteria; curb-65; cut; disease; early; emergency; failure; higher; hospital; icu; ill; iran; med; medical; mortality; non; open; organ; patients; performance; pneumonia; pressure; prognostic; qsofa; rate; research; respiratory; results; retrospective; sciences; scores; scoring; sensitivity; shahid; sirs; study; syndrome; systems; tehran; university; urea; values; years cache: aaem-1565.pdf plain text: aaem-1565.txt item: #159 of 640 id: aaem-1567 author: Omraninava, Ali; Mehdizade, Ahmad; Karimi, Ebrahim; Ghabousian, Amir title: Potential Impact of 3% Hypertonic Saline Infusion on Tramadol Poisoning-Induced Electrocardiogram Changes; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2022-04-13 words: 3039 flesch: 53 summary: Outcomes The primary outcome of the current study was the effects of 3% HS on ECG changes and the secondary outcome was its effect on other complications of tramadol poisoning. 2.5. Study design and setting This is a controlled, randomized, single-blind clinical trial in- tending to evaluate the potential therapeutic role of 3% HS in ameliorating ECG changes and associated complications followed by tramadol toxicity. keywords: abnormalities; article; associated; axis; cardiac; changes; channels; clinical; commons; control; deviation; dose; ecg; electrocardiogram; emerg; emergency; findings; group; hypertonic; infusion; interval; intervention; long; mean; med; na+; patients; poisoning; potential; qrs; qtc; randomized; rbbb; results; risk; saline; seizure; sodium; standard; study; therapeutic; toxicity; tramadol; treatment; trial; ventricular; wave; wide cache: aaem-1567.pdf plain text: aaem-1567.txt item: #160 of 640 id: aaem-1568 author: Tavakolian, Ayoub; Ashrafi Shahri, Seyed Hassan; Jafari, Mohammad Ali; Pishbin, Elham; Zamani Moghaddam, Hamid; Foroughian, Mahdi; Reihani, Hamidreza title: An 18-Month Epidemiologic Survey of 3364 Deceased COVID-19 Cases; a Retrospective Cross-sectional Study date: 2022-05-31 words: 3375 flesch: 66 summary: But Morales et al. showed that being admitted to ICU at night does not correlate to higher mortality rate of COVID-19 patients (15). Phosphate levels and pulmonary dam- age in COVID-19 patients based on CO-RADS scheme: is there any link between parathyroid gland and COVID-19? MedRxiv. 2020. keywords: access; admission; age; article; attribution; average; cases; clinical; commons; covid-19; creative; data; day; deaths; deceased; disease; distribution; emergency; figure; findings; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; iran; license; male; mashhad; mean; medical; medicine; morning; mortalities; mortality; night; noncommercial; number; old; open; patients; peaks; present; rate; risk; sciences; shifts; study; symptoms; terms; time; university; workdays; years cache: aaem-1568.pdf plain text: aaem-1568.txt item: #161 of 640 id: aaem-1569 author: Rayegani, Seyed Mansoor; Bozorgmehr, Rama; Angooti Oshnari, Leila; Mahdi Kaghazi, Amir Hossein title: The Effect of Exercise-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Quality of Life in Recovered COVID-19 Patients; a Quasi-Experimental Study date: 2022-06-08 words: 4373 flesch: 61 summary: Limitations It should be mentioned that our study had several limita- tions, which need to be considered when interpreting find- ings; firstly, the small sample size of COVID-19 patients that were rehabilitated and also the absence of follow-up after PR due to limited research time and the probability of losing samples; secondly, the lack of a control group of COVID-19 patients post-ICU who were not rehabilitated; and thirdly no causal role of rehabilitation can be assumed with certainty. A L RE S E A RC H The Effect of Exercise-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation on Quality of Life in Recovered COVID-19 Patients; a Quasi- Experimental Study Seyed Mansoor Rayegani1, Rama Bozorgmehr2, Leila Angooti Oshnari3∗, Amir Hossein Mahdi Kaghazi4 1. keywords: access; acute; analysis; angooti; article; attribution; beheshti; care; cases; center; characteristics; clinical; commons; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; data; discharge; disease; doi; dyspnea; e45; effect; emotional; exercise; fatigue; findings; function; general; health; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; intensive; intervention; iran; leila; license; life; long; mean; medical; medicine; noncommercial; open; p<0.0001; pain; patients; physical; pmid; pulmonary; pulmonary rehabilitation; pulse; qol; quality; questionnaire; rate; rayegani; rehabilitation; research; respiratory; role; sciences; severe; severe covid-19; shahid; shohada; social; spo2; status; studies; study; syndrome; tajrish; tehran; terms; unit; university; weeks cache: aaem-1569.pdf plain text: aaem-1569.txt item: #162 of 640 id: aaem-157 author: Kashani, Parvin; Harati, Sepideh; Shirafkan, Ali; Amirbeigi, Alireza; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza title: Comparing the Quality and Complications of Tube Thoracostomy by Emergency Medicine and Surgery Residents; a Cohort Study date: 2017-01-30 words: 2785 flesch: 59 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Tube thoracostomy complications depend on the operator’s skill, patients’ general condition and the place in which the procedure is done. Tube thoracostomy complications largely depend on the knowledge and skill of the operator in addition to the patients’ general condition and the place in which the pro- cedure is done (8). keywords: article; beheshti; chest; complications; department; emergency; emrs; groups; hospital; hossein; imam; infection; iran; journal; medical; medicine; odds; outcome; patients; placement; present; procedure; quality; rate; residents; sciences; shahid; site; srs; study; surgery; table; tehran; thoracostomy; trauma; tube; tube thoracostomy; university; years cache: aaem-157.pdf plain text: aaem-157.txt item: #163 of 640 id: aaem-1571 author: Pouraghaei, Mahboub; Babaie, Javad; Rad Saeed, Laleh title: The Challenges of Emergency Medical Services Response to Arasbaran Twin Earthquakes; a Content Analysis: Iranian EMS Response to Arasbaran Earthquakes date: 2022-05-01 words: 6735 flesch: 53 summary: The management of disaster response should im- mediately activate all the related organizations, issue neces- sary permits for resource consumption, specify the priorities and progress of work, and assess and monitor the provision of services tailored to the objectives. Role of emergency medical services in disaster response: resource doc- ument for the National Association of EMS Physi- cians position statement. keywords: access; affected; ambulances; analysis; areas; article; assessment; attribution; bodies; care; categories; challenges; codes; commons; communication; community; coordination; creative; data; disasters; discussions; early; earthquake; emergency; ems; equipment; experiences; facilities; failure; forces; health; help; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; information; injured; interviews; iran; khankeh; lack; lessons; license; main; management; managing; medical; medicine; noncommercial; number; open; organizations; paramedics; participants; people; personnel; preparedness; problems; providing; rapid; relief; responders; response; rural; sciences; services; similar; situations; study; supplies; support; tabriz; terms; triage; twin; university; villages cache: aaem-1571.pdf plain text: aaem-1571.txt item: #164 of 640 id: aaem-1573 author: Jafari Kafiabadi, Meisam; Sabaghzadeh, Amir; Khabiri, Seyyed Saeed; Sadighi, Mehrdad ; Mehrvar, Amir; Biglari, Farsad; Ebrahimpour, Adel title: Orthopedic Trauma During Pregnancy; a Narrative Review date: 2022-05-18 words: 6234 flesch: 55 summary: Based on the standard procedure, imaging of pregnant trauma patients should replicate those of any other patient undergoing con- ventional radiography, CT, and MR imaging (31). Managing pregnant patients with orthopedic trauma poses challenges that should be carefully considered to protect both the mother and the developing infant. keywords: abdomen; abruption; access; accidents; anesthesia; article; assessment; attribution; belt; birth; blood; blunt; care; cause; cesarean; changes; clin; commons; compression; contrast; conventional; count; creative; death; delivery; diagnostic; e39; elective; emergency; factors; falls; fetal; fetus; fixation; fracture; general; gestation; gynecol; health; hemodynamic; hemorrhage; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; imaging; increase; infant; initial; injuries; injury; intraoperative; jafari; kafiabadi; labor; lateral; license; life; management; maternal; medical; medicine; monitoring; mortality; mother; non; noncommercial; north; obstet; occurrence; open; orthopedic; osteoporosis; outcomes; patient; pelvic; physiological; placental; position; positioning; possible; pregnancy; pregnant; pregnant patients; pregnant trauma; pregnant women; preterm; procedures; radiation; radiography; rate; reduction; results; review; risk; seat; second; section; severe; study; supine; surgery; surgical; terms; trauma; trauma patient; treatment; trimester; uterine; uterus; vaginal; violence; violent; volume; weeks; women cache: aaem-1573.pdf plain text: aaem-1573.txt item: #165 of 640 id: aaem-1574 author: Mohammadi , Zohreh ; Faghih Dinevari, Masood ; Vahed, Nafiseh; Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Haniyeh ; Rahmani, Farzad title: Clinical and Laboratory Predictors of COVID-19-Related In-hospital Mortality; a Cross-sectional Study of 1000 Cases date: 2022-06-23 words: 5236 flesch: 64 summary: We hypothesized that assessing routine parameters such as vital signs and lab- oratory tests in COVID-19 patients, especially patients with severe disease, can help medical staff better manage patients. More deaths were observed in patients with severe disease, and other patients in whom the disease symptoms were flu- like, improved quickly, and returned to everyday life (5). keywords: 0.001; 95%ci; access; admission; age; analysis; article; ast; attribution; blood; cases; china; clinical; commons; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creatinine; creative; data; days; dead; demographic; disease; factors; findings; hospital; hospitalization; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; independent; iran; laboratory; lancet; license; mean; medical; mortality; noncommercial; open; patients; predictors; present; rate; regression; research; respiratory; results; risk; sao2; score; severe; studies; study; survived; table; tabriz; terms; test; urea; value; variables; wbc; wuhan; years cache: aaem-1574.pdf plain text: aaem-1574.txt item: #166 of 640 id: aaem-158 author: Vafaei, Ali; Heidari, Kamran; Saboorizadeh, Afshin; Shams Akhtari, Amin title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Abdominal wall Ultrasonography and Local Wound Exploration in Predicting the Need for Laparotomy following Stab Wound date: 2017-03-10 words: 2929 flesch: 52 summary: Conclusion: Based on the findings of the present study, AWU and LWE had the same specificity but different sensitivities in screening of anterior abdominal stab wound patients in need of laparotomy. It seems that tract ultrasonography as a bedside, noninvasive, non-expensive, available, and safe di- agnostic approach could be considered for screening of pen- etrating abdominal trauma patients in need of laparotomy. keywords: abdominal; abdominal stab; accuracy; anterior; anterior abdominal; area; article; awu; cases; characteristics; clinical; commons; creative; department; diagnostic; emergency; exploration; findings; hospital; journal; laparotomy; license; local; lwe; management; medicine; need; negative; patients; penetrating; positive; prediction; results; screening; specificity; stab; stab wound; study; surgery; tract; trauma; ultrasonography; ultrasound; wall; wound cache: aaem-158.pdf plain text: aaem-158.txt item: #167 of 640 id: aaem-1582 author: Dadras, Omid; SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad; Karimi, Amirali; Shojaei, Alireza; Amiri, Ava; Mahdiabadi, Sara; Fakhfouri, Amirata; Razi, Armin; Mojdeganlou, Hengameh; Mojdeganlou, Paniz; Barzegary, Alireza; Pashaei, Zahra; Afsahi, Amir Masoud; Shobeiri, Parnian; Mehraeen, Esmaeil title: COVID-19 Vaccines’ Protection Over Time and the Need for Booster Doses; a Systematic Review date: 2022-07-04 words: 5785 flesch: 55 summary: Mehraeen E, Oliaei S, SeyedAlinaghi S, Karimi A, Mirza- pour P, Afsahi AM, et al. COVID-19 in Pediatrics: A Sys- tematic Review of Current Knowledge and Practice. Therefore, we aimed to systemati- cally review the studies regarding the COVID-19 vaccines’ protection three months after getting fully vaccinated and assess the need for vaccine booster doses. keywords: access; adults; age; aged; antibodies; antibody; article; assessment; attribution; author; bnt162b2; booster; booster dose; commons; cov-2; covid-19; creative; dadras; data; days; decline; disease; dose; duration; efficacy; et al; findings; health; healthcare; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; immunity; inactivated; individuals; infection; iran; levels; license; mean; median; medical; medicine; months; mortality; mrna; need; neutralizing; new; noncommercial; older; open; patients; people; population; protection; rbd; results; review; sars; sciences; second; studies; study; summary; systematic; table; tehran; terms; time; titers; type; university; vaccinated; vaccination; vaccine; variants; workers; years cache: aaem-1582.pdf plain text: aaem-1582.txt item: #168 of 640 id: aaem-1583 author: Rahmani, Shaghayegh; Mokhtari Amirmajdi, Elham; Kolahi Ahari, Rana; Farzaneh, Roohie title: Prolonged Resuscitation with Multiple Defibrillations; a Case Report date: 2022-05-26 words: 1998 flesch: 53 summary: Prolonged CPR is a decision for physician and its outcome depends on various factors, like CPR quality. Conformingly, Bingyu Ling et al. described a case who had developed cardiac arrest due to propafenone intoxica- tion and was successfully resuscitated after prolonged CPR without subsequent neurological complication (6). keywords: arrest; article; azad; branch; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; case; challenging; covid-19; cpr; department; duration; emergency; evidence; faculty; guidelines; heart; hospital; iran; islamic; mashhad; medical; medicine; minutes; normal; outcomes; patient; performance; prolonged; quality; resuscitation; rhythm; rosc; shockable; survival; university; ventricular cache: aaem-1583.pdf plain text: aaem-1583.txt item: #169 of 640 id: aaem-1585 author: Dadras, Omid ; Mehraeen, Esmaeil; Karimi, Amirali ; M. Tantuoyir, Marcarious ; Afzalian, Arian ; Nazarian, Newsha ; Mojdeganlou, Hengameh ; Mirzapour, Pegah ; Shamsabadi, Ahmadreza; Dashti, Mohsen; Ghasemzadeh, Afsaneh ; Vahedi, Farzin; Shobeiri, Parnian ; Pashaei, Zahra ; SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad title: Safety and Adverse Events Related to Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccines and Novavax; a Systematic Review date: 2022-07-07 words: 7728 flesch: 57 summary: Limitations and Recommendations The results of the present review may be limited in various aspects, as there is no specific system for the registration of COVID-19 vaccine side effects in different countries. Conclusion: This systematic review indicates that inactivated COVID-19 vaccines, including Sinovac, Sinopharm, and Bharat Biotech, as well as the protein subunit vaccines (Novavax) can be considered as safe choices due to having milder side effects and fewer severe life-threatening adverse events. keywords: access; adults; adverse; adverse effects; age; analysis; article; attribution; bharat; blind; china; clinical; commons; coronavac; cough; countries; cov-2; covid-19; covid-19 vaccines; creative; dadras; data; days; diarrhea; different; diseases; dose; double; e54; effects; emergency; et al; events; fatigue; female; fever; gender; headache; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; immunogenicity; inactivated; induration; infectious; injection; iran; lancet; license; life; local; medical; medicine; mild; muscle; nausea; noncommercial; novavax; open; pain; participants; phase; protein; pruritus; public; randomised; rct; reaction; redness; related; reported; research; results; review; safety; sars; sciences; second; sinopharm; sinovac; site; studies; study; subunit; swelling; systemic; table; tehran; terms; time; trials; type; university; usa; vaccination; vaccine; vomiting; wang; xia; yang; zhang cache: aaem-1585.pdf plain text: aaem-1585.txt item: #170 of 640 id: aaem-1589 author: Jung, Hyun-Ok ; Han, Seung-Woo title: Factors Associated with Return of Spontaneous Circulation following Pre-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Daegu Metropolitan City, South Korea; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-09-01 words: 3801 flesch: 51 summary: Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study is a secondary data analysis of cardiac arrest patients, who were managed by paramedics in the pre-hospital setting, from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019, in Daegu, South Korea. Study design and setting This retrospective cross-sectional study is a secondary data analysis of cardiac arrest patients, who were managed in the pre-hospital setting by paramedics, from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2019, in Daegu, South Korea. keywords: access; administration; aid; analysis; arrest; article; association; cardiac; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary; cases; characteristics; chest; circulation; city; compression; council; cpr; daegu; data; defibrillator; department; device; emergency; epinephrine; factors; heart; hospital; intravenous; intubation; jung; korea; mechanical; medical; metropolitan; paramedics; patients; probability; rate; resuscitation; return; rosc; spontaneous; study; survival; time cache: aaem-1589.pdf plain text: aaem-1589.txt item: #171 of 640 id: aaem-159 author: Emami Ardestani, Mohammad; Kalantari, Elham; Samaiy, Vajihe; Taherian, Keramat title: Methylprednisolone vs Dexamethasone in Management of COPD Exacerbation; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2017-01-30 words: 3325 flesch: 61 summary: Li et al. had compared MP with DXM, with the same dosage as this study, in acute exac- erbation of COPD and believed that DXM was less effective than MP, as cough and sputum in MP group were relieved more quickly than DXM group (6). There was a significant difference between the two groups regarding trend of changes in dyspnea (p = 0.02 ; DXM À MP) and cough (p = 0.035; MP À DXM). keywords: 14th; 7th; acute; admission; article; blood; changes; chronic; copd; corticosteroids; cough; day; days; dexamethasone; difference; disease; dxm; dyspnea; effects; emergency; exacerbation; groups; inhaled; isfahan; journal; lung; medical; medicine; obstructive; patients; present; pulmonary; respiratory; saturation; significant; sputum; study; treatment; trend; viscosity; volume cache: aaem-159.pdf plain text: aaem-159.txt item: #172 of 640 id: aaem-1590 author: Katsomboon, Kannika; Sindhu, Siriorn ; Utriyaprasit, Ketsarin; Viwatwongkasem, Chukiat title: Factors Associated with 24-Hour Clinical Outcome of Emergency Patients; a Cohort Study date: 2022-04-24 words: 4912 flesch: 61 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Pre-hospital and in-hospital emergency management play an important role in quality of care for emergency patients. This prospective cohort study aimed to determine factors associated with the 24-hour clinical outcome of emergency patients. keywords: access; advanced; age; als; analysis; arrest; article; associated; cad; cardiac; care; clinical; data; department; discharge; disease; distance; emergency; emergency patients; ems; factors; health; high; hospital; hours; illness; inpatient; inter; length; life; los; management; mean; medical; medicine; mode; mortality; non; open; outcome; patients; poor; pre; provincial; rems; risk; score; self; service; severity; sign; stay; study; support; thailand; transportation; triage; university cache: aaem-1590.pdf plain text: aaem-1590.txt item: #173 of 640 id: aaem-1597 author: SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad ; Karimi, Amirali ; Pashaei, Zahra ; Afzalian, Arian; Mirzapour, Pegah ; Ghorbanzadeh, Kobra ; Ghasemzadeh, Afsaneh ; Dashti, Mohsen ; Nazarian, Newsha ; Vahedi, Farzin; Tantuoyir, Marcarious ; Shamsabadi, Ahmadreza; Dadras, Omid ; Mehraeen, Esmaeil title: Safety and Adverse Events Related to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines; a Systematic Review date: 2022-05-28 words: 12869 flesch: 57 summary: Blakeway H, Prasad S, Kalafat E, Heath PT, Ladhani SN, Le Doare K, et al. COVID-19 vaccination during preg- nancy: coverage and safety. Caminati M, Guarnieri G, Batani V, Scarpieri E, Finoc- chiaro A, Chieco-Bianchi F, et al. COVID-19 Vaccination in Patients with Severe Asthma on Biologic Treatment: Safety, Tolerability, and Impact on Disease Control. keywords: 1st; 2nd; academic; access; acute; addition; adverse; adverse events; adverse reactions; age; allergic; american; analysis; anaphylaxis; appearance; archives; arthralgia; article; asian; associated; association; attribution; author; bell; biontech; bnt162b2; cancer; cardiac; case; chest; chest pain; chills; clinical; cohort; cohort study; commons; country; covid-19; covid-19 vaccination; covid-19 vaccine; covid19; creative; crosssectional; data; days; days pain; diarrhea; disease; dizziness; dose; e41; effects; efficacy; emergency; england; erythema; et al; european; events; exacerbation; fatigue; female; fever; findings; following; gender; headache; health; healthcare; higher; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; immune; immunogenicity; incidence; infarction; injection; injection site; international; iran; israel; joint; joint pain; journal; kim; license; local; lymphadenopathy; manufacturer; medical; medicine; moderna; mrna; mrna covid-19; mrna vaccines; muscle; muscle pain; myalgia; myocardial; myocarditis; nausea; neurological; new; noncommercial; open; pain; palsy; participants; patients; pfizer; pfizer vaccine; phase; population; pregnant; prospective; quality; randomized; rare; rash; rate; rct; reactions; recipients; redness; related; reported; reporting; reports; research; response; results; retrospective; review; risk; safety; sample; sars; sciences; search; second; severe; severe adverse; seyedalinaghi; site; site pain; studies; study; study pb; swelling; symptoms; syncope; systemic; systemic adverse; table; tachycardia; tehran; tenderness; terms; time; transplant; trials; type; university; usa; vaccinated; vaccination; vaccine; vaccine adverse; vaccine safety; vomiting; weakness; white; women; workers; years cache: aaem-1597.pdf plain text: aaem-1597.txt item: #174 of 640 id: aaem-16 author: Sabzghabaei, Anita; Asgarzadeh, Setareh; Miri, Reza; Shojaee, Majid; Alimohammadi, Hossein; Heidari, Kamran title: Short-Term Outcome of Discharged Low-Risk Chest Pain without Provoke Ischemia Study date: 2018-11-13 words: 2958 flesch: 58 summary: Department of cardiology, Imam Hossein Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Abstract Introduction: Chest pain is a common problem in patients referring to emergency units. What is the incidence of major adverse cardiac events in emergency department chest pain patients with a normal ECG, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction score of zero and keywords: acute; age; angiography; beheshti; cardiac; cases; chest; chest pain; complications; coronary; department; discharged; emergency; etiology; exercise; follow; heart; hospital; hossein; imam; infarction; ischemia; low; medical; month; mortality; myocardial; normal; outcome; pain; patients; positive; present; prevalence; provoke; results; risk; sciences; shahid; study; tehran; term; test; unit; university cache: aaem-16.pdf plain text: aaem-16.txt item: #175 of 640 id: aaem-160 author: Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Hanieh; Morteza Bagi, Hamid Reza; Rahmani, Farzad; Shahsavari nia, Kavous; Ettehadi, Arezu title: Clinical Scoring Systems in Predicting the Outcome of Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding; a Narrative Review date: 2017-01-11 words: 3814 flesch: 59 summary: Rockall risk scoring score. Rockall risk scoring score. keywords: acute; aims65; article; attribution; based; bbs; blatchford; bleeding; blood; center; clinical; commons; comorbidities; creative; csmcpi; emergency; endoscopy; findings; gastrointestinal; gbs; glasgow; hemorrhage; high; hospital; hospitalization; journal; license; low; medical; medicine; mortality; need; non; outcome; patients; predictive; rate; risk; rockall; score; scoring; srh; status; systems; table; tabriz; ugib; ulcer; upper; upper gastrointestinal; value cache: aaem-160.pdf plain text: aaem-160.txt item: #176 of 640 id: aaem-1600 author: Maher, Ali; Dehnavi, Hamed; Salehian, Elham; Omidi, Mona; Hannani, Khatereh title: Relationship Between Income Level and Hospitalization Rate in COVID-19 Cases; an Example of Social Factors Affecting Health date: 2022-04-09 words: 4891 flesch: 63 summary: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between income level and hospitalization rate of COVID-19 patients. The data of COVID-19 patients were collected directly from the hos- pital information system (HIS). keywords: access; areas; article; attribution; beheshti; cases; commons; countries; covid-19; creative; crisis; data; death; decile; disease; equity; factors; groups; health; higher; hospitalization; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; income; increase; inequalities; inequality; inpatient; iran; journal; lancet; level; license; low; lower; maher; management; medical; mortality; noncommercial; number; open; patients; people; population; province; rate; relationship; risk; sciences; services; ses; shahid; share; social; socioeconomic; status; studies; study; system; tehran; tenth; terms; total; united; university; use; world cache: aaem-1600.pdf plain text: aaem-1600.txt item: #177 of 640 id: aaem-1601 author: Garkaz, Omid; Rezazadeh, Farzin ; Golfiroozi, Saeed; Paryab, Sahar ; Nasiri, Sadaf ; Mehryar , Hamidreza ; Ghelichi-Ghojogh, Mousa title: Predicting the 28-Day Mortality of Non-Trauma Patients using REMS and RAPS; a Prognostic Accuracy Study date: 2022-07-04 words: 3536 flesch: 64 summary: This study evaluated the accuracy of Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) and Rapid Acute Physiology Score (RAPS) in predicting the 28-day mortality of non-trauma patients. Sensitivity and specificity of REMS in predicting the risk of non-trauma patients’ mortality were 85.19% (95%CI: 78.05% - 90.71%) and 78.34% (95%CI: 75.45% - 81.04%), respectively. keywords: accuracy; acute; age; article; author; better; characteristics; day; deceased; department; discharged; disease; emergency; gcs; hospital; iran; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; non; open; patients; performance; physiology; predictor; pressure; rapid; raps; rate; rems; results; risk; sciences; score; scoring; sensitivity; severity; study; systems; terms; trauma; trauma patients; university; urmia cache: aaem-1601.pdf plain text: aaem-1601.txt item: #178 of 640 id: aaem-1605 author: Haji Aghajani, Mohammad; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Ahmadzadeh, Koohyar; Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Premature Coronary Artery Disease and Plasma Levels of Interleukins; a Systematic Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2022-06-27 words: 6489 flesch: 49 summary: Keywords: Coronary artery disease; cardiovascular disease; interleukins; Prognosis; Biomarkers Cite this article as: Haji Aghajani M, Toloui A, Ahmadzadeh K, Madani Neishaboori A, Yousefifard M. Premature Coronary Artery Dis- ease and Plasma Levels of Interleukins; a Systematic Scoping Review and Meta-Analysis. Furthermore, coronary artery disease can occur in younger ages, which is named Premature Coronary Artery Disease (pCAD). keywords: access; activating; age; analysis; angiography; artery; artery disease; article; assessment; attribution; bias; cardiovascular; case; cell; center; chemotactic; commons; control; coronary; coronary artery; coronary[tiab; creative; cytokine; design; difference; differentiation; disease; e51; elevation; factor[tiab; factors; group; growth; haji; heart; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; il-1; il-6; ils; infarction; interleukin; iran; levels; license; lymphocyte; males; mean; medical; medicine; meta; myocardial; neutrophil; noncommercial; occurrence; open; patients; pcad; peptide; plasma; population; premature; present; prospective; relationship; research; review; risk; sciences; search; serum; stenosis; stimulating; stimulatory; studies; study; systematic; tehran; terms; university cache: aaem-1605.pdf plain text: aaem-1605.txt item: #179 of 640 id: aaem-1606 author: Teimouri, Mehdi; Ghaderi, Milad; Hatami, Saeed title: Comparing the Outcomes of Surgical and Non-Surgical Approaches in Management of Older Patients with Distal Radius Fracture; a Retrospective Cohort Study date: 2022-08-02 words: 4958 flesch: 60 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Distal radius fractures (DRFs) are the most common orthopedic injuries in emergency depart- ment. Patients with distal radius fracture have been found to carry twice the risk of a later hip fracture (4). keywords: adults; arm; article; attribution; better; bone; cast; casting; clinical; commons; complications; conservative; creative; dash; deviation; difference; distal; distal radius; drfs; elderly; fixation; follow; fractures; functional; group; hand; health; immobilization; intensity; isfahan; items; license; life; locking; management; mean; medical; medicine; methods; month; motion; noncommercial; older; open; outcomes; p =; pain; patients; quality; radial; radius; radius fractures; range; reduction; results; scale; score; significant; similar; studies; study; surgery; surgical; treatment; ups; vas; years cache: aaem-1606.pdf plain text: aaem-1606.txt item: #180 of 640 id: aaem-1608 author: Sistanizad, Mohammad; Haji Aghajani, Mohammad; Haghighi, Mehrdad; Amini, Hossein; Pourhoseingholi, Asma; Taherpour, Niloufar; Ziaie, Shadi; Salarian, Sara; Moradi, Omid title: Comparing the Characteristics of Mucormycosis Between Cases with and without COVID-19; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2022-07-12 words: 3821 flesch: 54 summary: As previously reported, the site of involve- ment in mucormycosis patients is related to the predispos- ing condition. Both, severe COVID-19 and mucormycosis, could be lethal, and it is not possible to evaluate the net effect of each parameter on the outcome of the patients, separately, but a higher mortality rate is seen in mucormycosis patients with COVID-19. keywords: acute; article; beheshti; cases; characteristics; clinical; commons; corticosteroid; cough; covid-19; data; diabetes; diagnosis; disease; factors; frequency; fungal; groups; higher; hospital; immunosuppressive; infection; involvement; iqr; iran; license; median; medical; mellitus; mortality; mucormycosis; need; open; patients; pharmacy; presentation; rate; results; risk; sciences; shahid; study; symptoms; tehran; test; underlying; university; variables cache: aaem-1608.pdf plain text: aaem-1608.txt item: #181 of 640 id: aaem-161 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Rahimi Movaghar, Vafa; Baikpour, Masoud; Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Hosseini, Mostafa; Moghadas Jafari, Ali; Aziznejad, Heidar; Tafakhori, Abbas title: Early versus Late Decompression for Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2017-01-11 words: 7061 flesch: 58 summary: Meta-analysis found the pooled RR of early spinal decompression surgery for post-surgical complications to be 0.84 (95% CI: 0.72-0.99), which indi- cates that the prevalence of these complications is lower in patients who had undergone early surgical decompression (p = 0.035). Conclusion: The findings of this study indicate that early spinal decompression surgery can improve neurologic recovery and is associated with less post-surgical complications. keywords: access; acute; ais; analysis; article; asia; attribution; authors; bias; central; cervical; clinical; cohort; commons; complications; cord; cord injury; creative; cut; data; decompression; early; efficacy; emergency; et al; fem; follow; frankel; group; heterogeneity; hours; improvement; injuries; injury; iran; late; license; lower; medical; meta; model; neurologic; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; pooled; post; present; prevalence; prospective; rcs; recovery; rem; research; results; review; sciences; score; search; spinal; spinal cord; spine; studies; study; surgery; surgical; surgical decompression; systematic; tehran; terms; timing; traumatic; treatment; university cache: aaem-161.pdf plain text: aaem-161.txt item: #182 of 640 id: aaem-1613 author: Zakaria, Mohd Idzwan; Che Manshor, Norhadila ; Tan, Maw Pin title: Associated Factors of In-hospital Mortality among Intubated Older Adults in Emergency Department; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2023-01-03 words: 4822 flesch: 59 summary: Providing care for older patients does not mean subjecting them to aggressive treatments, such as intubation, which may lead to avoidable suffering to the patients and their families, and unnecessarily burdening the healthcare system (30). However, it has yet to be evaluated as a measure for survival following intubation in older patients. keywords: access; acute; admission; adults; age; aged; analysis; apache; arrest; article; associated; attribution; cardiac; care; cci; charlson; chronic; commons; comorbidity; creative; data; decision; department; diagnosis; elderly; emergency; evaluation; factors; frailty; gcs; health; hospital; hospital mortality; identification; idzwan; ill; index; indication; intensive; intubated; intubation; isar; length; license; life; malaysia; med; medical; medicine; mortality; noncommercial; older; outcome; patients; predictors; rate; risk; score; seniors; study; survival; terms; total; ventilation; years cache: aaem-1613.pdf plain text: aaem-1613.txt item: #183 of 640 id: aaem-162 author: Sabzghabaei, Anita; Shojaee, Majid; Kariman, Hamid; Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Heydari, Kamran; Sohrabi, Sirus title: Pan vs. Selective Computed Tomography Scans in Management of Multiple Trauma Patients; a Brief Report date: 2017-01-11 words: 3412 flesch: 65 summary: patients underwent selective CT scan and 195 (44%) underwent pan CT scan. If the hid- den injuries detected in pan CT scan are not clinically sig- nificant and do not make a difference in management of the patients, selective CT scan can be used instead, to decrease This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). keywords: abdomen; acute; beheshti; blunt; body; care; cases; chest; ct scan; data; decision; department; detection; diagnosis; emergency; face; final; findings; groups; head; hip; hospital; imaging; injuries; injury; journal; management; mean; medical; medicine; multiple; neck; pan; patients; present; radiation; results; scan; selective; severity; shahid; similar; study; surgery; tomography; trauma; trauma patients cache: aaem-162.pdf plain text: aaem-162.txt item: #184 of 640 id: aaem-1621 author: Bozorgmehr, Rama; Amiri, Farbod; Hosein Zade, Mohammad; Ghorbani, Fariba; Khameneh Bagheri, Arash; Yazdi, Esmat; Nekooghadam, Sayyed Mojtaba ; Pourdowlat, Guitti ; Fatemi, Alireza title: Effect of Sofosbuvir on Length of Hospital Stay in Moderate COVID-19 Cases; a Randomized Controlled Trial date: 2022-06-09 words: 3554 flesch: 56 summary: Moreover, clinical trials (10) showed an associa- tion between lower mortality rates and the need for ICU in COVID-19 patients treated with sofosbuvir/daclatasvir (12). Arsenault C, Gage A, Kim MK, Kapoor NR, Akweongo P, Amponsah F, et al. COVID-19 and resilience of healthcare systems in ten countries. keywords: access; admission; analysis; antimicrobial; article; attribution; beheshti; cases; clinical; commons; control; cov-2; covid-19; creative; daclatasvir; data; days; different; diseases; effect; efficacy; groups; health; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; infection; intervention; iran; journal; length; license; mean; medical; medicine; moderate; mortality; national; need; noncommercial; open; patients; randomized; research; safety; sars; sciences; severity; shahid; sofosbuvir; stay; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; treatment; trial; university cache: aaem-1621.pdf plain text: aaem-1621.txt item: #185 of 640 id: aaem-1622 author: SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad ; MohsseniPour, Mehrzad ; Saeidi, Solmaz; Habibi, Pedram ; Dashti, Mohsen; Nazarian, Newsha ; Noori, Tayebeh ; Pashaei, Zahra ; Bagheri, AmirBehzad ; Ghasemzadeh, Afsaneh ; Afsahi, Amir Masoud ; Aghaie, Narjes ; Mojdeganlou, Paniz ; Arjmand, Ghazal ; Zargari, Ghazal ; Modiri, Roshanak ; Mojdeganlou, Hengameh ; Razi, Armin ; Mehraeen, Esmaeil; Dadras, Omid title: Complications of COVID-19 Vaccines during Pregnancy; a Systematic Review date: 2022-09-24 words: 7220 flesch: 53 summary: We included English original studies that evaluated the adverse effects of COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy. Conclusion: Because of limited data availability and the cross-sectional design of most studies, we could neither infer causation between vaccines and incidence of adverse effects nor comment with certainty about any possible adverse outcome of COVID-19 vaccines in vaccinated pregnant women. keywords: academic; access; acute; admission; adverse; age; archives; article; attribution; birth; care; case; chills; chronic; cohort; commons; complications; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; covid-19 vaccination; covid-19 vaccine; covid19; creative; data; diabetes; disease; dose; e76; effects; emergency; events; fatigue; fever; findings; gestational; gynecol; headache; history; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypertension; information; injection; intensive; iran; license; local; maternal; medical; medicine; moderna; mrna; myalgia; nausea; neonatal; nicu; non; noncommercial; obstet; open; outcomes; pain; people; pfizer; possible; pregnancy; pregnant; pregnant women; preterm; reported; research; respiratory; review; risk; safety; sars; sciences; second; seyedalinaghi; site; small; studies; study; symptoms; systematic; table; tehran; terms; title; trimester; type; underlying; unit; university; usa; vaccinated; vaccination; vaccine; weeks; women cache: aaem-1622.pdf plain text: aaem-1622.txt item: #186 of 640 id: aaem-1623 author: Kalantari, Mohammad Ebrahim ; Sardarzadeh, Newsha ; Mirsadeghi , Ali ; Bagherzadeh, Ali Akbar ; Zandbaf, Tooraj title: Jejunal Dieulafoy’s Lesion as a Rare Cause of Massive Gastrointestinal Bleeding; a Case Report and Literature Review date: 2022-07-27 words: 2704 flesch: 56 summary: It seems that, when upper endoscopy and colonoscopy fail to identify the cause of gastrointestinal bleeding, a Dieulafoy’s lesion should be included in the differential diagnoses. Discussion Jejunal DL is an unusual cause of gastrointestinal bleeding, which can be severe and fatal. keywords: access; active; angiography; article; bleeding; blood; case; cells; clinical; colonoscopy; commons; creative; diagnosis; dieulafoy; differential; emergency; endoscopy; examination; extravasation; gastrointestinal; gastrointestinal bleeding; hemoglobin; intestine; iran; jejunal; jejunum; journal; lesion; license; like; lower; mashhad; massive; medical; medicine; normal; open; patient; presentation; rare; rectal; review; small; surgery; surgical; time; upper; years cache: aaem-1623.pdf plain text: aaem-1623.txt item: #187 of 640 id: aaem-1628 author: Sabzghabaei, Anita; Shojaei, Majid; Chavoshzadeh, Miromid title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography by Emergency Medicine Resident in Detecting Intestinal Obstruction; a Pilot Study date: 2022-06-26 words: 3172 flesch: 52 summary: Considering surgery as the gold standard for diagnosis of small bowel obstruction, sensitiv- ity, positive predictive value, and accuracy of ultrasound in detection of intestinal obstruction were found to be 85.00% (95%CI: 61.13 – 96.03), 80.95% (95%CI: 57.42 – 93.71), and 70.83% (95%CI: 48.91 – 87.38), respectively (table 1). Evidence of small bowel obstruction was considered as in- testinal lumen diameter more than 2.5 cm or wall thickness more than 3 mm or inter-loop free fluid (figure 1). keywords: abdominal; accuracy; analysis; article; attribution; bowel; bowel obstruction; care; cases; commons; creative; department; detection; diagnosis; diameter; emergency; findings; gold; hospital; intestinal; intestinal obstruction; iran; license; medical; medicine; meta; noncommercial; obstruction; patients; point; positive; region; resident; results; review; sensitivity; small; small bowel; standard; studies; study; surgery; tajrish; tehran; terms; ultrasonography; ultrasound; use; value; wall cache: aaem-1628.pdf plain text: aaem-1628.txt item: #188 of 640 id: aaem-163 author: Goharani, Reza; Miri, MirMohammad; Kouchek, Mehran; Sistanizad, Mohammad title: Familiarity of Physicians and Nurses with Different Aspects of Oxygen Therapy; a Brief Report date: 2017-01-11 words: 2446 flesch: 60 summary: Oxygen therapy, oxygen therapy in medical patients hospitalized outside of the intensive care unit. Abstract: Introduction: Oxygen is a drug and physician and nurses should be familiar with the effects and potential risks of oxygen therapy. keywords: aspects; beheshti; care; correct; delivery; devices; different; doctors; familiarity; hospital; hossein; imam; iran; knowledge; mask; measurements; medical; monitoring; necessary; nurses; oxygen; oxygen therapy; participants; physicians; prescription; questionnaire; sciences; shahid; study; tehran; therapy; training; university; use cache: aaem-163.pdf plain text: aaem-163.txt item: #189 of 640 id: aaem-1635 author: Almasi, Sohrab ; Mehrabi, Nahid; Asadi , Farkhondeh ; Afzali , Mahboobeh title: Usability of Emergency Department Information System Based on Users' Viewpoint; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-09-01 words: 5996 flesch: 55 summary: The highest mean scores belonged to usefulness in emergency department information system (EDIS) A, ease of use in EDIS B, ease of learning in EDIS A, user satisfaction in EDIS C, and suitability for the task in EDIS A. 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Almasi et al. 4 Table 2: Mean score of emergency department information systems (EDIS) usability criteria in three hospitals (A, B, and C) Systems Usability criteria Usefulness Ease of use Ease of learning User satisfaction Suitability for the task EDIS A 3.59±0.78 3.10±1.05 3.77±0.73 3.53±0.94 3.30±1.08 EDIS B 3.54±1.12 3.13±1.07 3.54±0.81 3.26±0.98 3.41±1.01 EDIS C 3.48±0.73 3.13±0.90 3.67±0.70 3.33±0.97 3.49±0.95 Total 3.53±0.87 3.12±1.01 3.66±0.74 3.29±1.01 3.47±0.96 Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation. keywords: academic; academic emergency; access; aja; almasi; analysis; article; attribution; care; commons; content; creative; criteria; criterion; cross; data; department; department information; design; dimensions; e71; ease; edis; emergency; emergency department; emergency information; emergency medicine; errors; evaluation; experience; factors; health; highest; highest score; hospitals; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; information; information system; international; iran; iso; journal; learning; license; lowest; management; mean; medical; medicine; needs; noncommercial; open; patient; quality; questionnaire; questions; reliability; results; review; satisfaction; sciences; score; software; standard; studies; study; suitability; system; task; technology; terms; university; usability; use; usefulness; user; validity; work cache: aaem-1635.pdf plain text: aaem-1635.txt item: #190 of 640 id: aaem-1636 author: Ghasemi Tehrani, Hatav; Tavakoli, Raheleh ; Hashemi, Maryam ; Haghighat, Somayeh title: Ethanol Sclerotherapy versus Laparoscopic Surgery in Management of Ovarian Endometrioma; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2022-07-07 words: 3990 flesch: 54 summary: Huang L, Chang M-Y, Shiau C-S. Changes in anti- müllerian hormone after ultrasound guided aspiration and ethanol sclerotic therapy of ovarian cyst. This study aimed to compare the effects of ethanol sclerotherapy and laparoscopic surgery on disease recurrence and ovarian factors of these patients. keywords: access; amh; analysis; article; attribution; clinical; commons; creative; cyst; data; diameter; endometrioma; endometriosis; ethanol; findings; ghasemi; group; gynecol; history; hormone; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; invasive; isfahan; laparoscopic; levels; license; management; mean; medical; medicine; methods; months; noncommercial; obstet; open; ovarian; ovarian endometrioma; p =; pain; participants; patients; pelvic; rate; recurrence; reserve; review; sclerotherapy; significant; size; study; surgery; tehrani; terms; treatment; trial; university; women cache: aaem-1636.pdf plain text: aaem-1636.txt item: #191 of 640 id: aaem-164 author: Mehrara, Mostafa; Tavakoli, Nader; Fathi, Marzieh; Mahshidfar, Babak; Zare, Mohammad Amin; Asadi, Azita; Hosseinzadeh, Saeedeh; Safdarian, Mehdi title: Protocol Adherence in Prehospital Medical Care Provided for Patients with Chest Pain and Loss of Consciousness; a Brief Report date: 2016-05-14 words: 3125 flesch: 50 summary: Conclusion: There were more than 20% protocol violation regarding prehospital care of chest pain patients regarding cardiac monitoring, O2 therapy, and nitroglycerin and aspirin administration. Conclusion There were more than 20% protocol violation regarding pre- hospital care of chest pain patients regarding cardiac moni- toring, O2 therapy, and nitroglycerin and aspirin administra- tion. keywords: adherence; administration; arrest; article; aspirin; bedside; cardiac; care; cases; chest; chest pain; clinical; consciousness; data; department; emergency; ems; fair; glucometery; guidelines; infarction; loc; loss; management; medical; monitoring; myocardial; naloxone; national; open; oxygen; pain; patients; pmc; poor; positioning; prehospital; protocol; pupils; quality; rate; results; resuscitation; setting; staff; study; therapy cache: aaem-164.pdf plain text: aaem-164.txt item: #192 of 640 id: aaem-1644 author: Samimiardestani, Seyedhadi; Irani, Shirin; Hasibi, Mehrdad; Seyedahadi, Maral; Bastaninejad, Shahin; Firouzifar, Mohammadreza; Mohammadi Ardehali, Mojataba; Berijani, Sina; Erfanian, Reza; Kazemi, Mohammad Ali; Etemadi-Aleagha, Afshar; Rahimi, Abolfazl; Karimi Yarandi, Kourosh; Ahadi, Samira title: Distinguishing Characteristics of COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis; a Case Series date: 2022-08-18 words: 4699 flesch: 42 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem S. Samimiardestani et al. 8 about ICA occlusion among COVID-19 patients as well as mucormycosis patients, independently [17-21]. Conclusion: Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is one of the most important complications of COVID-19 patients, especially those with underlying diseases. keywords: access; antrostomy; article; associated; attribution; cam; carotid; case; cavernous; characteristics; clinical; commons; conceptualization; covid-19; creative; data; days; debridement; diagnosis; disease; endoscopic; ethmoidectomy; eye; facial; findings; follow; frozen; fungal; hospital; htn; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infection; inferior; iran; license; loss; maxillary; medical; middle; mucormycosis; nasal; necrosis; noncommercial; open; ophthalmoplegia; orbital; outcome; palatal; paralysis; paresthesia; patients; ppf; report; resection; rhinocerebral; sciences; series; sinus; space; sphenoid; study; surgery; tehran; terms; thrombosis; times; turbinate; university cache: aaem-1644.pdf plain text: aaem-1644.txt item: #193 of 640 id: aaem-1646 author: Alizadeh, Nafiseh; Tabatabaei, Fatemeh-sadat; Azimi, Amirali; Faraji, Neda; Akbarpour, Samaneh; Dianatkhah, Mehrnoush; Moghaddas, Azadeh title: Lactate Dehydrogenase to Albumin ratio as a Predictive Factor of COVID-19 Patients’ Outcome; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2022-08-15 words: 5690 flesch: 59 summary: Outcomes of COVID-19 patients mainly depend on the severity of the disease. With the limited health care capacity, early risk stratification is crucial to identify patients who should be prioritized for optimal man- agement. keywords: access; acute; admission; age; albumin; analysis; article; attribution; blood; bun; care; china; clinical; commons; comorbidities; coronavirus; count; covid-19; creative; crp; data; dehydrogenase; department; different; disease; emergency; esr; group; health; hospital; hospitalization; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; increase; intensive; iran; laboratory; lactate; lar; ldh; length; levels; license; lymphocyte; medical; medicine; mortality; noncommercial; open; optimal; outcomes; patients; predictive; prognostic; ratio; respiratory; results; risk; sciences; serum; severe; severity; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; tertiles; trend; unit; university; value; variables; wbc cache: aaem-1646.pdf plain text: aaem-1646.txt item: #194 of 640 id: aaem-165 author: Nabavi, Seyed Saeed; Partovi, Parinaz title: Brain Ultrasonography Findings in Neonatal Seizure; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2017-01-12 words: 2550 flesch: 59 summary: Methods: The present cross-sectional study designed to evaluate brain ultrasonography findings of hospitalized newborns complain- ing seizure. Study design and setting The present study is a retrospective cross-sectional one aim- ing to evaluate brain ultrasonography findings of newborns hospitalized in the neonatal unit of Milad Hospital, Tehran, Iran, during 2011 to 2013 complaining seizure. keywords: age; article; birth; brain; clinical; common; correlation; data; days; detection; diagnosis; emergency; examinations; findings; frequency; hemorrhage; history; hospital; hydrocephaly; intracranial; lesions; myoclonic; neonatal; neurology; newborns; normal; pathologic; patients; presence; present; probability; problem; screening; seizure; study; table; tehran; term; tonic; ultrasonography; ultrasonography findings; weight cache: aaem-165.pdf plain text: aaem-165.txt item: #195 of 640 id: aaem-166 author: Alizadeh, Leila; Shakeri-Darzekonani, Mahdieh; Sadrazar, Amin; Nouri-Vaskeh, Masoud; Basirjafari, Sedigheh title: Conservative Management of Asymptomatic Pneumoperitoneum; Report of Two Cases date: 2019-01-03 words: 2035 flesch: 56 summary: Peptic ulcer perforation is an emergent life-threatening condition that causes pneumoperitoneum and septic shock. Keywords: Peptic ulcer perforation; pneumoperitoneum; proton pump inhibitors; conservative treatment Cite this article as: Alizadeh L, Shakeri-Darzekonani M, Sadrazar A, Nouri-Vaskeh M, Basirjafari S. Conservative Management of Asymp- tomatic Pneumoperitoneum; Report of Two Cases. keywords: abdominal; case; condition; conservative; diseases; dose; endoscopy; examination; follow; gastric; gastrointestinal; high; history; iran; liver; medical; mild; normal; open; patient; peptic; perforation; pneumoperitoneum; pud; pump; report; scan; sciences; stable; stomach; surgical; symptoms; tabriz; therapy; treatment; ulcer; university; year cache: aaem-166.pdf plain text: aaem-166.txt item: #196 of 640 id: aaem-1660 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Forouzannia, Seyed Ali; Ataei, Neamatollah; Hossein, Hasti; Zareie Shab Khaneh, Amirali; Karimi Ghahfarokhi, Maryam; Jones, Michael E.; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Prevalence and Mortality of Post-traumatic Acute Kidney Injury in Children; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2022-11-07 words: 3929 flesch: 62 summary: Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that 9.86% of children develop AKI following trauma, which may increase their risk of death by about 5.5 times. The findings of the present study showed that 9.86% of children develop AKI following trauma, which may increase their risk of mortality by about 5.5 times. keywords: access; acute; aki; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; bias; care; children; cohort; commons; creative; data; earthquake; exertional; fields; figure; findings; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; incidence; injury; iran; kidney; license; medical; meta; mortality; noncommercial; observational; open; patients; pediatric; present; prevalence; quality; related; relationship; retrospective; rhabdomyolysis; risk; sciences; search; severe; studies; study; table; tehran; terms; trauma; traumatized; university cache: aaem-1660.pdf plain text: aaem-1660.txt item: #197 of 640 id: aaem-1663 author: Mirdamadi, Niloofar; Bakhtiari, Maryam; Baratloo, Alireza; Fattahi, Mohammad Reza; Farshidmehr, Pezhman title: An Epidemiologic Overview of Traumatic Vascular Injures in Emergency Department; a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study date: 2022-07-21 words: 4707 flesch: 59 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Vascular system injuries (VSIs) are one of the main causes of preventable mortality and morbidity of trauma patients. VSIs have become one of the main causes of preventable mortality and morbidity in trauma patients (3-5). keywords: access; amputation; anatomical; arterial; artery; article; associated; attribution; blunt; cases; center; common; complications; creative; department; emergency; et al; extremity; findings; hard; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injuries; injury; iran; iss; license; limb; lower; majority; management; medical; mortality; nerve; noncommercial; number; open; outcome; patients; penetrating; postoperative; pulse; reported; severe; signs; similar; studies; study; surgery; tehran; tendon; terms; trauma; traumatic; type; upper; vascular; vsis cache: aaem-1663.pdf plain text: aaem-1663.txt item: #198 of 640 id: aaem-167 author: GoliKhatir, Iraj; Aminiahidashti, Hamed; Motamed Motlagh, Hasan; Heidari, Seyed Farshad title: Isolated Oculomotor Nerve Palsy Following Minor Head Trauma; a Case Report date: 2017-01-12 words: 1449 flesch: 56 summary: Multiple cra- nial nerve injuries involving the third nerve may occur in skull base fractures involving the cavernous sinus and in maxillofacial or superior orbital Fissure injuries; prevalence of isolated third nerve injury due to trauma is reported to be 21% (6, 10, 11). Keywords: Tomography, x-ray computed; craniocerebral trauma; magnetic resonance imaging; oculomotor nerve diseases © keywords: article; brain; case; clinical; commons; cranial; emergency; eye; head; imaging; imam; injury; iran; isolated; journal; khomeini; left; magnetic; minor; mri; nerve; normal; oculomotor; orbital; palsy; patient; report; resonance; sari; trauma cache: aaem-167.pdf plain text: aaem-167.txt item: #199 of 640 id: aaem-1678 author: Ghanbari Khanghah, Atefeh ; Moghadamnia, Mohammad Taghi; Panahi, Latif; Pouy, Somaye; Aghajani Nargesi, Marjan ; Kazemnezhad Leyli, Ehsan title: Effect of Interposed Abdominal Compression on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Outcomes; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2022-07-16 words: 6120 flesch: 59 summary: Interposed abdominal compression CPR: a comprehensive evidence based review. All patients with successful CPR were followed for their 24- hour survival. keywords: abdominal; access; age; arrest; arterial; article; attribution; baseline; blood; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; change; chest; circulation; clinical; commons; compression; control; control group; cpr; creative; data; difference; effect; emergency; findings; group; guilan; heart; hospital; hour; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; increase; interposed; intervention; intervention group; iran; license; map; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; noncommercial; nursing; open; outcomes; patients; pressure; rasht; rate; research; respiratory; resuscitation; rosc; sciences; significant; start; std; study; terms; university; zhang cache: aaem-1678.pdf plain text: aaem-1678.txt item: #200 of 640 id: aaem-1679 author: Hosseini Marznaki, Zohreh ; Karkhah, Samad; Mohammadian Amiri , Mehdi; Källmen, Håkan ; Moradi, Azadeh ; Najjarboura, Maede title: Attitudes of Emergency Nurses and Patients’ Family Members Towards the Presence of Family Members During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2022-09-06 words: 4041 flesch: 56 summary: Family members have the right to be present during CPR 2.02 ± 0.75 3.73 ± 1.05 Permission should be obtained in advance, if possible, from the patient prior to witnessed CPR 2.47 ± 1.01 3.98 ± 0.89 I would be present during CPR of my relative if allowed 2.90 ± 1.24 3.73 ± 1.10 Presence of family members would benefit the patient 2.85 ± 1.36 3.19 ± 1.32 Allows relatives to ensure everything was done 2.18 ± 1.11 3.75 ± 1.11 Allows relatives to stay with the patient until the end 2.02 ± 0.91 3.79 ± 1.09 Makes the patient less worried 2.02 ± 0.91 2.51 ± 1.51 Family members provide support to the patient 2.73 ± 1.21 3.85 ± 1.07 Would benefit the family members 2.36 ± 1.03 3.88 ± 1.03 May be beneficial to the relatives’ grieving process 2.43 ± 1.02 1.87 ± 0.94 Improves relatives’ understanding of CPR 2.86 ± 1.24 3.93 ± 1.00 Results: The mean attitude scores of nurses and family members of patients regarding family presence during CPR were 86.79 ± 7.50 and 92.48 ± 6.77, respectively (p < 0.001). keywords: arrest; article; attitude; attribution; authors; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; care; characteristics; commons; cpr; creative; data; department; emergency; emergency nurses; family; family members; family presence; hospital; iran; items; license; mean; medical; medicine; members; noncommercial; nurses; nursing; participants; patients; positive; presence; present; relatives; results; resuscitation; sciences; score; study; terms; university; work cache: aaem-1679.pdf plain text: aaem-1679.txt item: #201 of 640 id: aaem-168 author: Ashrafi, Farzad; Pakdaman, Hossein; Arabahmadi, Mehran; Behnam, Behdad title: Head Trauma as a Precipitating Factor for Late-onset Leigh Syndrome: a Case Report date: 2017-01-14 words: 1536 flesch: 50 summary: We present a late onset Leigh syndrome in a 14-year-old girl whose symptoms were initiating following head trauma. In some of the inherited neurodegenerative diseases like Alexander disease, head trauma is reported as a trigger for onset of the disease. keywords: article; basal; bilateral; brain; case; childhood; clinical; diagnosis; diffusion; disease; disorders; emergency; factor; figure; ganglia; head; late; leigh; lesions; magnetic; medical; mitochondrial; neurological; neurology; normal; old; onset; precipitating; report; resonance; respiratory; seizure; symptoms; syndrome; trauma; year cache: aaem-168.pdf plain text: aaem-168.txt item: #202 of 640 id: aaem-1682 author: Ahmadi, Sajjad; Roshdi Dizaji, Shayan; Babahajian, Asrin; Alizadeh, Mohammadreza; Sarveazad, Arash; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Serum Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in Detecting Intracranial Injuries Following Minor Head Trauma; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-01-01 words: 7156 flesch: 55 summary: Conclusion: The present study’s findings demonstrate that serum GFAP can detect intracranial lesions in mild TBI patients. According to avail- able data, only 16% of mild TBI patients have demonstrable intracranial lesions on computed tomography (CT) imaging (8). keywords: academic; access; accuracy; acidic; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; bias; biomarkers; blood; brain; brain injury; center; clinical; cohort; commons; concussion; creative; cut; data; diagnostic; elisa; emergency; et al; evidence; fibrillary; figure; findings; gfap; glial; group; head; heterogeneity; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/tem/index; imaging; injuries; injury; intracranial; iran; lesions; level; license; measurement; medical; medicine; meta; mild; mild tbi; mild traumatic; minor; moderate; mri; negative; neurol; neurotrauma; noncommercial; odds; offs; open; outcome; patients; points; protein; publication; ratio; related; research; results; review; risk; scan; sciences; sensitivity; serum; specificity; sport; studies; study; systematic; table; tbi; tbi patients; tehran; terms; time; tomography; traumatic; traumatic brain; university; value cache: aaem-1682.pdf plain text: aaem-1682.txt item: #203 of 640 id: aaem-1686 author: Akashe, Hooman ; Jahandideh, Alireza; Khajehrahimi, Amireghbal; Kakoolaki, Shapour; Hesaraki, Saeed title: The Effect of Gracilaria Corticata and Scenedesmus Acuminates Extract Mixture on the Healing of Wounds Contaminated with Staphylococcus in the Rat Model date: 2022-08-29 words: 5834 flesch: 56 summary: Three-day follow ups showed that administration of zinc oxide ointment can accelerate wound closure compared to non-treated group (p=0.029). While in 14-day follow-up, wound size had significantly de- creased only in mixed algae 7% group (p=0.014) compared to non-treated group. keywords: access; activity; addition; akasheh; algae; analysis; angiogenesis; animals; antioxidant; area; article; assessment; attribution; aureus; bacterial; cells; closure; collagen; colonies; commons; corticata; creative; day; days; decrease; different; e70; effect; engineering; evaluation; experimental; expression; extract; factor; fibrosis; figure; gracilaria; groups; growth; healing; higher; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; increase; induction; infiltration; license; macrophages; marine; medicine; microalgae; mixed; mixed algae; model; non; noncommercial; number; open; oxide; post; process; rate; rats; research; results; scaffolds; scenedesmus; science; score; significant; size; skin; staphylococcus; studies; terms; test; tgfβ; time; tissue; treated; treatment; vegf; wound; wound healing; zinc; zinc oxide cache: aaem-1686.pdf plain text: aaem-1686.txt item: #204 of 640 id: aaem-169 author: Ebrahimi, Mohsen; Malmir, Jafar; Mahmoudi Gharaee, Azadeh; Foroughian, Mahdi title: A Rare Case of Gastrointestinal Tract Foreign Body; Glassy Stomach date: 2017-01-14 words: 1275 flesch: 55 summary: Although glass foreign bodies are opaque on radiographs, but it was indicated that the size of the glass for- eign body is often the limiting factor for radiographic detec- tion and that 0.5- to 2.0-mm fragments represent a “limited detection” size range(1, 6).Endoscopic extraction is well ac- cepted and recommended as a form of treatment for swal- lowed foreign body in upper gastrointestinal tract, however, conservative approach with proper management is also ef- fective and preferable when foreign bodies have passed the esophagus within days without any difficulty (7). Surgical intervention is required in such cases, which make up less than 1% of ingested foreign body cases (11). keywords: abdominal; bodies; body; case; department; emergency; figure; foreign; gastrointestinal; glass; ingested; ingestion; intervention; iran; journal; kerman; medical; medicine; pain; particles; patient; ray; sciences; stomach; tract; university cache: aaem-169.pdf plain text: aaem-169.txt item: #205 of 640 id: aaem-1692 author: Malekpour Alamdari , Nasser; Afaghi, Siamak; Esmaeili Tarki , Farzad; Fathi, Mohammad ; Besharat , Sara; Rahimi, Fatamehsadat title: Risk Factors of Recurrent Anal Abscess in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; a 4-Year Retrospective study date: 2022-08-24 words: 4216 flesch: 56 summary: Whilst some of the risk factors for occurrence of anal abscess, including high daily salt intake, active smoking, alcohol use, obesity, and DM have been rec- ognized, there is presently a scarcity of information about which patient-related characteristics are most prognostic of anal abscess recurrence (6-8). Abstract: Introduction: Anal abscess is considered as a relatively common compilation in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. keywords: abscess; abscess recurrence; access; aerobic; anal; anal abscess; analysis; article; attribution; beheshti; center; characteristics; clinical; commons; control; creative; crp; data; diabetes; diabetic; disease; factors; fistula; glycemic; hba1c; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; independent; initial; iran; levels; license; medical; mellitus; metabolic; noncommercial; open; patients; perianal; protein; rate; recurrence; recurring; retrospective; risk; sciences; shahid; smoking; study; syndrome; tehran; terms; treatment; type; university; wbc; year cache: aaem-1692.pdf plain text: aaem-1692.txt item: #206 of 640 id: aaem-17 author: Zamani, Majid; Esmailian, Mehrdad; Yoosefian, Zahra title: QT Interval in Pregnant and Non-pregnant Women date: 2018-11-13 words: 3277 flesch: 62 summary: Department of Emergency Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Abstract Introduction: Prolongation of QT interval might result in dangerous cardiac arrhythmias, including Torsades de Pointes (TdP), consequently leading to syncope or death. A limited number of studies carried out in this respect to date have shown that QT interval might increase during pregnancy. keywords: accidents; age; arrhythmias; beheshti; cardiac; cardiol; changes; control; data; delivery; emergency; factors; group; heart; increase; interval; long; lqts; mean; medical; milliseconds; non; normal; patients; pregnancy; pregnant; pregnant women; present; prolongation; qt interval; qtc; qtd; range; results; risk; sciences; second; studies; study; subjects; syndrome; test; university; ventricular; women cache: aaem-17.pdf plain text: aaem-17.txt item: #207 of 640 id: aaem-170 author: Dadpour, Bita; Gholoobi, Arash; Tajoddini, Shahrad; Habibi, Amir title: Acute Myocardial Infarction following Naltrexone Consumption; a Case Report date: 2017-01-14 words: 1885 flesch: 49 summary: Abrupt discontinuation of opi- oids or consumption of opioid antagonists in addict subjects lead to opioid withdrawal syndrome. Abstract: Cardiovascular effects of opioid withdrawal have long been studied. keywords: acute; addict; artery; article; blood; cardiac; cardiovascular; case; catecholamine; consumption; coronary; disease; effects; emergency; heart; hospital; imam; increase; infarction; iran; journal; kerman; level; mashhad; medical; medicine; methadone; myocardial; naltrexone; opioid; opium; patients; pressure; report; research; reza; sciences; stress; sudden; syndrome; treatment; university; withdrawal cache: aaem-170.pdf plain text: aaem-170.txt item: #208 of 640 id: aaem-1700 author: Huabbangyang, Thongpitak; Sangketchon, Chunlanee; Ittiphisit, Sakditat; Uoun, Kanittha; Saumok, Chomkamol title: Predictive Factors of Outcome in Cases of Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Due to Traffic Accident Injuries in Thailand; a National Database Study date: 2022-08-16 words: 5250 flesch: 55 summary: Traffic accident patients serviced by EMS in Bangkok who died at the scene (death on arrival), those who were evalu- ated as deceased when EMS arrived, those who were deemed unsuitable for CPR by the ALS team leader, patients whose relatives denied treatment and transportation, those receiv- ing CPR during transfer, patients with discordant CBD coding to the actual incident, and those with incomplete data were excluded. Regarding emer- gency medical operations for traffic accident patients with cardiac arrest, most EMS teams in the study area consisted of at least three staff members during each operation, including EPs, paramedics, or ENPs as operation leaders and AEMTs and EMTs as members. keywords: access; accident; airway; analysis; arrest; article; associated; attribution; bangkok; cardiac; cases; circulation; commons; cpr; creative; data; database; emergency; emergency medical; ems; ett; facial; factors; faculty; fluid; health; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; huabbangyang; independent; injured; injuries; injury; intubation; iqr; license; management; median; medical; medicine; national; navamindradhiraj; noncommercial; ohca; open; operation; outcome; patients; predictive; prehospital; previous; rate; resuscitation; return; road; rosc; scene; spontaneous; study; survival; terms; test; thailand; traffic; traffic accident; traumatic; university; unknown cache: aaem-1700.pdf plain text: aaem-1700.txt item: #209 of 640 id: aaem-1704 author: Mohammadi, Mohammad; Mohamadi, Mobin; Moradi, Amirreza; Ramawad, Hamzah Adel; Gharin, Pantea; Azizi, Yaser; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Apelin as a Candidate for Hypertension Management; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on Animal Studies date: 2022-11-07 words: 5780 flesch: 55 summary: Apelin effects on blood pressure and RAS in DOCA-salt-induced hypertensive rats. Apelin effects in human splanchnic arteries. keywords: academic; access; administration; analysis; animal; apelin; apelin administration; apj; archives; arterial; articles; assessment; attribution; bias; blood; blood pressure; catheter; central; chronic; commons; creative; data; dbp; decreases; difference; dose; e90; effect; emergency; figure; findings; follow; high; high risk; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypertension; injection; interval; intra; iran; license; low; low risk; male; management; map; mean; medical; medicine; meta; minutes; model; mohammadi; noncommercial; open; peripheral; present; pressure; rats; regression; related; results; review; risk; route; sbp; search; shr; significant; smd; standard; statistical; studies; study; systematic; systolic; terms; time cache: aaem-1704.pdf plain text: aaem-1704.txt item: #210 of 640 id: aaem-1706 author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa title: Monkeypox Outbreak in Non-Endemic Areas: Will it Cause a New Pandemic? a Letter to Editor date: 2022-07-25 words: 946 flesch: 53 summary: Mild MP cases only need to be isolated at home to prevent transmission of disease to the healthy people. The recent world health organization (WHO) reports of confirmed MP cases from non-endemic areas have raised global concern over the risk of a new pandemic. keywords: alavi; areas; available; cases; editor; endemic; exposure; hcws; health; infected; infection; june; medicine; monkeypox; new; non; outbreak; pandemic; symptoms cache: aaem-1706.pdf plain text: aaem-1706.txt item: #211 of 640 id: aaem-1709 author: Yamashita, Koya; Hongo, Takashi; Nojima, Tsuyoshi; Yumoto, Tetsuya; Nakao, Atsunori; Naito, Hiromichi title: Hamman’s Syndrome Accompanied by Diabetic Ketoacidosis; a Case Report date: 2022-08-21 words: 1995 flesch: 48 summary: Herein, we report a case of an 18-year- old man complaining of chest discomfort and progressive weight loss, ultimately diagnosed with Hamman’s syndrome secondary to DKA. 4. Conclusion Emergency physicians should be aware of the possibility that pneumomediastinum can be induced by DKA associ- ated with type I diabetes mellitus. keywords: alveolar; article; average; blood; breathing; care; case; chest; clinical; control; day; department; diabetes; diabetic; diagnosis; dka; emergency; emphysema; esophageal; hamman; insulin; intravenous; ketoacidosis; management; medicine; mellitus; okayama; patient; pneumomediastinum; pressure; report; review; rupture; subcutaneous; symptoms; syndrome; type; vomiting; weight cache: aaem-1709.pdf plain text: aaem-1709.txt item: #212 of 640 id: aaem-171 author: Barrios, Dormar David; Roncancio, Jonathan; Avila, Albert Alejandro; Alvarado, Jaime Andrés; Montenegro, Ana Cristina title: Paradoxical Embolism due to Persistent Foramen Ovale; a Case Report date: 2017-01-14 words: 2248 flesch: 51 summary: Patent foramen ovale in a large population of ischemic stroke patients: diagnosis, age distribution, gender, and race. Effect of medical treatment in stroke patients with patent foramen ovale patent fora- men ovale in Cryptogenic Stroke Study. keywords: acute; article; attribution; blood; bogota; case; cerebrovascular; circulation; clinical; commons; creative; cryptogenic; department; embolism; emergency; evidence; foramen; foramen ovale; high; ischemic; journal; left; license; magnetic; medical; noncommercial; ovale; paradoxical; patent; patent foramen; patients; pulmonary; resonance; right; risk; stroke; study; systemic; therapy; treatment; venous; warfarin cache: aaem-171.pdf plain text: aaem-171.txt item: #213 of 640 id: aaem-1710 author: Huabbangyang, Thongpitak; Klaiangthong, Rossakorn; Prasittichok, Krit ; Koikhunthod, Sutida ; Wanna, Jakkapan ; Sudajun, Nutthapong; Khaisri, Parichat; Kamsom, Anucha title: Comparing Emergency Medical Services Processing Times for Stroke Patients Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic; A Cross-sectional Study date: 2022-08-16 words: 5593 flesch: 60 summary: The increase in acute stroke patients seen by EMS during COVID-19 pandemic was also observed in a study by Ikenberg et al., who reported an 86% increase in EMS stroke RC during the lockdown (22). The present study aimed to compare EMS processing times and the number of acute stroke patients serviced by EMS before and during COVID-19 pandemic. keywords: 31st; access; acute; acute stroke; ambulance; article; attribution; bangkok; callouts; care; commons; covid-19; covid-19 pandemic; creative; data; december; department; emergency; emergency medical; ems; ems processing; faculty; health; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; huabbangyang; january; klaiaungthong; license; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; navamindradhiraj; noncommercial; number; open; pandemic; patients; period; prehospital; present; processing; processing times; public; red; response; review; risk; rossakorn; s.m.a.r.t; sample; scene; services; staff; stroke; stroke patients; study; terms; thailand; thongpitak; times; total; transportation; university; vajira; week cache: aaem-1710.pdf plain text: aaem-1710.txt item: #214 of 640 id: aaem-172 author: Salehi, Forod; Hassanzadeh Taheri, Mohammad Mehdi; Riasi, Hamid Reza; Mehrpour, Omid title: Recurrent Syncope following Substance Abuse; a Case Report date: 2017-01-14 words: 1520 flesch: 52 summary: Psychiatric consul- tation revealed that the patient had two previous suicide at- tempts and history of ecstasy abuse. This case study presents a young man with recurrent syncope further diag- nosed as ecstasy abuse as the main cause. keywords: abuse; amphetamines; arrhythmia; article; attacks; birjand; birjand university; cardiac; cardiogenic; cardiovascular; case; complications; department; drug; ecstasy; emergency; etiology; history; iran; journal; mdma; medical; methamphetamine; normal; patient; psychiatric; recurrent; related; report; sciences; substances; syncope; tachycardia; toxicology; university; ventricular cache: aaem-172.pdf plain text: aaem-172.txt item: #215 of 640 id: aaem-1720 author: Saheban Maleki, Mohsen; Khedri, Behzad ; Ebrahimpour Roodposhti, Maryam ; Askari Majdabadi, Hesamedin ; Seyedrezaei, Seyedeh Omolbanin; Amanat, Nasir ; Poursadeqiyan, Mohsen ; Khajehnasiri, Farahnaz; Amiri, Roya title: Epidemiology of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries in Iran; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2022-10-06 words: 5136 flesch: 62 summary: The in-hospital mor- tality rate of spinal cord injuries varies from region to region (4). Sabapathy V, Tharion G, Kumar S. Cell therapy augments functional recovery subsequent to spinal cord injury un- der experimental conditions. keywords: abstract; access; age; analysis; article; attribution; causes; center; cervical; characteristics; commons; cord; cord injuries; cord injury; creative; data; department; emergency; epidemiological; epidemiology; factors; falls; figure; findings; group; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; incidence; injuries; injury; iran; iranian; key; license; low low; maleki; mean; med; medical; medicine; meta; moderate; moderate low; moderate moderate; mortality; mvcs; noncommercial; north; open; patients; people; pooled; population; prevalence; results; review; risk; saheban; sciences; search; spinal; spinal cord; studies; study; systematic; tehran; terms; title; traumatic; traumatic spinal; tsci; university; years; yousefzadeh cache: aaem-1720.pdf plain text: aaem-1720.txt item: #216 of 640 id: aaem-1727 author: Motavaselian, Mohsen ; Bayati, Fateme; Amani-Beni, Reza ; Khalaji, Amirreza; Haghverdi, Sara; Abdollahi, Zeynab; Sarrafzadeh, Arash; Rafie Manzelat, Amir-masood ; Rigi, Amir ; Arabzadeh Bahri, Razman; Nakhaee, Zahra; Fadaei, Mahta; Ghasemi Falaverjani, Hajar ; Malekpour-Dehkordi, Sara ; Hoseinpour, Maryam ; Bidares, Matin ; Zandkarimi, Sarvenaz ; Ahmadi, Rasha ; Beheshtiparvar, Dorsa ; Ahadiat, Seyed-Amirabbas; Farshi, Mohsen ; Farrokhi, Mehrdad title: Diagnostic Performance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Detection of Acute Appendicitis in Pregnant Women; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2022-10-06 words: 5569 flesch: 61 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem M. Motavaselian et al. 10 Figure 2: Forest plot of the pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio (LR), negative LR, and diagnostic odds ratio (OR) of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for diagnosis of acute appendicitis in pregnant women. Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem M. Motavaselian et al. 2 Cite this article as: Motavaselian M, Bayati F, Amani-Beni R, Khalaji A, Haghverdi S, Abdollahi Z, et al. keywords: abdom; abdominal; academic; access; accuracy; acute; acute appendicitis; analysis; appendicitis; appendix; article; attribution; bias; cases; center; commons; creative; diagnosis; e81; emergency; et al; evaluation; figure; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; imaging; iran; license; likelihood; magnetic; medical; medicine; meta; motavaselian; mri; negative; noncommercial; odds; open; pain; papers; patients; performance; pooled; positive; pregnancy; pregnant; pregnant women; publication; radiol; ratio; resonance; results; review; risk; sciences; search; sensitivity; specificity; studies; study; systematic; tehran; terms; ultrasonography; university; usa; use; women; © pedrosa; © © cache: aaem-1727.pdf plain text: aaem-1727.txt item: #217 of 640 id: aaem-1728 author: Heydari, Farhad; Zamani, Majid ; Masoumi, Babak ; Majidinejad, Saeed ; Nasr-Esfahani, Mohammad ; Abbasi, Saeed ; Shirani, Kiana ; Sheibani Tehrani, Donya ; Sadeghi-aliabadi, Mahsa ; Arbab, Mohammadreza title: Physiologic Scoring Systems in Predicting the COVID-19 Patients’ one-month Mortality; a Prognostic Accuracy Study date: 2022-10-19 words: 5615 flesch: 62 summary: This study aimed to determine the accuracy of the physiologic scoring systems in predicting the mortality of COVID-19 patients. Methods: This prospective cross-sectional study was per- formed on COVID-19 patients admitted to the emergency department (ED). keywords: access; accuracy; admission; article; attribution; auroc; blood; care; characteristics; clinical; cohort; commons; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 mortality; covid-19 patients; covid19; creative; data; day; department; disease; early; emergency; et al; good; heydari; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infection; iran; isfahan; license; limited; mean; med; medical; medicine; mortality; mortality score; national; news2; non; noncommercial; npv; open; patients; performance; physiologic; prediction; present; priest; qsofa; rate; respiratory; risk; sciences; score; scoring; severe; spo2; studies; study; subjects; survived; systems; table; terms; tool; triage; university; warning cache: aaem-1728.pdf plain text: aaem-1728.txt item: #218 of 640 id: aaem-1729 author: Asadollahzadeh, Elnaz ; Ghadiri , Fereshteh; Ebadi , Zahra ; Naser Moghadasi, Abdorreza title: Is Monkeypox a Concern in Multiple Sclerosis Patients? A Letter to Editor date: 2022-08-18 words: 959 flesch: 56 summary: dence backs up 1) methods to reduce the risk of contracting infectious diseases that might cause MS exacerbations, and 2) the safety of vaccinations in MS patients. Pa- tients with multiple sclerosis who use these drugs are in dan- ger of developing a weak immune system and a wide range of infectious diseases such as herpesvirus infections (2). keywords: abdorreza; article; authors; autoimmune; disease; editor; immune; infections; manuscript; monkeypox; multiple; naser; patients; people; risk; sclerosis; smallpox; system; tehran; virus cache: aaem-1729.pdf plain text: aaem-1729.txt item: #219 of 640 id: aaem-173 author: Hung, Shih-Wen; Chen, Kuo-Chih; Wu, Chin-Chu; Wang, Tzong-Luen; Lin, Aming Chor-Ming title: A 5-Month-Old Infant with Right Scrotum Swelling date: 2017-01-14 words: 1838 flesch: 58 summary: Gupta M, Digra NC, Sharma N, Goyal S, Agrawal A. Length of peritoneal end of shunt catheters in hydro- cephalus in children and rate of complications. Discussion: VP shunts are catheters that are inserted into the ventricles within the brain and threaded under the skin from the skull to the peritoneum, where excess CSF is drained (2). keywords: abdomen; abdominal; article; case; catheter; cavity; common; complications; department; distal; emergency; hydrocephalus; infant; infection; journal; kong; length; medical; medicine; migration; neurosurgery; patient; portion; rate; ray; report; right; scrotum; shunt; shunting; tube; ventriculoperitoneal cache: aaem-173.pdf plain text: aaem-173.txt item: #220 of 640 id: aaem-1738 author: Chegini, Victoria; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Jedari Attaran, Sima; Mahyar, Abolfazl; Mirzadeh, Monirsadat; Chegini, Venus title: Evaluating the Ability of PRISM4 and PIM3 to Predict Mortality in Patients Admitted to Pediatric Intensive Care Unit; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2022-07-21 words: 4073 flesch: 55 summary: In our study PRISM system lacked the efficiency to predict the prognosis of PICU patients. Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem V. Chegini et al. 6 scoring systems for mortality risk in infantile intensive care. keywords: accuracy; article; better; care; characteristics; children; clinical; critical; cut; data; disease; drugs; duration; higher; hospital; index; inotropic; intensive; iran; medical; medicine; mortality; need; outcome; patients; pediatric; performance; picu; pim3; prediction; present; prism4; qazvin; rate; resources; results; risk; scale; school; sciences; score; scoring; screening; sensitivity; stay; study; system; unit; university cache: aaem-1738.pdf plain text: aaem-1738.txt item: #221 of 640 id: aaem-1739 author: Masoumian Hosseini, Mohsen; Masoumian Hosseini, Toktam; Qayumi, karim; Baeradeh, Najibullah title: Game-based vs. Case-based Training for Increasing Knowledge and Behavioral Fluency of Nurse Students Regarding Crisis and Disaster Management; a Quasi-Experimental Study date: 2022-09-24 words: 6628 flesch: 55 summary: Study design and setting This quasi-experimental study, with a pretest-posttest de- sign, examined how GBT with Precision Teaching improved disaster nursing management knowledge & behavioural flu- ency in nursing students of Torbat Heydarieh University of Medical Sciences between 2021 and 2022. Farsi Z, Yazdani M, Butler S, Nezamzadeh M, Mirlashari J. Comparative effectiveness of simulation versus serious game for training nursing students in cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a randomized control trial. keywords: access; accuracy; analysis; article; attribution; behavioral; case; cbt; clinical; commons; content; control; creative; crisis; crisis management; criterion; data; department; design; difference; disaster; e77; education; emergency; feedback; figure; fluency; game; gbt; groups; health; heydariyeh; higher; hosseini; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; internship; intervention; knowledge; learning; license; management; masoumian; mean; medical; medicine; month; noncommercial; nurses; nursing; nursing students; open; osce; participants; patients; performance; phase; posttest; practice; precision; pretest; questionnaire; questions; research; results; scenario; sciences; scores; significant; simulation; skills; software; standard; stations; steps; students; study; table; task; teaching; terms; theoretical; time; torbat; training; triage; university; week cache: aaem-1739.pdf plain text: aaem-1739.txt item: #222 of 640 id: aaem-174 author: Narimani, Mashallah; Dadkhah, Mehdi title: Predatory Journals and Perished Articles; a Letter to Editor date: 2017-01-14 words: 1076 flesch: 56 summary: According to Beall’s definition, questionable peer review process and unknown location of the real controlling entity are among the most important criteria for detecting predatory journals (3). These statistics convince researchers of the need for more research into dealing with predatory journals. keywords: access; authors; beall; bogus; charges; criteria; emergency; journals; medical; number; open; papers; predatory; publishers; publishing; research; review cache: aaem-174.pdf plain text: aaem-174.txt item: #223 of 640 id: aaem-175 author: Mirhaghi, Amir; Ebrahimi, Mohsen title: The Australasian Triage Scale Level 5 Criteria may Need to be Revised date: 2017-01-14 words: 784 flesch: 60 summary: Therefore, it has to be said that a source of confusion may exist in ATS level 4 and 5. Although, 65% of the participant responses to all triage scenarios were accurate, only 40% of triage decisions in level 5 has been accurate, representing the least value among triage categories (4). keywords: ats; australasian; criteria; department; ebrahimi; emergency; level; mashhad; medical; minutes; mirhaghi; nursing; patients; scale; triage cache: aaem-175.pdf plain text: aaem-175.txt item: #224 of 640 id: aaem-1753 author: Ribeiro Paixão, Milena; Accorsi, Tarso Augusto Duenhas; Prada, Luis Felipe Lopes; Pocebon, Lucas Zoboli; De Amicis Lima, Karine; Köhler, Karen Francine; Santini Echenique, Leandro; de Souza Júnior, José Leão title: Cocaine and Volatile Nitrite–Induced Methemoglobinemia; a Case Report and Treatment Approach Review date: 2022-09-21 words: 2651 flesch: 56 summary: In addition to cyanosis, other symptoms of MHG range from headaches, blurred vision, irritability, lack of short-term memory, agitation, combativeness, confusion, lethargy, un- consciousness, and respiratory distress (4, 5). Recreational drugs that cause MHG include e-cigarettes, volatile nitrites (known as poppers” because of the sound the small glass containing the liquid makes on being crushed between the fingers), cocaine, heroin, and other substances used as diluting adulterants (6, 7). Hereditary MHG is a rare autosomal recessive disorder re- lated to cytochrome B5 reductase deficiency. keywords: access; admission; albert; approach; arterial; article; attribution; blood; brazil; case; causes; chest; cocaine; commons; creative; cyanosis; department; diagnosis; diseases; drugs; e75; einstein; emergency; figure; gas; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; israelita; levels; license; life; med; medicine; methemoglobinemia; mhg; minutes; nitrite; noncommercial; normal; open; oxygen; paixão; patient; paulo; poppers; pulmonary; range; rare; recreational; report; review; ribeiro; sahu; saturation; table; terms; treatment; volatile cache: aaem-1753.pdf plain text: aaem-1753.txt item: #225 of 640 id: aaem-1756 author: Norouzkhani , Narges ; Chaghian Arani , Raziyeh; Mehrabi, Hamidreza; Bagheri Toolaroud , Parissa; Ghorbani Vajargah , Pooyan ; Mollaei , Amirabbas ; Hosseini , Seyed Javad ; Firooz, Mahbobeh; Falakdami , Atefeh ; Takasi , Poorya ; Feizkhah , Alireza ; Saber , Hessamoddin ; Ghaffarzade , Haniye ; Nemalhabib , Ava ; Ghaffari , Alborz ; Osuji, Joseph ; Mobayen , Mohammadreza ; Karkhah, Samad title: Effect of Virtual Reality-Based Interventions on Pain During Wound Care in Burn Patients; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2022-10-24 words: 12928 flesch: 65 summary: A meta-analysis of the effect of different VR methods on reducing pain during wound care in burn patients The result of the meta-analysis demonstrated that the use of VR intervention, compared to the control group, led to a sig- nificant reduction in pain intensity (SMD: -0.70, 95%CI: -0.97 to -0.43, Z=5.05, P<0.001, I2:82.0%) (Figure 4). Also, sub-group analysis indicated that VR intervention significantly reduced pain intensity in differ- ent burn procedures, such as dressing changes, wound de- bridement, and physical therapy. keywords: academic; access; active; acute; adults; analysis; anxiety; archives; article; assessment; attribution; burn; burn patients; burn wound; care; changes; characteristics; children; clinical; commons; content; control; control group; creative; cross; crossover; debridement; different; distraction; dressing; e84; effect; emergency; environment; et al; fair; flacc; flacc pain; game; ghazanfari; good; group; grs; head; health; hoffman; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; igloos; immersive; immersive vr; injuries; intensity; intervention; intervention group; iran; items; jbi; license; management; mean; medical; medicine; meta; methods; minutes; mobayen; months; noncommercial; norouzkhani; open; p<0.05; pain; pain assessment; pain control; pain intensity; pain management; parallel; participants; patients; pediatric; penguins; physical; present; quality; randomized; rct; reality; research; results; review; scale; sciences; score; severe; significant; smd; snow; snowballs; snowmen; standard; studies; study; systematic; systematic review; table; terms; therapy; tool; trial; university; usa; use; vas; virtual; virtual reality; vr distraction; vr methods; world; wound; wound care cache: aaem-1756.pdf plain text: aaem-1756.txt item: #226 of 640 id: aaem-176 author: Batt, Alan Michael; Al-Hajeri, Ahmed Saleh Mohamed; Cummins, Fergal Henry title: Urgent Need to Strengthen the Chain of Survival in the United Arab Emirates; a Letter to the Editor date: 2017-01-14 words: 619 flesch: 59 summary: 2017; 5 (1): e51 LE T T E R TO ED I TO R Urgent Need to Strengthen the Chain of Survival in the United Arab Emirates; a Letter to the Editor Alan Michael Batt1∗, Ahmed Saleh Mohamed Al-Hajeri 1, Fergal Henry Cummins1 1. National Ambulance LLC, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. keywords: arab; bystander; cases; chain; data; emergency; emirates; ems; ohca; public; survival; united cache: aaem-176.pdf plain text: aaem-176.txt item: #227 of 640 id: aaem-1763 author: Nasr Isfahani, Mehdi ; Sattari, Mohammad ; tavakoli, Nahid; Bagherian, Hossein; Fatemi, Neda Al Sadat; Salamati, Peyman title: Extracting the Factors Affecting the Survival Rate of Trauma Patients Using Data Mining Techniques on a National Trauma Registry date: 2023-01-01 words: 6093 flesch: 64 summary: The main objective of this study was to identify the factors affecting the mortality of trauma patients using data mining techniques. Early identification of trauma patients who are at risk of death is very impor- tant for clinical decision-making (4). keywords: abnormal; access; accident; accuracy; adult; appropriate; arrival; article; attributes; attribution; better; care; cause; center; certainty; commons; confidence; creative; data; dataset; department; devices; emergency; factors; forest; gcs; hospital; id3; information; injury; iran; isfahan; iss; journal; license; medical; mining; minor; minutes; moderate; mortality; noncommercial; normal; number; open; passenger; patients; people; person; random; research; rules; safety; scene; score; severe; severity; signs; study; support; survival; techniques; terms; time; trauma; trauma patients; values; vital; vital signs cache: aaem-1763.pdf plain text: aaem-1763.txt item: #228 of 640 id: aaem-1764 author: Saro- Buendía, Miguel; Torres García, Lidia; Jaramillo Angel, Natalia ; Mellidez Acosta, Raul; Cabrera Guijo, Javier; Bancalari Díaz, Catalina ; García Piñero, Alfonso ; Pérez Guillén, Vanesa; Armengot Carceller, Miguel title: Dizziness Evaluation and Characterisation of Patients with Posterior Circulation Stroke in the Emergency Department; a Case Series Study date: 2023-01-01 words: 4438 flesch: 56 summary: Methods: We conducted a 3-year retrospective observational study on PS cases confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We studied the demographic profile, clinical presenta- tion, and diagnostic workup features (with emphasis on the evaluation of dizziness) of these patients from the ED admis- sion to PS diagnostic confirmation. keywords: acute; additional; article; attribution; avs; brain; cardiovascular; cases; cause; circulation; clinical; common; confirmation; context; creative; criteria; data; department; diagnostic; disease; dizziness; emergency; evaluation; hints; hospitalization; imaging; initial; institution; kerber; license; med; misdiagnosis; mri; neurology; newman; noncommercial; nystagmus; patients; physicians; posterior; presence; present; protocol; reports; risk; sensitivity; stroke; study; suspicion; symptoms; syndrome; toker; underlying; use; vertebral; vertigo; vestibular; years cache: aaem-1764.pdf plain text: aaem-1764.txt item: #229 of 640 id: aaem-1769 author: Leela-amornsin, Sittichok; Triganjananun, Chavin; Yuksen, Chaiyaporn; Jenpanitpong, Chetsadakon; Watcharakitpaisan, Sorawich title: Clinical Prediction Score for Successful Weaning from Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIPPV) in Emergency Department; a Retrospective Cohort Study date: 2022-10-02 words: 6474 flesch: 53 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Due to the lack of in-hospital beds, some patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema are initiated and weaned off noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV ) at the emergency department (ED). Meth- ods: This retrospective cohort study was conducted on patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema who received NIPPV at the ED of Ramathibodi Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand. keywords: access; acute; acute cardiogenic; age; analysis; article; attribution; blood; bpm; breaths; cardiogenic; cardiogenic pulmonary; cases; clinical; commons; creative; data; edema; emergency; esc; factors; failure; group; heart; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; license; likelihood; logistic; low; medicine; min; mmhg; nippv; noncommercial; noninvasive; open; output; oxygen; patients; pneumonia; points; positive; pressure; pulmonary; pulmonary edema; pulse; ramathibodi; rate; ratio; regression; respiratory; risk; score; significant; study; successful; table; terms; treatment; urinary; ventilation; weaning; years cache: aaem-1769.pdf plain text: aaem-1769.txt item: #230 of 640 id: aaem-177 author: Elfil, Mohamed; Negida, Ahmed title: Sampling Methods in Clinical Research; an Educational Review date: 2017-01-14 words: 1488 flesch: 58 summary: Sampling types There are two major categories of sampling methods (fig- ure 1): 1; probability sampling methods where all subjects ∗Corresponding Author: Ahmed Negida; Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, El-Sharkia, Egypt. Samples which were se- lected using probability sampling methods are more repre- sentatives of the target population. keywords: access; article; clinical; clusters; investigators; list; medicine; method; non; patients; population; probability; random; research; sample; sampling; study; subjects; target; university; zagazig cache: aaem-177.pdf plain text: aaem-177.txt item: #231 of 640 id: aaem-1771 author: Abbasi Ghocham, Sirvan ; Valiee, Sina; Kamyari, Naser; Vatandost, Salam title: Level of Self-Care and Patient Care Against COVID-19 Among Emergency Medical Services Personnel; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2023-01-01 words: 5325 flesch: 60 summary: The majority of the participants had an experience of participating in self-care (88.7%) and patient care (83.7%) training courses against COVID-19. Among items related to patient care against COVID- 19, the lowest mean score was related to training the patient about hand hygine after touching contaminated equipment (2.83±1.08 out of 4). keywords: abbasi; access; ambulance; article; attribution; care; china; clothing; commons; compliance; control; covid-19; creative; data; emergency; ems; equipment; face; favorable; groups; hand; health; healthcare; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; hygiene; important; infected; infection; information; iran; item; kurdistan; level; license; mean; medical; mission; noncommercial; open; participants; patient; patient care; personnel; possible; present; protective; questions; related; research; results; risk; salam; sciences; score; self; services; situation; standards; study; terms; total; training; transmission; university; use; validity; workers cache: aaem-1771.pdf plain text: aaem-1771.txt item: #232 of 640 id: aaem-1774 author: Asgary, Mohammadreza ; Mirghazanfari, Sayid Mahdi ; Hazrati, Ebrahim ; Hadi, Vahid ; Mehri Ardestani, Mojgan ; bani Yaghoobi, Faeze ; Hadi, Saeid title: The Effect of L-Citrulline Supplementation on Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients under Mechanical Ventilation; a Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial date: 2023-01-01 words: 7078 flesch: 56 summary: Also, serum LDH levels and days alive and ventilator- free days within 28 days after admission were significantly in- creased by L citrulline supplementation. On the other hand, serum LDH levels and days alive and ventilator-free days within 28 days after admission signifi- cantly increased with L citrulline supplementation. keywords: access; acid; acute; admission; aja; alive; amino; apache; arginine; article; asgary; attribution; baseline; blind; blood; care; chronic; citrulline; citrulline supplementation; clinical; commons; control; creative; critically; crp; data; days; diabetes; differences; disease; double; duration; e11; effects; enteral; et al; fbs; free; group; health; high; hours; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; icu; ill; increase; inflammatory; intensive; intervention; invasive; iran; ldh; levels; license; lipid; mean; mechanical; medical; medicine; metabolism; mortality; noncommercial; nutr; open; outcomes; participants; patients; placebo; plasma; profile; protein; pulmonary; randomization; randomized; rats; reduction; research; results; risk; sciences; score; serum; significant; sofa; stay; study; subjects; supplementation; tehran; terms; trial; unit; university; value; variables; ventilation cache: aaem-1774.pdf plain text: aaem-1774.txt item: #233 of 640 id: aaem-178 author: Hosseininejad, Mohammad; Aminiahidashti, Hamed; Pashaei, Seyede Masoume; Goli Khatir, Iraj; Montazer, Seyed Hosein; Bozorgi, Farzad; Mahmoudi, Fahime title: Determinants of prolonged length of stay in the emergency department: A mixed method study from Iran date: 2017-01-18 words: 3994 flesch: 59 summary: It is the most equipped hospital throughout Mazan- daran province, and consequently, emergency patients are admitted to its ED, either by pre-hospital emergency teams, by themselves or their caregivers, or by other hospitals or clinics. Influence of time-to-interventions for emergency department critical care patients on hospital mortality. keywords: access; admission; age; analysis; article; attribution; care; causes; clinical; commons; consultancy; creative; crowding; data; department; determinants; disposition; eds; emergency; emergency department; factors; health; higher; hospital; hours; insurance; iran; iranian; journal; lack; length; license; los; mazandaran; medical; medicine; noncommercial; number; older; open; para; patients; prolonged; quality; response; results; sari; sciences; services; staff; stay; study; support; table; terms; time; triage; university; version cache: aaem-178.pdf plain text: aaem-178.txt item: #234 of 640 id: aaem-1780 author: Abed, Elsayed; Saeed, Omer ; Abd El-Hamid, Basem ; Elsayed, Mohamed ; Dawoud, Heba ; Heikal, Nahla ; Elshafie, Ahmed ; Hagar, Aya ; Emam, Hossam; El-adawey, Ahmed Farag; Fayed, Abdel-Ghaffar ; Elsheshiny, Ahmed Hassan ; Ahmed, Mahmoud Galal title: Acute Intermittent Porphyria as a Rare Challenging Neuro-Metabolic Disease; a Case Report date: 2022-09-13 words: 2390 flesch: 49 summary: 2018;34(7):1309-15. 5. Bustad HJ, Kallio JP, Vorland M, Fiorentino V, Sandberg S, Schmitt C, et al. Acute intermittent porphyria: An overview of therapy developments and future perspec- tives focusing on stabilisation of HMBS and proteostasis regulators. The acute porphyrias can be either autosomal domi- nant, such as acute intermittent porphyria (AIP), variegate porphyria, and hereditary coproporphyria, or autosomal re- cessive, such as delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) dehydratase ∗Corresponding Author: Elsayed Abed; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, 11651, Egypt. keywords: abdominal; acute; aip; analysis; article; associated; authors; azhar; blood; cairo; calcium; case; challenging; clinical; csf; days; department; diagnosis; disease; disturbances; egypt; electrolyte; emergency; examination; faculty; figure; genetic; heme; hospital; intermittent; level; medicine; meq; metabolic; monufia; neurology; neuropathy; pain; patient; porphyria; presentation; rare; report; serum; severe; university; weakness cache: aaem-1780.pdf plain text: aaem-1780.txt item: #235 of 640 id: aaem-1783 author: Avdikos, Grigorios ; Michas, George; W. Smith, Stephen title: From Q/Non-Q Myocardial Infarction to STEMI/NSTEMI: Why It’s Time to Consider Another Simplified Dichotomy; a Narrative Literature Review date: 2022-10-01 words: 8004 flesch: 60 summary: (7) studied the long-term cardiovascular outcomes of occluded culprit arteries in NSTEMI patients and found lower rates of mortality in ATO NSTEMI patients when compared with NSTEMI patients without ATO with an average follow up of 4.9 years (12% vs. 18%, p<0.01), despite the increased 30-day MACE observed in this group (6.7% vs. 3.8%, p<0.001). Here, we review articles that studied the frequency and cardiovascular outcomes of ATO in NSTEMI patients compared with those without ATO. keywords: access; acs; acute; acute myocardial; amplitude; anterior; artery; article; ato; attribution; block; branch; bundle; cardiol; cardiovascular; classification; commons; coronary; creative; criteria; culprit; diagnosis; early; ecg; elevation; elevation myocardial; emergency; et al; flow; frequency; group; guidelines; heart; high; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infarction; interpretation; lad; lcx; leads; left; license; long; med; meyers; mortality; myocardial; myocardial infarction; new; non; noncommercial; normal; nstemi; nstemi patients; occlusion; omi; open; outcomes; p<0.0001; paradigm; patients; pattern; pci; posterior; present; proximal; qrs; reperfusion; repolarization; review; right; risk; segment; sensitivity; sgarbossa; smith; specificity; std; ste; studies; study; subtle; syndrome; terms; therapy; total; wave cache: aaem-1783.pdf plain text: aaem-1783.txt item: #236 of 640 id: aaem-1785 author: Etemad, Koorosh; Hatami, Hossein; Nikpeyma, Mahnaz; Mowla, Forough; Fallah Atatalab, Fatemeh title: Long-term Complications of COVID-19 in Nursing Staff; a Retrospective Longitudinal Study date: 2023-01-09 words: 4935 flesch: 58 summary: Alajmi J, Jeremijenko AM, Abraham JC, Alishaq M, Con- cepcion EG, Butt AA, et al. COVID-19 infection among healthcare workers in a national healthcare system: The Qatar experience. Gholami M, Fawad I, Shadan S, Rowaiee R, Ghanem H, Khamis AH, et al. COVID-19 and healthcare workers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. keywords: access; acute; affected; ageusia; anosmia; anxiety; article; attribution; available; beheshti; cases; clinical; common; complications; coronavirus; covid-19; creative; data; disease; disorders; experience; fatigue; female; generalized; hcws; health; healthcare; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; incidence; infected; infection; iran; license; long; medical; months; noncommercial; number; nurses; nursing; open; organization; pain; patients; people; percent; practical; public; reported; respiratory; review; sars; sciences; shahid; skin; staff; study; symptoms; systematic; tehran; term; university; weeks; workers; world; years cache: aaem-1785.pdf plain text: aaem-1785.txt item: #237 of 640 id: aaem-1787 author: Mosallami Aghili, Seyed Morsal; Khoshfetrat, Mehran; Asgari, Ali; Arefizadeh, Reza; Mohsenizadeh, Aboulfazl ; Mousavi, Seyyed Hossein title: Association of Echocardiographic Findings with in-Hospital Mortality of COVID-19 Patients and Their Changes in One-Month Follow-Up; a Cohort Study date: 2022-10-24 words: 5190 flesch: 55 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the association between the echocar- diographic characteristics and in-hospital mortality of COVID-19 patients as well as the changes after one- month follow-up. Methods: All adult (≥18 years old) hospitalized COVID-19 patients in need of echocardiogra- phy based on the guideline of the Iranian Society of Echocardiography for performing various types of echocar- diography during the COVID-19 pandemic were included in this study. keywords: access; acute; aghili; analysis; article; association; attribution; baseline; cardiac; cases; changes; characteristics; commons; complications; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; data; diameter; diastolic; disease; dose; dysfunction; echocardiography; end; findings; follow; heart; higher; hospital; hospital mortality; hospitalization; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypokinesia; infection; iran; ivc; left; license; mean; medical; mild; month; mortality; mosallami; noncommercial; normal; odds; open; pasp; patients; previous; pulmonary; regurgitation; significant; stenosis; studies; study; survived; systolic; terms; times; vaccinated; vaccination; valve; ventricle; ventricular; wall cache: aaem-1787.pdf plain text: aaem-1787.txt item: #238 of 640 id: aaem-179 author: Forouzan, Arash; Masoumi, Kambiz; Motamed, Hasan; Gousheh, Mohammad Reza; Rohani, Akram title: Nerve Stimulator versus Ultrasound-Guided Femoral Nerve Block; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2017-01-18 words: 3121 flesch: 58 summary: Lippert SC, Nagdev A, Stone MB, Herring A, Norris R. Pain control in disaster settings: a role for ultrasound- guided nerve blocks. In 2 cases of nerve stimulator guided block, loss of pinprick sensation did not happen within 30 minutes of injec- tion (success rate: 92%; p = 0.490). keywords: ahvaz; anesthesia; article; block; cases; clinical; data; department; doses; duration; emergency; femoral; femoral nerve; fractures; groups; injection; journal; loss; lower; management; mean; medical; medicine; methods; minutes; morphine; need; nerve; nerve block; nerve stimulator; opioid; pain; patients; pinprick; procedure; randomized; rate; regional; rescue; sciences; sensation; stimulator; study; success; sulfate; time; trial; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university cache: aaem-179.pdf plain text: aaem-179.txt item: #239 of 640 id: aaem-1792 author: Rezvani Kakhki, Behrang; Ghasemi, Tahereh; Vafadar Moradi, Elnaz; Abbasi Shaye, Zahra; Mousavi, Seyed Mohammad title: Aromatherapy with Isopropyl Alcohol versus Intravenous Ondansetron in Management of Mild Brain Trauma Nausea and Vomiting; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2022-10-31 words: 4612 flesch: 61 summary: This study aimed to compare the effect of aromatherapy with isopropyl alcohol versus intravenous ondansetron in management of mild head trauma nausea and vomiting. E-mail: rezvanikb@mums.ac.ir, Tel: +989153114371, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3715-6618. tients (5), finding a safe, fast and effective treatment solution in the emergency room is needed and many medications are presented in literature for nausea control, while evidence on post-head trauma nausea is less available (6-9). keywords: access; alcohol; aromatherapy; article; attribution; brain; clinical; commons; control; creative; data; department; difference; doi; effect; emergency; frequency; group; head; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; inhalation; injury; intervention; intervention group; iran; isolated; isopropyl; isopropyl alcohol; license; lower; manuscript; mashhad; median; medicine; mild; minutes; nausea; noncommercial; ondansetron; open; patients; randomized; rate; reduced; results; rezvani; room; score; studies; study; terms; trauma; traumatic; trial; vomiting cache: aaem-1792.pdf plain text: aaem-1792.txt item: #240 of 640 id: aaem-18 author: Esmailian, Mehrdad; Keshavarz, Mehdi title: Synergistic Effects of Citalopram and Morphine in the Renal Colic Pain Relief; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-11-13 words: 3196 flesch: 61 summary: Therefore, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the presence or absence of synergistic or additive analgesic effect of morphine and citalopram on relieving acute renal stone pain. Results: The decrease in pain severity in the morphine/citalopram group was significantly compared to the mor- phine/placebo group and the time before administration of the medications (p<0.001). keywords: acute; administration; analgesic; calculi; citalopram; clinical; colic; control; department; diagnosis; difference; drugs; effects; efficacy; emergency; groups; injection; isfahan; log; mean; medical; medications; minute; morphine; opioids; pain; patients; placebo; present; randomized; rank; rate; renal; sciences; serotonin; severity; significant; study; subjects; success; sulfate; synergistic; test; time; treatment; trial; university; use; vas cache: aaem-18.pdf plain text: aaem-18.txt item: #241 of 640 id: aaem-180 author: Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Atighinasab, Batoul; Safari, Saeed title: Baseline Characteristics of Fall from Height Victims Presenting to Emergency Department; a Brief Report date: 2017-01-18 words: 2892 flesch: 63 summary: Limitations and suggestions Since fall from height trauma patients were evaluated in 3 hospitals, namely Imam Hossein, Shohadaye Tajrish and Loghmane Hakim, it is possible that the participants do not fully represent the population of trauma patients in the soci- ety and it is suggested to carry out future studies in all hospi- tals around Tehran or even Iran. Studies in Ardabil and Isfahan provinces also showed that about 70% of fall from height patients were male (6, 15). keywords: accidents; baseline; beheshti; cases; cause; characteristics; construction; department; education; emergency; fall; findings; height; hospital; injury; intentional; iran; journal; level; male; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; outcome; patients; present; safety; sciences; shahid; study; tehran; trauma; university; victims; workers; years cache: aaem-180.pdf plain text: aaem-180.txt item: #242 of 640 id: aaem-1808 author: Koohyar Ahmadzadeh; Amirali Hajebi; Ramawad, Hamzah Adel; Yaser Azizi; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Value of N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide for Embolic Events Risk Prediction in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-01-01 words: 5276 flesch: 59 summary: Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/tem/index K. Ahmadzadeh et al. 10 Figure 4: Meta-regression for assessment of the effect of cut-off values (A) and percentage of diabetic patients (B) in included studies on the occurrence of stroke/SEE following atrial fibrillation. Our analysis showed that NT-proBNP can be a good predictor of stroke/SEE risk in AF patients, even at different cut-off values (HR=1.76; 95% CI: 1.51, 2.02; P < 0.001). keywords: access; age; analysis; articles; assessment; atrial; atrial fibrillation; attribution; bias; clinical; commons; creative; cut; data; diabetes; disease; duration; effect; embolic; events; evidence; factors; failure; fibrillation; follow; heart; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/tem/index; iran; levels; license; low; low low; measurement; medical; medicine; meta; moderate; natriuretic; noncommercial; ntprobnp; occurrence; open; outcome; patients; peptide; possible; predictive; probnp; publication; regression; results; review; risk; sample; sciences; serum; size; stroke; studies; study; systematic; table; tehran; terminal; terms; value cache: aaem-1808.pdf plain text: aaem-1808.txt item: #243 of 640 id: aaem-181 author: Alipour Faz, Athena; Arsan, Fahimeh; Peyvandi, Maryam; Oroei, Mahbobeh; Shafagh, Omid; Yousefi, Maryam; Peyvandi, Hassan title: Epidemiologic Features and Outcomes of Caustic Ingestions; a 10-Year Cross-Sectional Study date: 2017-02-02 words: 4072 flesch: 61 summary: The present 10-year survey aimed to evaluate the epidemiologic features and outcomes of caustic ingestion cases presenting to emergency department. Children younger than 5 years account for ap- proximately 80% of caustic ingestion cases that typically oc- cur accidentally. keywords: acidic; acute; admission; age; alkaline; article; attribution; cases; caustic; center; clinical; commons; corrosive; creative; data; endoscopic; findings; grade; hakim; higher; hospital; icu; important; ingested; ingestion; injuries; injury; intention; iran; laboratory; license; loghman; mean; medical; mortality; mucosal; need; noncommercial; outcomes; patients; rate; respiratory; serum; severity; study; suicidal; surgery; table; tehran; volume; year cache: aaem-181.pdf plain text: aaem-181.txt item: #244 of 640 id: aaem-1813 author: Sheikh Hassan, Mohamed; Osman Sidow, Nor ; GÖKGÜL, Alper ; Ali Adam, Bakar ; Farah Osman, Mohamed; Hassan Mohamed, Hussein; Gedi Ibrahim, Ismail; Ahmed Abdi, Ishak title: Pattern of Neurological Disorders among Patients Evaluated in the Emergency Department; Cross–Sectional Study date: 2023-01-21 words: 4413 flesch: 51 summary: One ma- jor strength of this study is it provides an overview assess- ment of common neurological emergencies in the country (which was missing data), which is why we consider it to be a valuable study. In addition, the propor- tion of neurologic patients in the ED and their diagnosis and disease patterns had never been studied in the country be- fore. keywords: access; acute; admissions; age; article; care; cases; cerebral; characteristics; cns; common; consciousness; consultation; cross; data; department; diagnoses; disease; disorders; emergencies; emergency; encephalopathy; epilepsy; examination; findings; hassan; headache; hemorrhagic; hospital; impairment; ischemic; journal; license; life; medical; medicine; metabolic; mogadishu; motor; neurological; neurological disorders; neurologists; neurology; patients; pattern; presentations; research; sectional; seizures; somali; spinal; stroke; study; system; thrombosis; training; turkish; venous; years cache: aaem-1813.pdf plain text: aaem-1813.txt item: #245 of 640 id: aaem-1814 author: Diab, Rehab Adel; Shaheen, Nour; Mohamed, Abdelrahman ; Hefnawy, Mahmoud; Charo, Dilawer; Meshref, Mostafa title: Clinical Characteristics, Course, and Outcomes of Vertebral Artery Dissections in the Postpartum Period; a Pooled Analysis of Published Case Reports date: 2023-03-04 words: 6928 flesch: 56 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Vertebral artery dissection (VAD) is a rare, but life-threatening condition. Keywords: Vertebral artery; vertebrobasilar insufficiency; postpartum period; vertebral artery dissection Cite this article as: Adel Diab R, Shaheen N, Mohamed A, Tarek Hefnawy M, Chofan Charo D, Meshref M. Clinical Characteristics, Course, and Outcomes of Vertebral Artery Dissections in the Postpartum Period; a Pooled Analysis of Published Case Reports. keywords: academic; access; adel; age; analysis; angiogram; anticoagulant; antiplatelets; archives; arteries; artery; artery dissection; article; aspirin; attribution; basilar; bilateral; carotid; case; cervical; cesarean; characteristics; clinical; commons; comorbidities; complications; coronary; creative; criteria; data; days; delivery; diab; diagnosis; dissection; dizziness; e26; egypt; emergency; final; g2p2; headache; hemorrhage; heparin; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; hypertension; infarction; internal; investigation; left; license; literature; management; mean; medical; medicine; mri; nausea; neck; noncommercial; open; outcome; pain; patients; period; postpartum; ppvad; pregnancy; presentation; quality; recovery; reports; research; results; review; right; sensory; spontaneous; stroke; studies; study; subarachnoid; symptoms; syndrome; table; terms; therapy; time; treatment; unclear; vad; vaginal; vertebral; vertebral artery; vertigo; visual; vomiting cache: aaem-1814.pdf plain text: aaem-1814.txt item: #246 of 640 id: aaem-1817 author: Rahsepar, Sara; Sanie Jahromi, Mohammad Sadegh ; Abiri, Samaneh; Akhavan, Reza; Akhavan, Hossein; Abbasi, Bita; Maleki, Fatemeh; Ahmadnezhad, Somayyeh; Rezvani Kakhki, Behrang; Kalani, Navid; Adibi, Pourya title: Point-of-Care Tests’ Role in Time Metrics of Urgent Interventions in Emergency Department; a Systematic Review of Literature date: 2022-10-10 words: 6283 flesch: 61 summary: N N N Y N N N N N N N N Clear outcomes Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Blinding N N N N N N N N N N N N Knowledge of exposure status Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Reliable exposure assessment Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Validity and reliability of assessment based on other sources N N N N Y N N N N N N N Exposure repeated assess- ment N N N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Lost to follow-up reported and compared? keywords: academic; access; accuracy; analysis; application; article; assessment; attribution; bedside; bias; blood; cardiac; care; care testing; case; center; clinical; cohort; commons; creative; critical; cvc; data; decision; department; diagnosis; different; diseases; disposition; e82; emergency; et al; findings; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; imaging; intervention; iran; jahrom; jun; laboratory; lactate; license; literature; lower; making; management; mashhad; medical; medicine; n n; negative; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; placement; poct; point; positive; quality; rahsepar; rct; reporting; research; results; retrospective; review; risk; role; sciences; sepsis; setting; shock; singer; standard; studies; study; systematic; table; terms; testing; tests; time; treatment; trial; turnaround; university; urgent; y n; y y cache: aaem-1817.pdf plain text: aaem-1817.txt item: #247 of 640 id: aaem-182 author: Haddadi, Mashyaneh; Sarvar, Mohammad; Soori, Hamid; Ainy, Elaheh title: The Pattern of Pre-hospital Medical Service Delivery in Iran; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2017-02-19 words: 3185 flesch: 59 summary: Pre-hospital emergency medical service of Iran was reachable through a nationwide 115 number, but other num- bers such as, 110 (Police), 112 (Rescue), and 125 (fire) to re- port traffic accidents and relief services can also be used. Abstract: Introduction: Pre-hospital emergency systems provide service by Franco-German and Anglo American mod- els. keywords: access; ambulances; american; analysis; anglo; anglo american; article; beheshti; care; center; countries; cross; data; delivery; emergency; emergency medical; ems; equipment; franco; german; health; hospital; injury; international; iran; journal; medical; medicine; missions; models; p<0.001; patients; pattern; physicians; pre; prevention; response; response time; road; safety; scene; sectional; service; shahid; standard; study; system; tehran; time; transport; trauma; united; university cache: aaem-182.pdf plain text: aaem-182.txt item: #248 of 640 id: aaem-1825 author: Yuksen, Chaiyaporn; Tienpratarn, Welawat ; Promkul, Rungrawin ; Jenpanitpong, Chetsadakon ; watcharakitpaisan, Sorawich ; Yaithet, Jenjira ; Phonphom, Viruji title: A Clinical Score for Predicting the Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia’s Recurrence Risk; a Retrospective Cross-sectional Study date: 2023-01-01 words: 4712 flesch: 53 summary: The study by Thomas A. Dewland et al. showed that PSVT patients treated with catheter ab- lation had a significantly lower PSVT recurrence rate in ED (HR= 0.25, 95% CI: 0.10-0.62, p = 0.003) 24 (9.1%) had recurrent PSVT, and 240 (90.9%) had no recurrent PSVT in the same ED visit. keywords: 95%ci; adenosine; analysis; article; blood; cardiologist; clinical; conversion; data; department; disease; dose; ecg; emergency; group; heart; high; history; hospital; hours; logistic; low; medicine; observation; paroxysmal; patients; prediction; predictors; pressure; psvt; ramathibodi; rate; ratio; recurrent; recurrent psvt; regression; rhythm; risk; score; sinus; study; supraventricular; systolic; table; tachycardia; treatment; university; variables; visit cache: aaem-1825.pdf plain text: aaem-1825.txt item: #249 of 640 id: aaem-1826 author: Rooholamini, Azadeh; Gandomkar, Roghayeh; Basiri , Kamal ; Jalili , Mohammad ; Jafarian , Ali title: Identifying Situational Awareness Behaviors in Trauma Teams; a Nominal Group Technique Study date: 2022-11-07 words: 8528 flesch: 54 summary: Assessing and providing feedback based on observation of team SA behaviors has been addressed by the behavioral markers (46). Limitation In the present study, participants imagined a hypothetical situation in identifying team SA behaviors that cause the loss of several behaviors in the real environment while perform- ing the task. keywords: access; agreement; allocation; analysis; anticipate; article; assessment; attention; attribution; avoid; awareness; behaviors; clinical; cognitive; commons; complex; condition; consensus; coordination; creative; critical; data; desirable; desirable behaviors; diagnosis; dimensions; e88; education; effective; emergency; equipment; errors; et al; experience; factors; findings; fixation; framework; general; group; healthcare; help; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; human; important; information; initial; iran; knowledge; leader; license; making; management; medical; medicine; meeting; members; mental; model; multidisciplinary; necessary; ngt; nominal; noncommercial; number; nursing; open; operating; participants; patient; performance; persian; person(s; plan; procedure; process; qualitative; reassess; related; research; resource; responses; resuscitation; review; rooholamini; room; sa behaviors; salas; sciences; shared; simulation; situational; skills; specialists; step; study; support; surgery; table; task; team; team members; team sa; teamwork; technical; technique; tehran; terms; time; training; trauma; trauma team; understanding; university cache: aaem-1826.pdf plain text: aaem-1826.txt item: #250 of 640 id: aaem-1827 author: Rai, Ankit; Huda, Farhanul; Kumar, Praveen; Elizabath David, Lena; S, Chezhian; Basu, Somprakas; Singh, Sudhir title: Predictors of Postoperative Outcome in Emergency Laparotomy for Perforation Peritonitis; a Retrospective Cross-sectional Study date: 2022-10-31 words: 6294 flesch: 60 summary: 107.6± 19.12 106.00 ± 11.50 115.5 ± 25.7 106.3 ± 16.1 110.2 ± 16.8 112.07 ± 17.1 0.758 Systolic BP (mmHg) Mean ± SD 128.0 ±0 109.50 ± 16.4 114.20 ± 20.8 118.4 ± 11.7 114.78 ± 10.43 110.5 ± 30.44 100.5 ± 23.06 0.167 <100 0 (0.0) 5 (29.4) 2 (11.8) 0 Pain 4.43 ± 2.82 7.35 ± 18.24 0.591 Vomiting 4.00 ± 2.00 3.66 ± 3.69 0.329 Fever 3.75 ± 2.06 9.84 ± 17.45 0.589 Ileus 2.71 ± 1.60 2.74 ± 1.85 0.924 Vital signs Systolic BP (mmHg) 113.57 ± 21.63 109.76 ± 18.31 0.635 Pulse Rate (bpm) 111.57 ± 19.23 104.74 ± 17.30 0.342 Investigations Haemoglobin (g/dL) 11.38 ± 2.23 12.66 ± 3.17 0.403 TLC (/cu.mm) 9663.3 ± 3447.4 12408.4 ± 9243.02 0.727 keywords: access; admission; age; analysis; anastomotic; article; associated; association; attribution; blood; care; coagulopathy; commons; complications; creative; data; delay; emergency; factors; group; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypotension; icu; ileus; india; inr; leaks; license; mean; medical; mmhg; mortality; need; non; noncommercial; open; outcome; parameters; patients; perforation; peritonitis; postoperative; predictors; preoperative; rai; rate; risk; serum; significant; study; surgery; systolic; table; terms; years cache: aaem-1827.pdf plain text: aaem-1827.txt item: #251 of 640 id: aaem-1828 author: Etemad, Koorosh; Mohseni, Parisa; Shojaei, Saeideh; Mousavi, Seyed Ali; Taherkhani, Shakiba; Fallah Atatalab, Fatemeh; Ghajari, Hadis; Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Saeed; Karami, Manoochehr; Karami, Manoochehr; Izadi, Neda; Hajipour , Mahmoud title: Non-Pharmacologic Interventions in COVID-19 Pandemic Management; a Systematic Review date: 2023-07-23 words: 7472 flesch: 57 summary: Kerr L, Kendall C, Silva AAMd, Aquino EML, Pescarini JM, Almeida RLFd, et al. COVID-19 in Northeast Brazil: achievements and limitations in the responses of the state governments. Social distancing In a longitudinal pretest – posttest study, 0.9% reduction in the daily new cases of COVID-19 was found, 4 to 21 days after applying social distancing intervention in the United States [17]. keywords: access; april; article; attribution; ban; cases; china; closure; commons; contact; control; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; creative; data; decrease; different; disease; distancing; effectiveness; effects; epidemic; equipment; et al; february; health; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; impact; implementation; incidence; infection; interventions; iqr; iran; isolation; january; license; lockdown; management; march; measures; med; mortality; new; non; noncommercial; npis; number; open; outcomes; pandemic; personal; pharmaceutical; pharmacologic; physical; population; prevention; protective; public; quality; quarantine; rate; reduce; reduction; research; results; review; sars; school; significant; social; social distancing; south; spread; states; studies; study; systematic; table; terms; time; tracing; transmission; travel; united; university; use cache: aaem-1828.pdf plain text: aaem-1828.txt item: #252 of 640 id: aaem-183 author: Derakhshanfar, Hojjat; Vafaei, Ali; Tabatabaey, Ali; Noori, Shamila title: Prevalence and Associated Factors of Acute Traumatic Coagulopathy; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2017-02-24 words: 3585 flesch: 59 summary: This characteristic separates this entity from the better known dilution coagu- lopathy or consumption coagulopathy in trauma patients. Rugeri L, Levrat A, David JS, Delecroix E, Floccard B, Gros A, et al. Diagnosis of early coagulation abnormalities in trauma patients by rotation thrombelastography. keywords: abdominal; acute; admission; ais; article; associated; association; atc; base; beheshti; blood; coagulation; coagulopathy; deficit; definitions; department; different; early; emergency; factors; frequency; hospital; injury; iran; journal; mean; medical; mortality; need; occurrence; patients; prevalence; profile; ptt; rate; risk; score; severe; shahid; significant; study; transfusion; trauma; traumatic; university; variables cache: aaem-183.pdf plain text: aaem-183.txt item: #253 of 640 id: aaem-1833 author: Vazirizadeh-mahabadi1, Mohammadhossein; Yarahmadi, Mobina title: Canadian C-spine Rule versus NEXUS in Screening of Clinically Important Traumatic Cervical Spine Injuries; a systematic review and meta-analysis date: 2023-01-01 words: 4277 flesch: 56 summary: Paykin G, O’Reilly G, Ackland H, Mitra B. Review article: NEXUS criteria to rule out cervical spine injury among older patients: A systematic review. However, clinically important cervical SCIs are found in only 3% of cervical trauma patients and other patients undergo unnecessary imaging and radia- tion exposure (4, 5). keywords: accuracy; acute; analysis; articles; bias; blunt; canadian; ccr; cervical; cervical spine; comparison; cord; criteria; diagnostic; emergency; guidelines; high; imaging; important; important cervical; injuries; injury; iran; likelihood; low; low low; med; meta; national; negative; nexus; odds; patients; positive; radiography; ratio; results; review; risk; rule; sci; scis; screening; sensitivity; specificity; spinal; spine; studies; study; systematic; terms; test; tools; trauma; unnecessary; utilization cache: aaem-1833.pdf plain text: aaem-1833.txt item: #254 of 640 id: aaem-1839 author: Jessen, Marie Kristine; Petersen, Anna Drescher; Kirkegaard, Hans title: Effect of Out-Of-Hour Admission on Fluid Treatment of Emergency Department Patients with Suspected Infection; a Multicenter Post-Hoc Analysis date: 2023-01-31 words: 6906 flesch: 65 summary: Sepsis patients admitted during OOH received more 0-6-hour IV fluids than RH patients, and simple infection and sepsis patients received less oral fluid in 0-6 hours if admitted during OOH vs. RH. The intervals were chosen according to staffing levels; “Routine hours” reflected hours with higher staffing levels and “out-of-hours” reflected hours with lower staffing levels in the EDs. keywords: aarhus; access; adjusted; administration; admission; analysis; article; association; attribution; blood; care; characteristics; clinical; commons; creative; crit; danish; data; denmark; department; differences; e21; eds; effect; emergency; fluid; hospital; hours; hours routine; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; illness; inclusion; infection; intravenous; jessen; kristine; license; mean; med; medicine; mortality; noncommercial; observational; ooh; open; oral; outcomes; patients; period; population; post; practice; primary; received; routine; score; sepsis; sepsis patients; septic; severe; severity; shock; simple; sofa; staffing; study; table; terms; time; total; treatment; university; volumes; vs.; weekdays; weekend cache: aaem-1839.pdf plain text: aaem-1839.txt item: #255 of 640 id: aaem-184 author: Ghasemi, Mahshid; Beigi, Ali Akbar; Behnaz, Faranak; Fathi, Farhad; Memary, Elham title: Spontaneous Adrenal Hematoma in a Pregnant Woman; a Case Report date: 2017-02-24 words: 2016 flesch: 52 summary: Since spontaneous adrenal hemorrhage does not have spe- cific clinical and laboratory manifestation, its clinical diag- nosis is very difficult and practically impossible (7, 8). However, in literature, case reports exist that have shown success of this method in treating spontaneous adrenal hemorrhage (9). keywords: abdominal; adrenal; anesthesiology; article; beheshti; bilateral; blood; case; clinical; condition; department; diagnosis; emergency; gland; hematoma; hemorrhage; hospital; idiopathic; imaging; iran; journal; mass; medical; normal; pain; pathology; patient; pregnant; rare; reports; right; sciences; shahid; spontaneous; surgery; tehran; university; woman cache: aaem-184.pdf plain text: aaem-184.txt item: #256 of 640 id: aaem-1848 author: Faress, Foroozan; Ameri, Maryam; Vasheghani Farahani, Maryam; Marashi, Sayed Mahdi title: Piperonylbutoxide as a Dubious Cause of Cardiac Manifestations in Pyrethroid Insecticide Poisoning; a Letter to Editor date: 2023-01-01 words: 1250 flesch: 50 summary: In discussion of each paper, the authors cite some reports of different types of heart block in the field of pyrethroid exposure, as well as positive association between urinary pyrethroid metabolites and cardiovascular involvement (3-5). 5. Singh H, Luni FK, Marwaha B, Ali SS, Alo M. Tran- sient complete heart block secondary to bed bug insec- ticide: a case of pyrethroid cardiac toxicity. keywords: article; block; bradycardia; cardiac; case; cypermethrin; ddt; department; e10; editor; effect; epinephrine; exposure; forensic; heart; insecticide; iran; manifestations; medical; medicine; open; pesticide; piperonylbutoxide; poisoning; pyrethroid; report; tehran cache: aaem-1848.pdf plain text: aaem-1848.txt item: #257 of 640 id: aaem-1849 author: Ramawad, Hamzah Adel; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Viguri, Adelaide title: An Adult Female with Periumbilical Pain and Intractable Vomiting; a Photo quiz date: 2023-01-01 words: 1492 flesch: 42 summary: The mortality of symptomatic MD is approximately 6% and higher in elderly patients with comorbidities (7). Patients with symptomatic MD should be evaluated by a surgical team, especially if there is peritonitis, small bowel obstruc- tion, or diverticulitis. keywords: abdomen; adult; article; authors; case; complications; coney; contrast; diagnosis; diverticulitis; diverticulum; emergency; female; gastrointestinal; intravenous; journal; meckel; medical; medicine; new; oral; pain; patient; periumbilical; presentation; report; scan; tomography; york cache: aaem-1849.pdf plain text: aaem-1849.txt item: #258 of 640 id: aaem-185 author: Abushouk, Abdelrahman Ibrahim; Sanei Taheri, Morteza; Pooransari, Parichehr; Mirbaha, Sahar; Rouhipour, Alaleh; Baratloo, Alireza title: Pregnancy Screening before Diagnostic Radiography in Emergency Department; an Educational Review date: 2017-12-07 words: 4088 flesch: 49 summary: Ques- tions should extend beyond pregnancy status to assess the menstrual and reproductive history of the female because this may enhance the probability of detecting an unexpected pregnancy (16). In case of pregnancy testing in unmarried girls under the age of 18 years, whose healthcare is the responsibility of the parent or the guardian (7), the radiologist must obtain the parent/guardian’s consent to assess the pregnancy status of his/her minor (31). keywords: access; acr; age; american; article; associated; attribution; case; college; commons; contrast; creative; department; diagnostic; different; dose; effects; emergency; european; exposure; females; fetal; fetus; guideline; imaging; international; iran; journal; license; low; medical; medicine; menstrual; national; noncommercial; patient; physicians; possible; practice; pregnancy; pregnant; procedures; protection; radiation; radiation exposure; radiological; radiology; recommendations; regulation; reproductive; review; risk; scan; sciences; screening; standard; status; tehran; teratogenic; terms; testing; university; women cache: aaem-185.pdf plain text: aaem-185.txt item: #259 of 640 id: aaem-1850 author: Nassar, Razan title: Short-term Side Effects of mRNA-based COVID-19 Vaccine Among Jordanian Population; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2023-02-12 words: 5316 flesch: 59 summary: Keywords: Coronavirus; COVID-19; adverse effects; vaccines; mRNA vaccine; COVID-19 vaccines; Jordan Cite this article as: I. Nassar R. Short-term Side Effects of mRNA-based COVID-19 Vaccine Among Jordanian Population; a Cross-sectional Study. This information may contribute to increasing confidence in COVID-19 vaccines, as well as, decreasing hesitancy. keywords: access; adverse; age; arabia; arm; article; association; attribution; available; biontech; commons; covid-19; covid-19 vaccine; creative; cross; current; data; discomfort; dose; effects; emergency; experienced; fatigue; findings; gender; half; headache; healthcare; hesitancy; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; individuals; information; injection; items; jordan; jordanian; journal; license; local; medicine; mrna; muscle; nassar; noncommercial; open; pain; participants; pfizer; population; public; reported; review; saudi; second; sectional; self; significant; site; studies; study; survey; terms; vaccinated; vaccination; vaccine; workers cache: aaem-1850.pdf plain text: aaem-1850.txt item: #260 of 640 id: aaem-1853 author: Sharifi, Farshid; Mehrolhassani, Mohammad Hossain ; Ahmadi Gohari , Milad; Karamoozian, Ali; Jahani, Yunes title: Clinical Risk Factors of Need for Intensive Care Unit Admission of COVID-19 Patients; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2023-01-01 words: 5930 flesch: 57 summary: Multiple logistic regression analysis of clini- cal risk factors for ICU admission Table 2 shows the results of multiple regression analysis of independent clinical risk factors of COVID-19 patients’ need for ICU admission. Conclusions The results of our study showed that clinical risk factors such as hypertension, chronic pulmonary disease, heart dis- ease, chronic kidney disease, cancer, diabetes, seizures, and gender were predictors of patients’ admission to the ICU, but oxygen saturation level, increasing age, respiratory dis- tress, and reduced level of consciousness were identified as independent predictors of need for ICU admission among COVID-19 patients. keywords: access; accuracy; admission; age; analysis; article; attribution; cancer; care; cases; chronic; classification; clinical; commons; consciousness; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; data; diabetes; disease; distress; factors; gender; general; health; heart; hospitalization; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; hypertension; icu; icu admission; intensive; iran; kerman; kidney; level; license; logistic; machine; medical; model; mortality; multiple; need; noncommercial; open; oxygen; patients; pulmonary; regression; research; respiratory; results; risk; saturation; seizures; sensitivity; specificity; studies; study; support; symptoms; terms; tree; underlying; unit; university; variables; vector; ward; years cache: aaem-1853.pdf plain text: aaem-1853.txt item: #261 of 640 id: aaem-1856 author: Tehranchinia, Zohreh ; M Robati, Reza; Moravvej, Hamideh ; Memariani, Mojtaba ; Memariani, Hamed title: Monkeypox Disease with a Focus on the 2022 Outbreak; a Narrative Review date: 2023-01-16 words: 4828 flesch: 57 summary: Monkeypox virus exhibits a brick-like structure of around 200 nm × Monkeypox virus has been divided into at least two distinct genetic clades, Clade 1 (the former Congo Basin or Central African clade) and Clade 2 (the former West African clade). keywords: academic; access; africa; archives; article; attribution; cases; central; clade; clinical; commons; concern; congo; contact; control; countries; covid-19; creative; cross; data; diagnosis; disease; dna; e19; emergency; endemic; exposure; features; figure; focus; genome; global; health; healthcare; high; history; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; human; individuals; infected; infection; lesions; license; management; med; medicine; memariani; monkeypox; monkeypox disease; monkeypox virus; new; nigeria; noncommercial; number; ongoing; open; outbreak; pandemic; patients; present; prevention; previous; public; regions; republic; research; result; review; risk; september; severe; singapore; skin; smallpox; tehranchinia; terms; treatment; united; vaccination; viral; virus; west; world cache: aaem-1856.pdf plain text: aaem-1856.txt item: #262 of 640 id: aaem-186 author: Bahrami-Motlagh, Hooman; Hadizadeh-Neisanghalb, Mohammad; Peyvandi, Hassan title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Computed Tomography Scan in Detection of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Injuries Following Caustic Ingestion date: 2017-03-12 words: 3067 flesch: 56 summary: However, there is little evidence about the diagnostic accuracy of CT scan in detection of upper gastrointestinal mucosal injuries fol- lowing caustic ingestion. The findings of CT scan and endoscopy re- garding the presence of upper GI tract damage were compared and screening performance characteristics of CT scan were calculated using MedCalc software. keywords: agreement; beheshti; caustic; characteristics; clinical; corrosive; ct scan; department; detection; emergency; endoscopy; esophageal; esophagus; findings; gastric; gastrointestinal; grade; grading; hakim; high; hospital; ingestion; injuries; injury; iran; journal; loghman; medical; mucosal; patients; performance; positive; scan; sciences; screening; shahid; stomach; study; tehran; tissue; tomography; tract; university; upper cache: aaem-186.pdf plain text: aaem-186.txt item: #263 of 640 id: aaem-1860 author: Saro- Buendía, Miguel; Suárez Urquiza, Pedro; Amigo González, Judit ; Lesmas Navarro, Maria José; Mazón, Miguel ; Armengot Carceller, Miguel title: Posterior Lingual Abscess; Report of Two Cases date: 2023-01-14 words: 1878 flesch: 56 summary: Tongue abscess: case report and review. Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index M. Saro-Buendía et al. 2 Figure 1: Endoscopic visualization of tongue base at the emergency department before surgery and 1 week after surgery (at follow-up). keywords: abscess; airway; approval; article; base; case; clinical; data; department; diagnosis; emergency; figure; final; hours; left; lingual; medicine; miguel; oral; patient; posterior; report; spain; surgery; surgical; tongue; tumefaction; university; valencia; vallecula; version; week cache: aaem-1860.pdf plain text: aaem-1860.txt item: #264 of 640 id: aaem-1867 author: Talebi, Mahdi; Talebi Doluee, Morteza; Jafari, Mohamadali; Zamani Moghaddam, Hamid; Moazzami, Mojtaba; Foroughian, Mahdi; Gholami, Hassan; Reihani, Hamidreza title: Comparing the Emergency Medicine Residency Programs in Iran and around the World; a Descriptive Study date: 2023-01-01 words: 10806 flesch: 44 summary: Limitation One of the limitations of this study was considering a small number of emergency medicine curriculums. Abstract: Introduction: To identify the strengths and weaknesses of emergency medicine residency curriculum in Iran, and to benefit from the experiences of successful universities, comparative studies are crucial. keywords: ability; academic; access; acute; appropriate; arabia; article; attribution; australia; canada; capabilities; care; clinical; commons; comparative; competencies; conditions; countries; country; course; creative; crisis; curriculum; department; different; duties; education; emergency; emergency department; emergency medicine; european; evaluation; exam; expected; federation; field; general; goals; graduates; health; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; ifem; intensive; international; iran; iranian; knowledge; learning; license; management; manner; mashhad; medical; medicine; medicine curriculum; methods; mission; months; necessary; needs; noncommercial; number; nursing; open; patients; period; physicians; planning; pre; problems; professional; program; range; research; residency; residents; results; review; role; rotations; saudi; sciences; services; similar; similarities; skills; specialist; specialized; specialty; states; student; studied; study; system; table; talebi; teaching; techniques; terms; training; treatment; union; united; universities; university; usa; values; vision; world; years cache: aaem-1867.pdf plain text: aaem-1867.txt item: #265 of 640 id: aaem-187 author: Sajadi, Seyyed Mohammad Ali; Majidi, Alireza; Abdollahimajd, Fahimeh; Jalali, Fatemeh title: Relationship between Dyspnea Descriptors and Underlying Causes of the Symptom; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2017-03-19 words: 3254 flesch: 68 summary: The relationship between dyspnea descriptors and underlying cause of symptom was evaluated using SPSS version 16. Apart from “My breath does not go in all the way”, there was a significant correlation be- tween studied dyspnea descriptors and final diagnosis (p = 0.001 for all analysis). keywords: age; air; article; asthma; breathing; causes; chest; chf; chronic; copd; descriptors; diagnosis; different; disease; dyspnea; dyspnea descriptors; education; emergency; findings; frequent; heart; iran; journal; language; level; medical; obstructive; patients; perception; pulmonary; relationship; respiratory; sciences; study; symptom; terms; tight; underlying; university; way; work; years cache: aaem-187.pdf plain text: aaem-187.txt item: #266 of 640 id: aaem-1870 author: Arefizadeh, Reza; Moosavi, Seyed Hossein; Towfiqie, Sayied; Mohsenizadeh, Seyed Abolfazl ; Pishgahi, Mehdi title: Effect of Ticagrelor Compared to Clopidogrel on Short-term Outcomes of COVID-19 Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2023-01-01 words: 5737 flesch: 55 summary: Conclusion: Among COVID-19 patients with concomitant ACS, who were treated with urgent PCI, the composite outcome of death, myocardial infarction, and early stent thrombosis was not different between Ticagrelor and Clopidogrel groups. COVID-19 patients experience flu-like symptoms such as fever, fatigue, and cough. keywords: access; acs; acute; analysis; arefizadeh; arm; arms; arterial; article; attribution; cardiovascular; cause; clinical; clopidogrel; commons; composite; concomitant; coronary; covid-19; creative; data; days; design; difference; disease; duration; early; emergency; endpoint; et al; events; follow; group; higher; hospitalization; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; infarction; intervention; license; lower; mean; medical; medicine; month; mortality; myocardial; noncommercial; open; outcomes; oxygen; pandemic; patients; pci; percutaneous; primary; pulmonary; randomized; rate; results; saturation; sciences; sepsis; severe; significant; stemi; stent; stent thrombosis; study; subjects; syndrome; table; terms; thrombosis; ticagrelor; time; total; trial; university; variables; year cache: aaem-1870.pdf plain text: aaem-1870.txt item: #267 of 640 id: aaem-1872 author: Pishgahi, Mehdi; Ghane Fard, Shirin; Lak Tabriz, Rahil; Karimi Toudeshki, Kimia; Talebi, Zahra title: The Effects of 3-Month Rosuvastatin Adjuvant Therapy on Post Thrombotic Syndrome following Deep Vein Thrombosis; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2023-06-10 words: 5879 flesch: 56 summary: According to table 3, post hoc analysis revealed that rivarox- aban + rosuvastatin group had more reduction than warfarin + rosuvastatin group (p = 0.84). The results show that the addition of statins to anticoagulants seems to make the regimen more effective in improving the treatment outcomes of DVT patients. keywords: access; acute; addition; administration; analysis; anticoagulants; anticoagulation; article; attribution; calf; circumference; clinical; commons; creative; crp; data; deep; difference; dimer; dvt; effect; factor; groups; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; incidence; inflammatory; intervention; iran; levels; license; lower; mean; medical; months; noncommercial; open; outcomes; pain; patients; pishgahi; post; prevention; protein; pts; randomized; reactive; reduction; results; risk; rivaroxaban; rosuvastatin; sciences; score; serum; significant; statins; studies; study; syndrome; table; tehran; terms; therapy; thrombosis; treatment; trial; university; use; vein; venous; vte; warfarin cache: aaem-1872.pdf plain text: aaem-1872.txt item: #268 of 640 id: aaem-1874 author: Emami Zeydi, Amir; Parvizi, Arman; Haddadi, Soudabeh; Karkhah, Samad; Hosseini , Seyed Javad ; Mollaei, Amirabbas; Firooz , Mahbobeh ; Ramezani , Shahin ; Osuji, Joseph; Ghorbani Vajargah , Pooyan ; Dehghanzadeh, Shadi title: Effect of Oral Care with Povidone-Iodine in the Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-04-04 words: 4619 flesch: 53 summary: Data extraction and quality assessment of included studies were performed by two authors, independently. Risk of bias or quality of included studies The generation of a randomization sequence was low risk in two studies (12, 13), while two did not mention generating a randomization sequence (6, 10). keywords: access; adult; analysis; article; attribution; authors; bias; care; chlorhexidine; commons; control; creative; data; effect; figure; group; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; icu; incidence; intensive; intervention; iodine; iran; length; license; mechanical; medical; meta; mortality; noncommercial; nursing; open; oral; oral care; patients; placebo; pneumonia; povidone; prevention; publication; randomized; rasht; rate; rct; results; review; risk; search; significant; stay; studies; study; systematic; terms; university; use; vap; ventilator cache: aaem-1874.pdf plain text: aaem-1874.txt item: #269 of 640 id: aaem-188 author: Dadpour, Bita; Tajoddini, Shahrad; Shaarbaf Eidgahi, Elham; Shokouhizadeh, Mohsen; Shafahi, Azam title: Role of Serum Creatinine Phosphokinase in Outcome Prediction of Intoxicated Patients; a Brief Report date: 2017-04-03 words: 2456 flesch: 58 summary: This study aimed to assess the relationship between serum CPK level in the first 24 hours and baseline characteristics as well as outcomes of these patients. The relationship between serum CPK level and some baseline and outcome variables were studied using SPSS version 21. keywords: acute; admission; age; baseline; cpk; cpk level; dialysis; emergency; hospital; hours; icu; intoxicated; iran; journal; level; mashhad; mean; medical; mortality; need; outcome; patients; poisoning; prediction; presentation; relationship; research; rhabdomyolysis; sciences; serum; serum cpk; sex; significant; study; toxicology; type; university cache: aaem-188.pdf plain text: aaem-188.txt item: #270 of 640 id: aaem-1882 author: Saghaei Dehkordi, Somayeh; Yazdanbakhsh, Mehrnoosh title: Analysis of articles in the Journal of Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine in 2022 date: 2023-01-01 words: 2750 flesch: 59 summary: Archives of Aca- demic Emergency Medicine. Archives of Aca- demic Emergency Medicine. keywords: academic emergency; access; acute; analysis; archives; articles; attribution; authors; case; clinical; cohort; commons; covid-19; creative; cross; dehkordi; department; editorial; emergency department; emergency medicine; et al; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; iran; journal; karimi; letter; license; management; mortality; noncommercial; open; original; outcome; pandemic; patients; quality; randomized; report; response; retrospective; review; saghaei; sectional; sectional study; study; systematic; tajrish; terms; trial; vaccines cache: aaem-1882.pdf plain text: aaem-1882.txt item: #271 of 640 id: aaem-1885 author: Zarei, Hamed; Vazirizadeh-Mahabadi, Mohammadhossein; Adel Ramawad, Hamzah ; Sarveazad, Arash ; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Prognostic Value of CRASH and IMPACT Models for Predicting Mortality and Unfavorable Outcome in Traumatic Brain Injury; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-03-04 words: 9188 flesch: 52 summary: Results also showed that the IMACT extended (OR=1.00; 95% CI: 0.94 to 1.07; p=0.968) and IM- PACT Lab (OR=1.00; 95% CI: 0.93 to 1.07; p=0.986) have no difference with CRASH CT model in predicting the mortality of head trauma patients. 3.4. 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Zarei et al. 6 Figure 3: Comparison of area under the curve (AUC) of CRASH CT model, IMPACT extended model, and IMPACT Lab model in prediction of mortality in traumatic brain injury. keywords: /point; access; acute; acute brain; analysis; area; article; assessment; attribution; basic; bias; brain; brain injuries; brain injury; brain[tiab; clinical; commons; concussion; core; core model; crash; crash basic; crash ct; crash models; crash prognostic; creative; curve; data; effect; emergency; et al; evidence; extended; external; figure; findings; focal; focal brain; head; head injury; high; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; impact; impact core; impact extended; impact lab; impact models; inconsistency; interval; iran; lab; large; level; license; low low; magnitude; meta; mild; mission; models; moderate; month; mortality; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; prediction; presence; present; prognostic; prognostic models; prospective; publication; research; results; review; risk; search; severe; significant; studies; study; systematic; tbi; tehran; terms; traumatic brain; trials; unfavorable; unfavorable outcome; validation; value; yousefifard cache: aaem-1885.pdf plain text: aaem-1885.txt item: #272 of 640 id: aaem-189 author: Barzegari, Hassan; Fahimi, Mohammad Ali; Dehghanian, Schwann title: Emergency Department Readmission Rate within 72 Hours after Discharge; a Letter to Editor date: 2017-04-03 words: 811 flesch: 57 summary: For instance, in the studied hospital, which is a trauma center in the region, readmission rate of trauma patients is higher. Comparing the results of the present study with previous ones indicates that readmission rate can vary widely not only among different countries but also among various hospitals of the same country. keywords: ahvaz; causes; department; discharge; emergency; hospital; hours; iran; medical; medicine; patients; rate; readmission; return cache: aaem-189.pdf plain text: aaem-189.txt item: #273 of 640 id: aaem-1892 author: Mosaffa, Faramarz; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Raoufi, Masoomeh; Golpour, Faezeh; Ghasemi, Mahshid; Yazdipoor, Mohammad Javad ; Memary, Elham title: The Effect of Intravenous Metoclopramide on Gastric Emptying of Opium-dependent Patients based on Ultrasonographic Criteria; a Case-control Study date: 2023-01-01 words: 4153 flesch: 54 summary: The control group included non- opium dependent individuals and the case group included opium dependent patients, all of whom received 10 mg (2cc) IV metoclopramide. The control group included non- opium dependent individuals and the case group included opium dependent patients, all of whom received 10 mg (2cc) IV metoclopramide. keywords: 2cc; administration; agg; anesthesia; antral; area; article; aspiration; beheshti; case; contents; control; csa; decrease; dependent; drug; effect; emergency; emptying; fasting; gastric; gastrointestinal; grade; groups; hospital; intervention; iran; mean; medical; medicine; metoclopramide; need; non; opium; patients; placebo; present; psa; sciences; shahid; stomach; studies; study; table; tehran; ultrasonography; university; users cache: aaem-1892.pdf plain text: aaem-1892.txt item: #274 of 640 id: aaem-19 author: Alimohammadi, Hossein; Bidarizerehpoosh, Farahnaz; Mirmohammadi, Farzaneh; Shahrami, Ali; Heidari, Kamran; Sabzghabaie, Anita; Keikha, Shahram title: Cause of Emergency Department Mortality; a Case-control Study date: 2018-11-13 words: 3941 flesch: 63 summary: A patient’s risk of death increases with an increase in the number of risk factors in that patient (r2=0.96; p=0.02). In addition, the patients’ odds of death increase with an increase in the number of risk factors. keywords: age; article; attribution; beheshti; cardiac; cardiovascular; case; commons; conditions; control; copyright; creative; data; death; department; disease; emergency; etiology; factors; final; group; history; hospital; hossein; hypertension; increase; independent; iran; license; medical; mortality; noncommercial; number; odds; patients; present; renal; results; rights; risk; sciences; sepsis; severe; shahid; studies; study; subjects; tehran; terms; trauma; university; years cache: aaem-19.pdf plain text: aaem-19.txt item: #275 of 640 id: aaem-190 author: Mohammadi, Fatemeh; Mosaddegh, Reza; Vaziri, Samira title: A 41-Year-Old Woman with Seizure date: 2017-04-15 words: 1775 flesch: 53 summary: Anti-epileptic drugs alone are not effective in controlling the seizure caused by electrolyte imbalances and rapid identification and correc- tion of these imbalances, if present, is necessary for con- trolling seizure and preventing brain disorders (10). About 54% of the patients need anti-epileptic drugs for control- ling seizure. keywords: anti; article; blood; brain; calcification; calcium; case; clinical; diagnosis; disorders; drugs; emergency; epileptic; examination; history; hyperphosphatemia; hypocalcemia; hypoparathyroidism; iran; journal; level; magnesium; normal; patient; phosphorus; presentation; research; scan; seizure; serum; surgery; tests; thyroidectomy; treatment; year cache: aaem-190.pdf plain text: aaem-190.txt item: #276 of 640 id: aaem-1901 author: Hamade, Bachar; Bayram, Jamil D; Hsieh, Yu-Hsiang; Khishfe, Basem ; Al Jalbout, Nour title: Modified Shock Index as a Predictor of Admission and In-hospital Mortality in Emergency Departments; an Analysis of a US National Database date: 2023-04-29 words: 5412 flesch: 64 summary: Results: 567,994,402 distinct weighted adult ED patient visits were included in the analysis. 6. Conclusion Our large nationally representative retrospective study of all adult ED patients suggests that an initial MSI >1.7 in the gen- eral adult ED population is an important predictor of admis- sion and in-hospital mortality. keywords: access; admission; age; analysis; article; attribution; care; clinical; commons; creative; cut; data; department; different; disease; emergency; encounters; general; hospital; hospital mortality; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; index; initial; license; likelihood; liu; lrs; map; med; medicine; modified; mortality; msi; myocardial; national; non; noncommercial; open; outcomes; patients; population; predictive; predictor; pressure; race; results; sbp; sex; shock; shock index; significant; states; study; survey; table; terms; trauma; values; visits; weighted; white; years cache: aaem-1901.pdf plain text: aaem-1901.txt item: #277 of 640 id: aaem-1907 author: SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad ; Bagheri, AmirBehzad ; Razi, Armin ; Mojdeganlou, Paniz; Mojdeganlou, Hengameh ; Afsahi, Amir Masoud ; Afzalian, Arian; Paranjkhoo, Parinaz ; Shahidi, Ramin ; Mirzapour, Pegah ; Pashaei, Zahra ; Habibi, Mohammad Amin ; Shahbazi, Parmida ; Nooralioghli Parikhani, Sahar; Farizani Gohari, Narjes Sadat; Popoola, Yusuf ; Mehraeen, Esmaeil; Hackett, Daniel title: Late Complications of COVID-19; An Umbrella Review on Current Systematic Reviews date: 2023-03-12 words: 9540 flesch: 62 summary: Mehraeen E, Oliaei S, SeyedAlinaghi S, Karimi A, Mirza- pour P, Afsahi AM, et al. COVID-19 in pediatrics: a sys- tematic review of current knowledge and practice. A review of these studies revealed that neurologic and psychiatric (n=41), respiratory (n=27), musculoskeletal and rheumatologic (n=22), cardiovascular (n=9), and hepatic and gastrointestinal (n=6) complications were the most prevalent complications of long COVID-19. keywords: academic; access; acute; ahmed; analysis; anxiety; archives; arthralgia; article; assessment; attribution; body; brain; cardiac; cardiovascular; case; cd cd; cd na; changes; characteristics; chest; children; chronic; clinical; cognitive; commons; complication*[tiab; complications; coronavirus; cough; cov-2; covid-19; covid-19 patients; covid-19 syndrome; covid19; creative; criteria; current; data; days; department; depression; different; disease; disorder; doi; dysfunction; dyspnea; e28; effusion; emergency; epub; et al; evidence; fair; fair fair; fatigue; function; gastrointestinal; headache; health; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; impairment; infection; iran; joint; late; left; license; life; long; long covid-19; loss; lung; manifestations; med; medical; medicine; mehraeen; memory; mental; meta; months; mri; musculoskeletal; myalgia; myocardial; myocarditis; n=2; neurological; new; nih; noncommercial; onset; open; organ; pain; patients; pericardial; persistent; pfts; pmid; post; present; prevalence; problems; psychiatric; ptsd; pulmonary; quality; research; respiratory; results; review; risk; sars; sciences; search; sequelae; severe; seyedalinaghi; sleep; stress; stroke; studies; study; survivors; symptoms; syndrome; systematic; systematic review; table; tehran; term; tests; time; tool; umbrella; university; usa; vasculitis; ventricular; weeks cache: aaem-1907.pdf plain text: aaem-1907.txt item: #278 of 640 id: aaem-191 author: Golikhatir, Iraj; Montazer, Seyed Hossein; Bagheri, Nabiollah; Jahanian, Fatemeh; Bozorgi, Farzad; Hosseininejad, Seyed Mohammad; Aminiahidashti, Hamed title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Quick Stick for Identifying Traumatic Patients in Need of Tetanus Prophylaxis; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2017-04-30 words: 3479 flesch: 59 summary: TQS test method After gathering preliminary data, TQS test was done on the patient’s bedside by a trained nurse or physician in charge of the patient. Two separate individuals performed TQS test and ELISA and were blind to the results of the other test. keywords: accuracy; age; anti; antibody; article; cases; characteristics; commons; cost; data; department; diagnostic; dirty; elisa; emergency; evaluation; history; immunity; immunoglobulin; journal; level; medical; medicine; method; need; negative; patients; performance; positive; predictive; present; prophylaxis; quick; results; screening; sensitivity; serum; specificity; stick; studies; study; test; tetanus; tool; tqs; vaccination; value; wound cache: aaem-191.pdf plain text: aaem-191.txt item: #279 of 640 id: aaem-1914 author: Rahmani, Erfan ; Amani-Beni, Reza ; Hekmatnia, Yasaman ; Fakhre Yaseri, Amirhossein ; Ahadiat, Seyed-Amirabbas ; Talebi Boroujeni, Parham ; Kiani, Moein ; Tavakoli, Reza ; Shafagh, Seyyed-Ghavam ; Shirazinia, Matin ; Garousi, ‏‏Setareh ; Mottahedi, Mehran ; Arzaghi, Mohammad Reza ; Pourbagher Benam, Sasan ; Rigi, Amir ; Salmani, Amir ; Abdollahi, Zeynab ; Karimzade Rokni, Fateme ; Nikbakht, Tara ; Azizi Hassan Abadi, Saeme ; Roohinezhad, Roozbeh ; Masheghati, Forough ; Haririan, Yas ; Darouei, Bahar ; Fayyazishishavan, Ehsan ; Manoochehri-Arash, Niusha; Farrokhi, Mehrdad title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography for Detection of Intussusception in Children; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-02-28 words: 5872 flesch: 52 summary: Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index E. Rahmani et al. 2 Abstract: Introduction: The diagnosis of intussusception can be challenging in children due to the fact that the findings of clinical evaluations are nonspecific and most of the patients present with unclear history. Keywords: Intussusception; Ultrasonography; Point-of-Care Testing; Diagnostic Imaging; Meta-analysis Cite this article as: Rahmani E, Amani-Beni R, Hekmatnia Y, et al. keywords: academic; access; accuracy; analysis; archives; article; assessment; attribution; bias; care; cases; children; clinical; commons; confidence; creative; data; detection; diagnosis; difference; e24; emergency; emergency medicine; enema; et al; evaluation; false; figure; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; imaging; intestinal; intussusception; iran; lee; license; likelihood; lim; management; medical; medicine; meta; negative; noncommercial; open; patients; pediatric; performance; plot; pocus; point; pooled; positive; prospective; quality; radiologist; radiology; radus; rahmani; ratio; results; retrospective; review; risk; school; sciences; search; sensitivity; significant; specificity; studies; study; systematic; tehran; terms; test; true; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; usa; value cache: aaem-1914.pdf plain text: aaem-1914.txt item: #280 of 640 id: aaem-1915 author: Sadeghi, Roxana; Roshdi Dizaji, Shayan; Vazirizadeh-Mahabadi, Mohammadhossein; Sarveazad, Arash; Forouzannia, Seyed Ali title: Prognostic Value of The Leuko-Glycemic Index in Acute Myocardial Infarction; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-03-01 words: 7394 flesch: 47 summary: Meta-analysis of admission hyperglycaemia in acute myocardial infarction patients treated with pri- mary angioplasty: a cause or a marker of mortality? Retrospective cohort study ST: ST segment; TN: True negative; TP: True positive Table 2: Risk of bias assessment of included studies Author Risk of bias Applicability Overall Patient selection Index test Reference standard Flow and timing Patient selection Index test Reference standard Cuesta-Mero, 2021 Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low risk Diaz Benitez, 2016 Low Low Unclear Low Low Low Unclear Some concern Hirschson Prado, 2014 Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low risk Leon-Aliz; 2014 Unclear Low Low Low Low Low Low Low risk Martínez García, 2021 Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low risk Martínez Saldaña, 2018 Unclear Low Unclear Low Low Low Low keywords: abstract; academic; access; acute; acute coronary; acute mi; acute myocardial; analysis; angina; archives; artery; article; assessment; attribution; bias; cardiac; cardiac complications; commons; complications; coronary; coronary artery; coronary syndrome; creative; data; disease; e25; elevation; elevation myocardial; emergency; evidence; figure; glycemic; glycemic index; heart; heart infarction; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; index; infarction; infarction’/exp; infarction’:ab; infarction”[title; interval; iran; ischemic; leuko; leukoglycemic; lgi; license; low low; low risk; major; major cardiac; mcc; medicine; meta; mortality; muscle; myocardial; myocardial infarction; negative; non; noncommercial; odds; open; outcome; patients; positive; post; prediction; probability; prognostic; publication; ratio; reperfusion; results; review; risk; sadeghi; search; segment; sensitivity; silent; specificity; studies; study; supplementary; syndrome; systematic; tehran; terms; test; unclear; value cache: aaem-1915.pdf plain text: aaem-1915.txt item: #281 of 640 id: aaem-192 author: Bidaki, Reza; Kian, Mojgan; Owliaey, Hamid; Babaei Zarch, Mojtaba; Feysal, Masoud title: Accidental Chronic Poisoning with Methotrexate; Report of Two Cases date: 2017-05-21 words: 2173 flesch: 55 summary: Although methotrexate toxic- ity can cause kidney injury and change the renal function, sometimes renal dysfunction like an acute renal failure can also induce methotrexate toxicity (4, 12-14). Cutaneous erosions: a herald for impending pancytopenia in methotrexate toxicity. keywords: accidental; acute; article; attribution; authors; case; center; chronic; commons; creative; cutaneous; days; department; dermatology; digoxin; drug; early; emergency; failure; figure; iran; journal; lesions; license; medical; medicine; methotrexate; mtx; mucocutaneous; noncommercial; patient; poisoning; psoriasis; renal; report; research; respiratory; sadoughi; sciences; shahid; toxicity; treatment; university; yazd cache: aaem-192.pdf plain text: aaem-192.txt item: #282 of 640 id: aaem-193 author: Forouzan, Arash; Barzegari, Hassan; Motamed, Hassan; Khavanin, Ali; Shiri, Hamideh title: Intravenous Lidocaine versus Morphine Sulfate in Pain Management for Extremity Fractures; a Clinical Trial date: 2017-05-28 words: 3431 flesch: 58 summary: Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, IV lidocaine could be considered as a reasonable alternative choice for pain management in ED. Therefore, considering the limited number of studies on the effect of IV lidocaine in pain management, especially in emergency department (ED) and the existing contradictions regarding its effectiveness, the present study was designed with the aim of assessing the analgesic effect of IV lidocaine compared to IV morphine sul- fate in relieving the pain caused by traumatic extremity bone fractures. keywords: access; ahvaz; analgesia; anesthesia; article; attribution; clinical; commons; creative; data; department; drug; effect; effectiveness; emergency; extremity; fractures; groups; infusion; injection; intravenous; journal; license; lidocaine; management; medical; medicine; minutes; morphine; noncommercial; number; open; pain; pain management; patients; perioperative; postoperative; present; rate; results; risk; score; severity; studies; study; success; sulfate; surgery; table; terms; trial cache: aaem-193.pdf plain text: aaem-193.txt item: #283 of 640 id: aaem-1934 author: Kazemi, Seyyed-Morteza ; Khorram, Roya ; Fayyazishishavan, Ehsan ; Amani-Beni, Reza ; Haririan, Yas ; Hosseini Khameneh, Seyed Mehdi ; Rahmani, Erfan ; Minaei Noshahr, Reza ; Sarikhani, Mahshad; Rahimi, Rana; Saeidi, Sara; Saeidi, Diba; Farrokhi, Mehrdad title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ottawa Knee Rule for Diagnosis of Fracture in Patients with Knee Trauma; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2023-04-03 words: 4683 flesch: 58 summary: The designers of knee rules considered a sensitivity of about 100% in diagnos- ing fractures to reduce unnecessary radiographs. In another meta-analysis by Sims et al. (16), the results of eight studies were pooled to indicate the diagnostic charac- teristics of OKR for diagnosis of knee fractures. keywords: access; accuracy; acute; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; bias; cases; commons; creative; decision; diagnosis; emergency; et al; evaluation; figure; fracture; high; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; iran; kazemi; knee; knee rule; license; med; medical; medicine; meta; nlr; noncommercial; okr; open; ottawa; ottawa knee; patients; pooled; prospective; quality; radiography; ratio; results; rule; sensitivity; specificity; studies; study; systematic; terms; trauma; unnecessary; validation cache: aaem-1934.pdf plain text: aaem-1934.txt item: #284 of 640 id: aaem-194 author: Ghaemi, Kazem; Ghoreishi, Atefeh; Rabiee, Navid; Alinejad, Samira; Farzaneh, Esmaeil; Amirabadi Zadeh, Alireza; Abdollahi, Mohammad; Mehrpour, Omid title: Blood Lead Levels in Asymptomatic Opium Addict Patients; a Case Control Study date: 2017-06-15 words: 3748 flesch: 63 summary: Methods: This case-control study was conducted during a one-year period to compare BLL of three groups consisting of opium addicts, patients un- der methadone maintenance therapy (MMT), and healthy individuals. There was no significant difference in BLL between MMT and healthy individuals (p=0.433) and also between opium addicts and MMT individuals (p=0.271).Oral opium abusers had significantly higher lead levels (p = 0.036). keywords: abuse; addiction; addicts; administration; age; article; birjand; bll; blood; cases; center; comparison; control; data; drug; duration; group; healthy; heroin; higher; individuals; iran; journal; lead; levels; mean; medical; medicine; mehrpour; methadone; mmt; non; occupational; opium; opium addicts; oral; participants; patients; poisoning; present; research; results; route; sciences; sex; significant; study; substance; toxicology; university; users cache: aaem-194.pdf plain text: aaem-194.txt item: #285 of 640 id: aaem-1941 author: Karimi, Somayeh; Martins Dutra e Oliva, Lorraine; Rafiemanesh, Hosein; Mendez Capitaine, Melissa; Jabre, Sarah; Baratloo, Alireza title: Two-Stage Clinical Model for Screening the Suspected Cases of Acute Ischemic Stroke in Need of Imaging in Emergency Department; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2023-02-20 words: 5299 flesch: 62 summary: Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index 5 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023; 11(1): e23 Table 2: The variables of nine studied tools Variable LAPSS CPSS FAST OPSS Med PACS MASS RACE Pre-HAST ROSIER Facial droop or palsy Xa X X X X X X Arm drift or weakness/Hand grip X Xb X X c X X Speech or aphasia X X X X X X X X Seizure X X X X X Symptoms of the stroke have resolved Xd Blood glucose between 50 (or 60) and 400 mg/dl X X X Leg weakness/drift X X X Blood Sugar < Meth- ods: This was a multicenter cross-sectional study, in which suspected AIS patients who underwent a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were included. keywords: access; acute; ais; analysis; aphasia; arm; article; attribution; brain; cases; clinical; commons; creative; criteria; cva; data; defect; department; diagnosis; drift; emergency; facial; false; field; history; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; imaging; iran; ischemic; leg; license; med; medical; medicine; model; mri; need; negative; noncommercial; open; patients; positive; pre; prehospital; review; rule; scale; sciences; screening; screening model; speech; stage; stage screening; stroke; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; tools; university; variables; visual; weakness cache: aaem-1941.pdf plain text: aaem-1941.txt item: #286 of 640 id: aaem-1943 author: Karkhah, Samad; Pourshaikhian, Majid ; Ghorbani Vajargah , Pooyan ; Zaboli Mahdiabadi, Morteza; Mollaei, Amirabbas ; Maroufizadeh, Saman ; Hosseini, Seyed Javad ; Osuji, Joseph ; Moghadamnia, Mohammad Taghi title: Needle Direction and Distance of Arteriovenous Fistula Cannulation in Hemodialysis Adequacy; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-05-20 words: 7788 flesch: 59 summary: The distance between HD needles was 2.5 cm. The effect of distance and direc- tion of needle cannulation on the recirculation of arteri- ovenous fistula: A clinical trial. keywords: access; adequacy; analysis; antegrade; antegrade cannulation; arm; arterial; arteriovenous; article; assessment; attribution; avf; avf cannulation; bias; blood; cannulation; characteristics; clearance; commons; creative; data; dialyzer; difference; direction; distance; duration; effect; emergency; evidence; extremity; figure; fistula; flow; group; hd adequacy; heart; hemodialysis; heterogeneity; higher; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; intervention; iran; kidney; license; medical; medicine; meta; method; needle distance; needles; non; noncommercial; open; participants; patients; placement; quality; rate; rct; rct studies; rcts; recirculation; renal; researchers; results; retrograde; retrograde cannulation; review; search; set; significant; studies; study; systematic; terms; urea; urr; vascular; venous cache: aaem-1943.pdf plain text: aaem-1943.txt item: #287 of 640 id: aaem-195 author: Jacob, Mary S.; Shokoohi, Hamid; Moideen, Fabith; Pousson, Amelia; Boniface, Keith title: An Echocardiography Training Program for Improving the Left Ventricular Function Interpretation in Emergency Department; a Brief Report date: 2017-06-15 words: 3003 flesch: 52 summary: We created a training program in point-of-care echocar- diography utilizing echocardiography video clips from pa- tients with known LVEF. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a brief training program utilizing standardized echocardiography video clips in this regard. keywords: anterior; article; available; brief; cardiac; categorization; clips; department; depressed; echocardiography; ejection; emergency; eps; epss; estimation; focused; fraction; function; interpretation; leaflet; left; lvef; medicine; mitral; mode; motion; normal; patients; point; post; prior; program; results; standardized; study; test; training; ultrasound; valve; ventricular; video; view; visual cache: aaem-195.pdf plain text: aaem-195.txt item: #288 of 640 id: aaem-196 author: Mahdizadeh, Fatemeh; Safari, Saeed title: Concurrent Hand and Penile Gangrene following Prolonged Warfarin Use; a Case Report date: 2017-06-21 words: 1618 flesch: 54 summary: Abstract: Warfarin induced skin necrosis (WISN) is a rare but important side effect of warfarin. Skin necrosis has been reported in 0.17% of patients affected with side effects of warfarin (2, 3). keywords: anti; article; blood; case; department; diagnosis; emergency; gangrene; hand; hematoma; high; hospital; iran; journal; medical; medicine; necrosis; normal; patient; penile; prolonged; protein; report; right; sciences; skin; skin necrosis; therapy; treatment; university; upper; warfarin; wisn cache: aaem-196.pdf plain text: aaem-196.txt item: #289 of 640 id: aaem-1962 author: Orakzai, Shehryar; Jumat, Linawati; Alam, Faiza title: Modification of Standard Operating Procedures at the Emergency Department in Brunei During the Second-Wave Outbreak of COVID-19; a Letter to Editor date: 2023-04-29 words: 1107 flesch: 57 summary: ED staff in all zones wore full PPE; long-sleeve isolation gowns, shoe covers, headcovers, N95 masks, eye/face shields, and gloves. I TO R Modification of Standard Operating Procedures at the Emergency Department in Brunei During the Second- Wave Outbreak of COVID-19; a Letter to Editor Shehryar Orakzai1, Linawati Jumat1, Faiza Alam2∗ 1. keywords: anak; article; brunei; covid-19; darussalam; days; department; doctors; editor; emergency; health; hours; patients; pengiran; positive; ppe; risk; shifts; staff; zones cache: aaem-1962.pdf plain text: aaem-1962.txt item: #290 of 640 id: aaem-197 author: Alipour-Faz, Athena; Yousefi, Maryam; Peyvandi, Hassan title: Accuracy of Endoscopy in Predicting the Depth of Mucosal Injury Following Caustic Ingestion; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2017-06-30 words: 2729 flesch: 55 summary: Since third grade injury accompanies clinical signs and symptoms and demands emergent surgical intervention, EGD would be an acceptable diagnostic tool for third grade injuries; whilst in second grade damage, EGD alone is not sufficient to evaluate the depth of damage. Modi- fied Zargar’s endoscopic classification for caustic injuries has been used for endoscopic grading (1). keywords: accuracy; cases; caustic; characteristics; classification; corrosive; damage; depth; diagnostic; egd; emergency; endoscopic; findings; gastrointestinal; grade; grading; iii; ingestion; injuries; injury; medical; mucosal; negative; pathologic; patients; positive; present; results; role; screening; second; sensitivity; specificity; study; surgical; treatment; upper; zargar cache: aaem-197.pdf plain text: aaem-197.txt item: #291 of 640 id: aaem-1975 author: Shaheen, Nour; Shaheen, Ahmed; Diab, Rehab Adel; Mohmmed, Abdelrahman ; Ramadan, Abdelraouf ; Swed, Sarya ; Wael, Muhannad ; Kundu, Mrinmoy ; Soliman, Sama ; Elmasry, Mohamed ; Shoib, Sheikh title: Basic Life Support (BLS) Knowledge Among General Population; a Multinational Study in Nine Arab Countries date: 2023-07-11 words: 7248 flesch: 64 summary: According to the nations, Yemen scored the highest, while Morocco had the lowest levels of BLS knowledge (19.86 ± 4.71 vs. 14.15 ± 5.10, respectively; p< 0.01). Conclusion: The level of BLS knowledge among non-medical people in Arab nations is moderate but in- sufficient to handle the urgent crises that we face everywhere. keywords: academic; access; adequate; age; aid; airway; analysis; arab; archives; arrest; article; associated; attribution; awareness; basic; basic life; better; bleeding; bls; bls knowledge; bls training; breathing; cardiac; care; commons; countries; cpr; creative; data; demographic; e47; education; egypt; emergency; factors; faculty; general; greater; health; higher; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; individuals; information; knowledge; level; license; life; life support; mean; media; medical; medicine; need; non; noncommercial; online; open; participants; population; present; previous; professionals; public; research; results; resuscitation; rural; sample; scores; shaheen; sign; socio; sources; status; study; support; survey; table; terms; training; understanding; university; urban; variables; yemen cache: aaem-1975.pdf plain text: aaem-1975.txt item: #292 of 640 id: aaem-198 author: Beyranvand, Mohammad Reza; Assadpour Piranfar, Mohammad; Mobini, Mohammadreza; Pishgahi, Mehdi title: The Relationship of ST Segment Changes in Lead aVR with Outcomes after Myocardial Infarction; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2017-06-30 words: 4069 flesch: 60 summary: Until now, no sim- ilar studies have been carried out on Iranian patients in this field; therefore, the present study has been designed with the aim of evaluating the relationship of ST segment elevation in lead aVR with the final outcome of the patients with MI pre- senting to ED. Regarding the anatomy of coronary arteries’ involvement and its relationship with changes in lead aVR, no significant relationship was found in our study; however, ST segment elevation in aVR was ac- companied with higher involvement of all 3 coronary arter- ies. keywords: acute; admission; age; angiography; artery; article; avr; cardiac; cases; changes; coronary; depression; ecg; ejection; elevation; findings; fraction; heart; higher; hospital; infarction; involvement; journal; lead; lead avr; left; location; medical; mortality; myocardial; number; outcome; patients; prediction; presence; present; relationship; results; risk; segment; segment changes; significant; st elevation; st segment; studies; study; times; vessels cache: aaem-198.pdf plain text: aaem-198.txt item: #293 of 640 id: aaem-199 author: Finsterer, Josef; Zarrouk-Mahjoub, Sinda title: Traumatic brain injury is unlikely precipitating Leigh syndrome due to the GJB2 mutation c.35delG date: 2017-06-30 words: 890 flesch: 61 summary: Dear Editor: With interest we read the article by Ashrafi et al. about a 14-year-old female who is regarded to have developed Leigh syndrome (LS) after traumatic brain injury (TBI) (1). In a 16-year-old female with MELAS syndrome due to the mutation m.3243A>G, pheny- toin caused intestinal pseudo-obstruction one month after intravenous phenytoin for status epilepticus (3). keywords: article; brain; emergency; finsterer; gjb2; injury; leigh; mid; mitochondrial; mutation; patient; phenytoin; precipitating; syndrome; tbi; traumatic; tunis; unlikely cache: aaem-199.pdf plain text: aaem-199.txt item: #294 of 640 id: aaem-1990 author: Vali, Mohebat; Paydar , Shahram ; Seif , Mozhgan ; Hosseini, Maryam ; Basiri, Pardis ; Sabetian, Golnar ; Ghaem, Haleh title: Association Between Neutrophil Density and Survival in Trauma Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit; a Retrospective Cohort Study date: 2023-04-03 words: 4799 flesch: 58 summary: Understanding the link be- tween neutrophil dysfunction (neutropenia, or neutrophilia) and patients’ survival may yield appropriate early biomark- ers for clinical applications and treatment of trauma patients. Study design and setting The current retrospective cohort study was carried out us- ing data from trauma patients admitted to ICU of Shahid Ra- jaee Hospital (Imtiaz), Shiraz, Iran, between 2016 and 2021. keywords: access; addition; admission; age; analysis; article; association; attribution; blood; care; center; changes; commons; count; cox; creative; crit; current; data; days; groups; hazard; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; icu; immune; information; injury; intensive; iqr; iran; iss; license; manuscript; median; medical; mortality; multiple; neutropenia; neutrophil; noncommercial; normal; organ; patients; post; rate; ratio; research; response; retrospective; role; sciences; severity; shiraz; significant; studies; study; survival; terms; test; time; trauma; trauma patients; traumatic; treatment; unit; university; vali cache: aaem-1990.pdf plain text: aaem-1990.txt item: #295 of 640 id: aaem-1997 author: Ahmadzadeh, Koohyar; Roshdi Dizaji, Shayan; Kiah, Mohammad; Rashid, Mohamad; Miri, Reza; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: The value of Coronary Artery Disease – Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) in Outcome Prediction of CAD Patients; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2023-06-15 words: 7986 flesch: 60 summary: This systematic review with meta-analysis aimed to comprehensively appraise all available studies and draw con- clusions on the prognostic value of the CAD-RADS classification system in CAD patients. Methods: Online databases of PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched until September 19th, 2022, for studies on the value of CAD-RADS categorization for outcome prediction of CAD patients. keywords: access; adverse; analysis; angiography; artery; artery disease; articles; assessment; attribution; bias; cad; cad patients; cadrads; cardiovasc; cardiovascular; categories; categorization; category; cause; ccta; characteristics; classification; clinical; combined; commons; concern; coronary; coronary artery; creative; data; disease; domain; effect; et al; evidence; flow; follow; hazard; high low; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; imaging; lee; license; low low; mace; major; meta; mortality; noncommercial; number; open; original; outcome; overall; patients; plaque; prediction; prognostic; rads; rads categories; ratio; regression; reporting; reports; results; retrospective; review; risk; stenosis; studies; study; system; systematic; table; terms; test; tomography; treatment; unclear; unclear low; value; years cache: aaem-1997.pdf plain text: aaem-1997.txt item: #296 of 640 id: aaem-2 author: Amini, Afshin; Mahdavipour, Abbas title: The Effect of Oxygen Therapy on Oxidative Stress Index in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction; a Letter to the Editor date: 2019-01-11 words: 1295 flesch: 56 summary: The study by Tatarkova et al. showed that normobaric oxygen therapy will be associated with oxidative damage of myocardia and weak- ening of antioxidant defense (9). Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem A. Amini et al. 2 son with titrated oxygen in patients with MI (8). keywords: acute; authors; blood; damage; defense; department; effect; emergency; free; glutathione; group; hospital; hossein; imam; index; infarction; journal; myocardial; oxidative; oxygen; patients; radicals; stress; study; therapy cache: aaem-2.pdf plain text: aaem-2.txt item: #297 of 640 id: aaem-20 author: Kashani, Parvin; Yousefian, Shiva; Amini, Afshin; Heidari, Kamran; Younesian, Somaie; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza title: The Effect of Intravenous Ketamine in Suicidal Ideation of Emergency Department Patients date: 2018-11-13 words: 2882 flesch: 60 summary: Suicidal ideation is an emergent problem in the Emergency Department (ED) that often compli- cates patient disposition and discharge. This study was conducted to examine the effects of a single intravenous bolus of ketamine on patients with suicidal ideations in ED. keywords: admission; article; beheshti; days; department; depression; different; discharge; dose; effect; emergency; follow; ideation; infusion; injection; intravenous; ketamine; madrs; major; medical; minutes; patients; prevention; previous; psychiatry; rating; reduction; resistant; results; risk; scale; sciences; scores; shahid; significant; ssi; studies; study; subjects; suicidal; suicidal ideation; suicide; time; treatment; trial; university cache: aaem-20.pdf plain text: aaem-20.txt item: #298 of 640 id: aaem-200 author: Esmailian, Mehrdad; Azizkhani, Reza; Najafi, Nazila title: Saline Flush versus Chest x ray in Confirmation of Central Venous Catheter Placement; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2017-07-08 words: 3040 flesch: 53 summary: Conclusion: It seems that saline flush method could be considered as a safe, rapid, and accurate bedside method for CVC placement confirmation in emergency department. 4. Discussion Based on the findings of the present study, the overall accura- cies of saline flush and CXR in CVC placement confirmation were in the same range (good: 0.80-0.90). keywords: access; accuracy; article; attribution; bedside; cases; catheter; central; chest; commons; confirmation; creative; cvc; cvc placement; cxr; department; diagnostic; emergency; flush; internal; isfahan; journal; jugular; license; mean; medical; medicine; method; minutes; misplacement; negative; noncommercial; patients; placement; positive; procedure; ray; right; saline; saline flush; sensitivity; specificity; study; subclavian; terms; test; time; ultrasonography; vein; venous cache: aaem-200.pdf plain text: aaem-200.txt item: #299 of 640 id: aaem-2001 author: Kabiri, Ali; Gharin, Pantea; Forouzannia, Seyed Ali; Ahmadzadeh, Koohyar; Miri, Reza; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: HEART versus GRACE Score in Predicting the Outcomes of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-07-19 words: 7280 flesch: 66 summary: Some concern Singer, 2017 Unclear Unclear Low Low Unclear Low Low Low Low Some concern Steiro, 2021 Unclear Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Some concern Tekin, 2021 Unclear High High Low Low Low Low High Low Some concern Torralba, 2020 Unclear Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low The results of the analysis for GRACE score with cut-offs of less than and equal to 100 and more than 100 showed AUCs of 0.71 (95% CI: 0.67, 0.75) and 0.66 (95% CI: 0.62, 0.70), re- spectively. keywords: access; acs; acute; adverse; age; ami; analysis; articles; assessment; attribution; auc; bias; cardiovascular; cause; chest; clinical; cohort; commons; comparison; concern; coronary; creative; cut; data; department; emergency; equal; events; evidence; figure; global; grace; grace score; heart; heart scores; high low; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; infarction; license; low heart; low low; low risk; low specificity; mace; major; medicine; meta; mortality; myocardial; noncommercial; offs; open; outcome; pain; patients; pcs; performance; prediction; registry; results; review; risk; risk scores; scores; sensitivity; specificity; studies; study; syndrome; systematic; table; terms; tool; troponin; unclear low; value; ○ low cache: aaem-2001.pdf plain text: aaem-2001.txt item: #300 of 640 id: aaem-2002 author: Huabbangyang, Thongpitak; Sangketchon, Chunlanee ; Noimo, Gotchagorn ; Pinthong, Korawee ; Saungun, Ketvipa ; Bunta, Kaiwit; Saumok, Chomkamol title: Using Sodium Bicarbonate During Prolonged Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Prehospital Setting; a Retrospective Cross-sectional Study date: 2023-05-25 words: 5895 flesch: 53 summary: One RCT demonstrat- ing the benefit of SB use in cardiac arrest patients requiring prolonged CPR (>15 min) found that SB use was significantly associated with increased ROSC rates (11). Another study on cardiac arrest patients with non-shockable rhythm, including asystole and pulseless electrical activity (PEA), showed that SB use helped improve ROSC and signifi- cantly increased rate of survival to discharge from a hospital (20). keywords: access; acidosis; administration; analysis; arrest; article; attribution; bangkok; bicarbonate; blood; cardiac; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary; care; circulation; commons; cpr; creative; data; department; discharge; effects; emergency; ems; faculty; greater; group; guidelines; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; huabbangyang; license; likelihood; mean; medical; medicine; min; navamindradhiraj; non; noncommercial; ohca; outcomes; p =; patients; prehospital; present; prolonged; rates; results; resuscitation; rhythm; rosc; scene; sodium; study; survival; sustained; terms; thongpitak; times; total; university; use; vajira cache: aaem-2002.pdf plain text: aaem-2002.txt item: #301 of 640 id: aaem-2006 author: Altınsoy, Kazım Ersin; Murat Oktay, Mehmet title: Acute Hepatitis Associated with Intake of Pistacia Vera L. Bud Tea; a Case Report date: 2023-04-29 words: 1508 flesch: 55 summary: Three weeks after discontinuation of herbal tea, liver enzymes returned to normal. Herbal teas have potential add-on effects in lowering blood glucose levels (2, 3). keywords: acute; aminotransferase; article; authors; bud; case; emergency; ersin; figure; gaziantep; hepatitis; herbal; liver; medicine; normal; patient; pistacia; remedies; report; research; serum; study; tea; tests; use; vera cache: aaem-2006.pdf plain text: aaem-2006.txt item: #302 of 640 id: aaem-201 author: Najafi Kalyani, Majid; Fereidouni, Zheila; Sabet Sarvestani, Raheleh; Hadian Shirazi, Zahra; Taghinezhad, Ali title: Perspectives of Patient Handover among Paramedics and Emergency Department Members; a Qualitative Study date: 2017-07-14 words: 4610 flesch: 55 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Improving patient handover is currently considered as a patient safety goal and one of the top five WHO priorities. So, the aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of patient handover among paramedics and emergency department staff. keywords: access; ambulance; analysis; appropriate; article; attribution; care; clinical; commons; communication; content; creative; data; department; different; emergency; emergency department; environment; equipment; expectations; factors; fasa; handover; health; hospital; important; information; interviews; license; manpower; medical; medicine; members; noncommercial; nurse; nursing; open; paramedics; participants; patient; patient handover; perspectives; process; qualitative; quality; regard; research; role; rss; safety; sciences; staff; study; subcategory; team; terms; time; transfer; university cache: aaem-201.pdf plain text: aaem-201.txt item: #303 of 640 id: aaem-2012 author: Huabbangyang, Thongpitak; Silakoon, Agasak; Papukdee, Pramote ; Klaiangthong, Rossakorn; Thongpean, Chaleamlap ; Pralomcharoensuk, Wannakorn; Khaokaen, Weerawan ; Bumrongchai, Sunisa ; Chaisorn, Ratree ; Saumok, Chomkamol title: Sustained Return of Spontaneous Circulation Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest; Developing a Predictive Model Based on Multivariate Analysis date: 2023-04-27 words: 8142 flesch: 55 summary: Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index 9 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023; 11(1): e33 Table 3: Screening performance characteristics of the PRADD-CPR model for predicting the sustained return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after out of hospital cardiac arrest in different cutoff points Score Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV LR+ Out of hospital cardiac arrest in Vienna: incidence and outcome. keywords: access; advanced; airway; analysis; area; arrest; article; associated; association; attribution; bangkok; blood; bystander; cardiac; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary; cardiovascular; care; cbg; circulation; commons; context; cpr; creative; data; defibrillation; department; duration; emergency; ems; ett; factors; faculty; glucose; heart; hospital; hospital cardiac; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; huabbangyang; license; management; medical; medicine; min; model; navamindradhiraj; neurological; non; noncommercial; ohca; open; operation; outcomes; paramedics; patients; predictive; prehospital; previous; pupil; rate; reflex; regression; reporting; response; resuscitation; return; rosc; sample; scene; score; set; size; spontaneous; studies; study; survival; sustained; sustained rosc; terms; test; thailand; thongpitak; time; total; university; validation; value cache: aaem-2012.pdf plain text: aaem-2012.txt item: #304 of 640 id: aaem-2018 author: Bahanan, Lina; Alsharif, Maha; Al Qhtani, Omar; Al Juhani, Ahmad; Samman, Meyassara title: Dental Students' Perceptions Regarding Bioterrorism; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2023-05-22 words: 4929 flesch: 53 summary: Moreover, this would allow dental students to recognise and effectively respond to any catastrophic event and bioterrorist attack (8,11.) The majority of dental students believed that dental professionals should be part of the first responder team. keywords: abdulaziz; access; arabia; article; attack; attribution; bioterrorism; bioterrorism attack; care; commons; covid-19; creative; cross; cumulative; data; dental; dental students; dentistry; dentists; education; event; gpa; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; interns; king; knowledge; license; mean; need; noncommercial; number; participants; preparedness; professionals; questionnaire; ref; ref ref; respondents; roles; sample; saudi; sectional; self; students; study; table; terms; total; training; undergraduate; university; willing; willingness; year cache: aaem-2018.pdf plain text: aaem-2018.txt item: #305 of 640 id: aaem-202 author: Mahshidfar, Babak; Basir Ghafouri, Hamed; Yasinzadeh, Mohammad Reza; Mofidi, Mani; Rezai, Mahdi; Farsi, Davood; Abbasi, Saeed; Hafezimoghadam, Peyman title: Demographics of Scorpion Sting in Iran; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2017-08-21 words: 3630 flesch: 59 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Scorpion sting is an important public health problem in some countries, including Iran. Keywords: Iran; scorpion stings; epidemiologic studies; emergency service, hospital © keywords: access; age; anti; article; attribution; baseline; cases; characteristics; clinical; commons; creative; data; emergency; envenomation; epidemiological; erythema; extremities; findings; health; hospital; hours; important; iran; journal; khuzestan; license; local; management; mean; medical; noncommercial; open; pain; patients; province; research; results; sciences; scorpion; scorpion sting; scorpionism; signs; site; sting; studies; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; time; turkey; university; victims; world; www.jemerg.com; years cache: aaem-202.pdf plain text: aaem-202.txt item: #306 of 640 id: aaem-2020 author: Mekrugsakit, Natchanok; Tullavardhana, Thawatchai title: The Value of Complete Blood Count Parameters in Predicting Complicated Acute Appendicitis; a Prognostic Accuracy Study date: 2023-06-03 words: 3838 flesch: 53 summary: Given that there is currently no clinical scoring system to pre- dict complicated appendicitis, future research may use the findings of this study to develop a clinical score that uses serum biomarkers as parameters to encourage early surgi- cal management of complicated appendicitis patients, po- tentially improving their postoperative outcomes. In contrast, the area under the curve of WBC count (AUC = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.52-0.63; p = 0.22), platelet count (AUC = 0.44, 95% CI = 0.38-0.49; p = 0.049), PLR (AUC = 0.57, 95% CI = 0.52-0.62; p = 0.026), and MPV (AUC = 0.54, 95% CI = 0.49-0.60; p = 0.193) showed low accuracy in predicting complicated acute appendicitis. keywords: accuracy; acute; acute appendicitis; age; alvarado; analysis; appendectomy; appendicitis; article; auc; biomarkers; blood; cases; cell; clinical; complicated; complicated appendicitis; count; data; department; diagnosis; emergency; findings; groups; higher; lymphocyte; mean; medicine; mpv; neutrophil; nlr; open; p =; parameters; patients; platelet; plr; ratio; results; sensitivity; specificity; studied; study; surg; surgery; surgical; tullavardhana; value; wbc cache: aaem-2020.pdf plain text: aaem-2020.txt item: #307 of 640 id: aaem-2021 author: Rahmani, Erfan ; Fayyazishishavan, Ehsan ; Afzalian, Arian ; Varshochi, Sanaz ; Amani-Beni, Reza ; Ahadiat, Seyed-Amirabbas ; Moshtaghi, Zeynab ; Shafagh, Seyyed-Ghavam ; Khorram, Roya ; Asadollahzade, Elnaz ; Atbaei, Raihaneh ; Kahrizi, Mohammad Saeed ; Rahbari, Atoosa ; Baharlouie, Negar ; Mostanbet, Farzaneh; Amirabadiquchani, Bahamin ; Kiani, Moein ; Memarizadeh, Mozhdeh ; Keshtkar Rajabi, Shahin ; Barati, Reza ; Hajinouri, Hengame ; Najafi, Shahrzad ; Abdollahi, Zeynab ; Dadashzadehasl, Nahid; Moghadam Fard, Atousa ; Afshar, Mozhgan ; Abedi, Atefeh ; Saeidi, Sara ; Mansourirad, Adeleh ; Emami Sharezaei, Pedram ; Shah Hosseini, Sepideh; Rostami Ghotbabadi, Zahra; Vafadar, Reza; Roohinezhad, Roozbeh; Ghalamkarpour, Nogol; Farrokhi, Mehrdad title: Point-Of-Care Ultrasonography for Identification of Skin and Soft Tissue Abscess in Adult and Pediatric Patients; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-07-16 words: 5107 flesch: 51 summary: Methodological quality of the included studies was assessed using a revised tool for the quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies (QUADAS-2). One pos- sible explanation for this inconsistency could be the differ- ence between our meta-analysis and their study with respect to the number of included studies and the total number of as- sessed cases. keywords: abscess; access; accuracy; adult; analysis; article; attribution; care; care ultrasonography; cases; commons; creative; data; department; diagnosis; drainage; emergency; et al; evaluation; follow; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; i&d; incision; infections; iran; license; management; medical; medicine; meta; noncommercial; obs; open; patients; pediatric; performance; point; pooled; ratio; reported; research; results; review; school; sciences; sensitivity; skin; soft; soft tissue; specificity; studies; study; systematic; tehran; terms; test; tissue; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; usa cache: aaem-2021.pdf plain text: aaem-2021.txt item: #308 of 640 id: aaem-2023 author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa; Partovinezhad, Hossein; Dasdar, Shayan; Farjad, Maryam title: Ottawa Risk Scale in Predicting the Outcome of Chorionic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation in Emergency Department; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2023-04-09 words: 3527 flesch: 56 summary: The area under the curve of OCRS in predicting the outcome of COPD patients was 0.814 (95%CI: 0.766 – 0.862). The primary purpose of this scale is to assist physicians in deciding whether to ad- mit COPD patients or discharge them with no need for com- plex and expensive diagnostic tests (7). keywords: access; accuracy; adverse; article; auc; cases; characteristics; chest; chronic; clinical; copd; copd exacerbation; data; decision; department; disease; emergency; events; exacerbation; heart; history; hospital; hossein; intubation; journal; mean; medical; medicine; obstructive; ocrs; open; ottawa; outcome; patients; pulmonary; rate; respiratory; risk; scale; score; sensitivity; short; specificity; studied; study; term; unnecessary; value cache: aaem-2023.pdf plain text: aaem-2023.txt item: #309 of 640 id: aaem-2026 author: Sanguanwit, Pitsucha ; Tansuwannarat, Phantakan ; Bua-Ngam, Chinnarat ; Suttabuth, Supakrid ; Atiksawedparit, Pongsakorn ; Trakulsrichai, Satariya title: Comparing Ultrasonography and Surface Landmark-Guided Lumbar Puncture in Patients with Obesity and Difficult Anatomy; a Randomized Controlled Trial date: 2023-08-21 words: 5318 flesch: 57 summary: Conclusion Our study provides support for the benefits of ultrasound- guided LP in specific patient populations, particularly those with challenging anatomical landmarks that are difficult to identify through manual palpation. In this study, ultrasound- guided LP was associated with an increased rate of success on the first attempt, decreased procedural duration, and a lower incidence of traumatic tap. keywords: academic; access; anatomy; article; attempt; attribution; bangkok; bmi; clinical; commons; complications; creative; data; department; difference; difficult; duration; emergency; faculty; group; guidance; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; insertion; landmark; license; lp group; lumbar; mahidol; mean; medicine; minutes; needle; noncommercial; number; obesity; open; outcomes; overall; patients; physicians; previous; procedural; processes; puncture; ramathibodi; randomized; rate; risk; sanguanwit; shorter; space; spinal; spinous; standard; studies; study; success; surface; terms; thailand; traumatic; trial; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; use cache: aaem-2026.pdf plain text: aaem-2026.txt item: #310 of 640 id: aaem-2029 author: Huabbangyang, Thongpitak; Klaiangthong, Rossakorn; Jaibergban, Fahsai ; Wanphen, Chanathip ; Faikhao, Thanakorn ; Banjongkit, Passakorn ; Kuchapan, Ratchaporn title: Pre-hospital Prognostic Factors of 30-Day Survival in Sepsis Patients; a Retrospective Cohort Study date: 2023-07-13 words: 5806 flesch: 58 summary: According to excising findings, if the emergency management system (EMS) operation will be developed, the survival outcome of sepsis patients might improve. This study aimed to evaluate the pre-hospital associated factors of survival in sepsis patients. keywords: access; adjusted; airway; analysis; article; assessment; associated; attribution; blood; care; commons; consciousness; creative; data; day; day survival; department; diagnosis; disease; emergency; ems; factors; faculty; guidelines; health; higher; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; huabbangyang; intensive; level; license; lower; management; medical; medicine; mortality; navamindradhiraj; noncommercial; open; operation; outcome; oxygen; p =; patients; pre; prehospital; previous; qsofa; rate; response; retrospective; saturation; scene; score; sepsis; sepsis patients; septic; setting; shock; study; supplementation; survival; survival rate; survived; terms; test; thailand; thongpitak; time; unit; university cache: aaem-2029.pdf plain text: aaem-2029.txt item: #311 of 640 id: aaem-203 author: Morteza Bagi, Hamid Reza; Ahmadi, Sajjad; Hosseini, Maryam title: Demographics of Fall-Related trauma among the Elderly Presenting to Emergency Department; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2017-08-12 words: 3125 flesch: 68 summary: - In RTS, trauma severity is calculated based on level of con- sciousness, systolic blood pressure and respiratory rate and is also used for triage of the patients (16). - TRISS indicates the prognosis of trauma patients and acts based on the physiologic and anatomic status of the pa- tient on admission to ED. These researchers concluded that TRISS was not so accurate in predicting the prognosis of trauma patients (22). keywords: age; article; characteristics; commons; creative; data; department; elderly; emergency; factors; fall; height; higher; hospitalization; house; indices; injury; iran; iss; journal; license; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; old; patients; people; present; range; rate; results; rts; sciences; score; severity; study; tabriz; trauma; trauma severity; triss; university; years cache: aaem-203.pdf plain text: aaem-203.txt item: #312 of 640 id: aaem-2030 author: Mirkarimi, Talayeh; Salek, Mohammad title: An 85-Year-Old Man with Gradual Decrease in the Level of Consciousness and Vomiting; a Photo Quiz date: 2023-05-07 words: 1452 flesch: 56 summary: 9. Májovský M, Netuka D, Beneš V, Kučera P. Burr-hole evac- uation of chronic subdural hematoma: biophysically and evidence-based technique improvement. Yang W, Huang J. Chronic subdural hematoma: epi- demiology and natural history. keywords: agents; alborz; article; bilateral; blood; burr; case; chronic; consciousness; csdh; decrease; e37; emergency; evacuation; figure; gradual; hematoma; hole; iran; level; medical; mirkarimi; old; patients; recurrence; risk; sciences; subdural; surgery; university; vomiting; year cache: aaem-2030.pdf plain text: aaem-2030.txt item: #313 of 640 id: aaem-2036 author: Liengswangwong, Wijittra; Lertviboonluk, Natcha ; Yuksen, Chaiyaporn; Laksanamapune, Thanakorn ; Limroongreungrat, Weerawat ; Mongkolpichayaruk, Atipong ; Tharawadeepimuk, Kittichai ; Jamkrajang , Parunchaya ; Sook-Oum, Prayoot; watcharakitpaisan , Sorawich title: Comparing the Efficacy of Long Spinal Board, Sked Stretcher, and Vacuum Mattress in Cervical Spine Immobilization; a Method-Oriented Experimental Study date: 2023-06-12 words: 4942 flesch: 47 summary: Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index W. Liengswangwong et al. 6 Figure 3: Box plot of cervical angular motions based on immobilization devices. Outcome measures The outcome of interest was angular motion of cervical spine in three planes (lateral bending, flexion extension, rotation) keywords: access; analysis; angular; angular motion; article; attribution; axial; axial rotation; bending; board; body; cervical; cervical spine; coefficient; commons; creative; devices; emergency; equipment; extension; figure; flexion; higher; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; immobilization; injuries; injury; lateral; license; lifting; long; long spinal; lsb; mahidol; margins; markers; mattress; medicine; motion; noncommercial; open; participants; patient; planes; predictive; reference; results; rotation; sked; spinal; spinal board; spine; stretcher; study; system; terms; tilting; transferring; transportation; trauma; university; vacuum; vacuum mattress; volunteers cache: aaem-2036.pdf plain text: aaem-2036.txt item: #314 of 640 id: aaem-2037 author: Huabbangyang, Thongpitak; Silakoon, Agasak; Sangketchon, Chunlanee ; Sukhuntee, Jareeda ; Kumkong, Jukkit ; Srithanayuchet, Tanut ; Chamnanpol, Parinya ; Meechai, Theeraphat title: Effects of Pre-Hospital Dexamethasone Administration on Outcomes of Patients with COPD and Asthma Exacerbation; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2023-08-12 words: 5946 flesch: 55 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma exacerbation are two common emergency situations. In patients with asthma exacerbation, the dexamethasone- treated group had higher male to female ratio (p = 0.034), higher rate of received a bronchodilator prior to EMS arrival (p = 0.004), higher mean SBP (p < 0.001), higher mean DBP (p < 0.001), lower mean temperature (p = 0.046), lower me- dian pulse oximetry (p = 0.015), higher wheezing frequency (p < 0.001), higher median bronchodilator dose received (p < 0.001), and lower bronchodilator administration via a nebu- lizer (p < 0.001). keywords: absolute; access; acute; administration; admission; analysis; area; article; asthma; attribution; bangkok; bronchodilator; care; cases; chronic; commons; copd; corticosteroids; creative; data; department; dexamethasone; difference; disease; dose; effects; emergency; ems; exacerbations; faculty; higher; history; hospital; hospital admission; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; huabbangyang; iqr; license; los; lower; management; mean; median; medical; medicine; minutes; navamindradhiraj; noncommercial; obstructive; open; operation; outcomes; paramedics; patients; prehospital; present; previous; protocol; pulmonary; rates; setting; severe; significant; study; terms; test; thailand; thongpitak; time; treatment; university cache: aaem-2037.pdf plain text: aaem-2037.txt item: #315 of 640 id: aaem-204 author: Barzegari, Hassan; Motamed, Hassan; Ziapour, Behrad; Hajimohammadi, Majid; Kadkhodazadeh, Mina title: Intranasal Lidocaine for Primary Headache Management in Emergency Department; a Clinical Trial date: 2017-09-16 words: 2414 flesch: 64 summary: Conclu- sion: It seems that, intranasal lidocaine along with IV chlorpromazine could result in more successful and faster management of primary headaches in ED. Conclusion Considering 30, 44, and 26 percent absolute risk reduction at 5, 15, and 30 minutes after treatment, intranasal lidocaine along with IV chlorpromazine could result in more successful and faster management of primary headaches in ED. keywords: baseline; chlorpromazine; clinical; cluster; control; department; emergency; group; headache; intranasal; journal; lidocaine; management; medical; migraine; minutes; pain; patients; placebo; primary; rate; sciences; severity; study; success; table; tension; treatment; trial cache: aaem-204.pdf plain text: aaem-204.txt item: #316 of 640 id: aaem-2047 author: Zarei, Mohammad Javad ; Ramezani, Maral ; Sahraie, Zahra ; Shadnia, Shahin ; Erfan Talab Evini, Peyman ; Mostafazadeh, Babak; Rahimi, Mitra title: Comparing Two Naloxone Tapering Methods in Management of Methadone Intoxication; a Quasi-experimental Study date: 2023-06-15 words: 4478 flesch: 62 summary: Buajordet I, Næss A-C, Jacobsen D, Brørs O. Adverse events after naloxone treatment of episodes of suspected acute opioid overdose. Patients were clinically evaluated without know- ing which method was used for Naloxone tapering. keywords: access; analysis; article; attribution; beheshti; blood; cases; center; changes; clinical; commons; consciousness; creative; data; decreasing; department; depression; discontinuation; drug; effects; emergency; group; half; hco3; history; hospital; hours; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; iran; license; life; maintenance; medical; medicine; methadone; methods; minutes; naloxone; noncommercial; number; open; opioid; overdose; patients; pco2; poisoning; previous; reduction; research; respiratory; results; risk; sciences; shahid; signs; study; symptoms; syndrome; tapering; tehran; terms; time; treatment; university; use; withdrawal cache: aaem-2047.pdf plain text: aaem-2047.txt item: #317 of 640 id: aaem-205 author: Kashani, Parvin; Safari, Saeed; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Tabrizi, Maryam Dokht title: Characteristics of Methadone Intoxicated Children Presenting to Emergency Department; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2017-10-13 words: 2931 flesch: 58 summary: This study was designed with the aim of demographic evaluation of methadone poisoning in children presenting to ED and proposing preventive measures to parents and the healthcare system. Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, most cases of methadone poisoning were accidental, in children residing in poor and middle-class areas, with parents who had a low level of education and had obtained the drug from unapproved stores and stored it in improper containers or at improper places. keywords: accidental; apnea; article; beheshti; cases; characteristics; children; clinical; clinics; data; department; dose; drug; emergency; findings; form; hospital; improper; iran; medical; methadone; miotic; parents; patients; poisoning; poor; present; pupils; respiratory; results; sciences; shahid; storage; stores; study; symptoms; syrup; unapproved; university cache: aaem-205.pdf plain text: aaem-205.txt item: #318 of 640 id: aaem-2056 author: Ashtari, Shadi ; Hasanzadeh, Alireza ; Bahmani, Alireza ; Abdolrazaghnejad, Ali title: Periosteal Nerve Block Vs. Intravenous Morphine in Pain Relief of Distal Radius and Ulna Fracture; a Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2023-07-23 words: 4933 flesch: 58 summary: This study aimed to compare the efficacy of periosteal nerve block and intravenous morphine in distal radius and ulna fractures’ pain management. In the first group, for periosteal nerve block, 1% lidocaine was injected at a dis- tance of 6 to 8 cm near the wrist from the lateral radius and medial ulna. keywords: access; additional; age; analgesia; anesthesia; article; attribution; block; block group; clinical; commons; complications; creative; distal; distilled; emergency; forearm; fractures; group; hematoma; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; injection; intervention; intravenous; intravenous morphine; license; lidocaine; local; manipulation; mean; medical; medicine; method; minutes; morphine; morphine group; need; needle; nerve; nerve block; noncommercial; open; pain; patients; periosteal; periosteal block; periosteal nerve; present; procedure; radius; reduction; results; score; study; systemic; terms; trial; ulna; vas; water cache: aaem-2056.pdf plain text: aaem-2056.txt item: #319 of 640 id: aaem-2058 author: Azimi, Amirali; Tabatabaei, Fatemeh-sadat; Azimi, Amirfarbod; Mazloom, Hamid; Foruzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Mahdavi, Nastaran Sadat title: Intra-Operative Adjunctive Magnesium Sulfate in Pain Management of Total Knee Arthroplasty; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2023-08-21 words: 8882 flesch: 50 summary: However, further research is needed to address the heterogeneity and to explore optimal dosing regimens and routes of administration to maximize the benefits of magnesium sulfate in TKA. By modulat- ing these pathways, magnesium sulfate has been hypothe- sized to possess analgesic properties, reduce central sensi- tization, and decrease the need for opioid analgesics (9-11). keywords: academic; access; addition; adjunctive; administration; adverse; analgesic; analysis; anesthesia; archives; arthroplasty; article; assessment; attribution; authors; available; azimi; bias; block; bupivacaine; certainty; clinical; commons; confidence; consumption; control; creative; data; e58; effects; emergency; epidural; et al; evidence; figure; findings; group; heterogeneity; high; hours; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; infusion; interest; interval; intervention; intrathecal; intravenous; joint; kim; knee; knee arthroplasty; license; limitations; low; magnesium; magnesium sulfate; management; medications; medicine; meta; mgso4; morphine; nerve; noncommercial; number; observed; open; operation; opioid; opioid consumption; outcomes; pain; pain management; patients; pca; plot; postoperative; postoperative pain; potential; randomized; rct; rcts; replacement; rescue; results; review; risk; route; search; significant; smd; studies; study; subgroup; sulfate; superior; supplementary; surgery; systematic; terms; time; tka; total; total knee; trials; use; value; zhao cache: aaem-2058.pdf plain text: aaem-2058.txt item: #320 of 640 id: aaem-206 author: Motamedi, Maryam; Akbarzadeh, Mohammad Ali; Safari, Saeed; Shahhoseini, Mehrnoosh title: Valsalva maneuver using a Handmade Device in Supraventricular Tachycardia Reversion; a Quasi Experimental Study date: 2017-10-15 words: 2422 flesch: 58 summary: This study aimed to assess the success of Valsalva maneuver via a handmade device in reversion of SVT. Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, the success rate of Valsalva maneuver with the mentioned handmade device was calculated to be 14.8%. keywords: ablation; article; attempt; beheshti; cardiac; cardiology; cases; characteristics; device; emergency; handmade; history; journal; management; maneuver; medical; medicine; paroxysmal; patients; present; pressure; rate; results; reversion; sciences; shahid; study; success; successful; supraventricular; supraventricular tachycardia; svt; tachycardia; treatment; university; use; vagal; valsalva; valsalva maneuver cache: aaem-206.pdf plain text: aaem-206.txt item: #321 of 640 id: aaem-207 author: Motamed, Hassan; Maleki Verki, Mohammadreza title: Intravenous Lidocaine Compared to Fentanyl in Renal Colic Pain Management; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2017-10-23 words: 2817 flesch: 62 summary: Therefore, the current study was designed with the aim of evaluating the efficiency of IV lidocaine in comparison to IV fentanyl in pain management of patients with renal colic in emergency department (ED). Treatment failure rate 15 minutes after injection was 44.4% (20 cases) in IV lidocaine and 17.8% (8 cases) in IV fentanyl group (p = 0.006). keywords: article; cases; clinical; colic; comparison; data; department; different; drug; effective; emergency; failure; fentanyl; groups; injection; intravenous; journal; kidney; lidocaine; management; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; moderate; morphine; pain; patients; renal; results; severe; severity; study; treatment; trial; urology cache: aaem-207.pdf plain text: aaem-207.txt item: #322 of 640 id: aaem-2076 author: Huabbangyang, Thongpitak; Rojsaengroeng, Rapeeporn; Tiyawat, Gawin; Silakoon, Agasak; Vanichkulbodee, Alissara ; Sri-on, Jiraporn; Buathong, Siriwimol title: Associated Factors of Under and Over-Triage Based on The Emergency Severity Index; a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study date: 2023-05-21 words: 7374 flesch: 66 summary: Data were used if patients were older than 18 years, if triage was performed by triage nurses according to the ESI, if triage levels were documented in medical records, and if the data could be searched in and extracted from the electronic medical record system of the hospital. According to one study, the number of years of work as triage nurses in the ED was related to inaccuracy in determining the level of triage: nurses with <5 years of such experience were more likely to make errors in determining triage level (11). keywords: access; accuracy; acuity; adjusted; admission; analysis; arrival; article; associated; attribution; blood; cases; chief; commons; correct; creative; data; department; eds; emergency; eps; esi; evening; factors; finding; hospital; hospitalized; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; huabbangyang; illness; index; injuries; injury; level; license; med; medical; medicine; noncommercial; nurses; open; pain; patients; previous; rapeeporn; rate; reference; results; review; rojsaengroeng; sample; scale; score; severe; severity; shift; size; study; terms; thailand; thongpitak; time; trauma; traumatic; triage; triage nurses; university; variables; vas; version; years cache: aaem-2076.pdf plain text: aaem-2076.txt item: #323 of 640 id: aaem-208 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Baikpour, Masoud; Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Asady, Hadi; Shahsavari Nia, Kavous; Moghadas Jafari, Ali; Hosseini, Mostafa; Safari, Saeed title: Screening Performance Characteristic of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Detection of Pleural Effusion; a Meta-Analysis date: 2018-12-11 words: 7049 flesch: 72 summary: Conclusion: The present meta-analysis found chest ultrasonography to have a considerably higher screening value in detec- tion of pleural effusion compare to radiography. Abstract Introduction: The role of ultrasonography in detection of pleural effusion has long been a subject of interest but controversial results have been reported. keywords: accuracy; analysis; articles; attribution; beheshti; c o; chest; commercial; commons; copyright; creative; detection; diagnostic; e n; effusion; emergency; graven; i2=; iran; license; medical; meta; o n; patients; pleural; radiography; rights; sciences; sensitivity; shahid; size; specificity; studies; study; surveys; tehran; terms; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; value cache: aaem-208.pdf plain text: aaem-208.txt item: #324 of 640 id: aaem-2083 author: Danaei, Bardia; Sharifi, Ali; Mazloom, Hamid; Najafi, Iraj; Farhang Ranjbar, Mehri; Safari, Saeed title: Prevalence of Compartment Syndrome and Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation following Rhabdomyolysis; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2023-08-01 words: 6090 flesch: 58 summary: Supplementary figure 3: Publication bias assessment of included studies reporting compartment syndrome prevalence. DIC prevalence in included studies Ten of the included studies reported the prevalence of DIC syndrome or related hematologic failures in RM patients. keywords: academic; access; acute; adult; analysis; archives; article; assessment; attribution; bias; care; center; clinical; coagulation; cohort; commons; compartment; compartment syndrome; complications; consecutive; creative; criteria; danaei; data; definition; diagnosis; dic; e55; emergency; et al; etiology; exercise; exertional; factors; figure; health; heterogeneity; hospital; https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/aaem/index; injury; international; intravascular; iran; kinase; levels; license; male; med; medical; medicine; meta; muscle; noncommercial; observational; open; patients; pooled; prevalence; publication; quality; rate; related; reporting; research; review; rhabdomyolysis; rm patients; severe; statpearls; studies; study; supplementary; syndrome; syndrome prevalence; systematic; table; terms; traumatic; usa cache: aaem-2083.pdf plain text: aaem-2083.txt item: #325 of 640 id: aaem-209 author: Sabzghabaei, Anita; Shojaee, Majid; Safari, Saeed; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza; Shirvani, Reza title: The Accuracy of Urinalysis in Predicting Intra-Abdominal Injury Following Blunt Traumas date: 2018-12-11 words: 3376 flesch: 58 summary: In cases of blunt abdominal traumas, predicting the possible intra-abdominal injuries is still a chal- lenge for the physicians involved with these patients. Results: 325 patients with blunt abdominal trauma were admitted to the emergency departments (83% male with the mean age of 32.63±17.48 years). keywords: abdominal; abdominal trauma; abdominopelvic; accuracy; appearance; article; beheshti; blood; blunt; cell; characteristics; children; clinical; count; diagnostic; dipstick; emergency; gross; injuries; injury; intra; kidney; likelihood; medical; negative; patients; positive; predictive; ratio; red; results; scan; sciences; screening; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; study; surg; tomography; trauma; traumatic; university; urinalysis; urine; value cache: aaem-209.pdf plain text: aaem-209.txt item: #326 of 640 id: aaem-2097 author: Emami, Payam; Javanmardi, Karim title: Enhancing Emergency Response through Artificial Intelligence in Emergency Medical Services Dispatching; a Letter to Editor date: 2023-08-22 words: 1280 flesch: 44 summary: As AI continues to advance, it is crucial for emergency medical services and policymakers to embrace these technologies responsibly. It is imperative that we invest in research, implementation, and ongoing evaluation to maximize the benefits of AI while up- holding ethical guidelines and maintaining the human touch in emergency medical services. keywords: appropriate; arrest; article; artificial; calls; cardiac; crucial; data; dispatching; editor; emd; emergency; ems; guidance; human; intelligence; iran; medical; outcomes; potential; response; sciences; services; system; time cache: aaem-2097.pdf plain text: aaem-2097.txt item: #327 of 640 id: aaem-21 author: Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza; Derakhshandeh, Niloufar title: Treatment Costs of Traffic Accident Casualties in a Third-level Hospital in Iran; a Preliminary Study date: 2018-11-13 words: 2368 flesch: 60 summary: Thus, based on World Health Organization (WHO) latest report, further research is necessary on the epidemiologic pattern of road traffic accidents in such countries to determine the extent of the problem and identify individuals suscepti- ble to traffic accidents. Unfortu- nately, Iran has a high rate of road traffic accidents and the incidence of fatal RTIs in Iran is 33 in 100,000 of the population (5). keywords: accidents; article; beheshti; costs; countries; data; emergency; files; health; higher; hospital; hospitalization; individuals; injuries; injury; iran; level; lowand; mean; medical; neurosurgery; organization; patients; population; present; results; road; sciences; shahid; study; tehran; traffic; treatment; university; victims; ward; world cache: aaem-21.pdf plain text: aaem-21.txt item: #328 of 640 id: aaem-210 author: Bahreini Moghadam, Seyed Ali; Hamzeh pour, Siavash; Toorchi, Mahmoud; Sefidi Heris, Youssof title: Knowledge and Attitude of Iranian Red Crescent Society Volunteers in Dealing with Bioterrorist attacks date: 2018-12-11 words: 3038 flesch: 53 summary: Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com 16 Emergency (2016); 4 (1): 16-20 ORIGINAL RESEARCH Knowledge and Attitude of Iranian Red Crescent Society Volunteers in Dealing with Bioterrorist attacks Seyed Ali Bahreini Moghadam1, Siavash Hamzeh pour2*, Mahmoud Toorchi3, Youssof Sefidi Heris2 1. 116 volunteers (96.7%) indicated that Mahabad Red Crescent Society has an inappropriate level of preparedness to encounter bioterrorist attacks. keywords: agents; article; attacks; attitude; biological; bioterrorist; bioterrorist attacks; cases; copyright; crescent; crescent society; defense; education; emergency; equipment; event; field; inappropriate; iran; iranian; knowledge; level; license; mahabad; management; medical; organization; poor; preparedness; probable; questions; red; red crescent; rights; sciences; score; society; study; time; training; university; viewpoint; volunteers cache: aaem-210.pdf plain text: aaem-210.txt item: #329 of 640 id: aaem-2107 author: Safari, Saeed; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Journal Citation Report 2023 of Emergency Medicine Journals; New Players in the Impact Factor Ranking date: 2023-07-26 words: 1549 flesch: 53 summary: Downloaded from: https://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem/index.php/AAEM/index 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2023; 11(1): e54 jority of journals in the SCIE collection before and after the pandemic. For its first JIF allocation, the journal “Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine” (AAEM) was designated with a JIF of 5.4 and ac- ceded to the 5th position in EM journals, standing after the ∗Corresponding Author: Saeed Safari; Emergency Department, Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Tajrish Square, Tehran, Iran. keywords: academic; ais; archives; article; citable; citation; editorial; emergency; factor; impact; index; influence; iran; jci; jcr; jif; journal; medicine; quartile; resuscitation; scie; sciences; score; year cache: aaem-2107.pdf plain text: aaem-2107.txt item: #330 of 640 id: aaem-211 author: Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Derakhshandeh, Niloufar; Shojaee, Majid; Sabzghabaei, Anita; Farnaghi, Fariba title: An Epidemiologic Study of Pediatric Poisoning; a Six-month Cross-sectional Study date: 2018-12-11 words: 2586 flesch: 56 summary: 10-14 years of age (p = 0.001), and the history of psychi- atric disease in children (p <0.001), had a direct correlation with probability of intentional poisoning. Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com 23 Emergency (2016); 4 (1): 21-24 probability of intentional poisoning. keywords: addiction; age; agent; analysis; beheshti; cases; children; correlation; data; department; disease; emergency; factors; family; hakim; history; hospital; intentional; iran; level; loghman; medical; methadone; non; patients; poisoning; psychiatric; range; results; risk; sciences; shahid; study; tehran; toxic; university; years cache: aaem-211.pdf plain text: aaem-211.txt item: #331 of 640 id: aaem-212 author: Shahrami, Ali; Norouzi, Mahdi; Kariman, Hamid; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali title: True Vertigo Patients in Emergency Department; an Epidemiologic Study date: 2018-12-11 words: 3032 flesch: 56 summary: Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiologic characteristics of vertigo patients referred to the emergency de- partment (ED). Based on above-mentioned, this study was designed to evaluate the epidemiologic char- acteristics of vertigo patients referred to the emergency department (ED). keywords: age; beheshti; benign; brain; central; characteristics; clinical; correlation; data; department; diazepam; drug; emergency; examination; final; findings; frequency; hearing; history; imaging; indications; initial; medical; ondansetron; patients; peripheral; positional; positive; present; promethazine; results; sciences; screening; shahid; significant; study; table; treatment; university; vertigo; years cache: aaem-212.pdf plain text: aaem-212.txt item: #332 of 640 id: aaem-213 author: Vafaei, Ali; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza; Heidary, Kamran; Alimohammadi, Hosein; Tarbiat, Mohammad title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Initial Evaluation of Chest Trauma Patients date: 2018-12-11 words: 3176 flesch: 58 summary: Key words: Thoracic cavity; wounds and injuries; diagnostic imaging; ultrasonography; radiography Cite this article as: Vafaei A, Hatamabadi HR, Heidary K, Alimohammadi H, Tarbiyat M. Diagnostic accuracy of ultraso- nography and radiography in initial evaluation of chest trauma patients. The aim of the present study is to compare the diagnostic accuracy of chest ultrasonography and radiography in detection of traumatic intrathoracic injuries. keywords: accuracy; area; article; beheshti; blunt; characteristics; chest; comparison; contusion; curve; department; detection; diagnostic; emergency; evaluation; hemothorax; hospital; initial; injuries; intrathoracic; likelihood; medical; negative; non; patients; pneumothorax; positive; predictive; present; pulmonary; radiography; ratio; ray; results; roc; scan; sciences; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; standard; studies; study; trauma; traumatic; ultrasonography; university; value cache: aaem-213.pdf plain text: aaem-213.txt item: #333 of 640 id: aaem-214 author: Aminiahidashti, Hamed; Mousavi, Seyed Jaber; Darzi, Mohammad Mehdi title: Patients’ Attitude toward Breaking Bad News; a Brief Report date: 2018-12-11 words: 2733 flesch: 65 summary: A proper doctor-patient relationship in breaking bad news can enhance patient’s compliance in treatment and stress management (12, 13). Received: May 2015; Accepted: September 2015 Abstract Introduction: Delivering bad news is a stressful moment for both physicians and patients. keywords: article; attitude; bad; bad news; better; breaking; cancer; condition; department; disclosure; disease; doctors; emergency; hospital; informed; iran; journal; medical; medicine; news; participants; patients; physician; place; preferences; results; rights; sari; sciences; studies; study; suitable; time; university; unwelcome cache: aaem-214.pdf plain text: aaem-214.txt item: #334 of 640 id: aaem-215 author: Karimian, Hoda; Gheiratian, Mohammadmahdi title: Urinary Retention and Air in the Spinal Canal; a Case Report date: 2018-12-11 words: 1421 flesch: 62 summary: Conclusion: Cauda equina syndrome, although uncommon, is a very serious condition, which should be diagnosed as soon as Figure 3: Axial computed tomography scan of lumbar spine shows air in the spinal canal at level of lumbar vertebrae. Cauda equina syndrome as a postoperative complication of lumbar spine surgery. keywords: air; article; canal; case; cauda; ces; diagnosis; dysfunction; emergency; equina; figure; following; fracture; imaging; lumbar; lumbosacral; medical; outcome; report; retention; sacral; saddle; sciences; shows; spinal; spine; symptoms; syndrome; trauma; university; urinary cache: aaem-215.pdf plain text: aaem-215.txt item: #335 of 640 id: aaem-216 author: Tajdini, Masih; Hosseini, Seyed Mohammad Reza title: From Pulmonary Embolism to Inflammatory Bowel Disease; Give Tunnel Vision up date: 2018-12-11 words: 2316 flesch: 52 summary: Thrombolytic agents can be life saver in IBD patient with massive PTE. Based on new consensus, testing for hereditary or acquired hy- percoagulability states is not necessary in IBD patients with VTE. keywords: abdominal; access; article; bowel; bowel disease; case; coagulation; colitis; copyright; deep; department; disease; dvt; emergency; events; evidence; factor; heparin; ibd; inflammatory; inflammatory bowel; license; massive; medical; non; open; pain; patients; pulmonary; report; right; risk; sciences; tajdini; tehran; therapy; thromboembolism; thrombosis; ulcerative; university; vein; venous; vte cache: aaem-216.pdf plain text: aaem-216.txt item: #336 of 640 id: aaem-217 author: Yang, Yuh-Jeng; Wu, Chin-Chu; Wang, Tzong-Luen; Lin, Aming Chor-Ming title: A 52-Year-Old Woman with a Palpable Abdominal Mass date: 2018-12-11 words: 1170 flesch: 59 summary: The incidence of retained foreign bodies following surgery has a reported rate of 0.06% to 0.1%. Retained foreign body should be in the differential diagnosis of patients with a history of previous opera- tion. keywords: abdominal; abdominopelvic; body; case; clinical; department; diagnosis; emergency; figure; foreign; gossypiboma; hospital; journal; kong; lower; mass; medical; medicine; memorial; patient; shin; sponge; surgery; surgical; taipei; taiwan; tomography cache: aaem-217.pdf plain text: aaem-217.txt item: #337 of 640 id: aaem-218 author: Faridaalaee, Gholamreza; Shafe Shakori, Mohammad title: Management of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Emergency Departments; Time to Change the Viewpoint date: 2018-12-11 words: 748 flesch: 53 summary: In the current study, we evaluated outpatient therapy of 10 patients with lower extremity DVT in emergency de- partment (ED) of Imam Khomeini Hospital of Urmia, Iran from 21 July 2014 to 15th march 2015. Bleeding, PTE, recurrent DVT and mortality had not hap- pened in 2, 4, 6, and 30 days follow-up after ED dis- charge. keywords: chest; deep; department; dvt; emergency; heparin; home; hospital; iran; medical; outpatient; patients; pte; sciences; therapy; thrombosis; university; urmia; warfarin cache: aaem-218.pdf plain text: aaem-218.txt item: #338 of 640 id: aaem-22 author: Shahsavari Nia, Kavous; Rahmani, Farzad; Ebrahimi Bakhtavr, Hanieh; Hashemi aghdam, Yashar; Balafar, Moloud title: A Young Man with Myocardial Infarction due to Trenbolone Acetate; a Case Report date: 2018-11-13 words: 1719 flesch: 59 summary: Discussion: Anabolic steroids can cause many problems such as cardiovascular which includes hypertension, left ven- tricular hypertrophy, impaired diastolic filling, polycy- themia and thrombosis (7). Indirectly, increasing the concentrations of LDL due to the abuse of anabolic steroids may lead to an increase in sensitivity of platelets (14). keywords: acetate; age; agents; anabolic; artery; article; atherosclerosis; cardiac; cardiovascular; case; chest; coronary; department; disease; effects; emergency; factors; heart; history; infarction; iran; left; medical; medicine; mortality; myocardial; pain; patient; report; risk; sciences; steroids; tabriz; trenbolone; university; use; year; young cache: aaem-22.pdf plain text: aaem-22.txt item: #339 of 640 id: aaem-220 author: Ghafoori Yazdi, Mahmood; Shoghli, Arya; Faghihi, Sina; Baratloo, Alireza title: Central Venous Pressure Monitoring; Introduction of a New Device date: 2018-12-12 words: 1386 flesch: 58 summary: Electronic Continuous CVP Monitoring Device Generally, there are several methods of CVP measurement, which can be categorized as invasive and non-invasive. keywords: beheshti; central; cvp; device; electronic; emergency; invasive; iran; journal; jugular; line; manometer; measured; measurement; medical; methods; monitoring; new; patient; pressure; sciences; shahid; university; venous cache: aaem-220.pdf plain text: aaem-220.txt item: #340 of 640 id: aaem-221 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Baikpour, Masoud; Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Asady, Hadi; Darafarin, Abolfazl; Amini Esfahani, Mohammad Reza; Hosseini, Mostafa; Yaseri, Mehdi; Safari, Saeed title: Comparison of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Detection of Thoracic Bone Fractures; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2018-12-12 words: 7195 flesch: 74 summary: Received: June 2015; Accepted: August 2015 Abstract Introduction: The potential benefit of ultrasonography for detection of thoracic bone fractures has been proven in various surveys but no comprehensive conclusion has been drawn yet; therefore, the present study aimed to conduct a thorough meta-analytic systematic review on this subject. Pooled sensitivity and specificity of ultrasonography in detection of thoracic bone fractures were 0.97 (95% CI: 0.90-0.99; I2= 88.88, p<0.001) and 0.94 (95% CI: 0.86-0.97; I2= 71.97, p<0.001), respectively. keywords: 2013; accuracy; analysis; article; beheshti; bone; c o; chest; detection; diagnostic; e n; emergency; figure; fractures; g n; higher; i2=; io n; medical; meta; n b; n t; o n; p o; p<0.001; patients; r e; r n; radiography; review; rib; s e; sciences; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; studies; systematic; t c; tehran; terms; thoracic; trauma; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university cache: aaem-221.pdf plain text: aaem-221.txt item: #341 of 640 id: aaem-222 author: Zein, Hossam; Baratloo, Alireza; Negida, Ahmed; Safari, Saeed title: Ventilator Weaning and Spontaneous Breathing Trials; an Educational Review date: 2018-12-12 words: 4782 flesch: 54 summary: Acrentales et al. found that spectral coherence between heart rate variability and respiratory flow signals could predict extubation failure with good sensitivity and specificity (13). 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Zein et al. 68 most important sedation strategies are aiming at reduc- ing the duration of mechanical ventilation and daily seda- tion interruption. keywords: access; airway; american; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; automated; breathing; care; clinical; cochrane; commons; creative; criteria; critical; critical care; daily; duration; dysfunction; emergency; england; et al; evidence; extubation; failure; force; heart; high; hospital; icu; intensive; interruption; journal; length; license; london; low; macintyre; mechanical; mechanical ventilation; medical; medicine; mortality; non; noncommercial; open; outcome; oxygen; patients; predictors; pressure; process; prolonged; protocolized; quality; rate; respiratory; respiratory care; review; sbt; sedation; shorter; spontaneous; stay; stridor; studies; study; successful; support; systematic; systems; table; terms; trials; variability; ventilation; weaning cache: aaem-222.pdf plain text: aaem-222.txt item: #342 of 640 id: aaem-223 author: Younesian, Somaye; Mahfoozpour, Soad; Ghaffari Shad, Ensiye; Kariman, Hamid; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza title: Unintentional Home Injury Prevention in Preschool Children; a Study of Contributing Factors date: 2015-08-03 words: 3870 flesch: 63 summary: Mothers’ characteristics including poor knowledge, inappropriate attitudes, ab- sence from the house ≥ 8 hours, having more than 3 chil- dren, and history of child home injuries during the pre- vious 3 weeks were independent predictive factors of poor preventive measure application status. After implementa- tion of such measures, a decrease in child home injuries can be expected. keywords: absence; adoption; application; appropriate; article; attitudes; behaviors; beheshti; characteristics; children; commons; copyright; creative; data; department; emergency; factors; hatamabadi; health; high; history; home; hours; important; injuries; injury; iran; knowledge; level; license; measures; medical; mothers; poor; preschool; preventive; previous; relationship; research; results; rights; safety; sciences; shahid; status; studies; study; unintentional; university; weeks cache: aaem-223.pdf plain text: aaem-223.txt item: #343 of 640 id: aaem-224 author: Masoumi, Kambiz; Forouzan, Arash; Barzegari, Hassan; Darian, Ali Asgari; Rahim, Fakher; Zohrevandi, Behzad; Nabi, Somayeh title: Effective Factors in Severity of Traffic Accident-Related Traumas; an Epidemiologic Study Based on the Haddon Matrix date: 2015-06-07 words: 3311 flesch: 62 summary: A cross-sectional study that evaluated traffic accident injuries over one year, showed that about 98.9% of the injured were men with the mean age of 30 years (10). Table 2 shows the distribution of traffic accident injuries based on age; sex; type, time, and location of accident; severity of injury; and type of safety tools and moving violation. keywords: accidents; age; agent; ahvaz; article; car; cases; common; critical; effective; emergency; environment; factors; haddon; health; injuries; injury; iran; location; matrix; medical; moderate; motorcycle; patients; pedestrian; present; results; risk; road; safety; sciences; severe; severity; speed; study; time; traffic; trauma; type; university; violation cache: aaem-224.pdf plain text: aaem-224.txt item: #344 of 640 id: aaem-225 author: naghipour, Bahman; Faridaalaee, Gholamreza title: Correlation between Central Venous Pressure and Inferior Vena Cava Sonographic Diameter; Determining the Best Anatomic Location date: 2015-05-16 words: 3572 flesch: 60 summary: Keywords: Central venous pressure; vena cava, inferior; aorta, thoracic; echocardiography, transesophageal Cite this article as: Naghipour B, Faridaalaee G. Correlation between central venous pressure and inferior vena cava sonographic diameter; determining the best anatomic location. Therefore, the purpose of this study was determining the best anatomic location to find precise correlation between CVP and IVC diameter using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). keywords: access; anatomic; aorta; aorta diameter; area; article; atrium; auc; best; catheterization; cava; central; correlation; curve; cvp; diameter; diaphragm; echocardiography; emergency; entry; index; inferior; ivc; ivc diameter; level; location; med; medical; mmhg; patients; point; present; pressure; ratio; right; sciences; shahid; sonographic; specificity; status; studies; study; table; tee; ultrasound; university; vena; venous; volume cache: aaem-225.pdf plain text: aaem-225.txt item: #345 of 640 id: aaem-226 author: Darbandsar Mazandarani, Parvin; Heydari, Kamran; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Kashani, Parvin; Jamali Danesh, Yasin title: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III Score Compared to Trauma-Injury Severity Score (TRISS) in Predicting Mortality of Trauma Patients date: 2015-04-06 words: 3173 flesch: 66 summary: Comparison of APACHE II, TRISS, and a proposed 24-hour ICU point system for prediction of outcome in ICU trauma patients. APACHE III scores were calculated for each pa- tient from data collected during the first 24 hours of ICU admission. keywords: ability; acute; age; apache; apache iii; beheshti; care; chronic; comparison; curve; death; emergency; evaluation; health; hospital; icu; iii; injury; intensive; iran; med; medical; mortality; multiple; outcome; patients; physiology; prediction; quality; results; risk; roc; rts; sciences; score; scoring; severity; shahid; study; systems; trauma; trauma patients; triss; university; years cache: aaem-226.pdf plain text: aaem-226.txt item: #346 of 640 id: aaem-227 author: Gharavifard, Mohammad; Tafakori, Azadeh; Zamani Moghadam, Hamid title: Remifentanil versus Fentanyl/Midazolam in Painless Reduction of Anterior Shoulder Dislocation; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2016-04-13 words: 3055 flesch: 53 summary: The mean age of remifentanil patients was 39.7 ± 10.3 years compared to 39.8±9.9 years for fentanyl and midazolam group (p = 0.952). Sacchetti A, Jachowski J, Heisler J, Cortese T. Remifen- tanil use in emergency department patients: initial expe- rience. keywords: access; adverse; airway; analgesia; anterior; article; clinical; combination; department; dislocation; emergency; emergency medicine; events; failure; fentanyl; group; higher; intravenous; journal; lower; mashhad; mean; medical; medicine; midazolam; non; open; pain; painful; patients; procedure; psa; randomized; rate; reduction; remifentanil; respiratory; satisfaction; sedation; shoulder; study; time; trial; use; years cache: aaem-227.pdf plain text: aaem-227.txt item: #347 of 640 id: aaem-228 author: Najari, Fares; Alimohammadi, Alimohammad; Ghodrati, Parisa title: Sudden Death Following Exercise; a Case Series Study date: 2015-04-27 words: 2343 flesch: 58 summary: Cardiovascular diseases are the main known reason of sudden death and more than 75% of sudden deaths in athletes are assigned to it. Abstract Introduction: Natural and unexpected death that happens within less than one hour of first symptom occurrence is called sudden death. keywords: activity; age; aortic; article; athletes; autopsy; beheshti; cardiac; cardiomyopathy; cardiovascular; cases; center; chest; common; coronary; death; deceased; disease; exercise; football; forensic; heart; history; hypertrophic; iran; journal; male; medical; medicine; negative; pain; physical; positive; sciences; shahid; study; sudden; sudden death; tehran; university; years cache: aaem-228.pdf plain text: aaem-228.txt item: #348 of 640 id: aaem-230 author: Sadr Mohammadi, Rezvan; Bidaki, Reza; Mirdrikvand, Fazlollah; Mostafavi, Nader; Yazdian Anari, Pouria title: Peganum Harmala (Aspand) Intoxication; a Case Report date: 2015-06-19 words: 1403 flesch: 52 summary: Aspand intoxication is among very rare causes of intoxication, with a mortality rate of about 6%. Discussion: Aspand intoxication usually is transient and self-limited and improves with supportive therapy. keywords: africa; anti; aspand; beheshti; bidaki; blood; case; department; effect; emergency; harmala; hours; intoxication; iran; medical; medicine; patient; peganum; plants; poisoning; psychiatric; report; reza; sadoughi; sadr; sciences; sedative; shahid; symptoms; treatment; university; yazd; yazdian cache: aaem-230.pdf plain text: aaem-230.txt item: #349 of 640 id: aaem-231 author: Safari, Mohammad Taghi; Shahrokh, Shabnam; Miri, Mohammad Bagher; Ehsani Ardakani, Mohammad Javad title: Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis as a Rare Cause of Recurrent Epigastric Pain date: 2016-04-11 words: 1375 flesch: 47 summary: Case report: A 26-year- old man was seen in emergency department because of severe abdominal pain since one week be- fore admission. Eosinophilic gastroenteritis as a rare cause of recur- rent epigastric pain. keywords: abdominal; beheshti; bowel; case; diagnosis; diseases; disorders; ege; emergency; eosinophilic; epigastric; gastroenteritis; gastroenterology; gastrointestinal; high; journal; liver; medical; mohammad; nausea; pain; rare; recurrent; report; sciences; severe; shahid; tract; treatment; university; vomiting cache: aaem-231.pdf plain text: aaem-231.txt item: #350 of 640 id: aaem-232 author: Safari, Saeed; Baratloo, Alireza; Elfil, Mohamed; Negida, Ahmed title: Evidence Based Emergency Medicine; Part 5 Receiver Operating Curve and Area under the Curve date: 2016-09-22 words: 1203 flesch: 69 summary: ROC curve is used to deter- mine the best cutoff point and compare two or more tests or observers by measuring the area under the curve (AUC). In this part of our educational series, we explain ROC curve and two methods to determine the best cutoff value. keywords: area; auc; best; curve; cutoff; diagnostic; emergency; figure; method; point; positive; rate; roc; sensitivity; specificity; test cache: aaem-232.pdf plain text: aaem-232.txt item: #351 of 640 id: aaem-233 author: Abushouk, Abdelrahman Ibrahim title: Evolution of Fagan's Nomogram; a Commentary date: 2018-12-15 words: 735 flesch: 60 summary: In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in July 1975, Dr Terry Fagan displayed a test characterization tool that went on to carry his name as the Fagan’s nomogram (3). E-mail: abdelrahman.abushouk@med.asu.edu.eg . Figure 1: The modern Bayes’ theorem nomogram with an example of probability calculation as shown by the green line. disorders, having a very low pretest probability implies per- forming a diagnostic test with a fairly high LR (+). keywords: bayes; clinical; diagnostic; emergency; fagan; journal; medicine; new; nomogram; practice; probabilities; probability; test; theorem cache: aaem-233.pdf plain text: aaem-233.txt item: #352 of 640 id: aaem-234 author: Rahimi-Movaghar, Vafa; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Baikpour, Masoud; Tafakhori, Abbas; Asady, Hadi; Faridaalaee, Gholamreza; Hosseini, Mostafa; Safari, Saeed title: Application of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Detection of Hemothorax: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2018-12-15 words: 7320 flesch: 70 summary: Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com Rahimi-Movaghar et al 118 T a b le 1 : C h a re ct e ri st ic s o f in cl u d e d s tu d ie s S tu d y N o . o f p a ti e n t (+ / - )1 A g e 2 ( y e a r s ) M a le (% ) R e fe r e n c e / In d e x T r a n s d u c e r / O p e r a to r S a m p li n g W e a k n e s s e s M a 1 9 9 7 (2 7 ) 2 6 / 2 1 4 N R N R C T / U S , C X R 3 .5 -t o 2 .5 -M H z / E P C o n se cu ti v e R e tr o sp e ct iv e d e si g n A b b o u d 2 0 0 3 ( 2 8 ) 1 4 / 1 2 6 3 8 ( 5 – 8 9 ) N R C T / U S 3 .7 5 M H z / E P C o n v e n ie n c e T im e i n te rv a l b e tw e e n U S a n d C T sc a n w a s v a ri e d ; B li n d in g w a s n o t p e rf o rm e d B r o o k s 2 0 0 4 (1 8 ) 1 2 / 4 9 N R N R C T / U S 4 - to 2 -M H z / E P C o n v e n ie n c e S m a ll s a m p le s iz e ; P o ss ib il it y o f se le ct io n b ia s T r a u b 2 0 0 7 (3 1 ) 1 6 / 1 2 5 4 7 ( 1 8 -8 9 ) 7 5 C T / C X R N A / R a d io lo g is t C o n v e n ie n c e R e tr o sp e ct iv e d e si g n P o ss ib il it y o f se le ct io n b ia s H y a c in th e 2 0 1 2 ( 1 9 ) 3 5 / 2 0 2 3 9 ( 2 2 -5 1 ) 8 2 C T / U S 5 - to 2 -M H z / E P C o n se cu ti v e P o ss ib il it y o f se le ct io n b ia s P o v e d a 2 0 1 2 (3 2 ) 4 7 / 2 1 3 9 ( 1 6 -7 0 ) 8 9 .7 S u rg e ry / U S 3 .7 5 M H Z / R a d io lo g is t C o n v e n ie n c e P o ss ib il it y o f se le ct io n b ia s B ła s iń s k a 2 0 1 3 ( 3 3 ) 2 4 / 3 6 N R N R C T / C X R N A / R a d io lo g is t C o n se cu ti v e L o w s a m p le s iz e U z 2 0 1 3 (3 4 ) keywords: 2013; access; accuracy; analysis; article; attribution; beheshti; blunt; c e; c o; chest; clinical; commons; copyright; creative; data; department; detection; diagnostic; e n; emergency; figure; hemothorax; higher; i2=; imaging; injuries; io n; iran; license; medical; meta; n b; n c; n r; n t; negative; noncommercial; o n; open; p o; patients; positive; radiography; rights; s e; sciences; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; studies; study; tehran; terms; thoracic; trauma; ultrasonography; university; value; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-234.pdf plain text: aaem-234.txt item: #353 of 640 id: aaem-235 author: Shahrami, Ali; Shojaee, Majid; Tabatabaee, Seyed Mohammadreza; Mianehsaz, Elaheh title: Diagnostic Value of Clinical Findings in Evaluation of Thoracolumbar Blunt Traumas date: 2018-12-15 words: 3445 flesch: 59 summary: Prospective evaluation of criteria for obtaining thoracolumbar radiographs in trauma patients. Discussion: Based on the results of this study, history and physical examination have 100% sensitivity and NPV in screen- ing thoracolumbar trauma patients. keywords: acute; age; area; article; beheshti; blunt; care; clinical; commons; conscious; copyright; diagnostic; distracting; emergency; examination; findings; fracture; history; imaging; injuries; injury; iran; journal; management; medical; medicine; neurologic; pain; patients; physical; positive; prediction; present; results; rights; rule; scan; sciences; screening; sensitivity; shahid; spinal; spine; study; surgery; tenderness; thoracolumbar; trauma; traumatic; university; value; years cache: aaem-235.pdf plain text: aaem-235.txt item: #354 of 640 id: aaem-236 author: Sabzghabaei, Anita; Shojaee, Majid; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Asadi, Mahdi title: Ultrasound-Guided Reduction of Distal Radius Fractures date: 2018-12-15 words: 2483 flesch: 58 summary: Participants The patients with diagnosis of distal radius fracture (col- les) undergoing US guided reduction were enrolled C Table 2 shows the result of pre and post reduction fracture indices. keywords: article; beheshti; blind; care; control; department; diagnosis; distal; distal radius; emergency; fracture; groups; guidance; inclination; indices; journal; manipulation; medical; need; open; patients; pediatric; post; radial; radius; rate; reduction; sciences; shahid; study; table; tilt; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; volar cache: aaem-236.pdf plain text: aaem-236.txt item: #355 of 640 id: aaem-237 author: Behboodi, Firooz; Mohtasham-Amiri, Zahra; Masjedi, Navid; Shojaie, Reza; Sadri, Peyma title: Outcome of Blunt Abdominal Traumas with Stable Hemodynamic and Positive FAST Findings date: 2018-12-15 words: 2475 flesch: 61 summary: Department of General Surgery, Guilan University of Medical science, Tehran Road Km6, Rasht, Guilan; Iran; E-mail: navid.masjedi1983@gmail.com; Tel: 00981333690884; Fax: 00981333690036 Received: June 2015; Accepted: September 2015 Abstract Introduction: Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) is a highly effective first screening tool for initial classification of abdominal trauma patients. Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) is a highly effective first screening tool for initial classification of abdominal trauma patients (6). keywords: abdominal; abdominopelvic; age; air; assessment; blunt; cases; emergency; factors; fast; findings; fluid; focused; free; higher; injuries; injury; iran; laparotomy; medical; need; organ; outcome; patients; positive; presence; present; results; scan; solid; sonography; study; surg; trauma; university cache: aaem-237.pdf plain text: aaem-237.txt item: #356 of 640 id: aaem-238 author: Golshani, Keihan; Esmailian, Mehrdad; Valikhany, Aniseh; Zamani, Majid title: Bedside Ultrasonography versus Brain Natriuretic Peptide in Detecting Cardiogenic Causes of Acute Dyspnea date: 2018-12-15 words: 3528 flesch: 52 summary: Conclusion: It seems that bedside ultrasonography could be considered as a helpful and accurate method in dif- ferentiating cardiogenic causes of acute dyspnea in emergency settings. Bedside ultrasonography revealed the cardiogenic cause of acute dyspnea in 18 cases (0 false positive) and BNP in 44 cases (24 false positives). keywords: accuracy; acute; acute dyspnea; area; article; bedside; bedside ultrasonography; bnp; brain; cardiac; cardiogenic; causes; characteristics; chest; clinical; diagnosis; disease; distress; dyspnea; echocardiography; edema; emergency; failure; final; findings; heart; history; hospital; ivc; journal; laboratory; lines; lung; medical; medicine; natriuretic; participants; patients; peptide; pulmonary; respiratory; results; roc; sciences; sensitivity; serum; specificity; study; table; time; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; value cache: aaem-238.pdf plain text: aaem-238.txt item: #357 of 640 id: aaem-239 author: Mofid, Bahram; Novin, Kambiz; Roointan, Elham Sadat; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi title: Epidemiology and Death-Related Factors of Oncology Patients in Emergency Department date: 2018-12-15 words: 3341 flesch: 63 summary: Currently, despite the advances in cancer treatment, it is still a major health problem and cancer patients commonly face medical emergencies and unexpected life-threatening dis- eases (3, 12). Developing new treatment strategies for cancer patients has led to an increase in their life-span and frequency of emer- gency department (ED) visits (3). keywords: access; admission; ambulance; arrival; article; attribution; bleeding; brain; cancer; care; chemo; clinical; common; creative; death; department; emergency; factors; gastrointestinal; hospital; hospitalization; icu; journal; license; location; medical; mortality; noncommercial; oncology; patients; present; radiotherapy; rate; results; stage; studies; study; terms; treatment; tumor; type cache: aaem-239.pdf plain text: aaem-239.txt item: #358 of 640 id: aaem-24 author: Majidi, Alireza; Mahmoodi, Sadrollah; Baratloo, Alireza; Mirbaha, Sahar title: Atypical Presentation of Massive Pulmonary Embolism, a Case Report date: 2018-11-13 words: 1518 flesch: 53 summary: Key words: Pulmonary embolism; ultrasonography; shock; abdominal pain; bradycardia Cite this article as: Majidi A, Mahmoodi S, Baratloo A, Mirbaha S. Atypical presentation of massive pulmonary embolism, a case report. Although previous studies have indicated that ab- dominal pain was observed in 6.7% of patients with PE, the exact reason for abdominal pain in PE still remains unknown. keywords: abdominal; beheshti; blood; bradycardia; case; chest; clinical; department; diagnosis; embolism; emergency; epigastric; examination; massive; medical; medicine; methadone; pain; patients; possible; pulmonary; rate; report; rush; sciences; shahid; shock; signs; symptoms; ultrasound; university cache: aaem-24.pdf plain text: aaem-24.txt item: #359 of 640 id: aaem-240 author: Alizadeh Ghamsari, Anahita; Dadpour, Bita; Najari, Fares title: Frequency of Electrocardiographic Abnormalities in Tramadol Poisoned Patients; a Brief Report date: 2018-12-15 words: 2727 flesch: 59 summary: Conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, the most common types of ECG changes were sinus tachycardia, a deep S wave in leads I and aVL, right axis deviation, and long QTc interval, respectively. Therefore, the present study was aimed to evaluate the epi- demiology of ECG changes following tramadol poisoning in Iranian population. keywords: abnormalities; avl; axis; block; bradycardia; brugada; cardiac; changes; channels; deviation; drug; ecg; effects; electrocardiographic; emergency; female; heart; interval; iran; journal; leads; long; male; medical; overdose; patients; pattern; poisoning; potassium; present; qrs; qtc; rate; results; right; sciences; seizure; sex; sinus; sodium; studies; study; tachycardia; terms; tramadol; wave; widening cache: aaem-240.pdf plain text: aaem-240.txt item: #360 of 640 id: aaem-241 author: Barzegari, Hassan; Forouzan, Arash; Fahimi, Mohammad Ali; Zohrevandi, Behzad; Ghanavati, Mandana title: Proper Angle of Sono-guided Central Venous Line Insertion; a Brief Report date: 2018-12-15 words: 2159 flesch: 56 summary: Study design and settings The present case series study was designed to determine the proper angle of CV line insertion in internal jugular vein. The present study was designed to deter- mine the proper angle of needle insertion for internal jugular vein catheterization. keywords: access; ahvaz; angle; axial; catheterization; central; complications; degrees; emergency; head; insertion; internal; iran; jugular; line; mean; medical; needle; patients; plane; position; present; procedure; proper; protractor; results; right; rotation; sagittal; sciences; study; ultrasonography; university; vein; venous cache: aaem-241.pdf plain text: aaem-241.txt item: #361 of 640 id: aaem-242 author: Nozari, Younes; Tajdini, Masih; Mehrani, Mehdi; Ghaderpanah, Roza title: Focal Myopericarditis as a Rare but Important Differential Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction; a Case Series date: 2018-12-15 words: 2178 flesch: 49 summary: It seems that, when deal- ing with a young patient presenting to emergency department with acute chest pain and ST segment elevation on ECG, we should consider focal myocarditis as an important but rare differential diagnosis of STEMI. In this report, we describe three cases of focal myocarditis, primarily misdiagnosed as STEMI. keywords: acute; administration; article; attribution; biopsy; cardiac; cases; chest; clinical; commons; coronary; creative; department; diagnosis; differential; ecg; ejection; elevation; emergency; endomyocardial; enhancement; european; findings; focal; fraction; heart; high; important; infarction; involvement; journal; left; license; medical; myocardial; myocarditis; myopericarditis; noncommercial; normal; pain; patients; rare; stemi; tehran; terms; thrombolytic; ventricular; viral cache: aaem-242.pdf plain text: aaem-242.txt item: #362 of 640 id: aaem-243 author: Biazar, Tahmine; Shokri, Mehran; Hosseinnia, Hajar; Bayani, Masomeh title: Erythema Multiforme as a Result of Orf Disease; a Case Report date: 2018-12-15 words: 1358 flesch: 56 summary: In this paper, we present two cases of erythema multiforme following Orf disease. Same as the first pre- sented case, erythema multiforme following Orf disease was diagnosed and supportive therapy with low doses of intra- venous corticosteroid and antihistamine was administered. keywords: article; babol; bacterial; case; clinical; contact; days; disease; emergency; erythema; figure; generalized; infection; iran; journal; lesions; low; maculopapular; medical; medicine; multiforme; orf; rash; report; research; sciences; sheep; skin; university; weeks cache: aaem-243.pdf plain text: aaem-243.txt item: #363 of 640 id: aaem-244 author: Chen, Kuo-Chih; Lin, Aming Chor-Ming; Wu, Chin-Chu; Wang, Tzong-Luen; Chua, Chai-Hock title: A 33-year-old Man with Abdominal Pain date: 2018-12-15 words: 1390 flesch: 55 summary: Delayed diagnosis of small bowel obstruction is still associated sig- nificant and morbidity and mortality. Ab- dominal CT scan can help to confirm the diagnosis of small bowel obstruction and identify strangulation and perfora- tion complicating small bowel obstruction (12, 13). keywords: abdominal; access; article; bezoar; bowel; case; clinical; department; diagnosis; emergency; examination; figure; findings; hospital; intestinal; journal; kong; medical; memorial; obstruction; open; pain; patient; presentation; scan; shin; small; surgery; taipei; taiwan cache: aaem-244.pdf plain text: aaem-244.txt item: #364 of 640 id: aaem-245 author: Sanaei Zadeh, Hossein title: Tarantula Bite in Iran, a Letter to the Editor date: 2018-12-16 words: 453 flesch: 62 summary: Dear Editor I read with great interest the case report titled “Periumbili- cal pain with radiation to both legs following tarantula bite; a case report” published in Emergency journal (1). Thus, it seems that the patient’s signs and symptoms cannot be due to the rotail or tarantula bites. keywords: bite; editor; emergency; figure; iran; medical; sanaei; shiraz; tarantula cache: aaem-245.pdf plain text: aaem-245.txt item: #365 of 640 id: aaem-246 author: Noghani, Majid; Rezaeizadeh, Hossein; Fazljoo, Sayed Mohammad Baqer; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Keshavarz, Mansoor title: Gastrointestinal Headache; a Narrative Review date: 2018-12-16 words: 12540 flesch: 71 summary: Patients presenting with primary headache associated with gastric dysfunction (especially dyspepsia), if thor- oughly questioned, may be recognized to fit in with one of the seven types of headache disorders above. Keywords: Headache; migraine disorders; gastrointestinal diseases; medicine, traditional; headache disorders, primary; headache disorders, secondary Cite this article as: Noghani MT, Rezaeizadeh H, Fazljoo SMB, Keshavarz M. Gastrointestinal headache; a narrative review. keywords: abdominal; access; article; associated; attribution; b e; beheshti; bowel; c d; c e; c o; celiac; ch e; children; commons; copyright; cr e; creative; ct e; d h; d ro; d t; d u; d y; disease; disorders; e ci; e d; e e; e fl; e l; e la; e li; e n; e o; e p; e ra; e ri; e rs; e s; e t; e tw; e w; excess; f e; functional; g e; g m; gastric; gastroenterol; gastrointestinal; h e; headache; helicobacter; ig n; il d; iz e; le n; license; lv e; m e; m ig; m o; m p; medical; medicine; migraine; migraineurs; n b; n c; n ce; n d; n g; n h; n m; n n; n p; n r; n s; n t; n ti; n ts; n w; n y; noncommercial; o f; o n; o r; o rd; o u; open; p o; p y; pain; patients; prevalence; primary; pylori; r e; ra d; ra n; rd e; reflux; ri n; rights; ro e; rr e; rt e; s h; s p; s u; sciences; shahid; sp e; stomach; studies; study; symptoms; t h; t o; t u; te n; terms; ti o; tm e; treatment; tu d; u e; u lt; u n; u p; university; www.jemerg.com; y e; y s cache: aaem-246.pdf plain text: aaem-246.txt item: #366 of 640 id: aaem-247 author: Abedi Khorasgani, Maryam; Shahrami, Ali; Shojaee, Majid; Alimohammadi, Hossein; Amini, Afshin; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza title: The Accuracy of Plain Radiography in Detection of Traumatic Intrathoracic Injuries date: 2018-12-16 words: 2990 flesch: 60 summary: Although CT scan can be very useful for eval- uation of chest trauma patients, especially those with lung parenchyma injuries, hemothorax, and pneumotho- rax, the nephrotoxicity due to contrast material, cumula- tive dose of radiation, and the high cost of CT scan are problems that cannot be overlooked (6). Among inju- ries due to trauma, chest trauma is responsible for 25% of deaths due to trauma and 50% of trauma-related deaths (4, 5). keywords: accuracy; article; beheshti; blunt; characteristics; chest; clinical; cxr; decision; diagnosis; emergency; hemothorax; high; imaging; injuries; injury; intrathoracic; journal; medical; medicine; negative; patients; performance; plain; pneumothorax; radiography; ray; scan; sciences; screening; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; study; tomography; trauma; traumatic; university; value cache: aaem-247.pdf plain text: aaem-247.txt item: #367 of 640 id: aaem-248 author: Shojaee, Majid; Hakimzadeh, Farhad; Mohammadi, Parisa; Sabzghabaei, Anita; Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali title: Screening Characteristics of Ultrasonography in Detection of Ankle Fractures date: 2018-12-16 words: 2524 flesch: 59 summary: The screening per- formance characteristics of US in detection ankle fracture were as follows: sensitivity 98.9% (95% CI: 93.5% - 99.9%), specificity 86.4% (95% CI: 71.9%–94.3%), PPV 94.1% (95% CI: Abstract: Introduction: Ankle fracture is one of the most common joint fractures. keywords: accuracy; addition; ankle; ankle fracture; article; bone; characteristics; department; detection; diagnosis; distal; emergency; fractures; high; hossein; imam; injuries; injury; iran; journal; long; medical; medicine; open; patients; performance; plr; present; radiography; reduction; regard; results; screening; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; study; tehran; trauma; ultrasonography; ultrasound; value cache: aaem-248.pdf plain text: aaem-248.txt item: #368 of 640 id: aaem-249 author: Barzegari, Hassan; Forouzan, Arash; Masoumi, Kambiz; Motamed, Hassan; Zohrevandi, Behzad; Zeynadini Meymand, Shima title: Comparing Two Different Doses of Intravenous Midazolamin in Pediatric Sedation and Analgesia date: 2018-12-16 words: 2547 flesch: 64 summary: patients did not reach proper sedation and were sedated receiving ketamine (22 patients) or another dose of midazolam (34 patients, mean additional dose needed was 2.1±1.1 m g ). g dose, can induce proper sedation with minimum side effects for pediatric imaging (6). keywords: action; age; ahvaz; article; brain; children; data; dose; drug; effects; emergency; groups; induction; infants; ketamine; m g; mean; medical; medicine; midazolam; number; onset; parents; patients; pediatric; present; probable; proper; rate; results; scan; sciences; sedation; study; success; university cache: aaem-249.pdf plain text: aaem-249.txt item: #369 of 640 id: aaem-25 author: Moharamzadeh, Payman; Rahmani, Farzad; Pouraghaei, Mahboob; Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Hanieh; Mohammadzadeh Abachi, Ehsan title: Epidural Hematoma Following Hemodialysis in a Methanol Poisoned Pa-tient; a Case Report date: 2018-11-13 words: 1378 flesch: 49 summary: This report describes an intoxicated patient who developed an epidural hematoma and loss of con- sciousness following hemodialysis. Heparinization during hemodialysis may contribute to cerebral hemorrhagic complications in methanol poisoning. keywords: acidosis; brain; case; cerebral; complications; department; emergency; epidural; figure; head; hematoma; hemodialysis; hemorrhagic; history; injury; iran; medical; medicine; methanol; nature; necrotic; patient; poisoning; report; scan; sciences; tabriz; trauma; university cache: aaem-25.pdf plain text: aaem-25.txt item: #370 of 640 id: aaem-250 author: Hashemi, Behrooz; Amanat, Mahnaz; Baratloo, Alireza; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Rahmati, Farhad; Motamedi, Maryam; Safari, Saeed title: Validation of CRASH Model in Prediction of 14-day Mortality and 6-month Unfavorable Outcome of Head Trauma Patients date: 2018-12-16 words: 3819 flesch: 64 summary: Methods: In the present prospective diagnostic test study, calibration and discrimina- tion of CRASH model were evaluated in head trauma patients referred to the emergency department. CRASH model has been proposed by Medical Re- search Council during CRASH trial project with a sample size greater than 10000. keywords: addition; area; article; basic; brain; calibration; crash; curve; data; day; discrimination; emergency; groups; head; high; injury; journal; likelihood; low; mean; model; moderate; month; mortality; muo; observed; outcome; patients; prediction; present; prognostic; results; risk; scan; study; trauma; traumatic; unfavorable; validation; years cache: aaem-250.pdf plain text: aaem-250.txt item: #371 of 640 id: aaem-251 author: Faridaalaee, Gholamreza; Mohammadi, Neda; Merghati, Seyedeh Zahra; Keyghobadi Khajeh, Fatemeh; Naghipour, Bahman; Pouraghaei, Mahboob; Ahmadi, Sajjad title: Intravenous Morphine vs Intravenous Ketofol for Treating Renal Colic; a Randomized Controlled Trial date: 2018-12-16 words: 3354 flesch: 63 summary: The present study illustrated that efficacy of ketofol in renal colic pain re- lief is more than morphine. In a met- analysis, NSAIDs were found to be as effective as analgesic agents in treatment of acute renal colic (5). keywords: acute; analgesic; ann; article; blind; colic; department; effective; effects; efficacy; emergency; group; intravenous; iran; ketamine; ketofol; ketorolac; management; mean; med; medical; minutes; morphine; nnh; nnt; nsaids; opioids; pain; patients; present; propofol; purpose; randomized; renal; renal colic; results; review; sciences; sedation; significant; study; tabriz; treatment; trial; university; urmia cache: aaem-251.pdf plain text: aaem-251.txt item: #372 of 640 id: aaem-252 author: Uysal, Erdal; Dokur, Mehmet; Bakir, Hasan; Ikidag, Mehmet Ali; Kirdak, Turkay; Kazimoglu, Hatem title: The Reasons of Renal Transplant Recipients’ Admission to the Emergency Department; a Case Series Study date: 2018-12-16 words: 2102 flesch: 56 summary: One of the most important causes of mortality in renal transplant patients is cardiovascular diseases (2)(12). Kartal M GE, Eray O, Gungor F. Factors affecting to hospital admission for renal transplant patients in the emergency department. keywords: acute; admission; case; causes; common; department; diagnosis; emergency; failure; fever; frequent; gastroenteritis; gaziantep; graft; hospital; immunosuppressive; infections; journal; medicine; non; pain; patients; problems; reasons; recipients; renal; sanko; series; studied; study; tract; transplant; transplantation; turkey; university cache: aaem-252.pdf plain text: aaem-252.txt item: #373 of 640 id: aaem-253 author: Chauhan, Narvir Singh title: A 48-year-old Man with Epigastric Pain and Melena date: 2018-12-16 words: 1455 flesch: 57 summary: Many surgical procedures have been described for SMA dissection including intemectomy, right gastroepiploic artery bypass, graft interposition, arteri- otomy with thrombectomy, reimplantation of SMA on aorta, fixation of media-intima, and aneurysmorrhaphy (9). This case highlights the pivotal importance of CT in diagnosis of SMA dissection and detection of bowel ischemia. keywords: abdominal; angiography; artery; article; axial; blood; bowel; case; celiac; diagnosis; dissection; emergency; epigastric; findings; gut; ischemia; isolated; journal; lumen; management; medical; melena; mesenteric; pain; patient; radiology; scan; sma; spontaneous; superior; treatment; vascular cache: aaem-253.pdf plain text: aaem-253.txt item: #374 of 640 id: aaem-254 author: Baratloo, Alireza; Maleki, Marzieh title: Description of a Working Day as a Senior Emergency Medicine Resident; Burning Candle at Both Ends! date: 2018-12-18 words: 745 flesch: 62 summary: After about 12 hours uninterrupted presence in the ED, hand over the shift with lots of patients with un- known diagnoses and partial treatments. It is 3:35 pm of a warm afternoon; the emergency depart- ment is filled up with ill patients. keywords: addicted; clin; department; emergency; history; intern; iran; medical; medicine; north; overcrowding; patient; referees; sciences; tajrish; tehran cache: aaem-254.pdf plain text: aaem-254.txt item: #375 of 640 id: aaem-255 author: Safaie, Arash title: Management of Dysrhythmia in Emergency Department date: 2018-12-18 words: 623 flesch: 59 summary: Post treatment ECG showed normal sinus rhythm (heart rate about 60) and obvious signs of WPW syndrome (short PR interval, initial delta waves and wide QRS). Based on post treatment ECG and response to procainamide, the authors concluded that administer- ing digoxin in this patient was wrong and had resulted in the patient's symptoms. keywords: atrial; digoxin; ecg; emergency; heart; parkinson; patient; syndrome; tehran; treatment; white; wide; wolff; wpw cache: aaem-255.pdf plain text: aaem-255.txt item: #376 of 640 id: aaem-256 author: Safari, Saeed; Baratloo, Alireza; Rouhipour, Alaleh; Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern; a Review Article date: 2018-12-18 words: 2903 flesch: 59 summary: The previous largest outbreaks of Ebola virus was identified in Uganda in 2000–2001, which was caused by Sudan Ebola virus (SUDV) subtype. Thereafter, Ebola virus has spread through the West Africa and appeared in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ni- geria, and now it has been reported in Spain and United States of America, too. keywords: access; africa; article; attribution; beheshti; blood; care; case; clinical; commons; congo; contact; copyright; creative; democratic; department; diagnosis; disease; ebola; ebola virus; ehf; emergency; fever; health; hemorrhagic; infection; international; iran; laboratory; license; medical; noncommercial; open; outbreak; patients; possible; prevention; public; republic; review; rights; risk; sciences; shahid; tehran; terms; treatment; university; viral; virus; viruses; west cache: aaem-256.pdf plain text: aaem-256.txt item: #377 of 640 id: aaem-257 author: Aminiahidashti, Hamed title: Infantile Apparent Life-Threatening Events, an Educational Review date: 2018-12-18 words: 5911 flesch: 56 summary: Respiratory Events in Infants Presenting with Apparent Life Threatening Events: Is There an Explanation from Esophageal Motility? Apparent Life Threatening Event (ALTE) assessment. keywords: abuse; access; admission; alte; aminiahidashti; ann; apnea; apparent; apparent life; arch; article; attribution; bacterial; beheshti; blood; breath; care; causes; change; children; choking; clear; clinical; common; copyright; creative; cyanotic; death; department; diagnosis; disease; disorders; eeg; emergency; epilepsy; episode; etiology; evaluation; events; examination; factors; feeding; findings; gastroesophageal; gerd; head; history; hospital; infants; infection; injury; license; life; management; medical; medicine; metabolic; noncommercial; normal; number; open; parents; patients; pediatr; pediatrics; pertussis; physical; present; reflux; reported; respiratory; retinal; review; rights; risk; sciences; seizures; severe; shahid; sids; significant; signs; spells; studies; study; sudden; symptoms; syndrome; temporal; terms; tests; tract; trauma; underlying; university; younger cache: aaem-257.pdf plain text: aaem-257.txt item: #378 of 640 id: aaem-258 author: Saadat, Soheil; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Asady, Hadi; Moghadas Jafari, Ali; Fayaz, Mohammad; Hosseini, Mostafa title: The Most Important Causes of Death in Iranian Population; a Retrospective Cohort Study date: 2018-12-18 words: 3902 flesch: 60 summary: All causes of death were cate- gorized in nine groups including major cardiovascular disease, cancers, motor vehicle accidents, unintentional in- juries, intentional injuries, stroke, lower respiratory infections, diabetes, and other reasons. Statistical analysis All causes of death were categorized in nine groups in- cluding major cardiovascular disease, cancers, motor ve- hicle accidents, unintentional injuries, intentional inju- ries, stroke, lower respiratory infections, diabetes, and other reasons. keywords: access; accidents; age; article; burden; cancers; cardiovascular; cardiovascular diseases; causes; cod; death; diabetes; diseases; emergency; factors; graduate; health; hosseini; important; infections; injuries; iran; iranian; life; lower; major; male; medical; motor; motor vehicle; person; population; present; public; respiratory; risk; sciences; stroke; students; study; tehran; unintentional; university; vehicle; vehicle accidents; years; yll cache: aaem-258.pdf plain text: aaem-258.txt item: #379 of 640 id: aaem-259 author: Azizkhani, Reza; Esmailian, Mehrdad; shojaei, Azadeh; Golshani, Keihan title: Rectal Thiopental versus Intramuscular Ketamine in Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-12-18 words: 3600 flesch: 50 summary: Mann-Whitney test was showed that time to onset of action in sodium thiopental group (28.23±5.18 minutes) was significantly higher than ketamine (7.77±4.13 minutes), (p<0.001). 20 (66.7%) of patients in sodium thiopental group and 19 (63.3%) ones in keta- mine group were male (p=0.79). keywords: action; administration; agitation; analgesia; arterial; better; children; clinical; comparison; difference; dose; drugs; effect; emergency; group; heart; higher; induction; ketamine; laceration; level; medical; minutes; need; onset; oxygen; patients; pediatric; procedural; ramsey; randomized; rate; recovery; rectal; repair; respiratory; saturation; score; sedation; signs; sodium; study; test; thiopental; time; trial cache: aaem-259.pdf plain text: aaem-259.txt item: #380 of 640 id: aaem-26 author: Safari, Saeed; Karimi, Ebrahim; Baratloo, Alireza; Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa; Kalantarimeibodi, Mohammad title: A 16-Year-Old Girl with Acute Onset Respiratory Distress date: 2018-11-13 words: 1410 flesch: 59 summary: Foreign body, rarely the live ones, should be included as a differential diag- nosis of these patients. Yazc H, Dogan S, Sunter AV, Ylmaz E, Daskaya H. Surpri- sing cause of respiratory distress in child: laryngeal leech. keywords: article; beheshti; blood; body; department; diagnosis; distress; emergency; examination; foreign; history; hospital; iran; lateral; leech; live; mass; medical; medicine; mobile; neck; onset; oropharynx; patient; ray; respiratory; sciences; shahid; university cache: aaem-26.pdf plain text: aaem-26.txt item: #381 of 640 id: aaem-260 author: Morteza Bagi, Hamid Reza; Tagizadieh, Mohammad; Moharamzadeh, Payman; Pouraghaei, Mahboob; Kahvareh Barhagi, Aynaz; Shahsavari Nia, kavous title: Epidemiology of Alcohol Poisoning and Its Outcome in the North-West of Iran date: 2018-12-18 words: 4225 flesch: 58 summary: Alcohol poisoning is one of the main preventable causes of death, disability, and injury in many so- cieties. To assess the relation between evaluated factors and outcome of alcohol poisoning. keywords: abuse; access; addition; alcohol; alcohol poisoning; article; attribution; beheshti; blood; cases; center; commons; consumption; copyright; creatinine; creative; data; death; department; dialysis; drinking; emergency; factors; health; history; independent; iran; level; license; mean; medical; meq; methanol; mortality; need; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; poisoning; present; problems; rate; related; relation; rights; risk; sciences; shahid; significant; social; studies; study; subjects; tabriz; terms; time; university cache: aaem-260.pdf plain text: aaem-260.txt item: #382 of 640 id: aaem-261 author: Pouraghaei, Mahboob; Tagizadieh, Mohammad; Tagizadieh, Ali; Moharamzadeh, Payman; Esfahanian, Samaneh; Shahsavari Nia, kavous title: Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Organ Donation among Relatives of Patients Referred to the Emergency Department date: 2018-12-18 words: 4528 flesch: 63 summary: Email: kavous.shahsavari@yahoo.com Received: August 2014; Accepted: September 2014 Abstract Introduction: Organ donation is one of the surviving procedures, which can increase the life expectancy of end- stage patients. Inappropriate beliefs and attitude of individuals to organ donation, their poor knowledge, and the socio-economic level are one of the most important barriers for organ donation. keywords: age; article; attitude; beliefs; brain; dead; demographic; department; diploma; donation; donors; education; emergency; factors; gender; important; inappropriate; iran; job; knowledge; level; living; low; male; medical; organ; organ donation; participants; patients; people; persons; poor; present; questionnaire; relatives; religious; research; rights; sciences; score; self; society; status; studied; study; subjects; table; tabriz; terms; transplant; transplantation; university cache: aaem-261.pdf plain text: aaem-261.txt item: #383 of 640 id: aaem-262 author: Shams Vahdati, Samad; Hazhir Karzar, Bita; Momen, Negar title: Independent Predictive Factors of Hospitalization in a North-West Burn Center of Iran; an Epidemiologic Study date: 2018-12-18 words: 3325 flesch: 67 summary: The findings of present study revealed that most of burn patients were aged 20.47±13.5 years. The mean age of burn patients is different from 19 to 35 years in various studies. keywords: age; analysis; area; article; boiling; burn; burning; cases; cause; center; common; countries; degree; department; disposition; emergency; epidemiology; factors; female; frequent; gender; grade; higher; home; hospitalization; independent; injuries; injury; iran; limb; lower; medical; north; old; p<0.001; patients; percent; percentage; place; predictive; regression; related; research; sciences; site; study; tabriz; university; water; west; work; years cache: aaem-262.pdf plain text: aaem-262.txt item: #384 of 640 id: aaem-263 author: Kalantari, Narges; Bayani, Masomeh; Abbas-zadeh, Mina title: Rupture of Hydatid Liver Cyst into Peritoneal Cavity Following Blunt Abdominal Trauma; a Case Report date: 2018-12-18 words: 1763 flesch: 54 summary: However, hydatid cyst rupture requires proper treatment consists of emergency surgery and also special postoperative care. Key words: Hydatid cyst; Echinococcosis, Hepatic; wounds, nonpenetrating; rupture; anaphylaxis Cite this article as: Kalantari N, Bayani M, Abbas-zadeh M. Rupture of hydatid liver cyst into peritoneal cavity following blunt abdominal trauma; a case report. keywords: abdominal; article; babol; blunt; case; cavity; cyst; cystic; department; disease; emergency; endemic; free; hepatic; hydatid; hydatid cyst; intra; intraperitoneal; iran; liver; medical; method; open; pain; peritoneal; report; right; rupture; sciences; surg; trauma; treatment; ultrasonography; university; year; yilmaz cache: aaem-263.pdf plain text: aaem-263.txt item: #385 of 640 id: aaem-264 author: Baratloo, Alireza; Hosseini, Mostafa; Negida, Ahmed; El Ashal, Gehad title: Part 1: Simple Definition and Calculation of Accuracy, Sensitivity and Specificity date: 2018-12-18 words: 1329 flesch: 59 summary: Altman D, Bland J. Statistics Notes: Diagnostic tests 1: sensitivity and specificity. The interpretation of diagnostic tests: A primer for physiotherapists. keywords: accuracy; cases; diagnostic; disease; emergency; example; figure; healthy; medical; negative; patients; positive; sensitivity; specificity; test; true; university cache: aaem-264.pdf plain text: aaem-264.txt item: #386 of 640 id: aaem-265 author: Hashemi, Reza; Majidi, Alireza; Motamed, Hassan; Amini, Afshin; Najari, Fares; Tabatabaey, Ali title: Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate Measurement Using as a Rapid Alternative to the Westergren Method date: 2018-12-18 words: 3310 flesch: 58 summary: Micro ESR results at 20 minutes showed the earliest close correlation with conventional ESR results at one hour (r = 0.987). ESR: Erythrocyte sedi- mentation rate; CT-ESR 20 min: The value of ESR in 20 minutes in Capillary tube method ESR measurement (micro ESR). keywords: acceptable; agreement; alternative; article; beheshti; blood; capillary; cell; clinical; conventional; conventional esr; converted; correlation; department; different; disease; emergency; erythrocyte; esr; estimation; faster; hospital; hour; iran; measurement; medical; medicine; method; micro; micro esr; minutes; patients; plasma; plot; rate; reliable; results; sample; sciences; sedimentation; shahid; shohadaye; slide; study; tajrish; tehran; time; tube; university; values; westergren cache: aaem-265.pdf plain text: aaem-265.txt item: #387 of 640 id: aaem-266 author: Golshani, Keihan; Ebrahim zadeh, Mehdi; Farajzadegan, Ziba; Khorvash, Fariborz title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Optic Nerve Ultrasonography and Ophthalmoscopy in Prediction of Elevated Intracranial Pressure date: 2018-12-18 words: 3242 flesch: 54 summary: Several methods are being used to investigate for elevated ICP. Here we as- sessed and compared the diagnostic accuracy of two existing tools of ophthalmoscopy and optic nerve ultrasonog- raphy in detection of elevated ICP. keywords: accuracy; article; brain; cerebral; department; detection; diagnostic; diameter; disk; elevated; elevation; emergency; examination; hemorrhage; hospital; icp; intracranial; iran; isfahan; medical; methods; millimeters; nerve; ocular; ophthalmoscopy; optic; optic nerve; patients; positive; prediction; present; pressure; results; roc; scan; sciences; sensitivity; sheath; signs; sonographic; specificity; study; ultrasonography; university; venous cache: aaem-266.pdf plain text: aaem-266.txt item: #388 of 640 id: aaem-267 author: Gharavifard, Mohammad; Boroumand Reza Zadeh, Behnaz; Zamani Moghadam, Hamid title: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Intravenous and Intramuscular Ketamine for Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia date: 2018-12-18 words: 3508 flesch: 55 summary: Totally, 60.0% of IV group patients and 40.0% of IM group experienced drug side effects (p = 0.21). Totally, 60.0% of IV group patients and 40.0% of IM experienced drug side effects. keywords: action; administration; age; analgesia; children; clinical; department; difference; discharge; dose; duration; effects; efficacy; emergency; group; injections; intramuscular; intravenous; iv group; ketamine; mashhad; medical; medicine; method; minutes; onset; patients; pediatric; procedural; recovery; ref; sciences; sedation; study; terms; time; trial; university cache: aaem-267.pdf plain text: aaem-267.txt item: #389 of 640 id: aaem-268 author: Majidinejad, Saeed; Taherian, Keramat; Esmailian, Mehrdad; Khazaei, Mehdi; Samaie, Vajihe title: Oral Midazolam-Ketamine versus Midazolam alone for Procedural Sedation of Children Undergoing Computed Tomography; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-12-18 words: 4112 flesch: 57 summary: Oral ketamine (OK) has been used for pediatric sedation in previous studies. 5. Mason KP, Zgleszewski SE, Dearden JL, et al. Dexmedetomidine for pediatric sedation for computed tomography imaging studies. keywords: adequate; administration; article; attribution; beheshti; children; clinical; combination; commons; comparison; copyright; creative; dental; department; drug; effective; effects; efficacy; emergency; group; imaging; intravenous; isfahan; ketamine; license; medical; midazolam; minor; minutes; noncommercial; omk; oral; oral midazolam; patients; pediatric; premedication; previous; procedural; radiology; randomized; rate; results; rights; scan; sciences; sedation; sedative; shahid; significant; studies; study; terms; time; tomography; university cache: aaem-268.pdf plain text: aaem-268.txt item: #390 of 640 id: aaem-269 author: Faridaalaee, Gholamreza; Rahmani, Seyed Hesam; Mehryar, Hamidreza; Bina Shishavan, Shahab; Merghati, Seyedeh Zahra; Valizade Hasanloei, Mohammad Amin; Naghipour, Bahman; Rahmani, Farzad title: Comparison of Intravenous Metoclopramide and Acetaminophen in Primary Headaches: a Randomized Controlled Trial date: 2018-12-18 words: 3409 flesch: 58 summary: However, the mean pain severity at 15 minutes after taking acetamino- phen was significantly less than metoclopramide group (7.0 ± 1.4 versus 9.0 ± 1.3, p < 0.001). Only 3 (6%) patients of metoclopramide group needed the res- cue dose. keywords: acetaminophen; acute; ann; article; clinical; combination; comparison; data; department; effect; effective; efficacy; emergency; friedman; groups; headache; intravenous; iran; medical; metoclopramide; migraine; milligrams; minutes; pain; patients; placebo; present; primary; prochlorperazine; randomized; rate; results; sciences; severity; standard; study; success; table; tension; therapeutic; treatment; trial; type; university; urmia cache: aaem-269.pdf plain text: aaem-269.txt item: #391 of 640 id: aaem-27 author: Abdalvand, Ali title: The Risk of Venous Thromboembolism Associated with Oral Contraceptive; the Search Is Still On date: 2018-11-14 words: 777 flesch: 59 summary: Risk of venous thromboembolism in users of oral contraceptives containing drospirenone or levonorgestrel: nested case-control study based on UK General Practice Research Database. The risk of venous thromboembolism associated with oral contraceptive; the search is still on. keywords: abdalvand; article; contraceptives; drospirenone; emergency; generation; levonorgestrel; ocps; oral; review; risk; search; thromboembolism; university; venous; vte cache: aaem-27.pdf plain text: aaem-27.txt item: #392 of 640 id: aaem-270 author: Heydari, Farhad; Esmailian, Mehrdad; Taheri, Mehrsa title: Brachial Artery Aneurysm as a Limb Threatening Condition: a Case Report date: 2018-12-18 words: 1377 flesch: 48 summary: Aneurysms can manifest in all arteries but peripheral artery aneurysms in the upper extremities are rare so that brachial artery aneurysms have an overall preva- lence of 0.5% (2-4). Prompt diagnosis and treatment of true peripheral artery aneurysms are nec- essary to minimize the complication rate and serious long-term squeal (7, 8). keywords: aneurysm; arterial; arteries; artery; article; brachial; case; commons; condition; copyright; department; diagnosis; emergency; extremity; isfahan; journal; license; limb; medical; peripheral; proximal; report; right; sciences; shahid; surgery; taheri; treatment; true; university; upper; vascular cache: aaem-270.pdf plain text: aaem-270.txt item: #393 of 640 id: aaem-271 author: Lin, Li-Wei; Wu, Chin-Chu; Chong, Lee-Won; Lin, Aming Chor-Ming title: Periampullary Diverticulum Perforation Following Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP); a Case Report date: 2018-12-18 words: 1513 flesch: 45 summary: Key words: Cholangiopancreatography, endoscopic retrograde; subcutaneous emphysema; pneumomediastinum, diagnostic Cite this article as: Lin LW, Wu CC, Chong LW, Chor-Ming Lin A. Periampullary diverticulum perforation following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP); a Case Report. Discussion: The presence of subcutaneous emphysema following ERCP is an uncommon but well-recognized complica- tion. keywords: abdominal; air; bile; case; cholangiopancreatography; clinical; complications; deciliter; department; diagnosis; diverticulum; duct; emergency; emphysema; endoscopic; ercp; hospital; kong; management; medical; memorial; patient; perforation; periampullary; peritoneal; rate; retrograde; retroperitoneal; shin; subcutaneous; taipei; taiwan; university cache: aaem-271.pdf plain text: aaem-271.txt item: #394 of 640 id: aaem-272 author: Pezeshki, Arastoo; Rahmani, Farzad; Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Hanieh; Fekri, Sanaz title: Battered Child Syndrome; a Case Study date: 2018-12-18 words: 1322 flesch: 61 summary: Abstract One of the important and usual missed causes of pediatric traumas is child abuse. The reported incidence of child abuse in ED approximately is 2-10%, however half of these cases are not reported due to fear of jeopardizing their repu- tation (3). keywords: abuse; article; battered; brain; care; case; child; children; department; emergency; findings; head; history; iran; medical; open; patient; physical; report; reported; sciences; staff; study; syndrome; tabriz; trauma; university cache: aaem-272.pdf plain text: aaem-272.txt item: #395 of 640 id: aaem-273 author: Safari, Saeed; Baratloo, Alireza; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Medical Journalism and Emergency Medicine date: 2018-12-24 words: 2419 flesch: 51 summary: Medical journals are propagating their papers in various media including television pro- grams, newspapers, internet websites and different so- cial media. Moreover, most researchers hear about medical discov- eries for the first time through medical journals and their related social media. keywords: attribution; authors; beheshti; commons; copyright; creative; date; editors; emergency; england; field; health; hefz; history; iran; iranian; journal; journalism; khan; kingdom; license; london; media; medical; medicine; new; noncommercial; open; philosophical; problems; public; quality; quarterly; review; rights; sciences; scientific; sehheh; shahid; society; table; tehran; trauma; united; university cache: aaem-273.pdf plain text: aaem-273.txt item: #396 of 640 id: aaem-274 author: Safari, Saeed; Baratloo, Alireza; Elfil, Mohamed; Negida, Ahmed Said title: Part 2: Positive and negative predictive values of diagnostic tests date: 2018-12-24 words: 1073 flesch: 57 summary: Positive predictive value= FPTP TP  Negative predictive value: Negative predictive value is the proportion of the cases giving negative test results who are already healthy (3). It is the ratio of subjects truly diagnosed as negative to all those who had negative test results (including pa- tients who were incorrectly diagnosed as healthy). keywords: accuracy; cases; disease; emergency; healthy; negative; npv; number; patients; positive; ppv; predictive; test; total cache: aaem-274.pdf plain text: aaem-274.txt item: #397 of 640 id: aaem-275 author: Bidari, Ali; Vaziri, Samira; Moazen Zadeh, Ehsan; Farahmand, Sahar; Talachian, Elham title: The Value of Serum NR2 Antibody in Prediction of Post-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Survival date: 2018-12-24 words: 4144 flesch: 52 summary: Table 3: Cox regression model of NR2 antibody status and Glasgow coma scale (GCS) 1 hour after return of spontaneous circulation Hazard Ratio (95% CI) P-value* NR2 antibody unadjusted 8.33 (3.02-23.01) <0.001 NR2 antibody adjusted for GCS score 3.41 (1.25-9.25) 0.02 GCS score unadjusted 0.306 (0.11-0.84) 0.02 GCS score adjusted for NR2 antibody 0.35 (0.13-0.94) 0.04 The value of serum NR2 antibody in prediction of post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation survival. keywords: access; antibody; arrest; article; attribution; beheshti; biomarkers; blood; brain; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; circulation; commons; copyright; cpr; creative; data; department; emergency; gcs; hospital; hour; iran; ischemic; level; license; manuscript; map; medical; negative; neurological; nmda; noncommercial; nr2; outcome; patients; positive; post; prediction; prognostic; receptor; results; resuscitation; return; rights; rosc; sampling; sciences; sensitivity; serum; shahid; significant; spontaneous; status; stroke; studies; study; survival; survived; table; tehran; terms; test; time; university; value cache: aaem-275.pdf plain text: aaem-275.txt item: #398 of 640 id: aaem-276 author: Zohrevandi, Behzad; Monsef Kasmaie, Vahid; Asadi, Payman; TajiK, Hosna; Azizzade Roodpishi, Nastaran title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Cincinnati Pre-Hospital Stroke Scale date: 2018-12-24 words: 2230 flesch: 60 summary: Methods: Study design and setting This retrospective cross-sectional study done to assess the accuracy of Cincinnati stroke scale in patients with acute neurologic symptoms referred to the emergency department of Poursina Hospital, Rasht, Iran, from April to August 2013. Screening prformance characteristics of Cincinnati stroke scale in prediction of stroke probability (95% confidence interval) keywords: accuracy; agreement; cincinnati; diagnosis; droop; dysarthria; emergency; extremity; facial; final; hospital; iran; likelihood; medical; negative; neurologic; patients; positive; prediction; prehospital; probability; rate; scale; sciences; screen; sensitivity; specificity; stroke; study; table; university; upper; value; weakness cache: aaem-276.pdf plain text: aaem-276.txt item: #399 of 640 id: aaem-277 author: Esmailian, Mehrdad; Moshiri, Roshanak; Zamani, Majid title: Comparison of the Analgesic Effect of Intravenous Acetaminophen and Morphine Sulfate in Rib Fracture; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-12-24 words: 2984 flesch: 63 summary: 30 minutes after drug administration the mean of pain severity were 5.5 ± 2.3 and 4.9 ± 1.7 in morphine and acetaminophen groups, respectively (p=0.23). No 25 (89.3) 25 (100.0) 0.49# Pneumothorax 2 (7.1) 0 (0.0) Hemothorax 1 (3.6) 0 (0.0) Baseline pain severity (Mean ± SD) 8.6 ±1.6 9.2 ± 1.3 0.19 *, Based on Mann-Whitney U test; #, Based on Fisher's exact test; SD: Standard deviation; Pain severity measured by numeric rating scale. keywords: acetaminophen; administration; analgesic; article; blind; chest; clinical; control; difference; double; drug; effects; emergency; fracture; groups; intravenous; management; mean; medical; minutes; morphine; opioid; pain; patients; present; rate; rating; relieving; respiratory; rib; rib fracture; scale; sciences; severity; standard; study; success; sulfate; therapeutic; trauma; trial; university cache: aaem-277.pdf plain text: aaem-277.txt item: #400 of 640 id: aaem-278 author: Atari, Mohammad; Atari, Maryam title: Brief Emergency Department Patient Satisfaction Scale (BEPSS); Development of a New Practical Instrument date: 2018-12-24 words: 3740 flesch: 59 summary: Brief emergency department patient satisfaction scale (BEPSS); development of a new practical instrument. Tel: + 00989126363263; Email: Atari@ut.ac.ir Received: October 2014; Accepted: December 2014 Abstract Introduction: Methodologically correct assessment of patient satisfaction (PS) plays a crucial role for quality-im- provement purposes. keywords: admission; analysis; article; assessment; atari; bepss; care; data; department; domains; ede; eds; efa; emergency; emergency department; environment; family; general; gps; health; hospital; instrument; iran; items; measure; medical; missing; new; patient; patient satisfaction; pcs; pfs; physician; properties; quality; reliability; results; rights; satisfaction; scale; sciences; shahid; staff; study; table; tehran; time; university; validity; waiting cache: aaem-278.pdf plain text: aaem-278.txt item: #401 of 640 id: aaem-279 author: Barzegari, Hassan; Zohrevandi, Behzad; Masoumi, Kambiz; Forouzan, Arash; Asgari Darian, Ali; Khosravi, Shaqayeq title: Comparison of Oral Midazolam and Promethazine with Oral Midazolam alone for Sedating Children during Computed Tomography date: 2018-12-24 words: 3632 flesch: 58 summary: Intervention: Patients were enrolled consecutively and randomly di- vided into 2 groups: one only received midazolam (a dose of 0.5 mg/kg weight), while the other group re- ceived midazolam (a dose of 0.5 mg/kg weight) plus pro- methazine (a dose of 1.25 mg/kg weight). Therefore, this study aimed to compare midazolam with midazolam-promethazine regarding in- duction, maintenance, and recovery characteristics following pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia . keywords: action; analgesia; arterial; article; blood; children; chloral; clinical; combination; data; different; dose; drugs; duration; effect; emergency; factors; group; heart; hydrate; induction; intervention; journal; ketamine; level; mean; medical; midazolam; minutes; nausea; onset; oral; oxygen; pain; patients; pediatric; pressure; procedural; promethazine; randomized; rate; rescue; respiratory; saturation; sciences; sedation; sedative; study; treatment; trial; umss; university cache: aaem-279.pdf plain text: aaem-279.txt item: #402 of 640 id: aaem-28 author: Rahmani, Farzad; Banan Khojasteh, Seyed Mahdi; Ebrahimi Bakhtavr, Hanieh; Rahmani, Farnaz; Shahsavari Nia, Kavous; Faridaalaee, Gholamreza title: Poisonous Spiders: Bites, Symptoms, and Treatment; an Educational Re-view date: 2018-11-14 words: 3340 flesch: 59 summary: Spider bites is a common problem among people, however few of them are harmful but delay in treatment can cause death. Three important syndromes caused by spider bites are loxoscelism, latrodectism and funnel web spider syndrome. keywords: access; aggressive; antivenom; armed; article; attribution; beheshti; bite; biting; black; body; brown; case; commons; copyright; creative; death; department; diaphoresis; different; emergency; figure; funnel; hobo; human; hypertension; iran; license; loxoscelism; medical; medicine; necrosis; noncommercial; open; pain; patients; permission; rahmani; recluse; records; respiratory; review; rights; sciences; severe; shahid; similar; site; species; spider; symptoms; syndrome; tabriz; tarantula; terms; treatment; university; venom; venomous; web; widow cache: aaem-28.pdf plain text: aaem-28.txt item: #403 of 640 id: aaem-280 author: Taghizadieh, Ali; Ala, Alireza; Rahmani, Farzad; Nadi, Akbar title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Chest x-Ray and Ultrasonography in Detection of Community Acquired Pneumonia; a Brief Report date: 2018-12-24 words: 1907 flesch: 55 summary: The sensitivity of CUS in pneumonia detection was calculated 100.0% (95% CI: 85.4-100.0), but its specificity was not calculable because of being positive of all subjects. However, sensitivity and specificity of CXR in pneumonia detection were 93.1% (95% CI: 75.8- 98.8) and 0.0% (95% CI: 0.0-94.5), respectively. keywords: accuracy; cap; cases; chest; clinical; community; cus; cxr; detection; diagnostic; diseases; effusion; emergency; false; findings; iran; medical; negative; patients; pneumonia; positive; predictive; pulmonary; scan; sciences; sensitivity; specificity; study; tabriz; ultrasonography; university cache: aaem-280.pdf plain text: aaem-280.txt item: #404 of 640 id: aaem-281 author: Haghighi, Mehrdad; Shoaei, Simin Dokht title: Pharyngeal Aspiration of Complete Upper Denture in 90-Year-Old Man; a Case Report date: 2018-12-24 words: 1695 flesch: 51 summary: Discussion: Adults account for only about 20% of the reported cases of foreign body aspiration and most of them are seen af- ter the sixth or seventh decade of life, when airway pro- tective mechanisms lose their proper function (4, 5). The diagnosis of foreign body aspiration can be difficult, especially if the patient does not recall an aspiration ep- isode. keywords: adults; airway; aspiration; beheshti; bodies; body; case; chest; clinical; complete; denture; diagnosis; emergency; figure; foreign; history; journal; man; medical; old; patients; pharyngeal; pneumonia; ray; report; respiratory; sciences; shahid; symptoms; university; upper; wheezing cache: aaem-281.pdf plain text: aaem-281.txt item: #405 of 640 id: aaem-282 author: Pouraghaei, Mahboob; Shams Vahdati, Samad; Mashhadi, Ibrahim; Mahmoudieh, Taranoom title: Periumbilical Pain with Radiation to Both Legs Following Tarantula Bite; a Case Report date: 2018-12-24 words: 1159 flesch: 59 summary: Key words: Spider bites; bites and stings; pets; spider venoms Cite This Article as: Pouraghaei M, Shams Vahdati S, Mashhadi I, Mahmoudieh T. Periumbilical pain with radiation to both legs following tarantula bite; a case report. Here, an un- usual presentation of tarantula bite was reported. keywords: article; bite; black; case; department; emergency; history; iran; legs; like; medical; pain; patient; periumbilical; pets; report; science; severe; shams; spider; symptoms; tabriz; tarantula; treatment; university; widow cache: aaem-282.pdf plain text: aaem-282.txt item: #406 of 640 id: aaem-283 author: Zenteno, Marco; Alvis-Miranda, Hernando Raphael; Lee, Angel; Moscote-Salazar, Luis Rafael title: Odontogenic Pain as the Principal Presentation of Vertebral Artery Pseudoaneurysm; a Case Report date: 2018-12-24 words: 1444 flesch: 52 summary: Key words: vertebral artery dissection, toothache, stroke. Discussion: Vertebral artery dissection is a recognized cause of is- chemic stroke in young adults. keywords: accidents; angiography; artery; article; cartagena; case; cerebrovascular; clinical; department; diagnosis; dimensional; dissection; emergency; endovascular; important; intracranial; journal; medical; neck; neurology; neurosurgery; odontogenic; pain; pseudoaneurysm; report; right; terms; tissue; toothache; treatment; university; vertebral; vertebral artery cache: aaem-283.pdf plain text: aaem-283.txt item: #407 of 640 id: aaem-284 author: Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Soltani, Soheil; Ziaei, Sona title: An 88-Year-Old Man with Sudden Onset Abdominal Pain date: 2018-12-24 words: 1208 flesch: 58 summary: Outcome of 17 patients with portal venous gas detected by CT. Hepatic portal venous gas (HPVG) is a rare con- dition that is associated with accumulation of gas in the portal venous circulation. keywords: abdominal; air; beheshti; case; chronic; department; diagnosis; emergency; failure; figure; gas; hepatic; hpvg; ischemia; medical; mesenteric; pain; patients; portal; renal; sciences; shahid; university; vein; venous cache: aaem-284.pdf plain text: aaem-284.txt item: #408 of 640 id: aaem-285 author: Hosseini, Mostafa; Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Baikpour, Masoud; Tafakhori, Abbas; Asady, Hadi; Haji Ghanbari, Mohammad Javad; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Safari, Saeed title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography and Radiography in Detection of Pulmonary Contusion; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2018-12-26 words: 6721 flesch: 71 summary: The diagnostic value of this modality in detection of traumatic chest inju- ries has been evaluated by several studies but its diagnostic accuracy in diagnosis of pulmonary contusion is a matter of discussion. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography and radiography in detection of pulmonary contusion through a systematic review and meta-analysis. keywords: access; accuracy; analysis; article; attribution; beheshti; blunt; c e; c o; chest; commons; contusion; copyright; creative; data; detection; diagnostic; e n; emergency; figure; iran; license; medical; meta; n c; n r; n t; noncommercial; o n; open; patients; pulmonary; radiography; review; rights; sciences; search; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; studies; systematic; t c; tehran; terms; thoracic; trauma; ultrasonography; university; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-285.pdf plain text: aaem-285.txt item: #409 of 640 id: aaem-286 author: Zamani, Majid; Namdar, Behnam; Azizkhani, Reza; Ahmadi, Omid; Esmailian, Mehrdad title: Comparing the Antiemetic Effects of Ondansetron and Metoclopramide in Patients with Minor Head Trauma date: 2018-12-26 words: 3090 flesch: 59 summary: Based on the above-mentioned rea- sons, the present study was aimed to compare the antie- metic effects of metoclopramide and ondansetron in the treatment of post head trauma nausea and vomiting. Using this scale for assessing nausea severity was accepted in previous studies. keywords: administration; antiemetic; anxiety; article; department; drowsiness; drug; effects; emergency; fatigue; groups; head; headache; higher; incidence; injection; intervention; isfahan; mean; med; medical; metoclopramide; minor; nausea; ondansetron; patients; placebo; present; results; sciences; severe; severity; study; trauma; treatment; trial; university; vas; vomiting cache: aaem-286.pdf plain text: aaem-286.txt item: #410 of 640 id: aaem-287 author: Karimi, Ebrahim title: Comparing Sensitivity of Ultrasonography and Plain Chest Radiography in Detection of Pneumonia; a Diagnostic Value Study date: 2019-01-22 words: 2954 flesch: 48 summary: Table 1: Chest ultrasonography findings of studied patients Signs Frequency (%) Air bronchogram 160(57.1) Fluid bronchogram 118 (42.1) Pleural effusion 143 (51.1) B lines (comet tail sign) 126 (45.0) Subpleural consolidation 62 (22.1) For this purpose, a checklist was filled out for each patient, which consisted of age, sex, chest ultrasound findings, plain chest radiography findings, and chest CT scan findings. keywords: accuracy; article; attribution; cases; characteristics; chest; clinical; commons; creative; department; detection; diagnosis; emergency; examination; findings; higher; journal; karimi; license; lung; medicine; negative; noncommercial; patients; performance; plain; pleural; pneumonia; positive; present; pulmonary; radiography; ray; results; scan; screening; sensitivity; study; symptoms; tool; ultrasonography; ultrasound cache: aaem-287.pdf plain text: aaem-287.txt item: #411 of 640 id: aaem-288 author: Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Larimi, Seyedeh Roghieh; Safaie, Arash title: Oral Piracetam vs Betahistine in Outpatient Management of Peripheral Vertigo; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2019-01-23 words: 3213 flesch: 59 summary: Upon discharge, piracetam group pa- tients received 800 mg piracetam tablets (Darou Pakhsh Pharma Chem Co., Tehran, Iran) every 8 hours for 7 days and betahistine group patients received 8 mg be- tahistine tablets (Betaserc ®, Abbott Healthcare SAS, Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne, France) every 8 hours for 7 days. Intravenous piracetam was as effective as intravenous dimenhydrinate in relieving symptom of vertigo patients in Dugan et al. study (12). keywords: access; acute; adverse; arhami; article; attribution; betahistine; clinical; commons; creative; data; days; department; dimenhydrinate; discharge; dolatabadi; drug; effectiveness; emergency; events; fatigue; group; intensity; intravenous; iran; license; management; med; medical; medicine; nausea; noncommercial; oral; patients; peripheral; peripheral vertigo; physician; piracetam; placebo; randomized; receptor; studies; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; treatment; trial; vertigo; vestibular cache: aaem-288.pdf plain text: aaem-288.txt item: #412 of 640 id: aaem-289 author: Monsef Kasmaee, Vahid; Zia Zibari, Seyed Mahdi; Aghajani Nargesi, Marjan title: Remifentanil versus Propofol/Fentanyl Combination in Procedural Sedation for Dislocated Shoulder Reduction; a Clinical Trial date: 2019-01-22 words: 2852 flesch: 58 summary: 22 (68.8%) cases in remifentanil group and 4 (12.5%) cases in propofol/fentanyl group had failed in muscle relaxation (p < 0.001). 10 (31.3%) cases in remifentanil group and 11 (34.4%) cases in the other group experienced adverse events (p =0.790). keywords: action; adverse; anaesthesia; anterior; cases; characteristics; clinical; combination; department; dislocation; effects; emergency; events; fentanyl; group; iran; medical; medicine; midazolam; muscle; onset; pain; patients; procedural; propofol; psa; rate; recovery; reduction; relaxation; remifentanil; sedation; severity; shorter; shoulder; study; success; time; trial cache: aaem-289.pdf plain text: aaem-289.txt item: #413 of 640 id: aaem-29 author: Majidi, Alireza; Tabatabaey, Ali; Motamed, Hassan; Motamedi, Maryam; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi title: Development of an Easy-to-Use Tool for the Assessment of Emergency Department Physical Design date: 2018-11-14 words: 4294 flesch: 66 summary: Other guidelines indicate 50m2 of ED area for every 1000 patients, or 145m2 for every 1000 patients admit- ted (whichever is more) (2). 8. Are there areas within the ED, which can be transformed to treatment areas in order to improve surge capacity? keywords: access; admissions; annual; area; article; assessment; attribution; available; beheshti; care; checklist; commons; copyright; creative; dedicated; department; design; easy; eds; emergency; emergency department; entrance; equipment; guidelines; hospital; iran; isolated; items; license; literature; medical; noncommercial; number; open; patients; personnel; physical; privacy; reception; relative; results; rights; room; sciences; shahid; station; study; sufficient; system; terms; treatment; treatment area; triage; university; waiting; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-29.pdf plain text: aaem-29.txt item: #414 of 640 id: aaem-290 author: Alimohammadi, Hossein; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Khodayari, Azita; Doukhtehchi Zadeh Azimi, Mahmood title: Frequency and Causes of Complaints against Emergency Medicine Specialists in Forensic Medicine Files; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2019-01-25 words: 3247 flesch: 60 summary: Conclusion: In about 70% of medical complaint cases against emergency medicine specialists, the in charge physician was proved innocent. Results: 151 cases of medical complaints were filed against emergency medicine specialists during the study period. keywords: age; article; cases; common; complaints; correlation; department; emergency; emergency medicine; errors; experience; files; forensic; forensic medicine; frequency; governmental; higher; hospitals; innocent; iran; journal; malpractice; medical; medicine; medicine specialists; non; patient; physician; present; probability; province; range; rate; results; sex; shift; significant; specialists; study; teaching; tehran; years cache: aaem-290.pdf plain text: aaem-290.txt item: #415 of 640 id: aaem-291 author: Monsef Kasmaei, Vahid; Asadi, Payman; Zohrevandi, Behzad; Raouf, Mohammad Taghi title: An Epidemiologic Study of Traumatic Brain Injuries in Emergency Department date: 2018-12-26 words: 3806 flesch: 65 summary: Abstract Introduction: Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are one of the most important causes of death in patients under the age of 25 years and is responsible for one third of total deaths caused by trauma. An epidemiologic study of traumatic brain injuries in emergency department. keywords: 0.001; accidents; article; brain; care; common; consciousness; contusion; countries; death; emergency; epidemiology; epidural; factors; findings; gcs; head; hemorrhage; hospital; independent; injuries; injury; intensive; intracranial; iran; level; medical; motorcycle; need; outcome; patients; pattern; presence; prevalence; ref; results; risk; scan; sciences; study; subdural; table; tbi; trauma; traumatic; unit; university; variables; years cache: aaem-291.pdf plain text: aaem-291.txt item: #416 of 640 id: aaem-292 author: Sabzghabaei, Anita; Shojaee, Majid; Alimohammadi, Hossein; Derakhshanfar, Hojjat; Kashani, Parvin; Nassiriabrishamchi, Shohreh title: The Effect of Emergency Department Overcrowding on Efficiency of Emergency Medicine Residents’ Education date: 2018-12-26 words: 2646 flesch: 62 summary: International perspectives on emergency department crowding. Key words: Crowding; emergency department; education; resistance training Cite this article as: Sabzghabaei A, Shojaee M, Alimohammadi H, Derakhshanfar H, Kashani P, Nassiriabrishamchi S. The effect of emergency department overcrowding on efficiency of emergency medicine residents’ education. keywords: acute; attends; beheshti; care; department; edo; education; effect; efficiency; emergency; emrs; environment; free; iran; med; medical; medicine; overcrowded; overcrowding; relationship; residents; results; sciences; score; shahid; shifts; skills; study; teaching; tehran; time; training; unit; university; visits cache: aaem-292.pdf plain text: aaem-292.txt item: #417 of 640 id: aaem-293 author: Moradi, Ali Mohammad; Aj, Omid; Paydar, Shahram; Ketabchi, Farzaneh; Sheid Moosavi, Seyed Mostafa; Bolandparvaz, Shahram; Abassi, Hamid Reza; Tamadon, Aryan Dokht; Mehrabani, Davood title: The Effect of Blood Loss in the Presence and Absence of Severe Soft Tissue Injury on Hemodynamic and Metabolic Parameters; an Experimental study date: 2018-12-26 words: 3337 flesch: 61 summary: Rönn T, Lendemans S, de Groot H, Petrat F. A new model of severe hemorrhagic shock in rats. Abstract Introduction: The effect of severe soft tissue injury on the severity of hemorrhagic shock is still unknown. keywords: absence; access; animals; arterial; article; base; blood; central; changes; coagulopathy; decrease; difference; effect; emergency; excess; experimental; group; hemodynamic; hemorrhagic; hemorrhagic shock; injury; iran; mean; medical; metabolic; minutes; model; p<0.001; parameters; presence; pressure; rats; results; sciences; severe; severe soft; shahid; sham; shiraz; shock; shock group; significant; soft; soft tissue; study; time; tissue; tissue injury; trauma; traumatic; university cache: aaem-293.pdf plain text: aaem-293.txt item: #418 of 640 id: aaem-294 author: Monsef Kasmaee, Vahid; Zohrevandi, Behzad; Asadi, Payman; Shakouri, Negar title: Non-Judicial Hanging in Guilan Province, Iran between 2011 and 2013 date: 2018-12-26 words: 2698 flesch: 69 summary: Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed the epidemiological pattern of suicide cases with the hanging method who were admitted to Poorsina Hospital, Rasht, Iran from 2011 to 2013. 7 (11.9%) had a history of suicide attempts by hanging. keywords: abuse; age; attempts; cases; data; death; different; diploma; disorders; education; emergency; hanging; health; high; history; iran; judicial; level; male; medical; men; non; outcome; patients; people; prevalence; psychological; results; school; sciences; status; study; substance; suicide; unemployed; university; years cache: aaem-294.pdf plain text: aaem-294.txt item: #419 of 640 id: aaem-295 author: Asadi, Payman; Monsef Kasmaei, Vahid; Ziabari, Seyyed Zia; Zohrevandi, Behzad; Moadab Manesh, Aslan title: Prevalence of Tramadol Consumption in First Seizure Patients; a One-Year Cross-sectional Study date: 2018-12-26 words: 1787 flesch: 67 summary: Key words: Seizures; tramadol; prevalence; epidemiology Cite this article as: Asadi P, Monsef Kasmaei V, Ziabari SZ, Zohrevandi B, Moadab Manesh A. Prevalence of tramadol consumption in first seizure patients; a one-year cross-sectional study. Mean age of first seizure patients was 26.43 ± 6.48 years (range: 16-55 years; 70.5% male). keywords: consumption; data; days; dose; duration; emergency; history; hours; iran; lower; mean; medical; patients; present; rasht; sciences; seizure; study; total; tramadol; university cache: aaem-295.pdf plain text: aaem-295.txt item: #420 of 640 id: aaem-296 author: Zohrevandi, Behzad; Monsef Kasmaee, Vahid; Asadi, Payman; Tajik, Hosna title: Third Ventricle Colloid Cyst as a Cause of Sudden Drop Attacks of a 13-Year-Old Boy date: 2018-12-26 words: 1471 flesch: 62 summary: Finally, the brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed the diagnosis of third ventricle colloid cyst and the patient was under- went surgery and discharged without any problem (Figure 2). Key words: Colloid cyst; sudden death; hydrocephalus Cite This Article as: Zohrevandi B, Kasmaie BM, Asadi P, Tajic H. Third ventricle colloid cyst as a cause of sudden drop attacks of a 13-year-old boy. keywords: article; attacks; boy; brain; cases; colloid; colloid cyst; complaint; cyst; death; diagnosis; drop; emergency; guilan; headache; intracranial; kasmaie; medical; mri; neurologic; old; pressure; rare; report; rights; sciences; sudden; times; university; ventricle; year cache: aaem-296.pdf plain text: aaem-296.txt item: #421 of 640 id: aaem-297 author: Najari, Fares; Alimohammadi, Ali Mohammad title: An Immediate Death by Seat Belt Compression; a Forensic Medicine Report date: 2018-12-26 words: 2431 flesch: 67 summary: Key words: Seat belts; accidents, traffic; death; sudden Cite this article as: Najari F, Alimohammadi AM. Improper use of this type of seat belt can also lead to soft tissue injuries and even small bowel perforation and rupture of solid or- gans (8, 9). keywords: abdominal; accident; article; authors; autopsy; belt; body; car; case; compression; death; driving; emergency; examination; forensic; fracture; health; heart; hematomas; hemorrhage; injuries; injury; iran; left; lesions; medical; medicine; neck; normal; patients; point; report; road; rupture; safety; seat; signs; speed; tehran; traffic; type; use; year cache: aaem-297.pdf plain text: aaem-297.txt item: #422 of 640 id: aaem-298 author: Tsai, Yuh Feng; Chen, Wei Yu; Chiao, Chung Fang; Wang, Tzong Luen; Lin, Aming Chor-Ming title: A 78-Year-Old Woman with Fecaloid Vaginal Discharge date: 2018-12-26 words: 1171 flesch: 56 summary: Colouterine fistula secondary to sigmoid cancer is a very rare condition. Colouterine fistula can present with malodorous vaginal discharge. keywords: abdominopelvic; cancer; case; colon; colouterine; department; diagnosis; discharge; emergency; fecal; fistula; formation; hospital; kong; memorial; patient; shin; sigmoid; taipei; taiwan; uterus; vaginal cache: aaem-298.pdf plain text: aaem-298.txt item: #423 of 640 id: aaem-299 author: Baratloo, Alireza; safari, Saeed; Elfil, Mohamed; Negida, Ahmed title: Part 3: Positive and Negative Likelihood Ratios of Diagnostic Tests date: 2018-12-26 words: 958 flesch: 58 summary: Calculation: Positive likelihood ratio (LR+): 2015;3(3):114-6. Introduction: Calculation: Positive likelihood ratio (LR+): keywords: diagnostic; disease; emergency; likelihood; negative; positive; probability; ratio; sensitivity; specificity; test cache: aaem-299.pdf plain text: aaem-299.txt item: #424 of 640 id: aaem-3 author: Baziboroun, Mana; Bayani, Masomeh; Kamrani, Ghodsieh; Saeedi, Shahab; Sharbatdaran, Majid title: Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease in an Iranian Woman; a Rare but Important Cause of Lymphadenopathy date: 2019-01-11 words: 2513 flesch: 55 summary: Fever with lymphadenopathy–Kikuchi Fujimoto disease, a great masquerader: a case report. An uncommon presentation of Kikuchi Fujimoto disease: a case report with literature review. keywords: article; attribution; authors; babol; biopsy; case; clinical; commons; creative; diagnosis; disease; fever; fujimoto; iran; kfd; kikuchi; laboratory; level; license; like; literature; lymphadenitis; lymphadenopathy; lymphoma; medical; medicine; neck; necrotizing; negative; nodes; noncommercial; normal; patient; presentation; range; rare; report; research; review; right; sciences; sle; terms; tests; treatment; tuberculosis; university; woman cache: aaem-3.pdf plain text: aaem-3.txt item: #425 of 640 id: aaem-30 author: Zohrevandi, Behzad; Monsef Kasmaee, Vahid; Asadi, Payman; Tajik, Hosna title: Report of 121 Cases of Bell's Palsy Referred to the Emergency Department date: 2018-11-14 words: 3204 flesch: 66 summary: Discussion: The main finding of the present study revealed the equal gender and occupational distribution, higher in- cidence of disease in fourth decade of life, significant higher incidence in summer and autumn, significant higher grades of nerve damage (grade V and VI), and finally significant higher incidence of ear pain and taste disturbance in IFP patients. In a research performed by Lee et al on IFP patients, it was shown that 63.3% of patients had a higher severity of nerve involvement (HB grade>IV) (23). keywords: age; analysis; article; autumn; bell; clinical; damage; decade; department; diabetes; different; disease; disturbance; ear; emergency; facial; factors; fourth; gender; grade; higher; hyperacusis; ifp; incidence; iran; life; male; medical; nerve; p<0.001; pain; palsy; paralysis; patients; peripheral; rate; recurrent; sciences; seasonal; severity; significant; studies; study; summer; symptoms; taste; tearing; university; years cache: aaem-30.pdf plain text: aaem-30.txt item: #426 of 640 id: aaem-304 author: Nasr-Esfahani, Mohammad; Boroumand, Amir Bahador; Kolahdouzan, Mohsen title: Early Intubation vs. Supportive Care in Management of Severe Blunt Chest Trauma; a Randomized Trial Study date: 2019-07-10 words: 3322 flesch: 57 summary: 90.6% of those in early intubation group and 68.8% of those in the control group showed complete recovery (p = 0.03). Abstract: Introduction: Early intubation is one of the critical issues in patients with chest trauma. keywords: 24h; access; acute; arrival; article; attribution; better; blood; blunt; care; chest; clinical; commons; control; creative; data; department; difference; duration; early; early intubation; emergency; groups; hospitalization; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; indications; injury; intubation; isfahan; journal; license; medical; medicine; noncommercial; outcomes; patients; rate; recovery; respiratory; results; severe; severity; significant; study; supportive; surgery; terms; trauma; traumatic cache: aaem-304.pdf plain text: aaem-304.txt item: #427 of 640 id: aaem-31 author: Derakhshanfar, Hojjat; Hashemi, Behrooz; Manouchehrifar, Mohammad; Kashani, Parvin; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi title: Knowledge of Emergency Medicine Residents in Relation to Prevention of Tetanus date: 2018-11-14 words: 4260 flesch: 58 summary: The results of the present study showed the necessity of providing further instructions for emergency medicine residents on the diagnosis and management of suspected tetanus cases. In the present study, irrespective of educational years, what attracts attention is the low scores of residents in the diagnosis and management of wounds favoring tet- anus. keywords: access; answer; article; beheshti; cases; complete; conditions; copyright; correct; courses; data; department; educational; emergency; emergency medicine; good; hospital; incorrect; interventions; iran; job; knowledge; level; low; management; measures; medical; medicine; open; patients; physicians; present; prevention; questions; relation; residents; results; rights; sciences; score; section; shahid; study; susceptible; table; tehran; tetanus; therapeutic; tig; university; vaccination; vaccine; wounds; year cache: aaem-31.pdf plain text: aaem-31.txt item: #428 of 640 id: aaem-310 author: Rashidi Fakari, Farzaneh; Simbar, Masoumeh; Zadeh Modares, Shahrzad; Alavi Majd, Hamid title: Obstetric Triage Scales; a Narrative Review date: 2019-01-15 words: 4498 flesch: 58 summary: The comparison of different obstetric triage tools and sys- tems demonstrated the need for a standardized and widely- approved system for determining the proper priority and waiting times of obstetric care services, with high validity and reliability and standard definitions for obstetric triage. Abstract: Introduction: The growing demand for high-quality obstetric care and treatment has led to the advent and de- velopment of a field known as obstetric triage. keywords: access; acuity; analysis; articles; assessment; attribution; authors; beheshti; canadian; care; clinical; commons; conditions; creative; criteria; department; development; emergency; et al; examination; fetal; gestational; health; high; hospital; immediate; index; journal; labor; level; license; maternal; medical; medicine; methods; mfti; midwifery; minutes; narrative; nursing; obstetric; obstetric triage; otas; pain; patients; perinatal; pregnancy; questionnaire; rashidi; reliability; research; results; review; scale; sciences; shahid; standardized; study; system; team; time; tool; triage; university; urgent; validity; waiting; women cache: aaem-310.pdf plain text: aaem-310.txt item: #429 of 640 id: aaem-316 author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa; Parsa-Mahjoub, Mohammad; Ghodssi-ghassemabadi, Robabeh; Bitazar, Bita title: Association of Admission Blood Glucose Level with Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Acute Coronary Syndrome; a Cohort Study date: 2019-04-24 words: 3864 flesch: 57 summary: Many studies have argued about the possible direct impact of hyperglycemia on adverse outcomes of acute coronary syndrome patients through var- ious pathophysiological mechanisms. Figure 2: Area under the ROC curve of HEART score and a model containing HEART score plus blood glucose level in predicting the development of major adverse cardiac event (MACE) within 30-day follow-up of acute coronary syndrome patients. keywords: abgl; abnormal; acs; acute; admission; adverse; age; ami; article; association; blood; blood glucose; cardiac; coronary; data; days; department; development; diabetes; diabetic; ecg; emergency; events; follow; glucose; heart; higher; history; hospital; hyperglycemia; infarction; iran; journal; level; mace; major; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; myocardial; outcomes; patients; results; risk; score; second; studies; study; syndrome; tehran; troponin cache: aaem-316.pdf plain text: aaem-316.txt item: #430 of 640 id: aaem-319 author: Ramezani, Fatemeh; Bahrami-Amiri, Amir; Babahajian, Asrin; Shahsavari Nia, kavous; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Ubiquitin C-Terminal Hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) in Prediction of Computed Tomography Findings in Traumatic Brain Injury; a Meta-Analysis date: 2018-12-15 words: 5630 flesch: 59 summary: Sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic odds ratio of serum UCH-L1 was 0.97 (95% CI: 0.92 to 0.99), 0.40 (95% CI: 0.30 to 0.51) and 19.37 (95% CI: 7.25 to 51.75), respectively. Unclear Risk (number of CT positive and CT negative TBI patients), male gender frequency, sampling method (random, consecutive, convenience), the method of UCH-L1 assay, TBI severity and outcomes. keywords: access; acute; analysis; article; attribution; baikpour; biomarkers; brain; brain injury; brain"[tiab; cohort; commons; creative; data; diagnostic; elisa; emergency; et al; figure; findings; head; hours; hydrolase; injuries; injury; intracranial; iran; journal; lesions; level; license; mean; meta; mild; negative; noncommercial; open; papa; patients; plasma; positive; prediction; present; review; risk; sensitivity; serum; smd; specificity; studies; study; systematic; tbi; terminal; terms; tomography; traumatic; traumatic brain; ubiquitin; uch; usa; value; www.jemerg.com; yousefifard; © © cache: aaem-319.pdf plain text: aaem-319.txt item: #431 of 640 id: aaem-32 author: Majidinejad, Saeed; Esmailian, Mehrdad; Emadi, Mehrdad title: Comparison of Intravenous Ketamine with Morphine in Pain Relief of Long Bones Fractures: a Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-11-14 words: 3000 flesch: 57 summary: Weinbroum et al evaluated the simul- taneous administration of morphine/ketamine com- pared with morphine alone in decreasing pain severity after surgery and showed that simultaneous admin- istration of morphine and ketamine results in a signifi- cant decrease in pain severity perception by patients (15). Discussion: The results of the present study showed that admin- istration of a low dose of ketamine (0.5 mg/kg) results in a significant decrease in pain severity of long bone fractures. keywords: access; acute; administration; article; available; blind; bones; clinical; complications; decrease; dose; double; drug; effect; emergency; fractures; groups; intervention; isfahan; ketamine; long; low; management; medical; medications; minutes; morphine; pain; patients; present; relief; results; sciences; severity; significant; similar; studies; study; success; trauma; treatment; trial; unit; university; use cache: aaem-32.pdf plain text: aaem-32.txt item: #432 of 640 id: aaem-329 author: Faridaalee, Gholamreza; Keyghobadi Khajeh, Fatemeh title: Serum and cerebrospinal fluid levels of S-100B is a biomarker for spinal cord injury; a systematic review and meta-analysis date: 2019-02-12 words: 5790 flesch: 61 summary: Abstract: Introduction: There is controversy regarding the value of serum or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of S100 calcium-binding protein B (S-100β) in spinal cord injury (SCI). In all age groups, the highest rate of spinal cord injury belongs to incomplete tetraplegia, and after that, complete paraple- ∗Corresponding Author: Fatemeh Keyghobadi Khajeh, Community Depart- ment of Faculty Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Golgasht Street, Tabriz, Iran; Email: f.keigobadi@yahoo.com; Tel/Fax: 04133829540- 09149135765 gia, complete tetraplegia, and incomplete paraplegia are the most common, respectively (5). keywords: academic; access; acute; analysis; animals; archives; articles; asady; assessment; attribution; baikpour; biomarkers; brain; cerebrospinal; classification; clinical; commons; conclusion; control; cord; cord injury; creative; csf; data; databases; detection; diagnostic; elisa; emergency; et al; faridaalee; figure; fluid; groups; heterogeneity; high; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; initial; injuries; injury; journal; level; license; mean; medicine; meta; methods; moderate; noncommercial; open; patients; present; protein; quality; results; review; s-100β; s-100β protein; sample; sci; sciences; search; serum; serum level; severe; severity; significance; smd; spinal; spinal cord; spine; studies; study; systematic; systematic review; terms; time; traumatic; treatment; value; yousefifard cache: aaem-329.pdf plain text: aaem-329.txt item: #433 of 640 id: aaem-33 author: Heydari, Farhad; Esmailian, Mehrdad; Dehghanniri, Masoumeh title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography in the Initial Evaluation of Patients with Penetrating Chest Trauma date: 2018-11-14 words: 2951 flesch: 56 summary: However, Gentry Wilkerson and Stone in their studies reported a sensitivity of 85% to 100% for ultrasonography detection in chest injuries. After CXR, the patient under- went chest ultrasonography. keywords: accuracy; article; assessment; chest; cxr; department; detection; diagnostic; emergency; findings; hemothorax; high; hours; initial; injuries; injury; iran; isfahan; likelihood; medical; medicine; negative; patients; penetrating; pneumothorax; positive; predictive; present; primary; radiography; ratio; results; sciences; sensitivity; shahid; specificity; studies; study; tci; trauma; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; value cache: aaem-33.pdf plain text: aaem-33.txt item: #434 of 640 id: aaem-330 author: Vafaee, Reza; Soori, Hamid; Hedayati, Mehdi; Hatamabadi, Hamid Reza title: Effects of Supplementation and Training on Ameliorating Lipid Profiles and Protection against Coronary Artery Disease; an Experimental Study date: 2019-02-12 words: 4149 flesch: 59 summary: C = control group, T = train or exercise group, S = supplement or resveratrol, T+S = exer- cise+resveratrol. There was a significant difference between the TG plasma level of exercise group after acute and endurance exercises (p = 0.03, figure 1). keywords: access; acute; antioxidant; article; attribution; beheshti; changes; cho; commons; control; creative; decrease; density; difference; disease; effect; endurance; exercise; exercise group; exercise+rev; group; hdl; high; increase; injury; iran; journal; ldl; levels; license; lipid; lipoprotein; low; medical; medicine; noncommercial; oxidative; plasma; profiles; protocol; rats; research; resveratrol; rev; sciences; shahid; significant; stress; study; supplement; supplementation; t+s; tehran; terms; training; university; vldl cache: aaem-330.pdf plain text: aaem-330.txt item: #435 of 640 id: aaem-332 author: Rasouli, Hamid Reza; Aliakbar Esfahani, Ali; Nobakht, Mohammad; Eskandari, Mohsen; Mahmoodi, Sardollah; Goodarzi, Hassan; Abbasi Farajzadeh, Mohsen title: Outcomes of Crowding in Emergency Departments; a Systematic Review date: 2019-09-08 words: 5943 flesch: 59 summary: Thus, this systematic review aims to describe the consequences of ED crowding for emergency patients, emer- gency care providers, and healthcare systems. Dissatisfaction of emergency patients (22-25), medication errors and adverse events (26-29), and patient death (16, 17, 19-21, 30-36) were also common consequences. keywords: academic; academic emergency; access; admission; adverse; american; annals; article; assessment; association; attribution; bed; clinical; cohort; commons; consequences; creative; cross; crowding; delay; delivery; department; department crowding; der; discharge; ed crowding; effects; emergency; emergency department; emergency healthcare; emergency medicine; emergency patients; errors; healthcare; high; high ed; hollander; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; inpatient; journal; keywords; large; lee; length; license; linden; los; medical; medication; mortality; noncommercial; number; occupancy; open; outcomes; overcrowding; pain; patients; patients high; pediatric; pines; poor; prolonged; provision; quality; rate; related; research; result; review; satisfaction; sciences; sectional; service; stay; studies; study; systematic; table; terms; time; treatment; triage; van; visits; waiting cache: aaem-332.pdf plain text: aaem-332.txt item: #436 of 640 id: aaem-333 author: Khazaei, Afshin; Esmaeili, Maryam; Navab, Elham title: The Most and Least Stressful Prehospital Emergencies from Emergency Medical Techniciansans' View Point; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2019-02-15 words: 4375 flesch: 58 summary: Limitation Because of the cumulative effect of stresses in exposure to pre-hospital emergencies and heterogeneity of traumatic events, the PTSD in the EMTs cannot be attributed to a spe- cial prehospital emergency. Keywords: Emergency medical services; emergency medical technicians; stress disorders, post-traumatic; mental disor- ders; emergency treatment Cite this article as: Khazaei A, Esmaeili M, Navab E. The Most and Least Stressful Prehospital Emergencies from Emergency Medical Techni- cians’ View Point; a Cross-Sectional Study. keywords: access; age; analysis; article; attribution; bases; cardiovascular; care; characteristics; checklist; commons; creative; criteria; data; different; disorder; emergencies; emergency; emts; environmental; events; experience; exposure; factors; frequency; gynecologic; higher; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; iran; items; journal; license; logistic; mean; medical; medicine; multivariate; non; noncommercial; number; nursing; open; participants; personnel; point; post; prehospital; prevalence; ptsd; results; road; score; significant; stressful; study; symptoms; technicians; tehran; terms; total; traumatic; types; view; work; years cache: aaem-333.pdf plain text: aaem-333.txt item: #437 of 640 id: aaem-336 author: Hadavand, Fahimeh; Amouzegar, Atefeh; Amid, Hessam title: Pro-Calcitonin, Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate and C - reactive Protein in Predicting Diabetic Foot Ulcer Characteristics; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2019-07-10 words: 3742 flesch: 54 summary: In the study by Massara et al., exploring the relationship be- tween these markers and the onset of diabetic foot ulcer, showed that PCT and CRP markers had the highest diagnos- tic values for predicting the incidence of diabetic foot ulcers (13). In the study by Victoria et al., the sensitivity and specificity of PCT in prediction of diabetic foot ulcer infection were 81% and 90%, respectively. keywords: access; analysis; arterial; article; attribution; best; characteristics; class; commons; creative; crp; diabetes; diabetic; diabetic foot; disease; erythrocyte; esr; foot; foot ulcer; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infection; iran; journal; levels; license; markers; mean; medical; medicine; noncommercial; open; osteomyelitis; pad; patients; pct; peripheral; presence; procalcitonin; protein; rate; reactive; role; sedimentation; sensitivity; serum; severity; specificity; study; table; terms; ulcer; value; wound cache: aaem-336.pdf plain text: aaem-336.txt item: #438 of 640 id: aaem-339 author: Bolvardi, Ehsan; Alizadeh, Behnaz; Foroughian, Mahdi; Abbasi, Bita; Habibzadeh, Seyed Reza; Akhavan, Reza title: Quebec Decision Rule in Determining the Need for Radiography in Reduction of Shoulder Dislocation; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2019-02-19 words: 3109 flesch: 56 summary: Mofidi M, Ahmadi K. Audit on necessity of radiographs in anterior shoulder dislocations. Audit on necessity of ra- diographs in anterior shoulder dislocations. keywords: accuracy; age; anterior; characteristics; data; decision; department; diagnostic; dislocation; emergency; findings; fracture; journal; mashhad; medical; medicine; need; negative; patients; positive; post; pre; predictive; qdr; quebec; radiographies; radiography; reduction; results; rule; sciences; sensitivity; shoulder; specificity; study; university; value; years cache: aaem-339.pdf plain text: aaem-339.txt item: #439 of 640 id: aaem-34 author: Azizkhani, Reza; Kanani, Soheila; Sharifi, Ali; Golshani, Keihan; Masoumi, Babak; Ahmadi, Omid title: Oral Chloral Hydrate Compare with Rectal Thiopental in Pediatric Procedural Sedation and Analgesia; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-11-14 words: 3483 flesch: 58 summary: This drug are widely used in pediatric sedation. Low dose of rectal thiopental sodium for pediatric sedation in spiral computed tomography study. keywords: action; administration; agents; article; blood; children; chloral; clinical; desaturation; diarrhea; diastolic; dose; drug; duration; effective; efficacy; emergency; groups; hydrate; imaging; infants; isfahan; medical; minutes; non; och; onset; oxygen; patients; pediatric; prescription; present; pressure; psa; ramsay; randomized; rectal; rst; safety; sciences; score; sedation; short; sodium; studies; study; terms; test; thiopental; time; tomography; trial; university cache: aaem-34.pdf plain text: aaem-34.txt item: #440 of 640 id: aaem-344 author: Dehghani, Khatereh; Shojaie, Mohammad; Pourdavood, Amir Hossein; Khajouei, Mohammad title: Stress Cardiomyopathy (Takotsubo syndrome) Following Accidental Methadone Poisoning; Report of Two Pediatric Cases date: 2019-03-09 words: 2832 flesch: 56 summary: Abstract: Methadone poisoning has become more common in the pediatric population due to extensive use of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). We herein report, two cases of stress cardiomyopathy in pedi- atrics following methadone poisoning. keywords: accidental; acute; article; authors; blood; cardiac; cardiomyopathy; case; center; children; consciousness; death; dehghani; department; drug; echocardiography; emergency; failure; gcs; girl; heart; interval; iran; jahrom; level; like; maintenance; management; medical; methadone; naloxone; open; opioid; overdose; patients; pediatric; poisoning; rate; reported; respiratory; second; stress; syndrome; syrup; toxicity; university; withdrawal cache: aaem-344.pdf plain text: aaem-344.txt item: #441 of 640 id: aaem-348 author: Bijwaard, Harmen; Wit, Fleur title: Comment on “Pregnancy Screening before Diagnostic Radiography in Emergency Department; an Educational Review” date: 2019-04-10 words: 845 flesch: 54 summary: In the Abstract it is stated: “Radiation exposure dur- ing pregnancy may have serious teratogenic effects to the fe- tus. In 2006, the National Academy of Sci- ences issued a report which highlighted the link between low levels of radiation exposure and the risk of teratogenesis and cancer induction.” keywords: department; diagnostic; emergency; exposure; fetus; imaging; pregnancy; radiation; radiography; radiological; ray; risk; screening; teratogenesis cache: aaem-348.pdf plain text: aaem-348.txt item: #442 of 640 id: aaem-349 author: Poorhosseini, Hamidreza; Saadat, Mohammad; Salarifar, Mojtaba; Mortazavi, Seyedeh Hamideh; Geraiely, Babak title: Pre-Hospital Delay and Its Contributing Factors in Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction; a Cross sectional Study date: 2019-06-11 words: 4526 flesch: 65 summary: Data gathering Data on the patients’ demographic information, personal and socioeconomic factors, marital status, educational level, ethnicity, place of longest stay, insurance type, physical ac- tivity level, mode of transfer to hospital, pain characteristics, pain onset time, door times, cardiovascular risk factors, and patients’ past medical history, as well as the infarct related artery were extracted from ischemic heart disease, angiog- raphy and angioplasty registries of the hospital, which have been described in details before (14). As a first re- port in Iran, we aimed to assess the duration of pre-hospital delay and its contributing factors in STEMI patients in the P-PCI era. keywords: access; acute; analysis; artery; article; attribution; atypical; beta; cabg; center; characteristics; chest; commons; coronary; countries; creative; delay; disease; door; education; elevation; emergency; factors; female; gender; heart; high; history; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypertension; infarction; iran; ischemic; level; license; longer; median; medical; myocardial; noncommercial; onset; open; opium; p2d; p<0.001; pain; patients; pci; poorhosseini; prehospital; self; shorter; stemi; study; table; tehran; terms; time; university cache: aaem-349.pdf plain text: aaem-349.txt item: #443 of 640 id: aaem-35 author: Paydar, Shahram; Bazrafkan, Hamid; Golestani, Nasim; Roozbeh, Jamshid; Akrami, Abbas; Moradi, Ali Mohammad title: Effects of Intravenous Fluid Therapy on Clinical and Biochemical Parameters of Trauma Patients date: 2018-11-14 words: 3250 flesch: 61 summary: Further studies including patients with more severe injury are required to evaluate the impact of fluid therapy on different clinical and para-clinical aspects of trauma patients. The patients younger than 16 and older than 60 years old, pregnant women, diabetic patients, those receiving blood trans- fusion, patients suffered from hepatic or cardiac failure, and subjects with coagulation abnormalities were ex- cluded from the study. keywords: article; base; blood; bun; changes; clinical; coagulation; decreasing; effects; emergency; fluid; gas; hco3; hct; hours; hydration; infusion; injury; iran; level; liter; markers; medical; metabolic; mild; normal; p<0.001; parameters; patients; pattern; pco2; platelet; present; pressure; rate; resuscitation; saline; sciences; severity; shahid; shiraz; significant; study; therapy; time; trauma; university; values; venous; wbc cache: aaem-35.pdf plain text: aaem-35.txt item: #444 of 640 id: aaem-350 author: Hoseininejad, Seyed Mohammad; Jahed, Reza; Sazgar, Mohammad; Jahanian, Fatemeh; Mousavi, Seyed Jaber; Montazer, Syed Hosein; Asadi, Touraj; Aminiahidashti, Hamed title: One-Month Follow-Up of Patients with Unspecified Abdominal Pain Referring to the Emergency Department; a Cohort Study date: 2019-08-18 words: 3604 flesch: 58 summary: In our study, abdominal pain patients discharged with- out a definite diagnosis who were re-visited in the gastroen- terology clinic were more likely to receive a definite diagno- sis. Abstract: Introduction: About one third of patients referring to emergency department (ED) with abdominal pain, are discharged without a definite diagnosis. keywords: abdominal; abdominal pain; acute; age; article; attribution; cases; cause; clear; clinic; commons; creative; data; definite; department; diagnosis; discharged; emergency; follow; gastroenterology; groups; history; hospital; iran; journal; license; mazandaran; mean; medical; medicine; month; non; noncommercial; older; outpatient; p =; pain; patients; sari; sciences; significant; study; terms; unclear; university cache: aaem-350.pdf plain text: aaem-350.txt item: #445 of 640 id: aaem-352 author: Behnaz, Faranak; Ebrahimy Dehkordy, Masih; Azizi Faresani, Hamidreza; Shahmohammadi, Mohammadreza title: Pulmonary Edema Following Intrathecal Fluorescein Injection; a Case Report date: 2019-02-16 words: 1787 flesch: 49 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem F. Behnaz et al. 2 Figure 1: Changes observed 10 minutes after intrathecal fluorescein injection. and then re-injected via a lumbar puncture at the level of L4-L5 spinal column. Discussion The use of intrathecal fluorescein injection (in the subarach- noid space) for detecting the source of leakage, dates back to 1960, when Kirchner and Proud used this method to rec- ognize and locate CSF fistulas in the cranial base (11). keywords: administration; angiography; article; author; behnaz; blood; case; cerebrospinal; complications; csf; ebrahimy; edema; emergency; faranak; fluid; fluorescein; injection; intrathecal; intravenous; iran; journal; leakage; medical; ophthalmology; patient; pressure; pulmonary; rate; reactions; report; research; severe; sodium; solution; tajrish; tehran; use cache: aaem-352.pdf plain text: aaem-352.txt item: #446 of 640 id: aaem-356 author: Pouraghaghaei, Mahboub; Shahsavarinia, Kavous; Kakaei, Farzad; Gholipour Khalili, Sevda; Mohammadpour, Babak; Moharamzahed, Payman; Balafar, Moloud title: Value of CA-125 Glycoprotein in Predicting Acute Appendicitis; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2019-04-13 words: 3067 flesch: 59 summary: Sur- prisingly, NAA patients had higher CA-125 levels compared with AA patients. However, Sevinc et al. found a significant positive correlation between CA-125 levels and AA diagnosis, which also decreased after the surgical appendectomy (11). keywords: abdominal; acute; analysis; antigen; appendicitis; article; blood; ca-125; cases; cells; characteristics; correlation; curve; diagnosis; emergency; findings; group; higher; inflammation; journal; levels; marker; mean; medical; medicine; naa; patients; peritoneal; results; roc; sciences; sensitivity; serum; severe; specificity; study; tabriz; university; value; white cache: aaem-356.pdf plain text: aaem-356.txt item: #447 of 640 id: aaem-358 author: Ebrahimi, Mohsen; Habibzadeh, Seyed Reza; Ahmadi, Syyed Reza; Khajeh Nasiri, Samaneh; Kaveh, Mohammad Majid; Foroughian, Mahdi title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasonography in Diagnosis of Metatarsal Bone Fracture; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2019-08-25 words: 3051 flesch: 55 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Metatarsus is one of the most common sites in the sole of foot bones fractures. Sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative likelihood ratio of ultrasonography in detection of metatarsal bone fracture were 96.7% (95% CI: 0.83-0.99), 84.5% (95% CI: 0.73-0.92), 73.1% (95% CI: 0.57-0.85), and 98.3% (95% CI: 0.91-0.99), respectively. keywords: academic; accuracy; addition; ankle; article; bone; clinical; data; department; detection; diagnosis; ebrahimi; emergency; eng; epub; findings; foot; foroughian; fractures; high; injuries; iran; journal; mashhad; medicine; metatarsal; negative; open; patients; pmid; predictive; presence; radiography; results; sensitivity; sonographic; specificity; stress; studies; study; trauma; ultrasonography; ultrasound; use; value cache: aaem-358.pdf plain text: aaem-358.txt item: #448 of 640 id: aaem-36 author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Aida; Shirvani, Reza; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa title: A 55-Year Old Man with Acute Painful Flank Mass, a Case Report date: 2018-11-14 words: 1271 flesch: 63 summary: Lumbar hernia could be divided into two groups congenital and acquired (8). Abrahamson J. Postoperative ventral abdominal hernia. keywords: abdominal; acute; alavi; beheshti; case; congenital; emergency; figure; flank; hernia; iran; left; lhs; lumbar; man; mass; medical; moghaddam; old; pain; painful; report; sciences; shahid; tehran; triangle; university; year cache: aaem-36.pdf plain text: aaem-36.txt item: #449 of 640 id: aaem-362 author: Haghighatkhah, Hamidreza; Sanei Taheri, Morteza; Kharazi, Seyed Mohammadhadi; Zamini, Maryam; Rabani Khorasgani, Sahar; Jahangiri Zarkani, Zahra title: Hepatic Artery Aneurysms as a Rare but Important Cause of Abdominal Pain; a Case Series date: 2019-04-06 words: 2317 flesch: 56 summary: Case 5 The patient was a 24-year-old male with history of gunshot traumatization and surgery due to hepatic artery aneurysm and liver hematoma. Discussion Visceral aneurysms such as hepatic artery aneurysm should be considered as a rare but important differential diagno- sis of acute abdominal pain. keywords: abdominal; acute; aneurysm; angiography; arrow; artery; article; axial; biliary; case; cect; contrast; embolization; emergency; epigastric; figure; haa; haas; hematoma; hepatic; hepatic artery; history; imaging; important; journal; left; lesion; liver; old; open; pain; pancreatitis; patient; proper; pseudo; reported; right; rupture; scan; size; surgery; tomography; transplantation; treatment; year cache: aaem-362.pdf plain text: aaem-362.txt item: #450 of 640 id: aaem-365 author: Babahajian, Asrin; Khomand, Payam; Manoochehri, Farhad; Fakhimi, Roozbeh; Ahsan, Behrooz; Amjadian, Mohiadin; yousefinejad, vahid title: Seizure Prevalence and Its Related Factors in Tramadol Intoxication; a Brief Report date: 2019-05-08 words: 3168 flesch: 60 summary: Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, history of seizure increased the risk of seizure in patients taking tramadol, and the increase in dose correlated with a significant increase in seizure frequency. Conclusion Based on the findings of this study, a history of seizure in- creased the risk of seizure in patients taking tramadol, and an increase in the dose correlated with a significant increase in seizure frequency. keywords: administration; article; attribution; clinical; commons; creative; data; dose; drug; emergency; factors; findings; frequency; groups; higher; history; incidence; increase; intake; intoxication; iqr; iran; journal; kurdistan; license; median; medical; medicine; noncommercial; patients; prevalence; results; risk; sanandaj; sciences; seizure; significant; study; terms; therapeutic; toxicology; tramadol; university; use cache: aaem-365.pdf plain text: aaem-365.txt item: #451 of 640 id: aaem-367 author: Sahebi, Ali; Ghomian, Zohreh; Sarvar, Mohammad title: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in 2017 Kermanshah Earthquake; a Qualitative Study date: 2019-06-11 words: 5950 flesch: 48 summary: It was stated that insuf- ficient attention was paid to teaching safety rules and regula- tions prior to Kermanshah earthquake air emergency. Actually, air emergency teams usually pay less atten- tion to the standard flight rules and regulations during the disasters with vastly destructed infrastructure and continu- ous increase in mortalities and injuries; and instead, focus on the transfer of injured patients to healthcare centers as This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). keywords: access; air; air emergency; analysis; area; article; attention; attribution; categories; category; center; challenges; codes; commons; comprehensive; content; coordination; creative; data; disasters; earthquake; education; effective; emergency; emergency medical; equipment; health; helicopter; helicopter emergency; hems; high; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; inadequate; injured; integrated; interviews; iran; journal; kermanshah; kermanshah earthquake; knowledge; lack; license; main; management; medical; medicine; method; natural; navigation; noncommercial; number; old; open; organizations; participants; patients; people; personnel; preparedness; present; process; program; qualitative; relief; research; results; rules; safety; sahebi; services; specialized; staff; study; sub; system; systematic; team; terms; training; transportation; triage cache: aaem-367.pdf plain text: aaem-367.txt item: #452 of 640 id: aaem-368 author: Razzaghi, Alireza; Soori, Hamid; Kavousi, Amir; Abadi, Alireza; Khosravi, Ardeshir title: Factors with the Highest Impact on Road Traffic Deaths in Iran; an Ecological Study date: 2019-07-20 words: 4505 flesch: 62 summary: By considering these factors in presentational and con- trolling programs done on road traffic injuries, it is possible to further decrease road traffic deaths. Abstract: Introduction: The largest proportion of road traffic deaths (RTDs) happen in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). keywords: article; attribution; beheshti; center; commons; countries; covariates; creative; data; deaths; density; ecological; economic; factors; gdp; growth; health; highest; increase; injuries; injury; iran; license; medical; medicine; model; negative; noncommercial; number; people; population; prevention; provinces; rate; related; report; research; results; road; road traffic; rtcs; rtds; rural; safety; sciences; shahid; statistical; study; tehran; traffic; transportation; university; urbanization; value; vehicles; world cache: aaem-368.pdf plain text: aaem-368.txt item: #453 of 640 id: aaem-369 author: Asadi, Payman; Zia Ziabari, Seyyed Mahdi; Naghshe Jahan, Donya; Jafarian Yazdi, Arezoo title: Electrocardiogram Changes as an Independent Predictive Factor of Mortality in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke; a Cohort Study date: 2019-04-28 words: 3674 flesch: 62 summary: Mortality rate was 14.1% among patients with stroke with normal ECG, while in stroke patients with abnormal ECG the rate increased to 45.1%. In the present study, the highest rate of mortality in stroke patients who had changes in ECG, belonged to those who had AF with 73.8%. keywords: abnormalities; acute; age; atrial; block; brain; cardiac; cases; changes; common; data; department; diseases; ecg; emergency; evaluated; factors; findings; history; independent; inverted; ischemic; journal; medicine; mortality; neurology; odds; outcome; pathologic; patients; present; rate; results; rhythm; segment; sinus; stroke; studies; study; times; wave; year cache: aaem-369.pdf plain text: aaem-369.txt item: #454 of 640 id: aaem-37 author: Ghafarzad, Amir; Tagizadieh, Ali; Moharamzadeh, Payman; Shahsavari Nia, kavous; Majidi, Golnar title: Thoracic Pneumorrhachis in Patient with Lumbar Fractures; a Case Report date: 2018-11-14 words: 1697 flesch: 58 summary: 2. Hartig D, Williams R. A case of pneumorachis as a consequence of thoracic spinal fractures. Discussion: Pneumorrhachis, as the presence of free intra-spinal air, is also called aerorachia or epidural emphysema. keywords: air; article; canal; case; cord; emergency; fracture; injury; intra; iran; lumbar; medical; number; pain; patient; pleural; pneumocephalus; pneumorrhachis; presence; rare; report; scan; sciences; space; spinal; spine; subarachnoid; surg; surgery; tabriz; thoracic; trauma; traumatic; university cache: aaem-37.pdf plain text: aaem-37.txt item: #455 of 640 id: aaem-370 author: Navab, Elham; Esmaeili, Maryam; Poorkhorshidi, Nastaran; Salimi, Rasoul; Khazaei, Afshin; Mogimbigi, Abbas title: Predictors of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes in Pre-Hospital Settings; a Retrospective Cross-sectional Study date: 2019-07-10 words: 7022 flesch: 57 summary: Introduction Out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is considered as one of the leading causes of mortality around the world due to its high incidence, low survival rate, and unpredictability, and has attracted much attention in recent years (1). Nighttime is associated with decreased survival for out of hospital cardiac arrests: A meta-analysis of observational studies. keywords: access; adjusted; age; ambulance; american; analysis; aor; arrest; article; association; attribution; bystander; cardiac; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary; care; cases; circulation; commons; council; cpr; creative; current; data; disease; duration; effect; effective; emergency; emts; endotracheal; et al; eti; factors; gender; hamadan; heart; history; hospital; hospital cardiac; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; important; initial; intubation; journal; license; management; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; multivariate; navab; noncommercial; ohca; open; outcomes; p<0.001; patients; prehospital; present; public; rate; regression; related; research; response; results; resuscitation; return; rhythm; rosc; sciences; shd; shockable; spontaneous; study; success; survival; terms; time; univariate; witnessed cache: aaem-370.pdf plain text: aaem-370.txt item: #456 of 640 id: aaem-371 author: Kilic, Deniz; yigit, ozlem; Kilic, Taylan; Buyurgan, Cagri Sefa; Dicle, Ozlem title: Epidemiologic Characteristics of Patients Admitted to Emergency Department with Dermatological Complaints; a Retrospective Cross sectional Study date: 2019-08-24 words: 4439 flesch: 56 summary: Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2019; 7 (1): e47 OR I G I N A L RE S E A RC H Epidemiologic Characteristics of Patients Admitted to Emergency Department with Dermatological Complaints; a Retrospective Cross sectional Study Deniz Kilic1, Ozlem Yigit2∗, Taylan Kilic3, Cagri Sefa Buyurgan4, Ozlem Dicle5 1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Kepez State Hospital, Antalya, Turkey. The aim of this study is to determine the epidemiologic characteristics of patients admitted to ED with dermatological complaints. keywords: acad; admissions; angioedema; antalya; article; attribution; care; characteristics; clinic; codes; common; complaints; consultations; control; creative; data; department; dermatological; dermatology; diagnosis; diseases; drug; emergencies; emergency; emergent; eps; eruptions; final; higher; hospital; hospitalization; hours; icd-10; infectious; kilic; license; medicine; non; open; outpatient; patients; population; previous; pruritus; rash; rates; results; retrospective; skin; study; time; triage; turkey; university; urgent; urticaria; venereol; visits cache: aaem-371.pdf plain text: aaem-371.txt item: #457 of 640 id: aaem-38 author: Rahmani, Farzad; Ebrahimi bakhtavar, Hanieh; Shahsavari nia, Kavous; Mohammadi, Neda title: Transient Unexplained Shock in 30-Year-Old Trauma Patient date: 2018-11-14 words: 1886 flesch: 55 summary: Department of Emergency medicine, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran Abstract Shock as an inadequate tissue perfusion is one of the frequent causes of death in trauma patients. Introduction:1 hock as an inadequate tissue perfusion is one of the frequent causes of death in trauma patients. keywords: allergy; anaphylactic; anaphylaxis; article; bites; care; case; clinical; department; diagnosis; ebrahimi; emergency; immunol; injury; insect; iran; manifestations; medical; medicine; minute; mmhg; old; origin; patient; physicians; rahmani; rapid; rate; reaction; report; respiratory; rights; sciences; shock; signs; symptoms; tabriz; trauma; treatment; university; unknown; year cache: aaem-38.pdf plain text: aaem-38.txt item: #458 of 640 id: aaem-382 author: Sharifi, Ali; Kasraianfard, Amir; Chavoshi Khamneh, Abdolhamid; Kanani, Soheila; Aldarraji, Mohamedali; Seif-Rabiei, Mohammad Ali; Derakhshanfar, Amir title: Value of Ultrasonography in Detection of Diaphragmatic Injuries Following Thoracoabdominal Penetrating Trauma; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2019-08-24 words: 3640 flesch: 51 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Diagnosis of diaphragmatic rupture following thoracoabdominal penetrating trauma is very chal- lenging in asymptomatic patients with stable vital signs. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed on patients referring to emergency department due to left thoracoabdominal stab wound during 2 years. keywords: accuracy; age; amir; area; article; chest; department; detection; diagnostic; diaphragmatic; diaphragmatic rupture; emergency; fast; general; hamadan; hemothorax; injuries; intercostal; iran; laceration; laparoscopy; left; mean; medical; medicine; negative; patients; penetrating; positive; posterior; rupture; scan; sensitivity; space; stab; study; surgery; thoracoabdominal; trauma; ultrasonography; wall; wound; years cache: aaem-382.pdf plain text: aaem-382.txt item: #459 of 640 id: aaem-386 author: Eftekhari, Adel; DehghaniTafti, Abbasali; Nasiriani, Khadijeh; Hajimaghsoudi, Majid; Fallahzadeh, Hossein; Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud title: Management of Preventable Deaths due to Road Traffic Injuries in Prehospital Phase; a Qualitative Study date: 2019-07-06 words: 9752 flesch: 55 summary: Topics on prehospital emergency care such as crash scene assessment, identification of work groups in emergency room (ER), identifying details of patient examina- tion, and triage ought to be covered in the syllabus of would- be rescuers such as students of nursing or EMS (44). Conclusion: The follow- ing measures are necessary to reduce preventable deaths due to RTIs in the prehospital phase: accurate clinical assessment of the victim on the scene, provision of high quality and accurate clinical care, enforcement of legal obligations and using protocols in the field of victim management, coordination of the involved organizations through identifying the duties and responsibilities of each organization, and full management of the crash scene by assigning a unique commander to each unit and creation of the highest level of safety on crash scene. keywords: -necessity; academic; access; accurate; aid; ambulance; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; care; cases; challenges; clinical; clinical care; commons; communication; coordination; countries; crash scene; creative; crescent; data; deaths; disasters; duties; educational; eftekhari; elongated; emergencies; emergency; emergency care; ems; ems staff; equipment; factors; giving; guidelines; health; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; important; injuries; injury; interventions; interviews; iran; journal; khorasani; knowledge; lack; license; low; major; management; medical; medicine; needs; noncommercial; open; organization; participants; patient; people; phase; physician; police; poor; prehospital; prehospital emergency; prehospital phase; presence; preventable; preventable deaths; primary; proper; protocols; provision; public; qualitative; quality; rapid; required; rescue; research; response; road; role; route; rtis; safety; scene; scene safety; sciences; shahid; skills; staff; study; subcategories; system; team; terms; time; traffic; training; transport; trauma; uniform; university; victim; work; world; zavareh cache: aaem-386.pdf plain text: aaem-386.txt item: #460 of 640 id: aaem-39 author: Kashani, Parvin; Mirbaha, Sahar title: Confusing Hypoxia in a 21-Year-Old Intubated Multiple Trauma Patient date: 2018-11-14 words: 1070 flesch: 59 summary: Acknowledgment: We would like to express our special thanks from emergency department staffs. Physical exami- nation revealed blood pressure of 150/70 mmHg, oxygen saturation (O2sat) of 60%, and pulse rate of 110/min. Examination of the tracheal tube site re- vealed incorrect esophageal placement. keywords: airway; beheshti; blood; chest; department; emergency; endotracheal; ett; examination; hospital; medical; medicine; multiple; o2sat; obstruction; old; patient; right; sciences; shahid; tehran; trauma; tube; university; year cache: aaem-39.pdf plain text: aaem-39.txt item: #461 of 640 id: aaem-392 author: Rasouli, Nafee; Malakouti, Seyed Kazem; Rezaeian, Mohsen; Saberi, Seyed Mehdi; Nojomi, Marzie; De Leo, Diego; Ramezani-Farani, Abbas title: Risk Factors of Suicide Death Based on Psychological Autopsy Method; a Case-Control Study date: 2019-09-01 words: 6045 flesch: 62 summary: The present study aimed to investigate suicide death risk factors based on psy- chological autopsy method. The frequency of previous his- tory of suicide attempt (p = 0.001), family history of suicide (p = 0.003), DSM IV Axis I disorders (p = 0.006), and substance and alcohol consumption (p = 0.01) were significantly higher in the case group. keywords: access; age; analysis; anger; article; attempt; attribution; autopsy; axis; case; clinical; commons; control; countries; creative; data; death; deceased; depressive; disorders; dsm; education; factors; family; frequency; group; health; high; higher; history; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; impulsive; impulsivity; individuals; interview; iran; level; license; major; marital; medical; medicine; mental; methods; noncommercial; open; or=; people; predictor; present; prevalent; previous; psychiatry; psychological; questionnaire; rasouli; rate; records; research; results; risk; scale; school; scid; sciences; significant; smoking; status; structured; studies; study; subjects; substance; suicidal; suicide; table; tehran; terms; unemployment; university; use; variables; years cache: aaem-392.pdf plain text: aaem-392.txt item: #462 of 640 id: aaem-399 author: Vafaei, Ali; Heydari, Kamran; Hashemi-Nazari, Seyed-Saeed; Izadi, Neda; Hassan Zadeh, Hassan title: PIRO, SOFA and MEDS Scores in Predicting One-Month Mortality of Sepsis Patients; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2019-11-05 words: 4946 flesch: 60 summary: Table 3: Performance characteristics of PIRO, MEDS, and SOFA scores in predicting 30-day mortality of sepsis patients Characteristics PIRO PIRO* MEDS MEDS* C-statistic showed that MEDS score had the highest value in the differentia- tion between the survived and non-survived cases. keywords: 0.001; access; age; article; assessment; attribution; calibration; care; characteristics; clinical; commons; creative; critical; data; day; department; different; discrimination; dysfunction; emergency; failure; groups; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; indices; infection; iran; journal; license; mean; medical; medicine; meds; models; month; mortality; noncommercial; open; organ; patients; performance; piro; points; prediction; predisposition; response; results; score; scoring; sepsis; sepsis patients; septic; severe; severe sepsis; shock; sofa; study; survived; system; tehran; terms; value; variables cache: aaem-399.pdf plain text: aaem-399.txt item: #463 of 640 id: aaem-4 author: Zia Ziabari, Seyyed Mahdi; Monsef Kasmaei, Vahid; Khoshgozaran, Lida; Shakiba, Maryam title: Continuous Education of Basic Life Support (BLS) through Social Media; a Quasi-Experimental Study date: 2019-01-11 words: 3654 flesch: 57 summary: Einspruch EL LB, Aufderheide TP, Nichol G, Becker L. Re- tention of CPR skills learned in a traditional AHA Heart- saver course versus 30-min video self-training: a con- trolled randomized study. Although the BLS course is held every two years, re- searches have shown that quality of BLS clinical skills begin to decrease after 3 months (14-16). keywords: access; age; american; article; association; awareness; basic; bls; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; cardiovascular; care; circulation; continuous; control; cpr; data; education; emergency; groups; guidelines; guilan; health; heart; hospital; interns; intervention; learning; life; mean; media; medical; medicine; months; open; person; pre; questionnaire; questions; rasht; research; resuscitation; score; self; skills; social; software; students; study; support; telegram; terms; training cache: aaem-4.pdf plain text: aaem-4.txt item: #464 of 640 id: aaem-40 author: Najafi, Iraj title: Peritoneal Dialysis as an Alternative Choice for Renal Replacement Therapy in Emergency Department date: 2018-12-01 words: 824 flesch: 53 summary: To reach this goal, bedside embedding peritoneal dialysis catheter is a crit- ical and non-negligible point on management of the pa- tients due to the dangerous situation of transporting these patients to operating room. Therefore, peritoneal dialysis can be considered as an alternative choice for emergent dialysis cases. keywords: acute; alternative; cases; catheter; choice; department; dialysis; emergency; emergent; failure; hemodialysis; int; iran; machines; method; najafi; patients; peritoneal; renal; tehran; therapy cache: aaem-40.pdf plain text: aaem-40.txt item: #465 of 640 id: aaem-400 author: Zia Ziabari, Seyyed Mahdi; Rimaz, Siamak; Shafaghi, Afshin; Shakiba, Maryam; Pourkazemi, Zahra; Karimzadeh, Elnaz; Amoukhteh, Melika title: Blood Urea Nitrogen to Creatinine ratio in Differentiation of Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal Bleedings; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2019-06-10 words: 3299 flesch: 55 summary: Annual incidence of upper GI bleeding is higher than lower GI bleeding and mortality due to upper GI bleeding has been estimated to be up to 40% for those with unstable hemodynamics (2, 3). Mean age of the patients with lower GI bleeding was about four years lower (p = 0.028), BUN/Cr ratio was significantly higher in those with upper GI bleeding (25.90 ± 15.16 versus 21.16 ± 13.77; p = 0.001). keywords: bleeding; blood; bun; colonoscopy; creatinine; differentiation; digestive; emergency; endoscopy; gastroenterology; gastrointestinal; gi bleeding; guilan; higher; history; iran; lower; medical; medicine; methods; nitrogen; patients; positive; rasht; ratio; sciences; source; specificity; study; system; university; upper; urea cache: aaem-400.pdf plain text: aaem-400.txt item: #466 of 640 id: aaem-41 author: Mohammad Shahi, Ali; Omraninava, Ali; Goli, Mitra; Soheilarezoomand, Hamid Reza; Mirzaei, Nader title: The Effects of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular and Respiratory Causes of Emergency Admission date: 2018-12-01 words: 4402 flesch: 57 summary: In addition, some stud- Figure 2: The relation between respiratory admissions and air pollutant levels. Hos- seinpoor et al. displayed that the relative risk of angina Figure 1: The relation between cardiovascular admissions and air pollutant levels. keywords: admissions; air; article; association; average; cardiovascular; correlation; day; days; department; diameter; diseases; effects; emergency; environ; health; hospital; humidity; increase; iran; levels; matter; medical; micrometers; mortality; no2; oxide; ozone; p<0.001; particulate; patients; pm10; pm2.5; pollutants; pollution; present; respiratory; risk; sciences; significant; so2; speed; study; tehran; temperature; terms; university; wind cache: aaem-41.pdf plain text: aaem-41.txt item: #467 of 640 id: aaem-410 author: Shafaf, Negin; Malek, Hamed title: Applications of Machine Learning Approaches in Emergency Medicine; a Review Article date: 2019-07-09 words: 6936 flesch: 55 summary: Deep learning is a part of another class of machine learning methods named artificial neural network (ANN). On the other hand, according to the results, it has been proved that in some cases, nurses are not sure when predicting patient admission and show lower performance compared with machine learning methods (27). keywords: academic; access; accuracy; acute; admission; aki; algorithm; appendicitis; article; artificial; asthma; attribution; auc; available; bayesian; classification; classifiers; clinical; commons; creative; data; decision; deep; department; detection; diagnosis; different; discharge; disease; early; eds; efficacy; electronic; emergency; forest; gradient; health; high; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; important; influenza; information; injury; intelligence; journal; kidney; language; learning; license; logistic; machine; machine learning; medical; medicine; method; model; mortality; naive; natural; need; network; noncommercial; open; patients; prediction; processing; random; regard; regression; reports; results; risk; sepsis; studies; study; support; svm; systems; techniques; terms; time; tree; triage; vector cache: aaem-410.pdf plain text: aaem-410.txt item: #468 of 640 id: aaem-411 author: Ardehali, Seyed Hossein; Fatemi, Alireza; Rezaei, Seyedeh Fariba; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Zolghadr, Zahra title: The Effects of Open and Closed Suction Methods on Occurrence of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia; a Comparative Study date: 2020-01-12 words: 3766 flesch: 52 summary: The controversial/contradicting results in different studies can have many reasons such as small sample size, inappro- priate inclusion or exclusion criteria such as including pa- tients with underlying respiratory diseases, short duration of study period, not teaching the principles of using closed suc- tion to nurses, and not using the VAP prophylaxis strategies in open suction method. Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020; 8(1): e8 Table 1: Comparing the outcomes between open tracheal suction system (OTSS) and closed tracheal suction system (CTSS) groups Outcomes Type of suction P OTSS (n=60) CTSS (n=60) Ventilator associated pneumonia keywords: access; acinetobacter; article; attribution; beheshti; care; clinical; closed; commons; creative; critical; csst; ctss; difference; duration; effect; endotracheal; groups; health; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; incidence; intensive; iran; journal; license; mean; medical; medicine; methods; mortality; noncommercial; occurrence; open; osst; otss; outcomes; patients; pneumonia; pulmonary; respiratory; results; sciences; shahid; significant; stay; studies; study; suction; suctioning; system; tajrish; tehran; terms; university; vap; ventilator cache: aaem-411.pdf plain text: aaem-411.txt item: #469 of 640 id: aaem-412 author: Ardehali, Seyed Hossein; Jahangirian, Mona; Fatemi, Alireza title: The Rate of Catheter-Related Infections using Metal Coated Central Venous Catheters; a Letter to Editor date: 2019-06-25 words: 1170 flesch: 56 summary: In 2009, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the rate of blood infections related with using central venous catheter in the intensive care unit (ICU) to be 1.65 in 1000 catheters per day (2). Recently, these tools have become available in Iran and since there is limited or insufficient experience working with them, the authors of the present letter designed a comparative study aiming to evaluate the role of central venous catheters coated with metals such as gold, silver, and palladium in the rate of catheter-related infections. keywords: beheshti; cases; catheters; central; coated; group; health; hospital; infections; iran; medical; medicine; metal; non; patients; rate; sciences; shahid; study; tehran; university; venous cache: aaem-412.pdf plain text: aaem-412.txt item: #470 of 640 id: aaem-413 author: Masaeli, Maryam; Chahardoli, Mojtaba; Azizi, Sepehr; Shekarchi, Babak; Sabzghabaei, Foroogh; Shekar Riz Fomani, Nima; Azarmnia, Mehdi; Abedi, Mahdis title: Point of Care Ultrasound in Detection of Brain Hemorrhage and Skull Fracture Following Pediatric Head Trauma; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2019-09-25 words: 4072 flesch: 62 summary: 6. Conclusion Based on the findings of the present study, there was a very good agreement between head US and brain CT scan find- ings regarding the absence or presence of skull fracture. Con- clusion: Based on our findings, emergency US can play a greater role in the initial management of head trauma children, especially as a triage test. keywords: access; accuracy; agreement; article; attribution; brain; care; cases; characteristics; children; clinical; commons; creative; data; department; detection; diagnosis; emergency; emergency medicine; findings; fractures; good; head; head trauma; hemorrhage; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infants; injury; intracranial; iran; kappa; license; medical; medicine; negative; noncommercial; old; open; patients; pediatric; physicians; point; positive; predictive; radiology; results; scan; school; sciences; sensitivity; skull; specificity; study; table; tehran; terms; trauma; traumatic; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; value; years cache: aaem-413.pdf plain text: aaem-413.txt item: #471 of 640 id: aaem-415 author: Mohamad Karimi, Naser; Zeinali.N, Faeze title: Compression Test for Diagnosis of Phalangeal Fracture; a Letter to Editor date: 2019-09-18 words: 849 flesch: 64 summary: In cases of suspicion to scaphoid bone fractures, scaphoid compression (compressing a patient’s thumb along the line of the first metacarpal bone) is used as a clinical test. Hence, this test enjoys a high predictive value for diagnosing bone fractures and it can be used to reduce the need for X-rays ordered for phalanges. keywords: analysis; bone; compression; diagnosis; emergency; faeze; fracture; joint; pain; patients; phalangeal; scaphoid; test; value; zeinali.n cache: aaem-415.pdf plain text: aaem-415.txt item: #472 of 640 id: aaem-416 author: Mirjalili, Hamid; Raee Ezzabadi, Ali; Yazdiyousefi, Yeganeh; Jafari Nadoshan, Mohammad Ali title: The Value of Ultrasonography in determining Pupillary Light Reflex in Patients with Traumatic Ocular Injuries; a Letter to Editor date: 2019-11-05 words: 858 flesch: 51 summary: Emergency physicians can con- sider ultrasonography as an accessible tool, complementary to physical examination for more accurate decision making in treatment of trauma patients. Ultrasonic evaluation of pupillary light reflex. keywords: ali; article; emergency; eyes; injured; light; medicine; ocular; patients; physical; plr; pupillary; raee; reflex; shahid; trauma; ultrasonography cache: aaem-416.pdf plain text: aaem-416.txt item: #473 of 640 id: aaem-419 author: Zarmehri, Bahram; Shouman, Ayeh; Pishbin, Elham; Jafari Chokan, Niaz-Mohammad; Najaf Najafi, Mona; Habibzadeh, Seyed Reza; Rayat Dost, Esmaeil; Foroughian, Mahdi title: Association of Clinical Signs and Symptoms with Abnormal Urinalysis Findings of Blunt Trauma Patients; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2019-11-11 words: 4268 flesch: 57 summary: The researchers stated that UA has a low diagnostic value in predicting intra-abdominal injury in trauma patients, and it could be used as a helpful diagnostic tool, along with other sources, such as clinical findings and imaging. Abstract: Introduction: Urinalysis (UA) is performed routinely as a diagnostic screening test for trauma patients in most centers. keywords: abdomen; abdominal; abnormal; abrasion; article; associated; blunt; cases; clinical; commons; data; department; ecchymosis; emergency; findings; flank; gross; hematoma; hematuria; hemi; hpf; inferior; injuries; injury; intra; license; mashhad; medical; medicine; microscopic; microscopic hematuria; negative; pain; patients; rbc; renal; results; risk; sciences; signs; study; symptoms; tenderness; terms; test; thorax; trauma; university; urinalysis; urogenital cache: aaem-419.pdf plain text: aaem-419.txt item: #474 of 640 id: aaem-42 author: Aksoy, Nilgün; Arli, Senay; Yigit, Ozlem title: A Retrospective Analysis of the Burn Injury Patients Records in the Emergency Department, an Epidemiologic Study date: 2018-12-01 words: 3865 flesch: 65 summary: It was demon- strated that in addition to total body surface area (per- centage of burn), age, increasing ESI severity, intention- al burns, and referring from other hospitals or clinics were independent predictive values of hospitalization. Multi- variate logistic regression demonstrated that with in- creasing the severity of ESI (OR=2.2; 95% CI: 1.02-4.66; p=0.046), intentional burn (OR=4.7; 95% CI: 1.03-21.8; p=0.047), referring from other hospitals or clinics (OR=3.4; 95% CI: 1.7-6.6; p=0.001), and percentage of burn (OR=18.1; 95% CI: 5.42-62.6; p<0.001) were in- Table 2: Distribution of the applications for burns (N = 230) keywords: age; akdeniz; analysis; article; attribution; beheshti; body; burn; cases; cause; clinics; common; copyright; creative; data; degree; department; emergency; epidemiology; esi; evaluation; factors; group; home; hospitalization; hot; intentional; license; logistic; medical; noncommercial; p<0.001; patients; percentage; predictive; regression; retrospective; rights; scalding; sciences; severity; shahid; study; terms; trauma; treatment; turkey; turkish; university; upper; years cache: aaem-42.pdf plain text: aaem-42.txt item: #475 of 640 id: aaem-420 author: Sharifi, Yaser; Nikravan Mofard, Malahat; Jamsahar, Maryam; Nasiri, Malihe; Safari, Mehdi title: Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Emergency Medical Services Staff in Bleeding Control of Trauma Patients; a Cross sectional Study date: 2020-02-01 words: 4389 flesch: 51 summary: This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of EMS staff in bleeding control. Conclusion: The knowledge, attitude, and practice of EMS staff regarding bleeding control were moderate, positive and ap- propriate, and incomplete, respectively. keywords: article; attention; attitude; attribution; average; bleeding; checklist; commons; control; creative; data; educational; emergency; ems; ems staff; experience; findings; hemorrhage; hormozgan; hospital; injured; iran; knowledge; license; limb; management; mean; measures; medical; members; methods; moderate; nursing; participants; patients; personnel; practice; pre; pressure; results; scenario; score; services; site; staff; status; studied; study; table; terms; tourniquet; trauma; working cache: aaem-420.pdf plain text: aaem-420.txt item: #476 of 640 id: aaem-425 author: Apiratwarakul, Korakot; Ienghong, Kamonwon; Mitsungnern, Thapanawong; Kotruchin, Praew; Phungoen, Pariwat; Bhudhisawasdi, Vajarabhongsa title: Use of a Motorlance to Deliver Emergency Medical Services; a Prospective Cross Sectional Study date: 2019-08-24 words: 3050 flesch: 59 summary: 2. Research group for emergency patients care and emergency medical services, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand. Keywords: Emergency medicine; emergency medical services; ambulances; emergency mobile units Cite this article as: Apiratwarakul K, Ienghong K, Mitsungnern T, Kotruchin P, Phungoen P, Bhudhisawasdi V. Use of a Motorlance to Deliver Emergency Medical Services; a Prospective Cross Sectional Study. keywords: a.m.; access; activation; aed; ambulance; apiratwarakul; arrest; arrival; article; cardiac; center; data; delivery; emergency; hospital; ienghong; journal; kaen; khon; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; motorlance; p.m.; patients; rate; response; scene; services; srinagarind; standard; study; survival; thailand; time; traditional; traffic; use; waiting cache: aaem-425.pdf plain text: aaem-425.txt item: #477 of 640 id: aaem-426 author: Falaki, Masoumeh; Rajaei Ghafouri, Rouzbeh; Shams Vahdati, Samad title: Problem-Based versus Lecture-Based Method in Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support Training; a Pre-test Post-test Study date: 2019-11-24 words: 3410 flesch: 63 summary: Primary trauma care courses can pro- vide the basic knowledge and skills necessary for identifica- tion and treatment of trauma patients in need of immediate resuscitation and stabilization of the injuries. Improved in- dividual management of trauma patients was also reported following primary trauma care courses (19). keywords: article; care; center; change; commons; confidence; courses; data; effective; emergency; ems; groups; hospital; increase; journal; knowledge; lbl; learning; lecture; life; management; mean; medical; medicine; method; months; mortality; p<0.001; paramedics; participants; patients; pbl; personnel; phtls; post; pre; prehospital; problem; results; sciences; score; sessions; skills; staff; study; support; tabriz; term; test; time; training; trauma; trauma patients cache: aaem-426.pdf plain text: aaem-426.txt item: #478 of 640 id: aaem-427 author: Wu, Chin-Chu; Lin, Aming Chor-Ming title: A 92-Year-Old Man with Abdominal Pain Following Intractable Vomiting; a Photo Quiz date: 2019-08-06 words: 1045 flesch: 51 summary: Abdominal CT scan is the diagnostic tool of choice to detect gastric pneumatosis and helps in differentiating it with gastric emphysema or emphysematous gastritis. Emphysematous gastritis is a lethal condition with high mor- tality (2, 3). keywords: abdominal; air; case; diagnosis; emergency; emphysematous; figure; gastric; gastritis; hospital; journal; left; man; medical; old; patient; scan; stomach; taipei; taiwan; vomiting; wall cache: aaem-427.pdf plain text: aaem-427.txt item: #479 of 640 id: aaem-428 author: Shadnia, Shahin; Zamani, Nasim; Nikpour, Sara; Saffaei, Ali; Farnia, Mohammad Reza title: Atropine Challenge Test in Screening the Organophosphorus Poisoning Cases with Atypical Presentation; a Brief Report date: 2019-08-25 words: 2580 flesch: 57 summary: It seems that patients with positive Atropine challenge test required Atropine in their therapeutic management and those with negative Atropine challenge test may not require Atropine. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical utility of Atropine challenge test in screening OPs poisoning cases with atypical presentation. keywords: acute; atropine; atropine challenge; atypical; cases; challenge; challenge test; cholinesterase; clinical; data; department; eddleston; emergency; flushing; interval; iran; level; management; mean; medical; medicine; mohammad; negative; ops; organophosphorus; patients; poisoning; positive; presentation; results; reza; sciences; serum; shadnia; study; tachycardia; test; university cache: aaem-428.pdf plain text: aaem-428.txt item: #480 of 640 id: aaem-43 author: Ojaghi Haghighi, Seyed Hossein; Morteza Begi, Hamid Reza; Sorkhabi, Raana; Tarzamani, Mohammad Kazem; Kamali Zonouz, Golshan; Mikaeilpour, Akram; Rahmani, Farzad title: Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasound in Detection of Traumatic Lens Dislocation date: 2018-12-01 words: 2660 flesch: 55 summary: Discussion: The findings of the present study showed 84.6% sensi- tivity and 98.3% specificity of eye ultrasonography in detection of traumatic lens dislocation. When the patient is non- cooperative for fundoscopic tests or suffers from severe edema, chemosis, or hyphema, eye ultrasonography can present valuable and useful information to the physi- cian (9). keywords: accuracy; article; cases; department; detection; diagnostic; dislocation; emergency; evaluation; eye; findings; frequency; imaging; injuries; iran; lens; lens dislocation; likelihood; medical; medicine; negative; oct; ophthalmic; orbital; patients; positive; predictive; present; ratio; reza; rights; sciences; sensitivity; specificity; study; tabriz; tei; terms; tomography; traumatic; traumatic lens; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; value cache: aaem-43.pdf plain text: aaem-43.txt item: #481 of 640 id: aaem-430 author: SariAslani, Payam; Rezaeian, Shahab; Safari, Elham title: 3-Month Outcome of Ischemic Stroke Patients Underwent Thrombolytic Therapy; a Cohort Study date: 2020-01-07 words: 3877 flesch: 63 summary: Conclusion: There was no significant correlation between 3-month disabilities of stroke patients underwent thrombolytic therapy and age, sex, time from initiation of symptoms, or vital signs on admission. The reason for the differences in factors found to affect the outcome of stroke patients in various studies could be dif- ferences in duration of follow-up, baseline characteristics of the studied patients, race, medications used, and care pro- vided after thrombolytic therapy. keywords: activator; acute; admission; age; better; blood; brain; correlation; decrease; disability; emergency; factors; hospital; initiation; interval; iran; ischemic; journal; kermanshah; lower; mean; month; mortality; mrs; neurology; nihss; outcome; p =; patients; plasminogen; present; pressure; rate; scale; score; sex; significant; stroke; study; sugar; symptoms; therapy; thrombolytic; time; tissue; tpa; treatment; years cache: aaem-430.pdf plain text: aaem-430.txt item: #482 of 640 id: aaem-431 author: Bozorgmehr, Rama; Pishgahi, Mehdi; Mohaghegh, Pegah; Bayat, Marziye; Khodadadi, Parastou; Ghafori, Ahmadreza title: Relationship between Thrombosis Risk Factors, Clinical Symptoms, and Laboratory Findings with Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2019-07-29 words: 4214 flesch: 58 summary: it was shown that nearly all of the abnormal ECG findings in PE patients were associated with severe PE (15). Metafratzi et al. found a strong correlation between angiography obstruction and blood gas rates in PE patients. keywords: acute; age; analysis; angiography; arterial; article; blood; cases; clinical; common; confirmed; ctpa; data; department; diagnosis; difference; ecg; embolism; emergency; et al; factors; findings; gas; high; history; hospital; internal; iran; journal; laboratory; license; low; mean; medical; medicine; methods; moderate; mortality; patients; present; pulmonary; results; risk; sciences; score; sex; significant; study; surgery; symptoms; tachycardia; tajrish; thrombosis; value; wells cache: aaem-431.pdf plain text: aaem-431.txt item: #483 of 640 id: aaem-432 author: Ardehali, Seyed Hossein; Sedaghatmanesh, Maryam; Fatemi, Alireza title: The Role of Foley Catheter Coated with Gold, Silver, and Palladium in Decreasing Urinary Tract Infections in the Intensive Care Unit; a Letter to Editor date: 2019-07-28 words: 1333 flesch: 49 summary: However, since enough experience does not exist regarding their possible harms and benefits in the Iranian population, the researchers of the present study attempted to design a case-control study for evaluating the effects of using urinary catheters coated with gold, silver, and palladium on the rate of infections and mortality due to UTIs in patients hospitalized in the ICU of a teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran. Funding and support This study was supported by Bactiguard through providing Gold, Silver, and Palladium coated urinary catheters for patients. keywords: beheshti; cases; catheter; coated; gold; group; health; hospital; infections; iran; medical; palladium; patients; rate; sciences; shahid; silver; study; tehran; tract; university; urinary; uti cache: aaem-432.pdf plain text: aaem-432.txt item: #484 of 640 id: aaem-433 author: Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Akhavan, Ayda; Safari, Saeed title: Clinical Characteristics and Associated Factors of Mortality in Febrile Neutropenia Patients; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2019-07-28 words: 3731 flesch: 61 summary: In a study on mortality of cancer patients with febrile neutropenia, Gray et al. concluded that adjusted risk of mortality increased 15% in cases experiencing febrile neutropenia (9). A comparison of imipenem to cef- tazidime with or without amikacin as empiric ther- apy in febrile neutropenic patients. keywords: access; age; article; associated; blood; cancer; cell; characteristics; chemotherapy; clinical; common; count; culture; data; days; different; emergency; factors; febrile; febrile neutropenia; fever; findings; gender; hospital; infection; journal; malignancy; mean; medical; medicine; mm3; mortality; neutropenia; number; oncology; patients; positive; rate; sciences; significant; studies; study; survived; temperature; time; treatment; type; university; urine; white; years cache: aaem-433.pdf plain text: aaem-433.txt item: #485 of 640 id: aaem-44 author: Rahimi, Mitra; Lookzadeh, Somaieh; Sadeghi, Roxana; Soltaninejad, Kambiz; Shadnia, Shahin; Pajoumand, Abdolkarim; Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein; Zamani, Nasim; Latifi-Pour, Masoud title: Predictive Factors of Mortality in Acute Amphetamine Type Stimulants Poisoning; a Review of 226 Cases date: 2018-11-21 words: 3949 flesch: 60 summary: Although there are reports about acute ATS poisoning (8-11), to the best of our knowledge there are limited data about prognostic factors of mortality in acute ATS poisoning cases (12, 13). In our study, lower serum HCO3, higher PCO2 and low level of consciousness on admission were considered as predict- ing factors of mortality in ATS poisoning cases. keywords: abuse; acute; addiction; admission; amphetamine; article; ats; attribution; cases; center; characteristics; clinical; common; consciousness; creative; data; department; drug; ecg; emergency; exposure; factors; findings; hco3; health; hospital; intoxicated; iran; laboratory; license; loss; mean; medical; meq; methamphetamine; mmhg; mortality; noncommercial; patients; pco2; poisoning; predictive; presentations; previous; results; route; serum; stimulants; studies; study; tehran; toxicology; type; variables cache: aaem-44.pdf plain text: aaem-44.txt item: #486 of 640 id: aaem-444 author: Mohialdeen Gubari, Mohammed Ibrahim; Hosseinzadeh-Attar, Mohammad Javad; Hosseini, Mostafa; Mohialdeen, Fadhil Ahmed; Norouzy, Abdolreza title: Association of High Serum Adiponectin with the Risk of Malnutrition and Worse Outcome in Head Trauma Patients; a Cohort study date: 2019-08-24 words: 4190 flesch: 61 summary: Abstract: Introduction: A number of studies have shown the association between serum adiponectin level and the nutri- tional status. Chi-square test was used for comparison of categorical vari- ables (NUTRIC score, and SGA score) between patients with serum adiponectin level of <15mg/L and ≥15 mg/L. Indepen- dent samples T test was applied to compare the continuous data (BMI, fat body mass, lean body mass, APM, and MAUAC) between the two groups at 24hours after admission, day 6 and day 13 of staying in the ICU. keywords: adiponectin; adiponectin level; admission; anti; apache; apm; article; association; attribution; bmi; body; brain; chronic; clinical; commons; concentration; creative; data; day; days; disease; failure; groups; head; health; high; hours; icu; increase; inflammatory; injury; level; license; malnutrition; mass; mohialdeen; noncommercial; number; nutritional; nutritional status; outcome; patients; plasma; risk; sciences; score; serum; serum adiponectin; severe; severity; sofa; status; study; tehran; trauma; traumatic; university; weight; ≥15 cache: aaem-444.pdf plain text: aaem-444.txt item: #487 of 640 id: aaem-446 author: Rahimi, Mitra; Alizadeh, Reza; Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein; Zamani, Nasim; Kargar, Alireza; Shadnia, Shahin title: Clinical Manifestations and Outcomes of Colchicine Poisoning Cases; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2020-04-21 words: 2944 flesch: 53 summary: This study aimed to investigate the clinical and laboratory manifestations, as well as out- comes of colchicine poisoning patients referred to emergency department. Early identification of colchicine poisoning is crucial because sus- tained exposure may result in multi-organ failure and death (5). keywords: abdominal; alp; ast; beheshti; blood; calcium; cases; clinical; colchicine; department; dic; findings; higher; hospital; iran; laboratory; lower; mean; mechanical; medical; medicine; need; non; pain; patients; poisoning; pressure; ptt; sciences; serum; shahid; study; survived; survivors; tehran; tenderness; time; toxicology; university; wbc cache: aaem-446.pdf plain text: aaem-446.txt item: #488 of 640 id: aaem-45 author: Ataei, Neamatollah; Ameli, Sonbol; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Oraei, Alireza; Ataei, Fatemeh; Bazargani, Behnaz; Abbasi, Arash; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) and Cystatin C in Early Detection of Pediatric Acute Kidney Injury; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-11-21 words: 3746 flesch: 60 summary: A meta- analysis reported that serum Cystatin C has a greater diag- nostic value in detection of AKI in children and adolescents than its urine level (10). The present study aimed to assess the value of urinary NGAL (uNGAL) and serum Cystatin C in early di- agnosis of hospitalized children with AKI. keywords: accuracy; acute; admission; aki; article; ataei; biomarkers; center; children; creatinine; cystatin; data; department; detection; diagnosis; disease; early; end; gelatinase; hours; injury; iran; journal; kidney; kidney injury; level; lipocalin; medical; medicine; meta; nephrology; neutrophil; patients; pediatric; present; renal; roc; sciences; sensitivity; serum; specificity; study; tehran; ungal; university; urinary; urine; value cache: aaem-45.pdf plain text: aaem-45.txt item: #489 of 640 id: aaem-455 author: Javanmard, Babak; Fallah karkan, Morteza; Razzaghi, Mohammadreza; Ansari Djafari, Anahita; ghiasy, Saleh; Lotfi, Behzad; Vafaee, Reza title: Characteristics of Traumatic Urogenital Injuries in Emergency Department; a 10-year Cross-sectional Study date: 2019-11-10 words: 3781 flesch: 59 summary: This issue may point out that Emergency Medical Service is not able to provide trauma patients with efficient and perfect pre-hospital care (21). According to the obtained results from this study, UGIs com- prise a low proportion of injuries in trauma patients (267 of 24742 patients, about 2 %). keywords: access; accidents; acute; analysis; article; associated; attribution; bju; bladder; blunt; care; cases; cause; center; characteristics; common; creative; cross; data; department; emergency; epidemiology; external; genitalia; genitourinary; grade; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injured; injuries; injury; international; iran; javanmard; journal; karkan; kidney; license; life; male; management; medical; multiple; noncommercial; open; organ; patients; realignment; renal; research; results; sciences; sectional; study; surgery; system; table; tehran; terms; tract; traffic; trauma; traumatic; treatment; type; ugis; urethral; urogenital; urology; years cache: aaem-455.pdf plain text: aaem-455.txt item: #490 of 640 id: aaem-456 author: Afzalimoghaddam, Mohammad; Karimialavijeh, Ehsan; Zakipour, Gholamreza; Mirfazaelian, Hadi; Nejati, Amir; Payandemehr, Pooya title: Developing a Checklist for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Quality Control in Emergency Department; a Qualitative Study date: 2019-11-02 words: 2850 flesch: 54 summary: In the first step, two emergency medicine specialists searched currently available databases and extracted the factors related to CPR quality. Ac- cording to the CPR quality consensus statement released by the American Heart Association (AHA), CPR quality should be monitored during all resuscitations (3). keywords: access; agreement; airway; arrest; article; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; checklist; chest; compression; control; cpr; delphi; department; depth; discussions; emergency; emergency medicine; factors; focus; group; high; hospital; iran; items; medical; medicine; monitoring; open; outcomes; panel; proper; quality; rate; resuscitation; sciences; specialists; study; survival; tehran; university cache: aaem-456.pdf plain text: aaem-456.txt item: #491 of 640 id: aaem-46 author: Bagheri-moghaddam, Ahmad; Abbaspour, Hassan; Tajoddini, Shahrad; Mohammadzadeh, Vahideh; Moinipour, Ali; Dadpour, Bita title: Using Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump for Management of Cardiogenic Shock Following Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning; Report of 3 Cases date: 2018-11-21 words: 2592 flesch: 58 summary: Mirakbari S. Hot charcoal vomitus in aluminum phos- phide poisoning-A case report of internal thermal reac- tion in aluminum phosphide poisoning and review of lit- erature. Survival in a case of aluminum phosphide poisoning with severe myocardial toxicity. keywords: acute; admission; alp; aluminum; aortic; article; bagheri; balloon; cardiogenic; care; cases; critical; emergency; fluid; grams; hours; hypotension; iabp; icu; indian; ingestion; intra; iran; journal; mashhad; medical; medicine; mehrpour; minute; mmhg; phosphide; phosphide poisoning; poisoning; pump; rate; refractory; sciences; shock; successful; tablet; therapy; toxicology; university cache: aaem-46.pdf plain text: aaem-46.txt item: #492 of 640 id: aaem-461 author: Kazemzadeh, Mosayeb; Shafiei, Elham; Jahangiri, Katayoun; Yousefi, Kosar; Sahebi, Ali title: The Preparedness of Hospital Emergency Departments for Responding to Disasters in Iran; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2019-10-09 words: 3353 flesch: 54 summary: Nekoie-Moghadam M, Kurland L, Moosazadeh M, In- grassia PL, Della Corte F, Djalali A. Tools and checklists used for the evaluation of hospital disaster preparedness: a systematic review. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the preparedness of hospital emergency departments in response to disasters in Iran via a system- atic review and meta-analysis. keywords: access; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; checklist; commons; creative; data; departments; disasters; emergency; emergency departments; fields; health; high; hospital; hospital emergency; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; iran; iranian; journal; kazemzadeh; level; license; management; medical; medicine; meta; moderate; noncommercial; open; overall; preparedness; quality; readiness; response; results; review; safety; sahebi; sciences; search; studies; study; systematic; terms cache: aaem-461.pdf plain text: aaem-461.txt item: #493 of 640 id: aaem-463 author: Korkut, Mustafa; bedel, cihan; Erman, Kürsat; Yüksel, Serkan title: Incidental Findings of Computed Tomography Angiography in Patients Suspected to Pulmonary Embolism; a Brief Report date: 2019-10-26 words: 2804 flesch: 56 summary: Therefore, the observation of incidental findings (IFs) has also increased. Incidental findings were divided into and reported in three categories: group 1 potentially life-threatening, group 2 required follow up, and group 3 with limited clinical significance. keywords: access; angiography; antalya; aortic; article; attribution; cases; clinical; commons; creative; ctpa; data; department; diagnosis; effusion; embolism; emergency; evaluation; findings; follow; frequent; group; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; ifs; incidental; journal; license; lung; medicine; noncommercial; open; patients; pleural; prevalence; pulmonary; rate; research; study; terms; thoracic; tomography; treatment; turkey; university; van cache: aaem-463.pdf plain text: aaem-463.txt item: #494 of 640 id: aaem-47 author: Shojaee, Majid; Safari, Saeed; Sabzghabaei, Anita; Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Kariman, Hamid; Soltani, Soheil title: Pro-BNP versus MEDS Score in Determining the Prognosis of Sepsis Patients; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-11-21 words: 4135 flesch: 64 summary: A comparison regarding increase in Pro-BNP among cardiac patients and sepsis patients showed a significant increase in the level of this marker in sepsis or septic shock patients compared to cardiac patients (31). Finally, for deter- mining the diagnostic accuracy of Pro-BNP in predicting the 1-month prognosis of sepsis patients, ROC curve was drawn and the best cut-off was calculated. keywords: access; accuracy; area; article; attribution; bnp; brain; calculation; cardiac; care; care medicine; characteristics; commons; creative; critical; curve; data; department; diagnostic; emergency; failure; high; higher; ill; infection; journal; level; license; mean; medical; medicine; meds; month; mortality; natriuretic; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; peptide; prediction; present; pro; prognosis; risk; roc; scale; score; screening; sensitivity; sepsis; sepsis patients; septic; severe; shock; study; terminal; terms; treatment; value cache: aaem-47.pdf plain text: aaem-47.txt item: #495 of 640 id: aaem-475 author: Murakami, Yuya; Yamada, Taihei; Naito, Hiromichi title: A Polyvinyl Chloride Eraser as a Surface Marker for Computed Tomography in Emergency Imaging; a Letter to Editor date: 2019-10-01 words: 729 flesch: 58 summary: Dear Editor, In the wake of recent progress in computed tomography (CT) enabling to obtain high quality images within five minutes, CT scan has been widely used in emergency diagnostic radi- ology and is considered best suited for detection of patholo- gies, as well as assessing the location and extent of lesions in the emergency department. Emergency physicians often require confirmation of surface bruises or wounds coexisting with pathology on CT scan. keywords: care; chloride; department; editor; emergency; eraser; marker; medicine; okayama; polyvinyl; scan; skin; surface; tomography; university cache: aaem-475.pdf plain text: aaem-475.txt item: #496 of 640 id: aaem-477 author: Shams Vahdati, Samad; Ala, Alireza; Samani, Zhila; Ghazanfar Ahari, Sasan; Mirza-Aghazadeh-Attari, Mohammad title: Screening of Trauma Patients in Need of Knee Radiography by Triage Nurses and Using Ottawa Knee Rule; a Letter to Editor date: 2019-10-08 words: 1407 flesch: 58 summary: Triage nurses evaluated the patients using Ottawa knee rule and recorded their triage level. A five-hour course was conducted to train the theory and practice of Ottawa knee rule to triage nurses. keywords: article; data; department; emergency; fracture; iran; knee; level; medical; medicine; need; nurses; ottawa; patients; physicians; radiography; research; rule; sciences; tabriz; trauma; triage; university cache: aaem-477.pdf plain text: aaem-477.txt item: #497 of 640 id: aaem-48 author: Aminiahidashti, Hamed; Shafiee, Sajad; Zamani Kiasari, Alieh; Sazgar, Mohammad title: Applications of End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide (ETCO2) Monitoring in Emergency Department; a Narrative Review date: 2018-11-21 words: 4535 flesch: 58 summary: The relation- ship between end tidal carboon dioxide and urterial car- bon dioxide during controlled hypotensice anesthesia. Keywords: Capnography; Emergency service, hospital; exhalation; carbon dioxide; monitoring, physiologic © Copyright (2018) Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences Cite this article as: Aminiahidashti H, Shafiee S, Zamani Kiasari A, Sazgar M. Applications of End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide (ETCO2 ) Monitoring in Emergency Department; a Narrative Review. 2018; 6(1): e5. keywords: access; acidosis; acute; airway; aminiahidashti; ann; applications; arrest; arterial; article; asthma; attribution; blood; capnography; capnometry; carbon; carbon dioxide; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; care; causes; changes; clinical; commons; concentration; copd; cpr; creative; critical; department; diagnosis; dioxide; disease; dka; early; embolism; emergency; emergency department; end; etco2; failure; heart; hospital; increase; indicator; intubation; invasive; level; license; mainstream; med; medical; medicine; metabolic; mmhg; monitoring; noncommercial; obstructive; open; outcome; paco2; patients; phase; pressure; prognostic; pulmonary; relationship; respiratory; resuscitation; review; risk; sedation; severity; shock; situations; study; terms; tidal; tidal carbon; tool; trauma; treatment; useful; value cache: aaem-48.pdf plain text: aaem-48.txt item: #498 of 640 id: aaem-480 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Askarian-Amiri, Shaghayegh; Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Sadeghi, Mostafa; Saberian, Peyman; Baratloo, Alireza title: Pre-hospital pain management; a systematic review of proposed guidelines date: 2019-10-06 words: 7372 flesch: 55 summary: Hence, the present systematic review aims to collect and summarize pre-hospital pain management guidelines and instructions by conducting an extensive research in databases. Guideline Pain severity Codeine Tramadol hydromorphone diamorphine Aspirin ADPH-EMS, 2018 Severe – – – – – DCFEMS, 2017 Severe – – – – – ATCP, 2012 Mild – – – – – Moderate – – – – – Severe – – – – – NCCEP, 2019 Moderate to severe – – – – – PHECC, 2018 Mild – – – – – Moderate – – – – – Severe – – – – – AVCP, 2018 Mild – – – – – Moderate – – – – – Severe – – – – – MIEMS, 2014 Moderate to severe – – – – – IIRPM, 2015 Mild – – – – – Moderate 1.5 mg/kg oral 1-2 mg/kg – – – Severe – – – – – NMPHT, 2018 Moderate to severe – – – – – NAEMSP, 2014 Moderate – – – – – Severe – – 0.015 mg/kg IM/IV/IO to an initial maximum dose of 2 mg and cumulative maximum dose of 4 mg – – Table 4: Quality assessment of prehospital pain management guidelines based on AGREE II recommendation Guideline Quality score (%) Overall Quality Vote to recommend use Domain 1 Domain 2 Domain 3 Domain 4 Domain 5 Domain 6 score Yes Yes with No modification NAEN, 2014 100 100 29 100 96 33 4.5 1 1 0 ADPH-EMS, 2018 100 94 25 100 79 50 6.0 2 0 0 DCFEMS, 2017 100 89 13 100 88 42 4.5 1 1 0 ATCP, 2012 100 100 81 100 92 17 6.5 2 0 0 NCCEP, 2019 100 78 56 100 79 33 5.0 1 1 0 PHECC, 2018 100 100 77 100 100 8 6.0 2 0 0 AVCP, 2018 100 100 75 100 88 25 5.5 2 0 0 MIEMS, 2014 100 100 81 100 92 33 5.0 1 1 0 IIRPM, 2015 100 100 67 100 88 33 4.5 0 1 1 NMPHT, 2018 89 72 13 100 79 42 4.5 1 1 0 NAEMSP, 2014 94 100 83 100 96 33 6.5 2 0 0 NICE, 2016 100 100 81 100 96 33 6.5 2 0 0 Domain 1: keywords: access; adults; article; attribution; care; children; commons; creative; department; domain; dosage; dose; emergency; ems; evidence; fentanyl; guidelines; health; hospital; hospital pain; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; initial; instructions; ketamine; kg iv; license; management; maximum; maximum dose; medical; medicine; mild; mins; moderate; moderate pain; morphine; noncommercial; open; opioid; oral; pain; pain management; paracetamol; patients; pre; prehospital; present; protocols; recommendations; relief; repeat; review; services; severe; severe pain; severity; table; tehran; terms; titrate; trauma; treatment cache: aaem-480.pdf plain text: aaem-480.txt item: #499 of 640 id: aaem-485 author: Fazel, Mojtaba; Gubari, Mohammed I M; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Ultrasonography in Detection of Renal Calculi in Children; a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2019-11-24 words: 5649 flesch: 50 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 7 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2019; 7 (1): e66 Table 2: Risk of bias of in included studies based on quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies 2 (QUADAS-2) recommendations Study Risk of bias Applicability Patient selection Index test Reference standard Flow and timing Patient selection Index test Reference standard Hu, 2010 Diagnostic accuracy studies in children were included. keywords: access; accuracy; analysis; article; attribution; bias; bladder; bladder[tiab; calculi; calculus[tiab; cases; children; commons; creative; data; detection; diagnostic; e66; emergency; fazel; figure; findings; high; hosseini; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; iran; journal; kidney; kidney[tiab; license; medical; medicine; meta; n r; noncommercial; open; operator; patient; pediatric; present; probe; radiology; renal; renal calculi; retrospective; review; risk; scan; search; sensitivity; specificity; stone; stone[tiab; studies; study; systematic; table; tehran; terms; test; tomography; tract; ultrasonic; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; urinary; urinary[tiab; urology; value; yousefifard; © © cache: aaem-485.pdf plain text: aaem-485.txt item: #500 of 640 id: aaem-49 author: Tabrizi, Shahrooz; Nejati, Amir; Nedjat, Saharnaz; Aghili, Seyed Mojtaba title: Specialist Physicians’ Attitude towards Emergency Medicine; a Semi-Structured Qualitative Study date: 2018-11-21 words: 3515 flesch: 53 summary: Department of Emergency medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Abstract: Introduction: The present study is a survey to assess the pros and cons of emergency medicine (EM) from the viewpoint of the scholars from other medicine disciplines to improve the efficiency of EM in the healthcare sys- tem. keywords: academic; access; analysis; article; aspects; attitude; attribution; care; commons; creative; curriculum; data; department; different; disadvantages; disciplines; educational; emergency; emergency department; emergency medicine; establishment; field; goals; health; hospital; interviewees; iran; iranian; journal; license; management; medical; medicine; noncommercial; open; patients; performance; physicians; policies; presence; professors; public; results; sciences; services; specialist; study; system; tehran; terms; therapeutic; training; university cache: aaem-49.pdf plain text: aaem-49.txt item: #501 of 640 id: aaem-496 author: Kariman, Hamid; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza; Shojaee, Majid; Asarzadegan, Farhad; Saljughi, Simin title: Validation of SUSPEKT Score in Predicting One-month Mortality of Patients with Hemorrhagic Stroke; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2019-10-08 words: 3777 flesch: 63 summary: Despite previous in- vestigations, there is no validated clinical scoring system for wide use in predicting the prognosis of ICH patients. 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Kariman et al. 2 prognosis in ICH patients. keywords: access; accuracy; article; attribution; blood; cases; characteristics; commons; creative; data; day; department; emergency; factors; findings; glucose; hematoma; hemorrhage; higher; ich; imam; intracerebral; ivh; journal; level; license; mean; medicine; month; mortality; neurology; non; noncommercial; npv; outcome; patients; potassium; prediction; pressure; primary; score; sensitivity; serum; size; spontaneous; stroke; study; survived; suspekt; terms; total; value; ventricular; volume; wbc cache: aaem-496.pdf plain text: aaem-496.txt item: #502 of 640 id: aaem-498 author: Rodriguez, Brieana; Mandich, Madalyn title: Improving the Quality of Care of Women in the Emergency Department: A survey of battered women date: 2019-11-24 words: 4300 flesch: 60 summary: Domestic violence victims seeking care will likely present to primary care clinics, urgent care clinics, OB/GYN clinics, EDs, and almost every other specialty for treatment and help. The methods of study were reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board, and the data from this study will be used to develop recommendations for improving ED treatment of domestic violence victims. keywords: abuse; care; center; data; department; domestic; domestic violence; emergency; emergency department; enforcement; family; healthcare; help; information; interview; law; medical; medicine; open; order; patient; peace; present; process; questions; related; room; screening; sojourner; study; survey; treatment; victims; violence; visit; wisconsin; women cache: aaem-498.pdf plain text: aaem-498.txt item: #503 of 640 id: aaem-5 author: Rahmati, Farhad; Safari, Saeed; Hashemi, Behrooz; Baratloo, Alireza; Khosravi Rad, Roozbeh title: Prevalence of Depression and Personality Disorders in the Beginning and End of Emergency Medicine Residency Program; a Prospective Cross Sectional Study date: 2019-01-11 words: 3121 flesch: 60 summary: Methods: In the present prospective cross-sectional study, emergency medicine residents working in multiple teaching hos- pitals were included via census method and evaluated regarding the rate of depression and personality disorders using the standard MMPI-2 questionnaire upon admission to the program and graduation and their status re- garding the evaluated disorders were compared between the 2 phases of evaluation. Emergency physicians experience a high degree of job burnout throughout their ca- reer, this rate has been estimated to be about 49% to 65% in emergency medicine residents (4-6). keywords: admission; anxiety; archives; article; attribution; burnout; commons; creative; data; department; depression; disorders; emergency; emergency medicine; factors; health; high; increase; journal; license; medical; medicine; mental; noncommercial; open; personality; physicians; present; prevalence; program; prospective; psychological; rate; residency; residents; results; sciences; significant; stress; study; terms; time; university; work; year cache: aaem-5.pdf plain text: aaem-5.txt item: #504 of 640 id: aaem-50 author: Hedayati Emam, Gilava; Alimohammadi, Hossein; Zolfaghari Sadrabad, Akram; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza title: Workplace Violence against Residents in Emergency Department and Reasons for not Reporting Them; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2018-11-21 words: 4676 flesch: 55 summary: The frequency of physical violence was higher in male aggressors (p = 0.001), resident age > 30 years (p = 0.044), aggressor age > 30 years (p = 0.001), and night shift (p = 0.001). Definitions: Physical violence: use of physical strength against a person or group, including beating, kicking, slapping, using cutting devices, stabbing, shooting, firing, throwing an object, spit- ting, pushing, scratching, beating, pulling hair, pulling, push- ing, hitting, grabbing, squeezing, twisting, punching, pinch- ing or other similar things. keywords: access; age; aggressor; article; associates; attribution; beheshti; commons; control; courses; creative; data; department; eds; emergency; ethnic; factors; findings; frequency; health; hospital; important; information; iran; journal; lack; license; male; medical; medicine; night; noncommercial; nurses; nursing; open; participants; patients; physical; present; questionnaires; racial; reasons; reporting; residents; sciences; security; sex; shahid; shift; staff; study; system; table; terms; training; university; verbal; violence; workplace; workplace violence; years cache: aaem-50.pdf plain text: aaem-50.txt item: #505 of 640 id: aaem-501 author: Ghorbani, Maryam; keramat, Afsaneh; Mohsenzadeh Ledari, Farideh title: Creatine phosphokinase, a new marker in diagnosis of tubal ectopic pregnancy; A Systematic Review date: 2020-01-20 words: 8105 flesch: 55 summary: However, there is limited knowledge about the efficacy of measuring CPK levels in EP diagnosis; this review of studies shows positive results regarding use of CPK in EP diagnosis. The result of this study showed significant difference in CPK level of EP group and these groups of patients (11). keywords: 1st; abortion; access; admission; age; article; attribution; author; beta; characteristics; commons; cpk; cpk level; creatine; cut; diagnosis; early; ectopic; ectopic pregnancies(iu; ectopic pregnancy; emergency; et al; gestational; ghorbani; groups; hcg; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; information; intact; intrauterine; kinase; level; license; marker; mean; mean age; mean gestational; mean level; medicine; method; noncommercial; normal; open; participants; patients; point; pregnancies(iu; pregnancy; reference; reported; research; review; sample; sampling; sensitivity; serum; sig; significant; size; specificity; studies; study; table; terms; test; time; total; transvaginal; trimester; tubal; value; year; ±sd cache: aaem-501.pdf plain text: aaem-501.txt item: #506 of 640 id: aaem-509 author: Shafahi, Azam; Mostafazadeh, Babak; Dadpour, Bita title: Inhalational Toxicity of Aluminum Phosphide as an Ongoing Concern; a Report of Two Cases date: 2019-11-24 words: 2092 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: Aluminum phosphide; inhalation; inhalation exposure; gas poisoning Cite this article as: Shafahi A, Mostafazadeh B, Dadpour B. Inhalational Toxicity of Aluminum Phosphide as an Ongoing Concern; a Report of Two Cases. 4. Mehrpour O, Jafarzadeh M, Abdollahi M. A systematic re- view of aluminium phosphide poisoning. keywords: access; alp; aluminum; archives; article; authors; blood; cardiac; case; clinical; commons; creative; dadpour; department; emergency; exposure; gas; high; hospital; hours; inhalation; iran; journal; laboratory; license; mashhad; measures; medical; medicine; patient; phosphide; poisoning; report; sciences; supportive; time; toxicity; toxicology; treatment; university cache: aaem-509.pdf plain text: aaem-509.txt item: #507 of 640 id: aaem-51 author: Ala, Alireza; Rahmani, Farzad; Abdollahi, Sima; Parsian, Zahra title: Accuracy of Neck stiffness, Kernig, Brudzinski, and Jolt Accentuation of Headache Signs in Early Detection of Meningitis date: 2018-11-21 words: 2897 flesch: 60 summary: The accuracy of neck stiffness, Kernig, Brudzin- ski, and JAH signs in early detection of meningitis were 0.676 (95% CI: 0.575-0.776), 0.667 (95% CI: 0.552-0.782), 0.720 (95% CI: 0.619-0.821), 0.749 (95% CI: 0.659-839), respectively. Based on the above-mentioned points, the present study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of Kernig, Brudzinski, neck stiffness, and JAH signs in early detection of patients sus- pected to having meningitis. keywords: accentuation; accuracy; adults; analysis; article; brudzinski; cases; clinical; csf; data; department; diagnosis; early; emergency; headache; higher; highest; jah; jolt; kernig; medical; medicine; meningitis; neck; negative; patients; physical; positive; results; sciences; sensitivity; signs; specificity; stiffness; study; tabriz; test; university; value cache: aaem-51.pdf plain text: aaem-51.txt item: #508 of 640 id: aaem-510 author: Sabzghabaie, Foroogh; Babaei, Mohammad Reza; Moradi, Asaad; Shakiba, Behnam title: Spontaneous Retroperitoneal Hematoma and Membranous Glomerulonephritis; a Case Report date: 2020-01-07 words: 1636 flesch: 47 summary: Multiple aneurysms of splanchnic arteries and renal arteries accompanied with an elevated ESR, low albumin, acute kid- ney injury and proteinuria without any symptoms or signs of infection strongly define systemic vasculitis, especially in- volving medium to small size vessels (4). In the remaining 15%, the most frequent causes are renal carcinoma and angiomiolipoma, adrenal le- sions (2), and rupture of splanchnic arteries aneurysms due to vasculitis (3, 4). keywords: abdominal; aneurysms; anticoagulant; arteries; article; authors; case; clinical; department; emergency; firoozgar; glomerulonephritis; hematoma; hospital; iran; journal; medical; medicine; medium; membranous; mgn; normal; patient; rare; renal; report; retroperitoneal; serum; size; small; spontaneous; srh; systemic; tehran; university; vasculitis; visceral cache: aaem-510.pdf plain text: aaem-510.txt item: #509 of 640 id: aaem-513 author: Mozaffari, Javad; Motamed, Hassan; Masoumi, Kambiz; Hanafi, Mohammad Ghasem; Fahimi, Mohammad Ali; Derakhshani, Zahra; Ehyaie, Farzaneh title: Characteristics of S100B and Neuron Specific Enolase in Differentiating Acute Vertigo Cases with Central Cause; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2020-01-07 words: 3538 flesch: 56 summary: The screening performance characteristics of S100B and NSE biomarkers in differentiating central vertigo cases were measured considering brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the reference test. Patients with abnormal brain MRI had significantly higher levels of S100B (p < 0.001) and NSE (p < 0.001). keywords: abnormal; academic; acute; ahvaz; article; biomarkers; brain; cases; cause; central; characteristics; commons; data; department; emergency; enolase; findings; head; imaging; injury; iran; journal; jundishapur; level; license; medical; medicine; mri; negative; neurological; neuron; nse; patients; peripheral; point; positive; research; results; s100b; samples; sciences; screening; sensitivity; serum; specific; specificity; stroke; study; terms; test; university; value; vertigo cache: aaem-513.pdf plain text: aaem-513.txt item: #510 of 640 id: aaem-52 author: Qutrio Baloch, Zulfiqar; Hussain, Muhammad; Agha Abbas, Shabber; Perez, Jorge L.; Ayyaz, Muhammad title: Methamphetamine-Induced Cardiomyopathy (MACM) in a Middle-Aged Man; a Case Report date: 2018-11-21 words: 2529 flesch: 48 summary: In addition to raising awareness, our case provides an outline of how MACM patients likely may present and the subsequent morbid sequela. A recent article pointed out that the experience of emergency health care personnel, especially mental health professionals, in dealing with patients pre- senting with acute methamphetamine abuse is quite com- plex. keywords: abuse; access; acute; article; associated; attribution; baloch; brandon; cardiac; cardiomyopathy; cardiovascular; case; changes; chest; chronic; clinical; commons; continued; coronary; creative; department; development; drug; dyspnea; emergency; failure; figure; health; heart; history; hospital; iii; license; lvef; macm; medical; medicine; methamphetamine; new; noncommercial; open; patients; qutrio; report; rest; severe; symptoms; terms; transplantation; usa; ventricular; years cache: aaem-52.pdf plain text: aaem-52.txt item: #511 of 640 id: aaem-523 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Hosseini, Mostafa; Parvizi, Mohammad Reza title: Pediatric Thoracic Injury Rule out Criteria (pTIRC) in Diagnosis of Very Low Risk Children for Traumatic Intrathoracic Injuries; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2020-01-08 words: 3988 flesch: 59 summary: NEXUS chest was the first decision rule designed for iden- ∗Corresponding Author: Mohammad Reza Parvizi, Department of Physiol- ogy, School of medicine, AJA university of medical science, Etemadzadeh av- enue, West Fatemi street, Tehran, Iran; E mail: mparvizi@alumnus.tums.ac.ir; phone: 02143822925 tification of clinically important thoracic injuries following chest trauma. Rodriguez RM, Anglin D, Langdorf MI, Baumann BM, Hendey GW, Bradley RN, et al. NEXUS chest: validation of a decision instrument for selective chest imaging in blunt trauma. keywords: abnormal; accuracy; adolescents; adults; age; article; blood; calibration; chest; children; clinical; criteria; cxr; data; decision; diagnostic; emergency; factors; findings; injuries; injury; journal; medicine; model; multiple; number; pain; patients; pediatric; performance; positive; prediction; presence; present; pressure; ptirc; radiographs; rule; study; thoracic; trauma; traumatic; unnecessary; value; years; yousefifard cache: aaem-523.pdf plain text: aaem-523.txt item: #512 of 640 id: aaem-529 author: Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Barazesh, Fatemeh; Hashemi, Behrooz; Safari, Saeed title: Characteristics and Outcome of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Emregncy Department; a 10-year Cross-sectional Study date: 2020-01-07 words: 2542 flesch: 59 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA, triple A) is one of the less common but important causes of abdominal pain. Abdominal aortic aneurysm is usually asymptomatic un- til rupture (2). keywords: abdominal; abdominal aortic; age; aneurysm; aneurysmorrhaphy; aorta; aortic; aortic aneurysm; cases; characteristics; data; department; emergency; factors; findings; hospital; journal; larger; leakage; mean; medical; mortality; older; outcome; pain; patients; percent; rate; risk; shock; size; state; study; surgery; tajrish; tehran cache: aaem-529.pdf plain text: aaem-529.txt item: #513 of 640 id: aaem-53 author: Arhami-Dolatabadi, Ali; Memary, Elham; Shojaee, Majid; Kamalifard, Hossein title: Dexmedetomidine-Fentanyl versus Midazolam-Fentanyl in Pain Management of Distal Radius Fractures Reduction; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-11-21 words: 3582 flesch: 55 summary: Out of the 9 patients who experienced treatment failure, 8 (88.90%) patients were in dexmedetomidine group and 1 (11.10%) was in midazolam group (p = 0.029). Out of the 9 patients who experienced treatment failure, 8 (88.90%) patients were in dexmedetomidine group and 1 (11.10%) was in the mida- zolam group (p = 0.029). keywords: addition; age; analgesia; article; case; characteristics; clinical; combination; data; department; dexmedetomidine; distal; dose; drug; effects; emergency; failure; fentanyl; fracture; group; hossein; induction; iran; journal; mean; medical; medicine; midazolam; minutes; pain; patients; present; procedure; radius; randomized; rate; recovery; reduction; rescue; results; score; sedation; sedative; severity; study; time; treatment; trial cache: aaem-53.pdf plain text: aaem-53.txt item: #514 of 640 id: aaem-531 author: Majidi, Alireza; Derakhshani, Fatemeh title: Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate for Pain Management in Patients with Acute Renal Colic; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2020-01-07 words: 3736 flesch: 60 summary: The present study has been designed with the aim of assessing the role of Mg sulfate in controlling the renal colic pain in emergency depart- ment (ED). By preventing calcium from entering through the cell mem- brane of smooth muscles, Mg sulfate can reduce calcium, which is required for muscle contraction (3, 4). keywords: access; acute; administration; admission; article; attribution; clinical; colic; commons; creative; department; dose; drug; effects; emergency; groups; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; intravenous; journal; license; magnesium; management; mean; medicine; mg sulfate; minute; morphine; muscle; noncommercial; open; pain; patients; present; rate; renal; renal colic; results; role; score; severity; similar; study; success; sulfate; terms; trial; vas cache: aaem-531.pdf plain text: aaem-531.txt item: #515 of 640 id: aaem-535 author: Shakeri, Seyed Hamid Reza; Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein; Zamani, Nasim title: Safety of Naloxone in Opioid-Naïve Methadone Intoxicated Patients; a Case Series Study date: 2020-03-02 words: 2188 flesch: 53 summary: Therefore, administrating adjusted doses of nalox- one even in naive patients seems logical. However, they showed a series of inadvertent reactions after naloxone administration. keywords: administration; article; available; challenge; clinical; dependent; doses; effects; hassanian; hours; ingestion; iran; mean; medical; methadone; minutes; moghaddam; naive; naloxone; naltrexone; opiate; opioid; pain; patients; range; safe; sciences; sows; study; symptoms; tehran; test; time; withdrawal cache: aaem-535.pdf plain text: aaem-535.txt item: #516 of 640 id: aaem-538 author: Dadpour, Bita; Alizadeh, Anahita; Vahabzadeh, Maryam; Mousavi, Seyed Reza; Moshiri, Mohammad; Ataee, Zahra; Mostafazadeh, Babak title: Arterial Blood Gas Analysis of Patients with Tramadol-induced Seizure; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2020-03-01 words: 3045 flesch: 57 summary: Participants Patients with a history of tramadol use with subsequent generalized seizure (diagnosed as tramadol-induced seizure) that were referred to emergency department of our hos- pital within a maximum of one hour after last episode of seizure were included in this study. Age (year) Mean ± SD 35.10 ± 9.62 Time between tramadol use and admission (hours) < 3 9(18.0) 3 - 6 24(48.0) keywords: abg; acidosis; admission; analysis; arterial; article; association; blood; cases; data; disturbances; dose; drug; emergency; gas; higher; hospital; ingestion; interval; iran; journal; mean; medical; medicine; open; patients; pco2; rate; research; respiratory; results; sciences; seizure; severe; study; tehran; test; time; tis; tramadol; university; use cache: aaem-538.pdf plain text: aaem-538.txt item: #517 of 640 id: aaem-54 author: Shekarchi, Babak; Hejripour-Rafsanjani, Seyed-Zia; Shekar-Riz-Fomani, Nima; Chahardoli, Mojtaba title: Emergency Department Bedside Ultrasonography for Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-11-21 words: 2920 flesch: 58 summary: Study design and setting In this diagnostic accuracy study, patients presenting to emergency department of Firouzgar (a tertiary center for gastrointestinal diseases) and Besat Hospitals, Tehran, Iran, from 2015 to 2017, suffering from RUQ pain in favor of acute cholecystitis underwent bedside ultrasonography. For measuring inter-rater agreement between radiology and emergency departments’ reports Cohen’s kappa coefficient was calculated. keywords: absence; access; accuracy; acute; acute cholecystitis; agreement; article; attribution; bedside; cases; cholecystitis; commons; creative; department; diagnosis; edema; emergency; findings; gallbladder; good; iran; kappa; license; medical; medicine; negative; noncommercial; patients; positive; presence; radiology; reports; residents; ruq; sciences; sensitivity; sonography; specificity; standard; study; tehran; terms; ultrasonography; ultrasound; university; wall cache: aaem-54.pdf plain text: aaem-54.txt item: #518 of 640 id: aaem-545 author: Moallemi, Seyed Kaveh; Niroomand, Mahtab; Tadayon, Niki; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Fatemi, Alireza title: Diagnostic Value of Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate and C Reactive Protein in detecting Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2020-09-12 words: 3075 flesch: 53 summary: The results of Asten et al. study suggested a predictive role for both ESR and CRP at the time of monitoring the success of therapy in diabetic foot osteomyelitis (12). Based on the Oktay YapÄścÄś et al. study (19), neutrophil- to-lymphocyte ratio, CRP, and ESR have a predictive value for development of osteomyelitis and progression to ampu- tation in patients with diabetic foot osteomyelitis. keywords: area; best; bone; cases; characteristics; clinical; crp; curve; detection; diabetes; diabetic; diabetic foot; diagnosis; erythrocyte; esr; foot; hour; infections; iran; journal; markers; medical; negative; open; osteomyelitis; patients; point; positive; predictive; presence; protein; rate; reactive; sciences; sedimentation; sensitivity; serum; specificity; study; tehran; treatment; value cache: aaem-545.pdf plain text: aaem-545.txt item: #519 of 640 id: aaem-55 author: Feiz-Disfani, Hamideh; Kamandi, Mostafa; Rahmani, Kazem title: Brain Natriuretic Peptides in Screening of Syncope with Cardiac Origin; a Commentary date: 2018-11-21 words: 843 flesch: 53 summary: In a study by Wojtowicz J et al. who evaluated BNP in chil- dren and adolescents with syncope, there was no significant difference in terms of BNP level between the syncope and control groups (6). Tanimoto K et al. considered the cut-off value of 40 pg/ml for BNP in differentiating cardiac and non-cardiac syncope and ∗Corresponding Author: Mostafa Kamandi; Department of Internal Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. keywords: bnp; brain; cardiac; children; department; emergency; iran; journal; mashhad; medical; natriuretic; non; sciences; study; syncope; university cache: aaem-55.pdf plain text: aaem-55.txt item: #520 of 640 id: aaem-552 author: Jafari, Ameneh; Rezaei Tavirani, Mostafa; Prvareshi Hamrah, Mohsen; Ahmadi Karvigh, Sanaz; Bashi Zadeh Fakhar, Haniyeh title: Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures; a Narrative Review date: 2020-01-22 words: 4434 flesch: 55 summary: In their study, Bakvis et al. confirmed that PNES patients possess basal hyper- cortisolism, which positively correlated with both traumatic histories and threat vigilance Ceylan M et al. reported lower amounts of post-ictal serum NT-pro- CNP in ES patients compared to PNES patients and healthy controls, regardless of gender [48]. keywords: abuse; access; article; attacks; attribution; bdnf; behavior; biomarkers; care; changes; clinical; commons; cortisol; creative; diagnosis; disorder; eeg; emergency; emotional; epilepsy; epileptic; et al; factors; health; history; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; important; iran; levels; license; lower; management; medical; neurology; noncommercial; nonepileptic; nonepileptic seizures; npy; onset; open; patients; phase; pnes; postictal; prolactin; psychiatric; psychogenic; psychogenic nonepileptic; psychological; related; research; review; sciences; seizures; serum; stress; studies; study; tehran; terms; treatment; university; video cache: aaem-552.pdf plain text: aaem-552.txt item: #521 of 640 id: aaem-553 author: Miraglia, Dennis; A. Miguel, Lourdes; Alonso, Wilfredo title: The Evolving Role of Esmolol in Management of Pre-Hospital Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation; a Scoping Review date: 2020-03-02 words: 7293 flesch: 53 summary: Epinephrine has been a longstanding treatment for cardiac arrest patients; yet, the literature has not shown an increase in survival rates when it has been used in higher doses (36). Hence, de- spite the current advances in pre-hospital care and the feasi- bility to provide quick access to perfusion/reperfusion ther- apies, the main goal of pre-hospital care for patients with refractory cardiac arrest is rapid transport to definitive care This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). keywords: abstract; access; adjuvant; american; arrest; article; association; attribution; authors; available; cardiac; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary; care; circulation; clinical; commons; control; cpc; cpr; creative; data; discharge; emergency; epinephrine; esmolol; et al; evidence; favorable; fibrillation; group; heart; hospital; hospital cardiac; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; intervention; iqr; january; lee; license; life; limitations; literature; mcg; median; medicine; min; miraglia; months; n(%; neurological; noncommercial; observational; open; outcomes; patients; pre; pvt; randomized; refractory; refractory ventricular; refractory vf; research; results; resuscitation; review; rosc; states; studies; study; support; survival; sustained; tachycardia; terms; therapy; time; title; total; treatment; trials; use; ventricular cache: aaem-553.pdf plain text: aaem-553.txt item: #522 of 640 id: aaem-559 author: Korkut, Mustafa; Bedel, Cihan; Karancı, Yusuf; Avcı, Ali; Duyan, Mura title: Accuracy of Alvarado, Eskelinen, Ohmann, RIPASA and Tzanakis Scores in Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis; a Cross-sectional Study date: 2020-03-14 words: 3802 flesch: 58 summary: Measures are calculated in cut-offs: ≥8 for Alvarado score; ≥12 for Ohmann score; ≥12 for RIPASA score; ≥8 for Tzanakis score; ≥57 for Eskelinen score. 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Korkut et al. 4 Table 2: Comparing the baseline characteristics as well as acute appendicitis scores between cases with positive and negative appendectomy findings Variables Appendectomy findings P value Negative (n=9) Positive (n=65) keywords: 0.001; accuracy; acute; acute appendicitis; age; alvarado; antalya; appendectomy; appendicitis; article; attribution; auc; cases; characteristics; clinical; commons; creative; data; department; diagnosis; different; emergency; eskelinen; evaluation; findings; hospital; isteri; journal; laboratory; license; lower; median; medicine; negative; noncommercial; ohmann; patients; performance; positive; raja; results; ripasa; score; scoring; screening; sensitivity; specificity; study; surgery; system; tzanakis; ultrasonography; ×103 cache: aaem-559.pdf plain text: aaem-559.txt item: #523 of 640 id: aaem-56 author: Sedaghat, Meghdad; Soltani, Mahsa; Solooki, Mehrdad title: Dissimilarity in the Frequency of Venous Thromboembolism Risk Factors among Studies, a Commentary date: 2018-11-21 words: 898 flesch: 56 summary: This gap declares that VTE risk factors, especially transient ones, have not been detected completely (3). Accepted: February 2018; Published online: 18 Febryary 2018 Cite this article as: Dissimilarity in the Frequency of Venous Thromboembolism Risk Factors among Studies, a Commentary. keywords: department; disease; factors; frequency; hospital; hossein; imam; iran; major; malignancy; medical; medicine; pulmonary; recent; risk; shahid; studies; study; surgery; tehran; thromboembolism; venous; vte cache: aaem-56.pdf plain text: aaem-56.txt item: #524 of 640 id: aaem-564 author: Taha Abdullah, Ameena; Taher Mousheer, Zaher title: Vitamin D Status in Epileptic Children on Valproic Acid; a Case-Control Study date: 2020-02-27 words: 3214 flesch: 63 summary: Methods: A case-control study has been carried out to compare vitamin D3 levels in 50 epileptic children who were treated with valproic acid with 50 healthy chil- dren selected from children visiting the hospital for routine checkup as control group. There was a significant difference between case and control groups regarding vitamin D3 levels (p = 0.001). keywords: acid; age; anticonvulsant; antiepileptic; article; association; bmi; bone; case; children; commons; control; creative; d3 levels; deficiency; drugs; effects; epilepsy; epileptic; group; healthy; higher; hospital; insufficiency; journal; levels; license; medical; metabolism; months; optimal; patients; pediatric; seizure; study; taha; therapy; treatment; valproate; valproic; vitamin; vitamin d3; years cache: aaem-564.pdf plain text: aaem-564.txt item: #525 of 640 id: aaem-565 author: Alavi-Moghaddam, Mostafa title: A Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak from Wuhan City in China, Rapid Need for Emergency Departments Preparedness and Response; a Letter to Editor date: 2020-02-02 words: 1486 flesch: 48 summary: Patients with pre-existing medical comorbidities develop a more severe disease and have higher mortality rates com- pared to patients who do not have any comorbidity. At the triage of an Emergency room, early recognition of suspected patients allows for timely initiation of IPC. keywords: acute; care; china; city; clinical; coronavirus; disease; emergency; hcw; health; illness; infection; january; medical; ncov; novel; organization; patients; rapid; respiratory; severe; shock; therapy; world; wuhan cache: aaem-565.pdf plain text: aaem-565.txt item: #526 of 640 id: aaem-57 author: Taghizadeh, Mehrdad; Taghipour, Roghayeh; Heydari, Kamran title: Key Performance Indicators of Chest Pain Management in Emergency Department; a Letter to the Editor date: 2018-11-21 words: 1117 flesch: 56 summary: American Heart Association (AHA) has introduced the proper door to ECG time as 10 minutes if it has not been done in the ambulance (4). As can be seen, door to first ECG time in the studied ED is approximately twice the standard time proposed by AHA. keywords: american; cases; chest; decision; department; door; ecg; emergency; infarction; iran; minutes; myocardial; pain; patients; performance; standard; thrombolytic; time cache: aaem-57.pdf plain text: aaem-57.txt item: #527 of 640 id: aaem-578 author: C. Miller, Andrew; Faza, Colton; A. Castro Bigalli, Alberto; M. Khan, Abbas; A. Sewell, Kerry; King, Alexandra; Vehedian-Azimi, Amir; Zehtabchi, Shahriar title: Intravenous Amide Anesthetics to Treat Pain Associated with Renal Colic in the Emergency Department: a Systematic Review date: 2020-03-21 words: 7161 flesch: 51 summary: Can the addition of low dose lido- caine improve the effectiveness of narcotics in reducing renal colic pain? We inves- tigated the evidence on using intravenous amide anesthet- ics for analgesia and opioid sparing effects in patients with acute renal colic. keywords: abdominal; access; acm; acute; administration; adverse; analgesia; anesthetics; articaine; article; attribution; authors; baseline; bias; blind; calculi; center; cinchocaine; clinical; colic; commons; comparison; creative; criteria; data; database; department; dose; double; drug; effects; efficacy; emergency; evidence; figure; greenville; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; information; infusion; intensity; intravenous; intravenous lidocaine; iran; ketorolac; kidney; license; lidocaine; lidoiv; management; medical; medicine; mepivacaine; meta; methods; metoclopramide; miller; minutes; morphine; nephrolithiasis; noncommercial; nsaids; open; opiate; opioid; outcome; pain; patients; placebo; prilocaine; publication; randomized; rct; renal; renal colic; rescue; review; risk; soleimanpour; stone; studies; study; systematic; terms; time; tract; treatment; trial; university; ureteral; ureteric; urinary; usa; use; vas; years cache: aaem-578.pdf plain text: aaem-578.txt item: #528 of 640 id: aaem-58 author: Shekarchi, Babak; Mokhdanzadeh-Dashti, Mohammadreza; Shahrezaei, Mostafa; Karimi, Ebrahim title: The Accuracy of Ultrasonography in Detection of Ulnar Collateral Ligament of Thumb Injuries; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2018-11-21 words: 3103 flesch: 54 summary: The first studies carried out in the field of assessing the di- agnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in detecting ULC of thumb injuries belong to 1980 to 2000. Ultrasound: a powerful tool in the diagnosis of ulnar collateral ligament injuries of the thumb. keywords: accuracy; age; article; clinical; collateral; collateral ligament; data; department; detection; diagnosis; emergency; findings; hand; hospital; imaging; injuries; injury; joint; journal; ligament; medical; medicine; mentioned; metacarpophalangeal; mri; negative; patients; performance; positive; present; radiologist; regard; rupture; sensitivity; specificity; study; surgery; thumb; traumatic; ucl; ulnar; ulnar collateral; ultrasonography; years cache: aaem-58.pdf plain text: aaem-58.txt item: #529 of 640 id: aaem-583 author: Yousefi, Hesam; Sahebi, Ali; Farahani, Mahtab; Golitaleb, Mohamad title: Anaphylaxis as a Rare Side Effect of Ketorolac; a Case Report date: 2020-03-17 words: 1622 flesch: 50 summary: A number of studies have reported anaphylactic reactions af- ter ketorolac administration. Although ketorolac has an excellent safety pro- file, allergic reactions and anaphylaxis may occur following its administration. keywords: administration; allergic; anaphylactic; anaphylaxis; anti; arak; article; case; department; drug; effect; emergency; hospital; injection; intravenous; iran; journal; ketorolac; life; medical; nsaids; nursing; old; pain; patient; rare; reaction; report; sciences; university; year cache: aaem-583.pdf plain text: aaem-583.txt item: #530 of 640 id: aaem-584 author: Fazel, Mojtaba; Sarveazad, Arash; Ali, Kosar Mohamed; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Accuracy of Urine Kidney Injury Molecule-1 in Predicting Acute Kidney Injury in Children; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2020-04-06 words: 5777 flesch: 62 summary: However, urinary KIM-1 levels in children with stage 2-3 AKI were significantly higher than non-AKI children (p <0.01) at all times. Study design This meta-analysis was designed based on the guidelines for Meta-analysis of Epidemiology Statement, to evaluate the value of urinary KIM-1 level in predicting AKI in children (16). keywords: access; accuracy; acute; acute kidney; acute[tiab; admission; aki; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; auc; bias; biomarkers; children; cohort; commons; creative; data; disease; emergency; et al; failure; figure; higher; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injury; iran; kidney; kidney injury; kim-1; level; license; mean; medical; meta; molecule-1; nephrol; non; noncommercial; open; patients; pediatr; pediatric; present; renal; review; risk; sensitivity; serum; smd; specificity; stage; studies; study; surgery; systematic; tehran; terms; urinary; urine; value; yousefifard; © © cache: aaem-584.pdf plain text: aaem-584.txt item: #531 of 640 id: aaem-585 author: Abbasi, Arash; Mehdipour Rabori, Pardis; Farajollahi, Ramtin; Mohammad Ali, Kosar; Ataei, Nematollah; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Discriminatory precision of renal angina index in prediction of acute kidney injury in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis date: 2020-03-30 words: 4427 flesch: 58 summary: Urinary biomarker incorporation into the re- nal angina index early in intensive care unit admission optimizes acute kidney injury prediction in critically ill children: a prospective cohort study. Urinary biomarker incorporation into the re- nal angina index early in intensive care unit admission optimizes acute kidney injury prediction in critically ill children: a prospective cohort study. keywords: abbasi; access; acute; acute kidney; acute[tiab; aki; analysis; angina; article; attribution; basu; bias; children; cohort; commons; creative; data; diagnostic; discriminatory; disease; failure; figure; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; ill; index; injury; iran; kdigo; kidney; kidney injury; license; medical; medicine; meta; necrosis[tiab; nephrology; noncommercial; open; pcs; pediatric; prediction; present; rai; renal; risk; search; sensitivity; severe; specificity; studies; study; tehran; terms; © © cache: aaem-585.pdf plain text: aaem-585.txt item: #532 of 640 id: aaem-59 author: Emamhadi, Mohammad Ali; Najari, Fares; Hedayatshode, Mohammad Javad; Sharif, Shokoufeh title: Sudden Death Following Oral Intake of Metal Objects (Acuphagia): a Case Report date: 2018-11-21 words: 2143 flesch: 57 summary: His relatives were aware of his craving for metal objects, but they claimed that it had not caused any particular problems. Downloaded from: www.jemerg.com M. Emamhadi et al. 2 Figure 1: Perforation of duodenum and peritonitis caused by metal objects following acuphagia. keywords: abdominal; acuphagia; article; attribution; case; childhood; commons; condition; creative; death; department; disorders; drug; emergency; examination; forensic; history; hospital; iran; license; man; medical; medicine; metal; non; noncommercial; objects; old; pain; patient; perforation; peritonitis; pica; present; report; severe; stomach; tehran; terms; tract; year cache: aaem-59.pdf plain text: aaem-59.txt item: #533 of 640 id: aaem-590 author: Rismanbaf, Ali; Zarei, Sara title: Liver and Kidney Injuries in COVID-19 and Their Effects on Drug Therapy; a Letter to Editor date: 2020-03-09 words: 813 flesch: 51 summary: 3. Cheng Y, Luo R, Wang K, Zhang M, Wang Z, Dong L, et al. Kidney impairment is associated with in-hospital death of COVID-19 patients. In addition to liver injuries, some articles have also reported an increased incidence of acute renal injury following COVID-19, which could be due to the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the inflammation induced by the disease, or a synergistic effect of both on kidneys (3, 4). keywords: chloroquine; cov-2; covid-19; disease; drug; injury; isfahan; kidney; liver; medical; patients; sars; sciences; zhang cache: aaem-590.pdf plain text: aaem-590.txt item: #534 of 640 id: aaem-591 author: Ashrafi-rizi, Hasan; Kazempour, Zahra title: Information Typology in Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis; a Commentary date: 2020-03-13 words: 1724 flesch: 47 summary: Perplexing information The kind of scientific information that has been produced in order to increase the knowledge of others, but is sent to an unrelated audience, is called perplexing information. Comforting Information These are information whose production and dissemination makes people happy and relaxed during the crisis. keywords: article; ashrafi; authors; commentary; content; coronavirus; countries; crisis; example; health; information; iran; isfahan; literacy; media; medical; number; people; research; sciences; scientific; social; type; typology; university cache: aaem-591.pdf plain text: aaem-591.txt item: #535 of 640 id: aaem-593 author: Parvareshi Hamrah, Mohsen; Rezaei Tavirani, Mostafa; Movahedi, Monireh; Ahmadi Karvigh, Sanaz title: Proteomic Analysis of patients with Epileptic Seizure and Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizure; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2020-03-13 words: 4338 flesch: 58 summary: Venous blood samples were obtained within 1 hour after seizure and serum proteomes as well as the extent of protein expression were analyzed. This method is widely used to perform functional proteomics (i.e., the large-scale analysis of alter- ations in protein expression levels) keywords: access; analysis; article; attribution; authors; barrier; bbb; beheshti; biomarkers; blood; brain; cases; changes; commons; creative; cross; data; deregulated; diagnosis; disease; e18; eeg; epilepsy; epileptic; expression; figure; findings; fold; gel; group; hippocampus; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; human; ictal; iran; journal; license; lobe; mean; medical; medicine; mesial; mif; molecular; non; noncommercial; open; page; parvareshi; patients; pnes; proteins; proteomic; psychogenic; research; samples; sciences; seizures; serum; shahid; spots; studies; study; tavirani; tehran; temporal; terms; tissue; tle; university; weight; years cache: aaem-593.pdf plain text: aaem-593.txt item: #536 of 640 id: aaem-595 author: Panahi, Latif; Amiri, Marzieh; Pouy, Somaye title: Risks of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Pregnancy; a Narrative Review date: 2020-03-23 words: 3566 flesch: 62 summary: Since the first case of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, up to March 19th, 234073 people in the world have been infected with COVID- 19 and 9840 people have died because of COVID-19 infection (6-9). China Clinical characteristics and intrauterine vertical transmission potential of COVID-19 infection in nine pregnant women: a retrospective review of medical records ◦ COVID-19 in pregnant woman can cause fetal distress but does not infect newborns. keywords: articles; birth; case; characteristics; chen; chest; china; clinical; confirmed; coronavirus; covid-19; delivery; disease; distress; et al; evidence; fetus; infected; infection; intrauterine; journal; liu; march; medical; medicine; mothers; ncov; neonatal; newborns; novel; outcomes; pneumonia; pregnancy; pregnant; preterm; results; review; sars; studies; study; symptoms; transmission; vertical; wang; women; wuhan cache: aaem-595.pdf plain text: aaem-595.txt item: #537 of 640 id: aaem-596 author: Rismanbaf, Ali title: Potential treatments for COVID-19; a literature review date: 2020-03-21 words: 2604 flesch: 58 summary: (2020) (19) Virtual screening (Angiotensin II human acetate) GHRP-2 Indinavir Cobicistat Caspofungin acetate Lopinavir Atazanavir Binding to SARS-CoV-2 Mp r o : Angiotensin II human acetate, GHRP-2, Indinavir, and Cobicistat Binding to SARS-CoV-2 3C-like proteinase (3CLp r o ): Angiotensin II human acetate, GHRP-2, In- dinavir, Caspofungin acetate, Lopinavir, and Atazanavir Wang et al. (2020) (27) Connectivity map (Cmap) Ikarugamycin molsidomine Effective on the genes co- expressed with ACE2 Richardson et al. (2020) (28) Using BenevolentAI Baricitinib Binding to AP2-associated protein kinase 1 (AAK1) Nowak et al. (2020) (29) Brief review Lithium Probably by reducing apoptosis and inhibition of glycogen syn- thase kinase 3 beta (GSK-3β) Sun et al. (2020) (30) Brief review Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and Angiotensin1 re- ceptor inhibitors Rebalancing Renin-Angiotensin- Aldosterone System (RAAS) (might reduce the pulmonary inflammatory response and mortality) COVID-19 patients, Shang et al. reported that corticosteroid therapy and gamma globulin administration increased mor- tality and appeared to be useful only in patients with lower lymphocyte counts (6). keywords: acetate; article; binding; biorxiv; case; chen; china; chloroquine; clinical; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; days; drugs; et al; human; inhibitors; like; liu; lopinavir; medicine; ncov; patients; pneumonia; potential; protease; protein; reports; review; sars; screening; studies; study; terms; treatment; viral; virtual; wang; yang; zhang cache: aaem-596.pdf plain text: aaem-596.txt item: #538 of 640 id: aaem-598 author: Rashidi Fakari, Farzaneh; Simbar, Masoumeh title: Coronavirus Pandemic and Worries during Pregnancy; a Letter to Editor date: 2020-03-16 words: 834 flesch: 58 summary: There is no valid information available on pregnant women and their complications. But given previous epidemics (SARS and MERS), as well as mental and physical changes during pregnancy (2), pregnant women are more likely to be affected by the virus. keywords: anxiety; birth; coronavirus; editor; iran; journal; medical; midwifery; mothers; neonatal; pandemic; pregnancy; pregnant; rashidi; sciences; simbar; tehran; women cache: aaem-598.pdf plain text: aaem-598.txt item: #539 of 640 id: aaem-6 author: Shahrami, Ali; Rahmati, Farhad; Kariman, Hamid; Hashemi, Behrooz; Rahmati, Majid; Baratloo, Alireza; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Safari, Saeed title: Utilization of Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) Method in Increas-ing the Revenue of Emergency Department; a Prospective Cohort Study date: 2018-11-13 words: 4270 flesch: 57 summary: Accordingly, the present study attempts to investigate failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) method in identifying the problems leading to the loss of ED revenue and offer solutions to help fix these problems. The average of ED revenue in the six months of the first phase was 73.1±3.65 thousand US dollars/month. keywords: analysis; beheshti; defect; department; dollars; ed revenue; effects; efficiency; emergency; errors; failure; files; financial; fmea; health; increase; insurance; lack; medical; method; mode; month; nursing; patients; phase; prescriptions; present; priority; priority problems; problems; procedures; recording; revenue; sciences; second; sending; services; solutions; solving; study; subsystem; system; unit; university cache: aaem-6.pdf plain text: aaem-6.txt item: #540 of 640 id: aaem-60 author: Najari, Fares; Amirian, Mohamadjavad; Sadjadi, Sara; Baradaran Kayal, Ideh title: Loss of Guide Wire as an Important Complication of Central Venous Catheterization; a Case Report date: 2018-11-21 words: 1506 flesch: 55 summary: Here we report a case of lost guide wire following central venous line insertion. There are some case reports of lost guide wires, such as the cases reported by Kumar et al. in 2006 (4), Satoshi Akazawa et al. keywords: article; case; catheterization; central; central venous; complications; days; effusions; emergency; femoral; guide; hospital; ill; insertion; iran; journal; knee; line; loss; lost; medical; medicine; patient; placement; procedures; rare; report; right; sciences; thrombosis; university; vein; venous; wire cache: aaem-60.pdf plain text: aaem-60.txt item: #541 of 640 id: aaem-600 author: Emami, Amir; Javanmardi, Fatemeh; Pirbonyeh, Neda; Akbari, Ali title: Prevalence of Underlying Diseases in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2020-03-24 words: 5075 flesch: 59 summary: Tan W, Zhao X, Ma X, Wang W, Niu P, Xu W, et al. Margulis AV, Pladevall M, Riera-Guardia N, Varas- Lorenzo C, Hazell L, Berkman ND, et al. keywords: academic; access; analysis; archives; article; attribution; bias; cardiovascular; cases; characteristics; china; chronic; clinical; commons; copd; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; creative; current; data; diabetes; diseases; e35; emami; emergency; et al; figure; health; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypertension; infected; infection; information; lancet; license; medical; medicine; mers; meta; ncov; noncommercial; novel; number; open; outbreak; patients; people; plot; present; prevalence; publication; respiratory; results; risk; sars; severe; shiraz; smoking; studies; study; terms; transmission; underlying; wang; wuhan; zhang cache: aaem-600.pdf plain text: aaem-600.txt item: #542 of 640 id: aaem-601 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran; March 13, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 438 flesch: 68 summary: 50 38 22 3 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Fever Cough PO2<93 Distress Myalgia Low GCS P e rc e n t Early Clinical Symptoms of Confirmed Cases 16 16 3 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 10 0 5 10 15 20 P e rc e n t Frequency of Underlying Diseases in Associated Deaths* Source: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, IR Iran 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1,200 1,400 1 9 -F e b 2 0 -F e b 2 1 -F e b 2 2 -F e b 2 3 -F e b 2 4 -F e b 2 5 -F e b 2 6 -F e b 2 7 -F e b 2 8 -F e b 2 9 -F e b 1 -M a r 2 -M a r 3 -M a r 4 -M a r 5 -M a r 6 -M a r 7 -M a r 8 -M a r 9 -M a r 1 0 -M a r 1 1 -M a r 1 2 -M a r 1 3 -M a r N u m b e r Confirmed Cases and Associated deaths Confirmed Cases Associated Deaths -25 keywords: associated; cases; deaths cache: aaem-601.pdf plain text: aaem-601.txt item: #543 of 640 id: aaem-602 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran; March 14, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 401 flesch: 52 summary: Source: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, IR Iran 0 500 1,000 1,500 1 9 -F e b 2 0 -F e b 2 1 -F e b 2 2 -F e b 2 3 -F e b 2 4 -F e b 2 5 -F e b 2 6 -F e b 2 7 -F e b 2 8 -F e b 2 9 -F e b 1 -M a r 2 -M a r 3 -M a r 4 -M a r 5 -M a r 6 -M a r 7 -M a r 8 -M a r 9 -M a r 1 0 -M a r 1 1 -M a r 1 2 -M a r 1 3 -M a r 1 4 -M a r N u m b e r Confirmed Cases and Associated deaths Confirmed Cases Associated Deaths 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 F re q u e n cy ( % ) Number of Days in Hospital Time Between Hospitalization to Hospital Death 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 F re q u e n cy ( % ) Number of Days in Hospital Time Between Hospitalization to Hospital Death (intubated vs. non-intubated patients)* Non-intubated Intubated Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran March 14, 2020 National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology Ministry of Health and Medical Education, IR Iran Total lab-confirmed cases 12,729 Total associated deaths 611 Total recovered cases 4,339 New cases 1,365 Sex  keywords: cases; days cache: aaem-602.pdf plain text: aaem-602.txt item: #544 of 640 id: aaem-603 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran; March 15, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 509 flesch: 58 summary: The above table shows that about 12% of recovered cases initially needed to be transferred to the hospital by ambulance, and so, probably had relatively severe disease. Glasgow Coma Scale Source: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, IR Iran 0 500 1,000 1,500 1 9 -F e b 2 0 -F e b 2 1 -F e b 2 2 -F e b 2 3 -F e b 2 4 -F e b 2 5 -F e b 2 6 -F e b 2 7 -F e b 2 8 -F e b 2 9 -F e b 1 -M a r 2 -M a r 3 -M a r 4 -M a r 5 -M a r 6 -M a r 7 -M a r 8 -M a r 9 -M a r 1 0 -M a r 1 1 -M a r 1 2 -M a r 1 3 -M a r 1 4 -M a r N u m b e r Confirmed Cases and Associated deaths Confirmed Cases Associated Deaths Severe, 13.7 Mild, 86.3 Proportion of more severe forms of the disease to total confirmed cases keywords: cases; covid-19; recovered; recovery; severe; total cache: aaem-603.pdf plain text: aaem-603.txt item: #545 of 640 id: aaem-604 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran; March 16, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 416 flesch: 44 summary: March 16, 2020 Total lab-confirmed cases 14,991 Total associated deaths 853 Total recovered cases 4,996 New cases 1,053 The age distribution of COVID-19 cases seems more asymmetric than that of lab-negative pneumonia cases. * Comorbidities means the presence of at least one underlying disease, including: cardiovascular, liver, kidney, blood, neurological diseases, diabetes, Asthma, immunodeficiency, and other chronic diseases. keywords: cases; covid-19; distribution; lab cache: aaem-604.pdf plain text: aaem-604.txt item: #546 of 640 id: aaem-605 author: Ashrafi-rizi, Hasan; Kazempour, Zahra title: Information Diet in Covid-19 Crisis; a Commentary date: 2020-03-22 words: 1478 flesch: 46 summary: It should be noted that anxiety and confusion, as well as an increase in people’s physical and mental illnesses, including health anxieties and sometimes cyberchondria, are among the negative consequences of not adhering to information diet and consuming more than needed health information. Email: has- sanashrafi@mng.mui.ac.ir, Tel: +989132365178. mans respect the limits about use of water, food, and air, they must also rationally limit their consumption of information; otherwise they will encounter phenomena known as the in- formation obesity, and the information diet will be a ratio- nal solution to this phenomenon (3). keywords: anxiety; ashrafi; consumption; coronavirus; covid-19; crisis; diet; health; information; iran; isfahan; literacy; media; medical; need; news; people; research; rizi; university cache: aaem-605.pdf plain text: aaem-605.txt item: #547 of 640 id: aaem-609 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran; March 17, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 412 flesch: 52 summary: Results of of COVID-19 active evaluation in the SIB Portal & Self- assessment in Salamat portal Of 15 milion screened individuals, 35% are registered in Salamat portal and 65% are registered in SIB portal Result of the 16-h clinics Only 5% of clients referring to 16-h clinics are referred to hospitals by the healthcare providers. Source: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, IR Iran Active evaluation of COVID-19 in the SIB Portal 65% Self- assessment of COVID-19 in Salamat portal 35% keywords: cases; covid-19; health; individuals; mar; portal; salamat cache: aaem-609.pdf plain text: aaem-609.txt item: #548 of 640 id: aaem-61 author: Amiri, Ali Reza; Ghazvini, Kiarash; Zamani Moghadam, Hamid title: Prevalence of Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Infection in Patients with COPD Exacerbation; a Letter to the Editor date: 2018-11-21 words: 1161 flesch: 55 summary: For instance, in a study by Lieberman et al. (7) prevalence of mycoplasma pneumoniae in patients with COPD exacerbation was reported as 14.2% and in Meloni et al. In previous studies, pulmonary infection with mycoplasma pneumoniae has been introduced as one of the causes for COPD exacerbation. keywords: acute; chronic; copd; department; disease; emergency; exacerbation; infection; iran; journal; mashhad; medical; microbiology; mycoplasma; obstructive; patients; pneumoniae; prevalence; pulmonary; respiratory; reza; studies; study cache: aaem-61.pdf plain text: aaem-61.txt item: #549 of 640 id: aaem-616 author: Khazaei, Mehdi; Asgari, Reyhaneh; Zarei, Ehsan; Moharramzad, Yashar; Haghighatkhah, Hamidreza; Sanei Taheri, Morteza title: Incidentally Diagnosed COVID-19 Infection in Trauma Patients; a Clinical Experience date: 2020-03-22 words: 814 flesch: 58 summary: Here, we share our experience regarding computed tomography (CT) find- ings suggestive of COVID-19 disease among patients who un- derwent radiologic investigation due to traumatic injuries. It is now evident that most cases of COVID-19 disease de- velop mild respiratory and constitutional symptoms (3), while some cases are asymptomatic (3, 4). keywords: cases; clinical; covid-19; disease; experience; iran; letter; march; morteza; patients; radiology; report; sanei; suggestive; tehran; trauma cache: aaem-616.pdf plain text: aaem-616.txt item: #550 of 640 id: aaem-618 author: Baig, Muhammad Akbar title: The COVID-19 Intubation and Ventilation Pathway (CiVP); a Commentary date: 2020-03-24 words: 920 flesch: 55 summary: In wake of the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken the world by storm, it is imperative to protect the health and safety of physicians and staff involved in acute management of COVID-19 patients. In- terim Clinical Guidance for Management of Patients with Confirmed Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) 2020 keywords: access; acute; airway; akbar; article; available; baig; coronavirus; covid-19; distress; emergency; intubation; journal; management; march; medicine; muhammad; new; order; patient; respiratory; syndrome; ventilation cache: aaem-618.pdf plain text: aaem-618.txt item: #551 of 640 id: aaem-619 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran (Modeling Deaths); March 22, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 725 flesch: 45 summary: Geographical distribution of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Iran Source: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, IR Iran 0 500 1000 1500 1 9 -F e b 2 0 -F e b 2 1 -F e b 2 2 -F e b 2 3 -F e b 2 4 -F e b 2 5 -F e b 2 6 -F e b 2 7 -F e b 2 8 -F e b 2 9 -F e b 1 -M a r 2 -M a r 3 -M a r 4 -M a r 5 -M a r 6 -M a r 7 -M a r 8 -M a r 9 -M a r 1 0 -M a r 1 1 -M a r 1 2 -M a r 1 3 -M a r 1 4 -M a r 1 5 -M a r 1 6 -M a r 1 7 -M a r 1 8 -M a r 1 9 -M a r 2 0 -M a r 2 1 -M a r N u m b e r Confirmed and Cured Cases Confirmed Cases Cured cases 0 50 100 150 200 N u m b e r Associated Deaths 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 0 5 1 0 1 5 2 0 2 5 3 0 3 5 4 0 4 5 5 0 5 5 6 0 6 5 7 0 7 5 8 0 8 5 9 0 9 5 1 0 0 1 0 5 1 1 0 1 1 5 1 2 0 N u m b e r Day since the start of the epidemic Scenario 1 (25% isolation): Cumultive Deaths 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 0 5 1 0 1 5 2 0 2 5 3 0 3 5 4 0 4 5 5 0 5 5 6 0 6 5 7 0 7 5 8 0 8 5 9 0 9 5 1 0 0 1 0 5 1 1 0 1 1 5 1 2 0 N u m b e r Day since the start of the epidemic Scenario 2 (32% isolation): Cumultive Deaths 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 N u m b e r Day since the start of the epidemic Scenario 3 (40% isolation): Cumultive Deaths http://corona.behdasht.gov.ir/files/site1/files/Covid_Modeling_V14_26.12.98.pdf http://corona.behdasht.gov.ir/files/site1/files/Covid_Modeling_V14_26.12.98.pdf Modeling results shows that if effective isolation occurs in 10% of the population, 307,000 individuals will be infected with COVID-19 in Iran by May 20, 2020. keywords: cases; deaths; isolation; number cache: aaem-619.pdf plain text: aaem-619.txt item: #552 of 640 id: aaem-62 author: Tootian Tourghabe, Javad; Arabikhan, Hamid Reza; Alamdaran, Ali; Zamani Moghadam, Hamid title: Emergency Medicine Resident versus Radiologist in Detecting the Ultrasonographic Signs of Acute Cholecystitis; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-11-21 words: 2965 flesch: 47 summary: Therefore, the present study was done with the aim of comparing the ultrasonography findings performed by emergency medicine resident and radiologist in eval- uation of acute cholecystitis. The overall agreement between emergency medicine resident and radiologist in ultrasonographic diagnosis of cholecystitis was 0.421 (95% CI: 0.118-0.724). keywords: accuracy; acute; characteristics; cholecystitis; data; department; detection; diagnostic; emergency; emergency medicine; findings; gallbladder; hospital; mashhad; medical; medicine; negative; pain; pathology; patients; performance; positive; present; radiologist; resident; results; screening; sensitivity; studies; study; thickness; ultrasonography; value; wall cache: aaem-62.pdf plain text: aaem-62.txt item: #553 of 640 id: aaem-620 author: Kolifarhood, Goodarz; Aghaali, Mohammad; Mozafar Saadati, Hossein; Taherpour, Niloufar; Rahimi, Sajjad; Izadi, Neda; Hashemi Nazari, Seyed Saeed title: Epidemiological and Clinical Aspects of COVID-19; a Narrative Review date: 2020-04-01 words: 7211 flesch: 59 summary: Number of COVID-19 cases has risen substantially in the world compared to SARS and MERS, and it would probably take longer to halve the disease cases; meaning that con- trol measures would have to be in place for a longer pe- riod of time. According to WHO report, COVID-19 disease among children seems to be rare with mild symptoms, about 2.4% of total cases were re- ported in children and adolescents (aged under 19 years), while older cases aged over 60 years and those with a back- ground of chronic diseases were at higher risk of developing severe disease and death (22). keywords: 2019; access; article; attribution; available; cases; china; clinical; commons; community; control; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; creative; data; days; death; diagnosis; different; disease; early; effective; emergency; eng; epidemic; epidemiological; epidemiology; epub; evidence; fatality; feb; global; health; healthcare; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; human; incubation; infected; infection; initial; iran; jama; journal; kolifarhood; lancet; level; license; liu; management; mar; measures; medical; medicine; mers; national; ncov; new; noncommercial; novel; novel coronavirus; number; open; outbreak; pandemic; pathogen; patients; pcr; people; period; pmid; pneumonia; positive; previous; public; pubmed; rate; recent; report; research; respiratory; results; review; risk; safety; sars; sciences; screening; severe; situation; special; studies; study; surveillance; symptoms; system; terms; test; time; transmission; treatment; university; vaccine; viral; world; wuhan cache: aaem-620.pdf plain text: aaem-620.txt item: #554 of 640 id: aaem-629 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran; March 23, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 458 flesch: 66 summary: March 23, 2020 Total lab-confirmed cases: 23,049 Total associated deaths: 1,812 Total recovered cases: 8,376 New cases: 1,411 Indicators of screened, infected and death cases Screening (since March 4 till March 22, 2020; 5:30 PM GMT) Value Number of services delivered for COVID-19 39,888,635 Screened cases referred o the physician for their symptoms (%) 0.18 Cases referred to the hospital by physician (%) 4.4 Proportion of eligible cases followed-up for 50 New lab-confirmed cases (in last 72 h) The information in this chart is based on hospitalized cases, and outpatients are not included in this calculation. keywords: cases; lab cache: aaem-629.pdf plain text: aaem-629.txt item: #555 of 640 id: aaem-63 author: Emam Hadi, Mohammad Ali; Najari, Fares; Soleimani, Leila title: Sudden Death due to Hydatid Cyst Emboli; a Case Report date: 2018-11-21 words: 1796 flesch: 63 summary: Histopathology study of liver and lung cyst samples revealed the cyst had a white thin fibrous membrane, which contained a clear fluid and some grain like particles laminated mem- brane of hydatid cyst with scolices and hooklets. Hydatid cyst of spleen: a diagnostic challenge. keywords: access; article; attribution; brain; cardiac; case; center; commons; creative; cyst; death; disease; emam; emboli; figure; forensic; heart; history; hydatid; iran; journal; large; license; liver; medical; medicine; noncommercial; normal; open; parasites; pulmonary; report; right; sciences; sudden; tehran; terms; tissue cache: aaem-63.pdf plain text: aaem-63.txt item: #556 of 640 id: aaem-632 author: Mardani, Rajab; Ahmadi Vasmehjani, Abbas; Zali, Fatemeh; Gholami, Alireza; Mousavi Nasab, Seyed Dawood; Kaghazian, Hooman; kaviani, Mehdi; Ahmadi, Nayebali title: Laboratory Parameters in Detection of COVID-19 Patients with Positive RT-PCR; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2020-04-05 words: 3181 flesch: 61 summary: Abstract: Introduction: The role of laboratory parameters in screening of COVID-19 cases has not been definitely estab- lished. A series of recently published articles have reported the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients with COVID-19 disease, but data regarding the laboratory charac- teristics of infected individuals are limited (8-10). keywords: accuracy; albumin; alt; aminotransferase; ast; auc; blood; cases; center; clinical; coronavirus; count; covid-19; crp; curve; data; disease; good; iran; laboratory; ldh; levels; lym; medical; medicine; negative; neu; parameters; patients; pcr; positive; positive rt; research; results; roc; sars; study; tehran; university; urea; wang; wbc cache: aaem-632.pdf plain text: aaem-632.txt item: #557 of 640 id: aaem-634 author: Panahi, Latif; Amiri, Marzieh; Pouy, Somaye title: Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 Infection in Newborns and Pediatrics: A Systematic Review date: 2020-04-19 words: 5714 flesch: 64 summary: According to studies, children make up 2% of COVID-19 cases in China, 1.2% in Italy and 5% in US (9, 42, 43). According to the findings of Liu et al., paying attention to clinical symptoms and history of exposure to COVID-19 have high diagnostic value in children, while chest CT scan is not able to accurately detect the severity of the disease in children(28). keywords: access; adults; age; articles; asymptomatic; attribution; case; characteristics; children; china; clinical; close; cohort; commons; contact; coronavirus; cough; cov-2; covid-19; creative; days; disease; dry; emergency; epidemic; et al; exposure; family; features; fever; health; history; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infants; infected; infection; journal; license; liu; male; manifestations; medical; medicine; mild; moderate; newborn; noncommercial; novel; old; open; patients; pediatric; present; report; respiratory; review; risk; sars; series; severe; severity; studies; study; symptoms; terms; transmission; underlying; wang; wuhan; years; zhang cache: aaem-634.pdf plain text: aaem-634.txt item: #558 of 640 id: aaem-635 author: National Committee on COVID-19 Epidemiology, . title: Daily Situation Report on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Iran; March 25, 2020 date: 2020-01-01 words: 475 flesch: 55 summary: § To increase the sample size, analysis of death cases is done on the data in the last week. Inclusion of outpatients and asymptomatic cases would decrease the proportion of severe cases. keywords: age; cases; lab; proportion cache: aaem-635.pdf plain text: aaem-635.txt item: #559 of 640 id: aaem-64 author: Esmailian, Mehrdad; Koushkian Esfahani, Mahboubeh; Heydari, Farhad title: The Effect of Low-Dose Ketamine in Treating Acute Asthma Attack; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-11-21 words: 3222 flesch: 64 summary: It is also a bronchodilator, and using a 1-2 mg/kg dose of it has been approved as an inductive agent in rapid sequence intubation (RSI) of asthma patients (4). In var- ious studies, ketamine has been suggested as an inductive agent for endotracheal intubation in asthma patients due to its benefits for bronchial airway stabilization. keywords: acute; age; article; asthma; asthmatic; attack; clinical; control; data; department; dose; drug; effect; emergency; expiratory; flow; group; hour; infusion; intervention; iran; ketamine; liters; mean; medical; medicine; open; patients; peak; pefr; placebo; present; randomized; rate; response; results; standard; study; treatment; trial cache: aaem-64.pdf plain text: aaem-64.txt item: #560 of 640 id: aaem-645 author: Gharebaghi, Reza; Heidary, Fatemeh; Moradi, Mohammad; Parvizi, Maryam title: Metronidazole; a Potential Novel Addition to the COVID-19 Treatment Regimen date: 2020-03-31 words: 1979 flesch: 53 summary: Zhou et al. conducted a retro- spective multicenter study of 191 patients with laboratory- confirmed COVID-19 infection and reported elevated IL6 lev- els and severe lymphopenia in non-survivors than in the sur- vivors. Therefore, studies with a large sample size are required to determine the efficacy of metronidazole in the treatment of COVID-19 infection. keywords: ahvaz; article; authors; china; clinical; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 infection; crp; cytokines; disease; effects; factor; icu; il12; il1b; il6; il8; immunopathological; infection; international; iran; journal; levels; lymphocytes; manifestations; medical; metronidazole; neutrophil; patients; plasma; potential; protein; reactive; research; respiratory; sciences; studies; tehran; treatment; university cache: aaem-645.pdf plain text: aaem-645.txt item: #561 of 640 id: aaem-649 author: Namazi, Mohammad Hasan; Saemifard, Farzam; Pishgahi, Mehdi title: One-Month Outcomes of Cases Receiving Ticagrelor after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; a Case Series date: 2020-04-04 words: 2056 flesch: 61 summary: Baseline characteristics of studied cases 156 cases with the mean age of 59.74 ± 9.24 (ranging 37 to 78) years were studied (63% male). Diabetes mellitus (34%) and hypertension (28%) were the most frequent underlying diseases of studied cases. 3.2. keywords: acs; acute; aspirin; bleeding; bradycardia; cases; clopidogrel; coronary; drug; dyspnea; hospital; hypersensitivity; intervention; iran; journal; medical; month; oral; outcomes; p2y12; patients; percutaneous; platelet; plato; reaction; receptor; series; severe; skin; stent; study; tehran; therapy; thrombosis; ticagrelor cache: aaem-649.pdf plain text: aaem-649.txt item: #562 of 640 id: aaem-65 author: FitzGerald, Isabel; Appelboam, Andrew title: A Simple Device to Control Valsalva Manoeuvre Strain Pressure; a Letter to Editor date: 2018-11-21 words: 543 flesch: 60 summary: Accepted: April 2018; Published online: 10 April 2018 Cite this article as: A Simple Device to Control Valsalva Manoeuvre Strain Pressure; a Letter to Editor. 2018; 6 (1): e22 LE T T E R TO ED I TO R A Simple Device to Control Valsalva Manoeuvre Strain Pressure; a Letter to Editor Isabel FitzGerald1, Andrew Appelboam2∗ 1. keywords: control; device; emergency; exeter; manoeuvre; pressure; revert; simple; strain; use; valsalva cache: aaem-65.pdf plain text: aaem-65.txt item: #563 of 640 id: aaem-652 author: Samsami, Majid; Zebarjadi Bagherpour, Javad; Nematihonar, Behzad; Tahmasbi, Hamed title: COVID-19 Infection In Asymptomatic Trauma Patients: Report Of 8 Cases date: 2020-04-07 words: 1551 flesch: 57 summary: A considerable number of COVID-19 infected cases are asymptomatic but they can transmit the disease to others, especially healthcare workers. A considerable number of COVID-19 infected cases are asymptomatic but they can transmit the disease to others, especially healthcare workers (4). keywords: asymptomatic; cases; chest; china; clinical; coronavirus; covid-19; department; disease; emergency; hospital; imam; infection; medicine; novel; patients; person; pneumonia; report; respiratory; scan; study; symptoms; transmission; trauma cache: aaem-652.pdf plain text: aaem-652.txt item: #564 of 640 id: aaem-656 author: Muhidin, Salut; Behboodi Moghadam, Zahra; Vizheh, Maryam title: Analysis of Maternal Coronavirus Infections and Neonates Born to Mothers with 2019-nCoV; a Systematic Review date: 2020-04-18 words: 7555 flesch: 59 summary: (10) China Feb 2020 Case series Clinical symptoms and outcomes of COVID-19 infection in pregnant pa- tients COVID-19 infection can pose a threat to maternal and neonate’s health 5 Fan et al. Although the rate of preterm labor and fetal distress was significant, fewer ad- verse maternal and neonatal outcomes and complications have been reported due to COVID-19 infection in pregnancy (17). keywords: abnormal; access; articles; attribution; authors; blood; case; cesarean; characteristics; chen; china; clinical; commons; complications; cord; coronavirus; cough; cov-2; covid-19; creative; data; death; delivery; disease; distress; et al; evidence; fetal; fetus; fever; health; history; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; infected; infection; item; labor; license; liu; low; main; maternal; mothers; n=1; n=2; negative; neonatal; neonates; noncommercial; open; outcomes; patients; pcr; pneumonia; pregnancy; pregnant; pregnant women; preterm; qrt; report; respiratory; results; review; risk; samples; sars; search; section; series; severe; studies; study; symptoms; syndrome; terms; therapy; time; transmission; trimester; umbilical; vaginal; vertical; women; © © cache: aaem-656.pdf plain text: aaem-656.txt item: #565 of 640 id: aaem-658 author: Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Zali, Alireza; Mohamed Ali, Kosar; Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Zarghi, Afshin; Hosseini, Mostafa; Safari, Saeed title: Antiviral therapy in management of COVID-19: a systematic review on current evidence date: 2020-04-07 words: 6485 flesch: 57 summary: Re- cently, a Chinese research team proposed a treatment proto- col for management of COVID-19 patients, which included moxifloxacin, levofloxacin (consider tolerance) and arbidol administration (8). Many clinical trials are currently under- way to evaluate the efficacy of different medications on the outcome of COVID-19 patients (9), but their results have not been published yet. keywords: administration; agents; antiviral; arbidol; article; case; characteristics; chen; china; clinical; commons; coronavirus; coronavirus[tiab; covid-19; covid-19 patients; current; daily; disease; drugs; east; efficacy; et al; evidence; group; hospital; iran; lopinavir; management; medical; medicine; mers; middle; mortality; novel; nr nr; open; oseltamivir; outcome; patients; press; rate; related; reports; respiratory; review; ritonavir; sars; sciences; search; section; series; severe; studies; study; syndrome; systematic; tehran; therapies; therapy; time; treatment; trials; university; wang; wuhan; yes; zhang cache: aaem-658.pdf plain text: aaem-658.txt item: #566 of 640 id: aaem-66 author: Majidi, Alireza; Saket, Sasan; Nabizadeh Gharghozar, Zohreh; Akrami, Ehsan; Fayyazi, Seyed Mohsen title: Hopkins Syndrome in a 14-Year-Old Boy; a Case Report date: 2018-11-21 words: 1917 flesch: 59 summary: Abstract: Hopkins syndrome (HS) is a flaccid paralysis resembling poliomyelitis that has been seen in some children who are recovering from an acute episode of asthma. This condition, first reported from Aus- tralia in 1974, has been termed Hopkins syndrome (HS) (4). keywords: acute; amyotrophy; anterior; article; asthma; atopic; attack; boy; case; children; clinical; diseases; emergency; episode; flaccid; history; hopkins; horn; hospital; iran; journal; kira; medical; myelitis; nervous; neurology; normal; old; onset; paralysis; patients; pitt; poliomyelitis; report; sciences; syndrome; system; tajrish; university; year cache: aaem-66.pdf plain text: aaem-66.txt item: #567 of 640 id: aaem-663 author: Abdollahimajd, Fahimeh; Shahidi-Dadras, Mohammad; Robati, Reza M; Dadkhahfar, Sahar title: Management of Pemphigus in COVID-19 Pandemic Era; a Review Article date: 2020-04-19 words: 3246 flesch: 57 summary: Since the public announcement of the COVID-19 outbreak, several concerns have been raised by dermatologists as well as pemphigus patients who take im- munosuppressive drugs. Since the public announcement of the COVID-19 outbreak, several concerns have been raised by dermatologists as well as pemphigus patients who take immunosuppressive drugs. keywords: acad; access; acute; agents; article; attribution; center; clinical; commons; coronavirus; corticosteroids; cov-2; covid-19; covid19; creative; dadras; data; dermatol; disease; drugs; effect; emergency; evidence; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; immune; immunosuppressive; infections; lancet; license; management; med; medical; mers; mortality; noncommercial; open; outbreak; pandemic; patients; pemphigus; possible; proper; respiratory; review; risk; rituximab; robati; sars; severe; shahidi; skin; syndrome; systemic; terms; therapy; treatment; underlying; vulgaris; wang cache: aaem-663.pdf plain text: aaem-663.txt item: #568 of 640 id: aaem-665 author: Haseli, Sara; Khalili, Nastaran; Bakhshayeshkaram, Mehrdad; Sanei-Taheri, Morteza; Moharramzad, Yashar title: Lobar Distribution of COVID-19 Pneumonia Based on Chest Computed Tomography Findings; A Retrospective Study date: 2020-04-24 words: 4327 flesch: 59 summary: Evaluating chest CT findings in com- bination with clinical symptoms and laboratory tests aids in the medical decision making for COVID-19 disease. Several studies have displayed a significant associa- tion between higher CT score (based on extent of lung opaci- fication) and a more severe course of COVID-19 disease (11, 23-25). keywords: admission; age; appearance; article; association; bronchiectasis; cases; cavitation; chest; china; clinical; common; consolidation; coronavirus; covid-19; data; diagnosis; disease; distribution; dyspnea; features; findings; ggo; halo; imaging; infection; involved; involvement; iran; left; lobe; lower; lung; medical; novel; patients; peripheral; pleural; pneumonia; posterior; presentation; results; retrospective; right; scan; score; segment; segmental; severe; severity; sex; sign; studies; study; symptoms; tehran; terms; wuhan cache: aaem-665.pdf plain text: aaem-665.txt item: #569 of 640 id: aaem-67 author: Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Mohammadian, Aida; Kariman, Hamid title: Lidocaine-Midazolam-Fentanyl Combination in Controlling Pain for Reduction of Anterior Shoulder Dislocation; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-04-18 words: 4151 flesch: 61 summary: Patients with altered level of consciousness at the time of presentation, those who had a fracture in their shoulder joint along with shoulder disloca- tion (apart from Lesion Sachs-Hill), patients with a history of surgery on the same shoulder joint or fracture of the shoul- der joint, history of seizure, those who had received anal- gesic drugs before presenting, patients with history of car- diac diseases and dysrhythmia, history of taking digoxin, and patients with a history of allergy to lidocaine, midazolam, or fentanyl were excluded from the study. The most important side-effects observed included dysrhythmia (1 patient in double drug and 1 patient in triple-drug group), apnea (2 patients in each group) and SPO2<90% (2 patients in triple-drug group) (p=0.78). keywords: access; analgesia; analysis; anterior; article; attribution; cases; clinical; combination; commons; creative; data; department; dislocation; dose; double; drug; effectiveness; effects; emergency; fentanyl; group; history; intravenous; iran; journal; license; lidocaine; mean; medicine; midazolam; noncommercial; number; open; pain; patients; placebo; prescription; present; procedural; protocol; randomized; reduction; risk; sedation; shoulder; study; table; tehran; terms; treatment; trial; triple cache: aaem-67.pdf plain text: aaem-67.txt item: #570 of 640 id: aaem-674 author: Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Esmaeili, Maryam title: Prone Position in Management of COVID-19 Patients; a Commentary date: 2020-04-12 words: 1627 flesch: 54 summary: Among the introduced treatment methods for management of ARDS patients, prone position can be used as an adju- vant therapy for improving ventilation in these patients. Available meta-analyses show that prone position can decrease mortality in ARDS patients when performed in the initial hours of disease manifestation, in patients with severe impaired oxygenation and for a long time (8). keywords: acute; ards; article; care; covid-19; disease; distress; edema; hours; management; medical; medicine; midwifery; mortality; nursing; patients; position; prone; pulmonary; respiratory; severe; study; syndrome; tehran; treatment; ventilation; virus cache: aaem-674.pdf plain text: aaem-674.txt item: #571 of 640 id: aaem-683 author: Katoh, Shojiro; Obayashi, Toshihiko; Ganesh, Jegatheesan Saravana; Iwasaki, Masaru; Preethy, Senthilkumar; Abraham, Samuel title: Cross-Protection Induced by Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries date: 2020-04-22 words: 1947 flesch: 54 summary: Keywords: COVID-19; immunity, heterologous; encephalitis; vaccines; japanese encephalitis vaccines Cite this article as: Katoh S, Obayashi T, Ganesh JS, Iwasaki M, Preethy S, Abraham S. Cross-Protection Induced By Encephalitis Vaccines against COVID-19 Might be a Reason for Relatively Lower Mortality Rate in Some Countries. Li J, Gao N, Fan D, Chen H, Sheng Z, Fu S, et al. Cross- protection induced by Japanese encephalitis vaccines against different genotypes of Dengue viruses in mice. keywords: abraham; april; article; available; case; coronavirus; countries; covid-19; cross; deaths; dengue; disease; edogawa; encephalitis; fatality; immunization; india; induced; italy; japan; japanese; journal; katoh; korea; medicine; mortality; national; protection; rate; respiratory; samuel; sars; south; vaccine; viral; viruses; yamanashi cache: aaem-683.pdf plain text: aaem-683.txt item: #572 of 640 id: aaem-69 author: Sorani, Mohamad; Tourani, Sogand; Khankeh, Hamid Reza; Panahi, Sirous title: Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Challenges in Disaster; a Qualitative Study date: 2018-02-20 words: 4569 flesch: 58 summary: Interviews with the participants started with their experience about emergency medical response to disas- ter, and according to the interview guidelines, general open- ended questions were asked, for instance “Describe an in- stance when you participated in disaster response.” The main goal of EMS in disaster response is continuity of medical services through triage, life-saving support, rapid diagnosis and treatment, or ∗Corresponding Author: Sogand Tourani; Number 6, Yasemi st , Kurdsistan ave, Tehran, Iran. keywords: access; affected; analysis; april; area; article; attribution; bam; capacity; care; casualties; challenges; commons; communication; creative; data; disaster; earthquake; emergencies; emergency; emergency medical; ems; evacuation; field; findings; health; healthcare; hospitals; inadequate; information; infrastructure; interviews; iran; iranian; knowledge; lack; license; local; management; medical; national; new; noncommercial; number; open; overcrowding; participants; patients; people; phase; plan; prehospital; public; qualitative; regional; research; resources; response; results; safety; sciences; services; skills; staff; studies; study; system; tehran; terms; trauma; university cache: aaem-69.pdf plain text: aaem-69.txt item: #573 of 640 id: aaem-698 author: Safari, Saeed; Mehrani, Mehdi; Yousefifard, Mahmoud title: Pulmonary Thromboembolism as a Potential Cause of Clinical Deterioration in COVID-19 Patients; a Commentary date: 2020-04-19 words: 1641 flesch: 58 summary: With publication of clinical, imaging, and labo- ratory findings of COVID-19 patients, our information on the behavior of the virus in the human body has increased. Findings of a study in Suzhou, China, has shown that fibrinogen level has increased in more than 65% of those with pneumonia due to COVID-19 and the interesting part is that at the level of 4.8 gr/L, the sensitivity of fibrinogen in dif- ferentiation of severe patients has been reported to be 100% (7). keywords: angiography; cases; china; clinical; coronavirus; covid-19; deterioration; dimer; disease; embolism; et al; findings; imaging; iran; levels; liu; medical; patients; pneumonia; pulmonary; sciences; severe; study; tehran; thrombosis; university; wang; zhang cache: aaem-698.pdf plain text: aaem-698.txt item: #574 of 640 id: aaem-7 author: Esmailian, Mehrdad; Haj Zargarbashi, Ehsan; Masoumi, Babak; Karami, Mehdi title: Accuracy of Ultrasonography in Confirmation of Adequate Reduction of Distal Radius Fractures date: 2018-11-13 words: 2225 flesch: 51 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography (US) in determining the adequacy of closed reduction in these fractures. After closed reduction, the adequacy was investigated through both US and control plain radiography. keywords: accuracy; addition; adequate; article; articular; closed; confirmation; department; distal; drf; emergency; findings; forearm; fractures; inter; iran; isfahan; medical; negative; open; patients; plain; positive; radial; radiographic; radius; reduction; sciences; sensitivity; specificity; study; successful; surg; ultrasonography; university cache: aaem-7.pdf plain text: aaem-7.txt item: #575 of 640 id: aaem-70 author: Wittstock, Matthias; Buchmann, Johannes; Walter, Uwe; Rösche, Johannes title: Vagus Nerve Stimulation and External Defibrillation during Resuscitation; a Letter to Editor date: 2018-03-14 words: 939 flesch: 54 summary: External defibrilla- tion in VNS patients may potentially be harmful. External defib- rillation applied to VNS patients seem to be safe and effec- tive. keywords: artery; cardiac; defibrillation; department; editor; emergency; external; germany; nerve; neurology; patients; resuscitation; rostock; seizure; stimulation; successful; therapy; university; vagus; vns cache: aaem-70.pdf plain text: aaem-70.txt item: #576 of 640 id: aaem-71 author: Maleki-Verki, Mohammadreza; Motamed, Hasan title: Rectus Muscle Hematoma as a Rare Differential Diagnosis of Acute Abdomen; a Case Report date: 2018-05-15 words: 1407 flesch: 56 summary: M. Maleki Varaki and H. Motamed 2 Figure 1: Ultrasonography view of hematoma in rectus muscle sheath of the patient tance of 10 cm under the umbilicus, which suggested rectus hematoma (figure 1). In most cases, rectus muscle hematomas are self-limiting and are conservatively absorbed via rest and use of analgesics (11). keywords: abdomen; abdominal; acute; ahvaz; approximate; article; case; department; diagnosis; differential; emergency; hematoma; history; hospital; journal; management; medical; medicine; muscle; pain; patient; rare; rectus; report; sheath; surgery; ultrasonography; week cache: aaem-71.pdf plain text: aaem-71.txt item: #577 of 640 id: aaem-719 author: Raoufi, Masoomeh; Safavi Naini, Seyed Amir Ahmad; Azizan, Zahra; Jafar Zade, Fatemeh; Shojaeian, Fatemeh; Ghanbari Boroujeni, Masoud; Robatjazi, Farzaneh; Haghighi, Mehrdad; Arhami Dolatabadi, Ali; Soleimantabar, Hossein; Shoaee, Simindokht; Hatamabadi, Hamidreza title: Correlation between Chest Computed Tomography Scan Findings and Mortality of COVID-19 Cases; a Cross sectional Study date: 2020-05-14 words: 4949 flesch: 63 summary: Zhao W, Zhong Z, Xie X, Yu Q, Liu J. Relation between chest CT findings and clinical conditions of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pneumonia: a multicenter study. Study design and setting This retrospective single-center cross sectional study was carried out on COVID-19 patients diagnosed with clini- cal manifestations and chest CT scans based on Iran’s Na- tional Guidelines. keywords: artery; article; attribution; beheshti; cases; characteristics; chest; chest ct; clinical; commons; coronavirus; correlation; covid-19; creative; ct scan; ctss; data; diameter; disease; emergency; et al; features; findings; higher; hospital; hossein; imaging; imam; involvement; iran; laboratory; left; license; liu; lower; lung; mean; medical; medicine; mortality; non; noncommercial; opacity; patients; pattern; pneumonia; prognosis; pulmonary; radiology; results; right; round; scan; score; severity; shahid; shape; significant; study; survived; tehran; terms; tomography; university; zhang cache: aaem-719.pdf plain text: aaem-719.txt item: #578 of 640 id: aaem-72 author: Ghafourian, Nasim; Mahdizadeh, Fatemeh; Zavareh, Mina; Ahmadi, Mitra; Askarzadeh, Mohammad Hossein; Jalili, Fatemeh title: Post-Traumatic Pulmonary Pseudocyst following Blunt Chest Trauma; a Case Report date: 2018-03-03 words: 1920 flesch: 56 summary: Abstract: Traumatic pulmonary pseudocyst is a rare complication of chest trauma that has been poorly documented and usually resolves without specific treatment. Here, we present a case of pulmonary pseudocyst in a child with chest trauma without obvious symptoms. keywords: air; article; bilateral; blunt; case; cavity; chest; clinical; commons; contusion; department; diagnosis; emergency; examination; figure; findings; fluid; hospital; injury; iran; journal; lesions; license; lung; medical; medicine; patients; physical; post; pseudocyst; pulmonary; report; sciences; tomography; tpp; tpps; trauma; traumatic; university cache: aaem-72.pdf plain text: aaem-72.txt item: #579 of 640 id: aaem-723 author: Bazmi, Elham; Behnoush, Behnam; Hashemi Nazari, Saeed; Khodakarim, Soheila; Behnoush, Amir Hossein; Soori, Hamid title: Seizure Prediction Model in Acute Tramadol Poisoning; a Derivation and Validation study date: 2020-05-19 words: 5253 flesch: 56 summary: The baseline characteristics and proportion of patients who experienced seizure on the This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 5 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020; 8(1): e59 Table 1: Demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients in derivation and validation sets of seizure prediction model in acute tramadol poisoning Characteristics Derivation set (n=641) Validation set (n=268) Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020; 8(1): e59 Figure 1: Flow of all patients referred to the emergency department from September 2015 to November 2019 in seizure prediction study. keywords: access; acute; admission; age; analysis; arterial; article; attribution; available; bicarbonate; blood; characteristics; clinical; commons; consumption; creative; curve; data; decision; demographic; department; derivation; dose; drug; eeg; emergency; factors; figure; final; gcs; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; investigations; iran; laboratory; level; license; logistic; mean; med; medical; methods; model; noncommercial; occurrence; open; opioid; patients; performance; poisoning; prediction; prediction model; predictors; pressure; probability; pulse; rate; regression; research; results; risk; roc; sciences; seizure; set; sets; sex; study; tehran; terms; toxicity; toxicol; tramadol; tramadol poisoning; validation; value; variables cache: aaem-723.pdf plain text: aaem-723.txt item: #580 of 640 id: aaem-727 author: Najari, Dorsa; Zali, Alireza; Najari, Fares; Soroosh, David title: Legal Considerations of COVID-19 Patients’ Disposition in Emergency Department; Report of 10 Cases date: 2020-06-28 words: 3777 flesch: 65 summary: Case4: A 66-year-old male physician with obesity, who was con- stantly in contact with infected patients and had a history of recto-sigmoid tumor and chemotherapy was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. Although patients were not treated with any par- ticular drug or vaccine, the physicians faced moral and le- gal aspects of the disease. keywords: access; article; cases; considerations; covid-19; current; decisions; department; discharge; disease; emergency; family; female; forensic; haziness; healthcare; home; hospital; infection; iran; journal; legal; male; medical; medicine; min; mmhg; najari; old; pandemic; patient; pcr; people; pos+; quarantine; respiratory; right; signs; spo2; study; symptoms; system; taste; tehran; terms; treatment; university; vital; year cache: aaem-727.pdf plain text: aaem-727.txt item: #581 of 640 id: aaem-73 author: Safari, Saeed; Hashemi, Behrouz; Forouzanfar, Mohammad Mehdi; Shahhoseini, Mehrnoush; Heidari, Meysam title: Epidemiology and Outcome of Patients with Acute Kidney Injury in Emergency Department; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2018-05-08 words: 4036 flesch: 63 summary: Chertow et al. epidemiolog- ically evaluated patients with AKI and introduced decreased blood flow to the kidney, major surgeries, and injection of radio-contrast as important factors related to different types of pre-renal failures (20). A L RE S E A RC H Epidemiology and Outcome of Patients with Acute Kidney Injury in Emergency Department; a Cross-Sectional Study Saeed Safari1, Behrouz Hashemi1, Mohammad Mehdi Forouzanfar1, Mehrnoush Shahhoseini1, Meysam Heidari1∗ 1. keywords: acute; age; aki; article; attribution; blood; care; cases; cause; common; creative; data; department; dialysis; different; emergency; epidemiology; etiologic; failure; findings; group; hospitals; injury; journal; kidney; license; medical; medicine; mortality; nephrology; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; population; post; present; prevalence; preventable; renal; results; rhabdomyolysis; safari; shock; study; types; years cache: aaem-73.pdf plain text: aaem-73.txt item: #582 of 640 id: aaem-74 author: Shahrami, Ali; Ahmadi, Saba; Safari, Saeed title: Full and Modified Glasgow-Blatchford Bleeding Score in Predicting the Outcome of Patients with Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-05-15 words: 3726 flesch: 57 summary: Patients presenting to the emergency department with com- plaint of upper GI bleeding have a wide range from very low risk to very high risk regarding the risk of re-bleeding and need for surgical and endoscopic interventions. Participants All patients over 18 years of age visiting the mentioned emer- gency departments with symptoms of upper GI bleeding (hematemesis, coffee ground vomit, melena, hematochezia) whose bleeding was confirmed via endoscopy were included via census sampling method. keywords: accuracy; acute; age; blatchford; bleeding; blood; clinical; comparison; department; disease; emergency; endoscopic; frequency; gastroenterology; gastrointestinal; gbs; glasgow; history; hospital; hospitalization; intervention; medical; mgbs; models; modified; mortality; need; outcome; patients; prediction; present; probability; prospective; risk; score; scoring; study; surgery; systems; transfusion; upper; years cache: aaem-74.pdf plain text: aaem-74.txt item: #583 of 640 id: aaem-745 author: khabiri, Seyyed saeed; Nabian, Mohammad Hossein; Zeynolabedin, Heydar; Veisi, Javad; Rastgou, Vahid; Naderi, Mehdi; Maleki, Shokofeh title: Changes in Fracture Epidemiology Due to COVID-19 Crisis; a Letter to Editor date: 2020-06-14 words: 1102 flesch: 54 summary: The fractures of middle-aged women, such as those ∗Corresponding Author: Seyyed Saeed Khabiri; Department of Orthope- dic Surgery, Taleghani Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah Univer- sity of Medical science, Kermanshah, Iran. Authors Contributions Conception and design of the study: Mohammad Hossein Nabian and Seyyed Saeed Khabiri Collection, assembly, possession of raw data: Heydar Zeyno- labedin, Javad Veisi, Vahid Rastgou and Seyyed Saeed Khabiri Statistical expertise :Mehdi Naderi and Shokofeh Maleki Analysis and interpretation of data: Seyyed Saeed Khabiri and Mehdi Naderi Authors ORCIDs Seyyed Saeed Khabiri: 0000-0002-8906-7660 1.3. keywords: age; april; article; covid-19; department; fractures; iran; kermanshah; khabiri; medical; medicine; number; open; orthopedic; patients; saeed; sciences; seyyed; study; taleghani; trauma; university; years cache: aaem-745.pdf plain text: aaem-745.txt item: #584 of 640 id: aaem-749 author: M. Kyriakopoulos, Anthony; Papaefthymiou, Apostolis; Georgilas, Nikolaos; Doulberis, Michael ; Kountouras, Jannis title: The Potential Role of Super Spread Events in SARS-COV-2 Pandemic; a Narrative Review date: 2020-09-22 words: 10014 flesch: 52 summary: (2015)(51) Comparative research Investigation of relation between SSEs for SARS and MERS trans- mission in nosocomial outbreaks Al Tawfig et al. (2020) (38) Commentary Demonstration of a stochastic model of transmission of SARS virus Shaw (2006) (55) Perspective review Implementing efficient intensive care practices to avoid hospital transmission Chen et al. (2006) (96) Original research Case control study Investigation of SSE likelihood during hospital transmission Sung et al. (2009) (97) Original research Case control study Investigation of SSEs occurring in hospital and prevention strate- gies Li et al. (2004) (54) Original research Case control study Investigation of factors contributing to SSEs for prevention and control of disease Riley (2003) (5) Original research Cross sectional study Analysis of SARS epidemiology in Hong Kong Stein (2011) (98) Perspective review Analysis of SARS transmission leading to SSE Gormely et al. (2017) (52) Original research Model for prevention of pathogen transmission via sanitary plump- ing systems Lau (2004) (53) Perspective review Implementation of SSE containment with vaccination programs Literature included in review for COVID-19 in relation to SSEs Cave (2020) (56) Perspective review Call for clear epidemiologic definition for SSEs Xu (2020) (57) Original research Retro- spective cohort study Analysis of SSEs during COVID-19 in China Kwok (2020) (58) Original research Analysis of SSE influence in the nature of COVID-19 epidemic Zhang (2020)(21) Original research Description of SSE importance in COVID-19 epidemic ! Moreover, SARS epidemic was potentiated due to super spread events (SSEs), which led to unexpected elevation of the basic re- production numbers as calculated via associated epidemiol- ogy equations (5). keywords: academic; access; acute; airborne; analysis; animals; archives; articles; associated; attribution; austerity; authors; case; cell; china; chronic; clinical; commons; communion; community; complex; containment; control; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; covid19; creative; cross; cup; current; data; department; development; diagnosis; disease; double; e74; east; economic; effective; electronic; emergency; epidemic; epidemiology; et al; events; evidence; fecal; figure; future; general; genetic; global; greece; groups; hbv; health; hepatitis; holy; hong; hospital; hosts; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; human; identification; immune; immunity; immunodeficiency; impact; inactivated; individuals; infected; infection; infectivity; initial; international; investigation; journal; kong; kyriakopoulos; license; like; literature; manuscript; measures; medicine; mers; microbiology; molecular; national; nature; new; noncommercial; novel; number; open; oral; original; outbreak; pandemic; pathogenesis; pathogenicity; patients; population; positive; possible; potential; prevention; priests; process; protein; pubmed; recent; receptor; related; relation; research; respiratory; results; review; risk; role; saliva; sars; sars coronavirus; science; screening; selection; severe; social; socio; sources; species; specific; spread; spreading; sses; strategies; studies; study; super; syndrome; table; targeted; terms; transmission; vaccination; vaccine; variation; viral; virology; virulence; viruses; wuhan cache: aaem-749.pdf plain text: aaem-749.txt item: #585 of 640 id: aaem-75 author: Hedayatyanfard, Keshvad; Mohammad-Sadeghi, Shahin; Habibi, Iman title: Introducing a Device for Measuring Pain Intensity; a Letter to Editor date: 2017-05-18 words: 1213 flesch: 59 summary: Currently, various methods ex- ist for assessing pain severity. One way is to ask the patient (self-report) for determining pain severity. keywords: accuracy; article; department; device; editor; emergency; figure; force; iran; journal; medical; methods; monofilaments; open; organ; pain; patient; sciences; severity; study; tehran; threshold; treatment; university cache: aaem-75.pdf plain text: aaem-75.txt item: #586 of 640 id: aaem-76 author: Asadi, Payman; Modirian, Ehsan; Dadashpour, Nazanin title: Medical Errors in Emergency Department; a Letter to Editor date: 2018-05-21 words: 853 flesch: 58 summary: Dear Editor: Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States of America and almost 100000 patients lose their life due to medical errors every year (1). Studies show that the number of medical errors is increas- ing annually. keywords: approach; article; cases; department; editor; emergency; errors; guilan; hospital; individual; iran; medical; patients; rasht; system; systemic cache: aaem-76.pdf plain text: aaem-76.txt item: #587 of 640 id: aaem-765 author: Yousefinejad, Vahid; Moradi, Badia; Mohammadi Baneh, Anvar; Sheikhesmaeili, Farshad; Babahajian, Asrin title: Prognostic Factors of Outcome in Methanol Poisoning; an 8-year Retrospective Cross-sectional Study date: 2020-09-05 words: 3710 flesch: 53 summary: In previous studies, respiratory arrest (1, 2, 11, 14) as well as more than 24 hours passing from methanol intake at the time of hospital admission (11) had been identified as factors pre- dicting poor prognosis for methanol poisoning, which is con- sistent with our study. Abstract: Introduction: Identification of high-risk patients with poor prognosis is essential for quick diagnosis and treat- ment of methanol poisoning to prevent death and improve the outcome. keywords: admission; alcohol; analysis; arrest; article; attribution; blood; clinical; commons; creative; data; emergency; factors; findings; glucose; higher; hospital; hours; hyperglycemia; intake; interval; intoxication; iqr; iran; journal; kurdistan; license; median; medical; medicine; methanol; methanol poisoning; noncommercial; outcome; patients; poisoning; poor; prognosis; research; respiratory; sanandaj; sciences; study; symptoms; time; toxicology; treatment; university; variables; visual; years cache: aaem-765.pdf plain text: aaem-765.txt item: #588 of 640 id: aaem-77 author: Faridaalaee, Gholamreza; Ahmadian Heris, Javad title: Anaphylaxis as a Rare Side Effect of Pantoprazole; a Case Report date: 2018-02-26 words: 1430 flesch: 56 summary: Late hypersensitivity to omeprazole and other proton pump inhibitors. Canpolat U, Sahiner L, Aytemir K, Oto A. Allergic reac- tion to proton pump inhibitor: pantoprazole induced Kounis syndrome. keywords: acute; ahmadian; allergy; anaphylactic; anaphylaxis; anesthesia; article; case; clinical; department; drugs; emergency; general; hospital; inhibitors; iran; journal; medical; medicine; minute; pain; pantoprazole; ppis; proton; pump; rare; reaction; report; sciences; university cache: aaem-77.pdf plain text: aaem-77.txt item: #589 of 640 id: aaem-771 author: Chong, Chee-Fah title: Dividing the Emergency Department into Red, Yellow, and Green Zones to Control COVID-19 Infection; a Letter to Editor date: 2020-06-02 words: 841 flesch: 59 summary: Yellow zones include the indoor triage, waiting room, consultation rooms, observation rooms, and nursing station. Red zones in- clude the outdoor triage tents and the negative-pressure iso- lation room. keywords: chong; control; covid-19; department; editor; emergency; green; green zones; hcps; infection; patients; ppe; red; risk; yellow; zones cache: aaem-771.pdf plain text: aaem-771.txt item: #590 of 640 id: aaem-78 author: Majidi, Alireza; Shahhosseini, Tala; Mahmoudi, Sadrolla title: Performance of Local Anesthesia with Lidocaine among Opium Addicts and Non-Addicts; a Case Control Study date: 2018-06-07 words: 2445 flesch: 61 summary: terms of response to anesthesia with local lidocaine, as well as side effects. Using numeric rating scale (NRS), the pain severity of pa- tients was recorded before and 5 and 10 minutes after injec- tion of local lidocaine (the maximum dose of 5 mg/kg). keywords: addicts; age; analgesia; analysis; anesthesia; article; baseline; case; control; current; different; duration; effects; emergency; groups; injection; iran; journal; laceration; lidocaine; local; mean; medical; minutes; non; opium; pain; patients; people; pharmacology; reduction; sciences; score; sex; skin; spinal; study; terms; university cache: aaem-78.pdf plain text: aaem-78.txt item: #591 of 640 id: aaem-79 author: Ghanem, Esraa; Elgazar, Muhammad; Oweda, Khaled; Tarek, Hussien; Assaf, Fathy; Wanees, Mostafa; Elgebaly, Ahmed; Abushouk, Abdelrahman Ibrahim title: Awareness of Basic Life Support among Egyptian Medical Students; a Cross-Sectional Study date: 2018-04-08 words: 3286 flesch: 60 summary: Therefore, we performed this cross-sectional study to assess BLS aware- ness among medical students in two large Egyptian medical schools. 7. Zaheer H, Haque Z. Students’ Corner Awareness about BLS ( CPR ) among medical students: status and require- ments. keywords: adults; arrest; article; association; attribution; awareness; basic; bls; cairo; cardiac; chest; clinical; commons; compression; courses; cpr; creative; cross; data; depth; egyptian; emergency; ems; hospital; infants; journal; knowledge; level; license; life; medical; medicine; noncommercial; open; participants; previous; questionnaire; results; resuscitation; sectional; skills; students; studies; study; support; survival; training; university; unresponsive; years cache: aaem-79.pdf plain text: aaem-79.txt item: #592 of 640 id: aaem-790 author: Mohammaddoust, Mohammad; Jafari Chokan, Niaz-Mohammad; Moshirian Farahi, Seyedeh Maryam ; Tavakolian, Ayoub; Foroughian, Mahdi title: ACEP's Recommendations for Brain Computed Tomography Scan in Adult Minor Head Trauma Patients; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2020-10-29 words: 3629 flesch: 62 summary: patients had to be assessed by brain CT scan. According to level two recom- mendations, 125 (25.0%) patients did not need brain CT scan, 85 (68%) of whom had been assessed (all normal). keywords: acep; article; brain; brain ct; canadian; cchr; center; characteristics; clinical; criteria; ct scan; decision; department; emergency; guideline; head; hemorrhage; injuries; injury; intracranial; iran; level; mashhad; medical; medicine; mht; mild; minor; need; new; nexus; noc; orleans; patients; performance; policy; recommendations; rule; scan; sciences; sensitivity; specificity; study; tbi; tomography; trauma; traumatic; university cache: aaem-790.pdf plain text: aaem-790.txt item: #593 of 640 id: aaem-798 author: Madani Neishaboori, Arian; Moshrefiaraghi, Donya; Mohamed Ali, Kosar; Toloui, Amirmohammad; Yousefifard, Mahmoud; Hosseini, Mostafa title: Central Nervous System Complications in COVID-19 Patients; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis based on Current Evidence date: 2020-06-15 words: 5318 flesch: 40 summary: Quality assessment Since the design of included studies was observational, Na- tional Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem A. Madani Neishaboori et al. 4 Table 2: Risk of bias assessment of included studies based on NHLBI tools Item Chen; 2020 Helmes; 2020 Klok; 2020 Li; 2020 Lodigiani; 2020 Lu; 2020 Mao; 2020 Criteria 1 keywords: abnormalities; access; acute; analysis; articles; assessment; attribution; bias; brain; brain[tiab; central; cerebral; cerebrovascular; cerebrovascular[tiab; chen; china; clinical; cns; commons; complications; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; criteria; disease; disease[tiab; dysexecutive; encephalitis; encephalitis[tiab; encephalopathy; et al; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; incidence; infarction; infection[tiab; infections; license; medicine; nervous; neurologic[tiab; neurological; noncommercial; novel; number; open; outcome; overall; patients; perfusion; present; prevalence; results; retrospective; review; risk; sars; search; severe; stroke; studies; study; symptoms; syndrome; system; systematic; terms; venous; viral; viral[tiab; © © cache: aaem-798.pdf plain text: aaem-798.txt item: #594 of 640 id: aaem-80 author: Güven, Ramazan title: Examination of References in Rosen’s Emergency Medicine Text Book, 8th Edition; an Observational Study date: 2018-02-06 words: 3341 flesch: 66 summary: Information about emergency service in those countries (whether emergency medicine is recog- nized as a specialty or not) was obtained from the Ameri- can journal of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), European So- ciety for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) and official websites of the ministries of health in the respective countries as well This open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0). According to the S-SJR 2016 data (10), when the H-index score in the field of emergency medicine and the countries in which they were published were analyzed, it was found that the H-index score was the highest for Annals of Emer- gency Medicine (US, H-index score = 130); other scores were Resuscitation (European, H-index score = 109), Academic Emergency Medicine (US, H-index score = 101), Shock (US, H-index score = 101), Injury (European, H-index score = 96), Burns (US, H-index score = 80), American Journal of Emergency Medicine (US, H-index score = 80), Journal of Emergency Medicine (H-index score = 64), and Emergency Medicine Journal (European, H-index score = 63). keywords: 8th; access; analysis; article; authors; book; countries; country; data; department; distribution; edition; emergency; emergency medicine; europe; field; güven; index; journal; medical; medicine; physicians; publication; references; rosen; score; studies; study; terms; years cache: aaem-80.pdf plain text: aaem-80.txt item: #595 of 640 id: aaem-803 author: Srithong, Kannapatch; Sindhu, Siriorn; Wanitkun, Napaporn; Viwatwongkasem, Chukiat title: Incidence and Risk Factors of Clinical Deterioration during Inter-Facility Transfer of Critically Ill Patients; a Cohort Study date: 2020-07-04 words: 6718 flesch: 50 summary: Clinical deterioration during inter-facility transfer of criti- cally ill patients can be better prevented and managed by pre-departure assessment of clinical deterioration risks us- ing associated clinical parameters such as patient acuity and signs and symptoms, adequate stabilization of the patients, designation of ENP or ER nurses as transfer leader, close monitoring of deteriorating signs through mobile ICU, and continuing management during transport. Referral ex- perience of nurses, which was measured as number of years involved in inter-facility patient transfer was not associated with clinical deterioration. keywords: acuity; ambulance; arrest; article; attribution; cardiac; care; clinical; clinical deterioration; commons; conditions; creative; critical; data; definitive; deterioration; distance; early; effects; emergency; experience; facility; facility transfer; factors; high; higher; hospitals; icu; ill; incidence; increase; intensive; inter; level; license; likely; mean; minutes; mobile; news; non; noncommercial; nurses; open; patients; pre; preparation; previous; range; rate; respiratory; risk; sample; score; signs; size; stable; studies; study; symptoms; team; terms; thailand; time; transfer; transport; treatment; unstable; value; warning cache: aaem-803.pdf plain text: aaem-803.txt item: #596 of 640 id: aaem-807 author: Khateri, Sorour; Mohammadi, Hedyeh; Khateri, Rozhin; Moradi, Yousef title: The Prevalence of Underlying Diseases and Comorbidities in COVID-19 Patients; an Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis date: 2020-09-13 words: 8018 flesch: 60 summary: A random- effects model was applied for articles with high heterogene- ity (I2>50%); for other cases, a fixed effects model was used. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of underlying diseases and associated comorbidities in COVID-19 patients using a systematic review and meta- analysis. keywords: 2019; academic; access; acute; acute kidney; acute liver; acute respiratory; age; analysis; archives; article; attribution; authors; cancer; cardiac; cardiovascular; china; clinical; coefficient; commons; comorbidities; copd; coronary; coronavirus; covid-19; creative; data; diabetes; disease; distress; emergency; et al; failure; fields; figure; heart; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; hypertension; i2=; icu; injury; khateri; kidney; kidney injury; license; liver; medical; medicine; meta; ncov; noncommercial; open; patients; people; pooled; pooled prevalence; prevalence; rate; regression; relationship; research; respiratory; respiratory distress; respiratory injury; results; retrospective; review; risk; severe; shock; studies; study; syndrome; systematic; table; terms; test; underlying; wuhan; years cache: aaem-807.pdf plain text: aaem-807.txt item: #597 of 640 id: aaem-81 author: Rahimi, Mitra; Elmi, Mahboubeh; Hassanian-Moghaddam, Hossein; Zamani, Nasim; Soltaninejad, Kambiz; Forouzanfar, Reza; Shadnia, Shahin title: Acute Lidocaine Toxicity: a Case Series date: 2018-02-25 words: 3693 flesch: 59 summary: Although in many case studies lidocaine toxicity has been re- ported to happen inadvertently, we found 27 cases (90%) of intentional ingestion in six years. Likewise, the pos- sibility of lidocaine toxicity is considered to be clinically sig- nificant at plasma concentrations higher than 6.0 mg/L (3-7). keywords: access; acute; american; anesthesia; arrest; article; attribution; blood; cardiac; care; cases; center; clinical; commons; consciousness; creative; data; dose; emergency; fatal; findings; hakim; hospital; ingestion; intensive; intoxication; iran; journal; laboratory; license; lidocaine; lidocaine toxicity; local; loghman; loss; male; management; mean; medicine; milligrams; mortality; noncommercial; open; outcome; patients; poisoning; presentation; rate; report; results; review; seizure; studies; study; tehran; terms; topical; toxicity; toxicology; years cache: aaem-81.pdf plain text: aaem-81.txt item: #598 of 640 id: aaem-82 author: Yousefi, Maysam; Yadegarynia, Davood; Lotfali, Ensieh; Arab-Mazar, Zahra; Ghajari, Ali; Fatemi, Alireza title: Candidemia in Febrile Neutropenic Patients; a Brief Report date: 2018-02-03 words: 2674 flesch: 58 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Febrile neutropenic patients are at risk of serious infections. The aim of the present study is to identify the frequency, species, and susceptibility patterns of candidemia in febrile neutropenic patients. keywords: agents; albicans; aml; antifungal; article; beheshti; blood; bloodstream; candida; candidemia; care; cases; clinical; cvc; data; diseases; febrile; female; fluconazole; frequency; hospital; icu; infectious; intensive; iran; isolates; journal; medical; medicine; mortality; neutropenic; patients; positive; rate; research; results; risk; sciences; shahid; species; spp; study; susceptibility; susceptible; university; voriconazole; yousefi cache: aaem-82.pdf plain text: aaem-82.txt item: #599 of 640 id: aaem-826 author: Pouraghaei, Mahboob; Shafiee, Sina; Mesrian, Fahimeh; Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Haniyeh; Rahmani, Farzad title: Traumastem Powder in Treatment of Non-Traumatic Anterior Epistaxis in Emergency Department; a Randomized Clinical Trial: A New Treatment of Epistaxis date: 2020-10-05 words: 3332 flesch: 56 summary: Patients were divided into two groups using randomization software (intervention group: 107 patients, control group: 96 patients). Primary outcome variables included bleeding control time and patient satisfaction. keywords: access; anterior; article; attribution; bleeding; cases; clinical; commons; comparison; control; creative; data; department; emergency; epistaxis; group; hemostatic; higher; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; intervention; license; medical; medicine; methods; minutes; nasal; noncommercial; open; packing; patients; powder; randomized; rate; recurrence; research; results; routine; satisfaction; sciences; significant; statistical; study; table; tabriz; tampon; terms; test; time; traumastem; treatment; trial; university; use; variables cache: aaem-826.pdf plain text: aaem-826.txt item: #600 of 640 id: aaem-828 author: Bashash, Davood; Hosseini-Baharanchi , Fatemeh Sadat ; Rezaie-Tavirani , Mostafa ; Safa , Majid ; Akbari Dilmaghani , Nader ; Faranoush , Mohammad ; Abolghasemi , Hassan title: The Prognostic Value of Thrombocytopenia in COVID-19 Patients; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2020-09-22 words: 4855 flesch: 64 summary: (35) 192 (139-237) 150 (116-225) Qian et al. (144-215) Fan et al. keywords: 2020; abstract; access; analysis; article; attribution; bashash; beheshti; bias; cases; china; clinical; commons; coronavirus; count; cov-2; covid-19; creative; death; disease; egger; et al; features; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; infection; iran; license; liu; mean; medical; medicine; meta; mortality; non; noncommercial; novel; number; outcome; patients; platelet; plot; prognosis; respiratory; results; risk; sars; sciences; severe; shahid; studies; study; tehran; terms; thrombocytopenia; university; value; wang; wuhan; yang; zhang cache: aaem-828.pdf plain text: aaem-828.txt item: #601 of 640 id: aaem-83 author: Zamanian-Azodi, Mona; Rezaei-Tavirani, Mostafa; Rostami-Nejad, Mohammad; Tajik-Rostami, Fatemeh title: New Molecular Aspects of Cardiac Arrest; Promoting Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Approaches date: 2018-05-19 words: 3181 flesch: 54 summary: Detail of gene expression assay is explained in the report of Martijn and Wiklud (7). Box plot finding indicates that the mid points of data are in the same range; therefore, samples are comparable in terms of gene expression. keywords: access; analysis; arrest; article; attribution; azodi; beheshti; brain; cardiac; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary; cdh1; change; commons; cpr; creative; critical; crucial; data; expression; fold; genes; gland; gnrhr; gonadotropin; hormone; important; insulin; interaction; iran; license; logfc; martijn; medical; methods; minutes; molecular; network; nodes; noncommercial; open; patients; pituitary; ppi; prl; protein; receptor; regulated; regulation; related; resuscitation; rezaei; role; sciences; shahid; significant; study; terms; university; zamanian cache: aaem-83.pdf plain text: aaem-83.txt item: #602 of 640 id: aaem-835 author: Naghipour, Bahman; Pouraghaei, Mahboub; Tabatabaey, Ali; Arjmand, Allahveirdy; Faridaalaee, Gholamreza title: Comparison of Ketamine and Tramadol in Management of Acute Pain; a Systematic Review date: 2020-08-23 words: 4523 flesch: 59 summary: Keywords: Ketamine; Tramadol; pain management; emergency treatment; acute pain Cite this article as: Naghipour B, Pouraghaei M, Tabatabaey A, Arjmand A, Faridaalaee Gh. Essential pharmacologic options for acute pain management in the emer- gency setting. keywords: abstracts; access; acute; acute pain; analgesic; analysis; article; attribution; authors; available; bias; burimsittichai; colleagues; commons; comparison; control; creative; criteria; department; dose; effective; effects; emergency; fewer; group; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; intravenous; iran; journal; ketamine; license; low; management; maragheh; medical; medicine; meta; morphine; noncommercial; open; opioids; outcome; pain; pain control; papers; patients; postoperative; profile; rates; regional; results; review; risk; search; setting; severe; significant; studies; study; surgery; systematic; table; terms; text; tramadol; treatment; university; use; © © cache: aaem-835.pdf plain text: aaem-835.txt item: #603 of 640 id: aaem-839 author: Bedel, Cihan; Korkut, Mustafa; Aksoy, Fatih; Kus, Gorkem title: Usefulness of Immature Granulocytes to Predict High Coronary SYNTAX Score in Acute Coronary Syndrome; a Cross-sectional Study: Usefulness of immature granulocytes to predict high coronary syntax score date: 2020-09-15 words: 4465 flesch: 58 summary: In a study conducted by Kundi et al., it was reported that the ratio of the Monocyte count to HDL could be used as a pa- rameter that would be quickly accessible and cheap in or- der to predict high SS and it may be used in daily practice as well [13]. In a study conducted by Sivri et al. keywords: acs; acute; artery; article; blood; cad; cardiology; cell; coronary; count; crp; data; dbp; department; disease; emergency; et al; granulocyte; group; high; higher; history; ig%; immature; infarction; inflammation; inflammatory; journal; low; lymphocyte; mean; medicine; neutrophil; nlr; patients; percutaneous; platelet; plr; pressure; ratio; score; severity; sss; study; syntax; terms; value; wbc cache: aaem-839.pdf plain text: aaem-839.txt item: #604 of 640 id: aaem-84 author: Tavakoli, Nader; Shaker, Seyed Hosein; Soltani, Siamak; Abbasi, Mohsen; Amini, Milad; Tahmasebi, Ali; Hosseini Kasnavieh, Seyed Mohammad title: Job Burnout, Stress, and Satisfaction among Emergency Nursing Staff after Health System Transformation Plan in Iran date: 2018-05-16 words: 3953 flesch: 66 summary: Job burnout was directly correlated with job stress (p ≤0.001, r = 0.57) and job burnout was negatively correlated with job satisfaction (p = 0.001, r = -0.41). : Correlation between job burnout, job stress, and job satisfaction among studied nurses Variables Stress Satisfaction Burnout Stress Correlation 1 -0.43 0.57 P-value — ≤0.001 ≤0.001 Satisfaction Correlation -0.43 1 -0.41 P-value ≤0.001 — 0.001 Burnout Correlation 0.57 -0.41 1 P-value ≤0.001 0.001 — ees’ marital status and the level of burnout in single employ- ees was higher than that in married ones. keywords: access; age; article; attribution; burnout; care; characteristics; commons; correlation; creative; demographic; department; emergency; findings; health; high; hospitals; iran; job; job burnout; job satisfaction; job stress; journal; level; license; low; marital; married; medical; moderate; noncommercial; number; nurses; nursing; nursing staff; patient; plan; quality; relationship; satisfaction; sciences; significant; single; staff; status; stress; studies; study; table; tehran; terms; university; variables; work; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-84.pdf plain text: aaem-84.txt item: #605 of 640 id: aaem-849 author: Asgari, Sahel; Esfandbod, Mohsen; Haghshomar, Maryam title: Henna-induced Hemolysis and Acute Kidney Injury in an 85-year-old Man; a Case Report date: 2020-10-14 words: 2957 flesch: 54 summary: Cases report acute renal failure associ- ated with henna use along with hemolytic anemia. Following the diagnosis of hemolytic anemia, the patient’s diet was reinvestigated through his family members and his wife, which revealed oral consumption of henna. keywords: access; acute; aki; aminotransferase; anemia; article; attribution; bilirubin; blood; case; cell; commons; consumption; creative; day; deficiency; dehydrogenase; direct; emergency; g6pd; hemoglobin; hemolysis; hemolytic; henna; herbal; history; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injury; journal; kidney; license; medical; medicine; mmol; negative; noncommercial; number; old; open; oxidative; patient; phosphate; report; results; sciences; table; tehran; terms; traditional; university; urine; year cache: aaem-849.pdf plain text: aaem-849.txt item: #606 of 640 id: aaem-85 author: Ghelichkhani, Parisa; Esmaeili, Maryam; Hosseini, Mostafa; Seylani, Khatereh title: Glasgow Coma Scale and FOUR Score in Predicting the Mortality of Trauma Patients; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-04-18 words: 3932 flesch: 64 summary: Email: mesmaeilie77@gmail.com, es- maeili_m@tums.ac.ir measuring the level of consciousness to evaluate the sever- ity of the injury in head trauma patients, nurses will be able to prepare for taking critical measures for the injury in the shortest time and in the best possible way and reduce the dis- ability and mortality of trauma patients (4-12). The aim of this study is to compare Glasgow coma scale (GCS) and Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) score in predicting the mortality of trauma patients. keywords: access; accuracy; admission; article; attribution; care; coma; commons; consciousness; creative; curve; data; different; discharge; emergency; gcs; ghelichkhani; glasgow; hours; icu; injury; intensive; iran; journal; level; license; mean; medical; mortality; noncommercial; nursing; outcome; outline; patients; prediction; results; roc; scale; sciences; score; scoring; study; tehran; terms; time; trauma; trauma patients; traumatic; university; unresponsiveness; value; yousefifard cache: aaem-85.pdf plain text: aaem-85.txt item: #607 of 640 id: aaem-850 author: Obara, Takafumi; Nojima, Tsuyosi; Koga, Hitoshi; Nakao, Atsunori; Naito, Hiromichi title: Transient Global Amnesia in a Patient Presenting with Hypertensive Emergency; a Case Report date: 2020-07-30 words: 1884 flesch: 55 summary: Abstract: Transient global amnesia (TGA) is characterized by the abrupt onset of global amnesia, particularly anterograde amnesia. Studies using neuroimaging technologies like single photon emission CT scan show im- paired blood flow in the parahippocampus, hippocampus, and mediobasal temporal region in TGA patients (7). keywords: amnesia; anterograde; article; associated; attack; authors; blood; case; condition; department; emergency; episodes; family; global; global amnesia; history; hours; hypertension; ischemic; like; loss; medicine; memory; metabolic; migraine; mmhg; neurol; neurological; okayama; onset; patient; physicians; pressure; report; signs; study; symptoms; tga; transient cache: aaem-850.pdf plain text: aaem-850.txt item: #608 of 640 id: aaem-86 author: Jafari, Mohammadali; Aliheidari Biuki, Amir; Hajimaghsoudi, Majid; Bagherabadi, Mehdi; Zarepur, Ehsan title: Intravenous Haloperidol versus Midazolam in Management of Conversion Disorder; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-04-01 words: 3539 flesch: 58 summary: Clinton JE, Sterner S, Stelmachers Z, Ruiz E. Haloperi- dol for sedation of disruptive emergency patients. This study aimed to compare the effects of haloperidol versus midazolam in patients with conversion disorder. keywords: access; administration; article; attribution; clinical; commons; conversion; creative; data; department; disorder; drugs; effects; emergency; experienced; group; haloperidol; hospital; hour; intravenous; iran; license; management; mean; medical; medicine; midazolam; noncommercial; open; patients; psychiatric; randomized; rate; recovery; results; sadoughi; sciences; shahid; studies; study; symptoms; terms; treatment; trial; university cache: aaem-86.pdf plain text: aaem-86.txt item: #609 of 640 id: aaem-860 author: Safari, Saeid; Salimi, Alireza ; Zali, Alireza; Jahangirifard, Alireza ; Bastanhagh, Ehsan ; Aminnejad, Reza; Dabbagh, Ali; Lotfi, Amir Hossein ; Saeidi, Mohammad title: Extracorporeal Hemoperfusion as a Potential Therapeutic Option for Severe COVID-19 patients; a Narrative Review: Extracorporeal Hemoperfusion Treatment for Covid-19 patients date: 2020-08-22 words: 5037 flesch: 49 summary: Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020; 8(1): e67 REV I EW ART I C L E Extracorporeal Hemoperfusion as a Potential Therapeutic Option for Severe COVID-19 patients; a Narrative Review Saeid Safari1∗, Alireza Salimi2, Alireza Zali1, Alireza Jahangirifard3, Ehsan Bastanhagh4, Reza Aminnejad2,5, Ali Dabbagh6, Amir Hossein Lotfi 7, Mohammad Saeidi5 1. Keywords: COVID-19; cytokine release syndrome; Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult; hemoperfusion Cite this article as: Safari S,Salimi A, Zali A, Jahangirifard A, Bastanhagh E, Aminnejad R, Dabbagh A, Lotfi A H, Saeidi M. Extracorporeal Hemoperfusion as a Potential Therapeutic Option for Severe COVID-19 patients; a Narrative Review. keywords: access; acute; analysis; apheresis; application; ards; article; artificial; attribution; available; blood; care; cartridges; case; center; china; clinical; column; commons; conditions; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 patients; creative; critical; css; cytokine; cytosorb; device; dialysis; disease; ebp; elimination; emergency; endotoxin; et al; extracorporeal; failure; fiber; hemoperfusion; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; huang; icu; ill; immobilized; infection; inflammation; inflammatory; influenza; injury; intensive; international; iran; journal; lancet; levels; license; mediators; medical; medicine; noncommercial; novel; open; organ; patients; pmx; pneumonia; polymyxin; potential; pro; purification; removal; research; respiratory; response; results; safari; sars; sciences; sepsis; septic; severe; shock; society; storm; studies; study; syndrome; tehran; terms; therapeutic; therapy; treatment; university; use; wang cache: aaem-860.pdf plain text: aaem-860.txt item: #610 of 640 id: aaem-87 author: Mesri, Mehdi; Najari, Fares; Baradaran Kayal, Ideh; Najari, Dorsa title: Hyper Acute Quadriplegia with Chronic Lead Toxicity; a Case Report date: 2018-05-30 words: 2232 flesch: 52 summary: Lead levels are higher among adult workers who are in contact with industrial lead. A study by D. A. Gidlow showed that in industrial workers with lead levels above 40 µg/100ml, neurotoxicity was char- acterized by motor deficiency and cognitive problems and even in some cases by peripheral neuropathy. keywords: acute; article; bal; case; chronic; cognitive; days; disorders; exposure; impairment; industrial; iran; journal; lead; lead toxicity; level; medical; medicine; memory; motor; neurological; neuropathy; patient; peripheral; poisoning; problems; quadriplegia; report; results; sciences; sensory; study; succimer; symptoms; tehran; terms; toxicity; treatment; unit; university; workers; µcg cache: aaem-87.pdf plain text: aaem-87.txt item: #611 of 640 id: aaem-870 author: Phattharapornjaroen, Phatthranit ; Surapornpaiboon, Suwitchaya ; Chalermdamrichai, Phanorn ; Sittichanbuncha, Yuwares ; Sawanyawisuth, Kittisak title: IQ-CPR Meter for Chest Compression Monitoring During Simulated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; a Comparative Study: IQ CPR date: 2020-09-24 words: 3328 flesch: 61 summary: AED showed the depth and speed of chest compression on the screen, while IQ-CPR meter showed the depth of each chest compression by color light for quality of chest compression depth. The ad- justable patch is placed on the chest of the victim to evalu- ate chest compression depth. keywords: adequate; aed; agreement; article; cardiopulmonary; characteristics; chest; chest compression; coefficient; cohen; compression; cpr; cpr meter; data; department; depth; device; emergency; feedback; good; green; improved; kappa; light; medical; medicine; meter; minute; monitoring; outcome; paramedic; participants; quality; rate; real; recoil; resuscitation; standard; students; study; terms; times; years cache: aaem-870.pdf plain text: aaem-870.txt item: #612 of 640 id: aaem-872 author: zali, Alireza ; Gholamzadeh, Saeid ; Mohammadi, Gohar; Azizmohammad Looha, Mehdi ; Akrami, Forouzan ; Zarean, Elaheh ; Vafaee, Reza; Maher, Ali; Khodadoost, Mahmood title: Baseline Characteristics and Associated Factors of Mortality in COVID-19 Patients; an Analysis of 16000 Cases in Tehran, Iran date: 2020-09-08 words: 6341 flesch: 57 summary: [7] and until Aug 2 2020, a total of 306,752 confirmed COVID-19 cases were reported and 16,982 pa- tients had died due to COVID-19 in Iran [8]. Baseline characteristics of studied cases From February 19, 2020 to May 12, 2020, 8252 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 7783 individuals diagnosed as sus- pected cases of COVID-19 had referred to hospitals affiliated to SBMU, Iran, Tehran. keywords: access; adjusted; admission; age; analysis; article; associated; attribution; beheshti; cardiovascular; cases; ccu; center; cfr; characteristics; china; clinical; commons; comorbidities; comorbidity; confirmed; coronavirus; covid-19; covid-19 cases; creative; data; death; deceased; diabetes; disease; epidemiological; et al; factors; fatality; health; hospitalization; hospitals; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; icu; iran; license; medical; medicine; mortality; noncommercial; open; patients; rate; research; results; risk; sciences; sex; shahid; status; study; survival; tehran; terms; time; underlying; university; variables; years cache: aaem-872.pdf plain text: aaem-872.txt item: #613 of 640 id: aaem-875 author: Amini, Keyvan; Arabzadeh, AmirAhmad; Jahed, Sevda ; Amini, Payman title: Topical Tranexamic Acid versus Phenylephrine-lidocaine for the Treatment of Anterior Epistaxis in Patients Taking Aspirin or Clopidogrel; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2021-01-19 words: 4078 flesch: 55 summary: The advantages of topi- cal TXA treatment demonstrated in our study included quick bleeding cessation, and reducing re-bleeding and duration of hospital stay in patients. In the survey of Birmingham et al., topical TXA was not beneficial for reducing ED length of stay; however, it was associated with a significant reduction in otolaryngologist consults and nasal packing rates in management of acute epistaxis (25). keywords: access; acid; anterior; antiplatelet; ardabil; article; aspirin; attribution; bleeding; cessation; clinical; clopidogrel; commons; creative; department; drugs; duration; effect; emergency; epistaxis; findings; group; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; intervention; journal; length; license; lidocaine; management; mean; medical; medicine; minutes; nasal; noncommercial; number; open; packing; panp; patients; phenylephrine; recurrence; reduction; results; risk; sciences; stay; study; terms; time; topical; tranexamic; treatment; trial; txa; use cache: aaem-875.pdf plain text: aaem-875.txt item: #614 of 640 id: aaem-88 author: Ramezani, Zana; Babahajian, Asrin; Yousefinejad, Vahid title: Intravascular Hemolysis following Acute Zinc Phosphide Poisoning; a Case Report date: 2018-06-11 words: 2352 flesch: 57 summary: Ostadi A, Noshad H, Ghaffari AR, Banagozar A. Transient leukopenia in zinc phosphide poisoning. Jain J, Jain VV, Gupta OP, Jaikishen A. Transient hyper- glycemia in zinc phosphide poisoning. keywords: /m3; acute; article; blood; care; case; cells; clinical; coagulation; commons; complications; day; emergency; failure; gas; hemolysis; hepatic; indian; ingestion; intravascular; iran; journal; laboratory; liver; medical; medicine; meq; nausea; normal; parameters; patient; phosphide; poisoning; range; report; sanandaj; serum; symptoms; treatment; zinc; znp cache: aaem-88.pdf plain text: aaem-88.txt item: #615 of 640 id: aaem-89 author: Vafaei, Ali; Shams Akhtari, Amin; Heidari, Kamran; Hosseini, Somayeh title: Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Emergency Department Based on the AHA 2015 Guidelines; a Brief Report date: 2018-07-21 words: 2793 flesch: 54 summary: All members of CPR team being present 74 (92.5) Having a predefined place and role for CPR team members 46 (57.5) in 2014 expressed that performance of quality CPR had a considerable effect on the survival of the patients and evaluated various factors affecting the initiation of sponta- neous blood circulation and survival of the patients after car- diopulmonary arrest in hospital. keywords: agreement; aha; arrest; article; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; cases; chest; cpr; department; emergency; fail; findings; guidelines; heart; hospital; initiation; international; iran; massage; medical; medicine; number; patients; performance; poor; present; pressure; principles; proper; quality; rate; resuscitation; sciences; shock; status; study; survival; team; university cache: aaem-89.pdf plain text: aaem-89.txt item: #616 of 640 id: aaem-891 author: Tangkulpanich, Panvilai ; Yuksen, Chaiyaporn; Kongchok, Wanchalerm ; Jenpanitpong, Chestsadakon title: Clinical Predictors of Emergency Department Revisits within 48 Hours of Discharge; a Case Control Study date: 2021-01-05 words: 3725 flesch: 61 summary: According to the findings, the most important and independent predictive factor of ED revisit within 48 hours of discharge were, age ≥ 60 years, ESI triage level 2, ED length of stay ≥ 4 hours, temperature ≥ 37.5 C, and 60 > pulse rate ≥ 100 beats/minute. Conclusion According to the findings, the most important and indepen- dent predictive factor of ED revisit within 48 hours of dis- charge were, age ≥ 60 years, ESI triage level 2, ED length of stay ≥ 4 hours, temperature ≥ 37.5 C, and 60 > pulse rate ≥ 100 beat/minutes. keywords: access; analysis; article; attribution; case; clinical; commons; control; creative; department; discharge; emergency; esi; factors; group; high; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; journal; length; level; license; medicine; noncommercial; patients; probability; pulse; rate; revisit; risk; scores; stay; study; temperature; terms; thailand; treatment; triage; years cache: aaem-891.pdf plain text: aaem-891.txt item: #617 of 640 id: aaem-9 author: Alimohammadi, Hossein; Shojaee, Majid; Samiei, Mehdi; Abyari, Somayeh; Vafaee, Ali; Mirkheshti, Alireza title: Nerve Stimulator Guided Axillary Block in Painless Reduction of Distal Radius Fractures; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-11-13 words: 2653 flesch: 52 summary: One group received axillary nerve block by nerve stimulator guid- ance and the other procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) using midazolam/fentanyl. Axillary nerve block introduced by Halsted and Hall in 1884, and has been approved as a safe and effective analgesic method for a variety of upper extremity fractures (5). keywords: analgesia; anesthesia; article; axillary; beheshti; block; clinical; complications; department; distal; duration; emergency; extremity; fractures; groups; hossein; iran; mean; medical; nerve; nsab; onset; pain; painless; patients; present; procedure; psa; radius; reduction; sciences; sedation; shahid; shorter; stimulator; study; time; total; trial; university; upper; use cache: aaem-9.pdf plain text: aaem-9.txt item: #618 of 640 id: aaem-90 author: Ghanbarizadeh, Saeed Reza; Dinpanah, Hossein; Ghasemi, Reza; Salahshour, Yaser; Sardashti, Samaneh; Kamali, Mostafa; Khatibi, Seyed Reza title: Quetiapine versus Haloperidol in Controlling Conversion Disorder Symptoms; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-08-02 words: 3432 flesch: 61 summary: Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that although quetiapine and haloperidol have a similar effect in reliev- ing the patients from conversion disorder symptoms, the prevalence of extrapyramidal symptoms is significantly lower in the group under treatment with quetiapine. Outcomes Within 30 minutes after prescription of haloperidol and que- tiapine, respectively, 90.41% and 91.55% of the patients in each group were relieved of conversion disorder symptoms (p=0.812). keywords: access; article; attribution; blind; clinical; commons; conversion; conversion disorder; creative; data; day; department; disorder; drug; effectiveness; effects; emergency; extrapyramidal; group; haloperidol; heydariyeh; history; hospital; hours; iran; license; medical; minutes; noncommercial; open; patients; present; prevalence; psychotic; quetiapine; results; schizophrenia; sciences; similar; study; symptoms; table; terms; torbat; torbat heydariyeh; treatment; trial; university; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-90.pdf plain text: aaem-90.txt item: #619 of 640 id: aaem-902 author: Alzuhairy, Abeer Kadum Abass title: Accuracy of Canadian CT Head Rule and New Orleans Criteria for Minor Head Trauma; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis date: 2020-10-10 words: 4499 flesch: 57 summary: I EW ART I C L E Accuracy of Canadian CT Head Rule and New Orleans Cri- teria for Minor Head Trauma; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Abeer Kadum Abass Alzuhairy1∗ 1. Keywords: Sensitivity and Specificity; Predictive Value of Tests; Craniocerebral Trauma; Systematic Review; Meta-Analysis Cite this article as: Alzuhairy A K A. Accuracy of Canadian CT Head Rule and New Orleans Criteria for Minor Head Trauma; a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. keywords: academic; access; analysis; article; attribution; bias; brain; canadian; cchr; citbi; commons; creative; criteria; diagnostic; emergency; findings; head; head rule; high; injury; journal; license; low low; medicine; meta; mild; minor; models; negative; new; noc; noncommercial; observational; odds; open; orleans; patients; positive; prediction; present; prospective; ratio; risk; rule; scan; search; sensitivity; specificity; studies; study; terms; tomography; traumatic; value cache: aaem-902.pdf plain text: aaem-902.txt item: #620 of 640 id: aaem-91 author: Najari, Fares; Mostafazadeh, Babak; Akbari, Asadollah; Baradaran kaya, Ideh; Najari, Dorsa title: Characteristics of Mortalities related to Pulmonary Embolism following Multiple Trauma; a Brief Report date: 2017-10-24 words: 2278 flesch: 63 summary: Results: The cause of death for 92 of the 10800 (0.85%) evaluated cadavers was diagnosed as trauma related PE. Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted on medical profiles of cadavers that were registered as trauma related mortality in the dissec- tion department of the Forensic Medicine Organization, Tehran, Iran, during 2011 to 2016. keywords: age; anticoagulant; cadavers; cases; cause; characteristics; data; death; department; forensic; hospital; injury; iran; journal; limb; medical; medicine; mortality; organization; patients; present; prevalence; pulmonary; related; reported; results; study; tehran; thromboembolism; time; trauma; vte; years cache: aaem-91.pdf plain text: aaem-91.txt item: #621 of 640 id: aaem-92 author: Salehi, Forod; Riasi, Hamidreza; Riasi, Hamideh; Mirshahi, Arvin title: Simultaneous Occurrence of Dysrhythmia and Seizure as a Diagnostic Difficulty; a Case Report date: 2018-06-28 words: 2056 flesch: 56 summary: Among the factors that can contribute to increased QT interval and TdP incidence in patients are female sex, electrolyte disorders such as hy- pokalemia, hypomagnesaemia and hypocalcaemia, digitalis consumption, congestive heart failure and heart diseases, excessive or unbalanced consumption of some cardiovas- cular and non-cardiac drugs, cocaine abuse, as well as ge- netic problems such as abnormalities in cardiac ion chan- nels such as sodium and potassium channels(2-6). Tel: 00989394212442 examination, can be found in patients with TdP, which can include heart palpitation, syncope, and seizure (7, 8). keywords: arrhythmia; arteriosus; article; asr; birjand; cardiac; cardiovascular; case; clinical; drugs; ductus; dysrhythmia; ecg; emergency; genetic; heart; hospital; infant; interval; iran; journal; long; medical; monitoring; patient; pda; pointes; report; sciences; seizure; syncope; tdp; terms; tests; torsades; university; vali; ventricular cache: aaem-92.pdf plain text: aaem-92.txt item: #622 of 640 id: aaem-921 author: Tienpratarn, Welawat; Yuksen, Chaiyaporn; Aramvanitch, Kasamon; Suttapanit, Karn; Mankong, Yahya; Yaemluksanalert, Nussareen; Meesawad, Sansanee title: Success Rate of Endotracheal Intubation Using Inline Stabilization with and without Cervical Hard Collar; a Comparative Study: manual stabilization with or without cervical collar date: 2020-10-14 words: 2870 flesch: 50 summary: Participants were ran- domly assigned to endotracheal intubation using inline sta- bilization either with rigid cervical collar or without it us- ing sequentially numbered opaque sealed envelopes and six- block randomization. Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020; 8(1): 81 Figure 1: Endotracheal intubation using inline stabilization with and without rigid cervical collar on manikin. keywords: access; article; cervical; cervical collar; collar; data; emergency; endotracheal; eti; groups; hard; hospital; inline; inline stabilization; intubation; laryngeal; laryngoscope; mahidol; manikin; manual; medicine; open; participants; patients; ramathibodi; rate; results; rigid; rigid cervical; spinal; spine; stabilization; study; success; successful; time; tsi; university cache: aaem-921.pdf plain text: aaem-921.txt item: #623 of 640 id: aaem-923 author: Parsa, Yekta; Shokri, Nazila; Jahedbozorgan , Tayebeh ; Naeiji, Zahra ; Zadehmodares, Shahrzad ; Moridi, Atefeh title: Possible Vertical Transmission of COVID-19 to the Newborn; a Case Report: Vertical Transmission and The Coronavirus date: 2021-01-15 words: 2407 flesch: 60 summary: COVID-19 infection during pregnancy raises 3 major concerns: first, the treatment and management of pregnant women infected with the virus is still a matter of debate and needs further investigation; second, prenatal and ∗Corresponding Author: Atefeh Moridi; Department of Obstetrics and Gy- necology, Mahdiyeh Hospital, Shishe Gar khaneh Alley, Fadaian Islam Av- enue, Shoosh Square, Tehran, Iran. The long- and short-term effects of COVID-19 infection on the neonates are still un- clear and should be investigated in follow-ups. keywords: birth; case; cesarean; coronavirus; covid-19; covid19; day; delivery; disease; evidence; hours; infected; infection; iran; laboratory; medical; mother; neonate; newborn; pcr; positive; possible; pregnancy; pregnant; report; respiratory; results; review; study; tehran; test; transmission; vertical; vertical transmission; virus; wang; women cache: aaem-923.pdf plain text: aaem-923.txt item: #624 of 640 id: aaem-925 author: Zippi, Maddalena; Pica, Roberta; Febbraro, Ingrid; Pugliese, Francesco Rocco; Liguori, Francesca title: Splenic Hematoma as a Rare Complication of Colonoscopy; a Case Report date: 2020-10-25 words: 1441 flesch: 55 summary: Keywords: Colonoscopy; computed tomography; hematoma; spleen; splenic rupture Cite this article as: Zippi M, Pica R, Febbraro I, Pugliese FR, Liguori F. Splenic Hematoma as a Rare Complication of Colonoscopy; a Case Report. Discussion In a 2016 review, Jehangir A et al. identified 172 cases of splenic rupture and noted an incidence of 1–21/100.000 for this complication, pointing out that it had a higher predom- inance among females (71.5% of cases), with a mean age of 63 years, and a previous history of abdominal surgery in 50.8–65% of cases (6). keywords: abdominal; article; author; case; colonoscopy; complication; condition; emergency; endoscopy; figure; hematoma; hemoperitoneum; hospital; italy; journal; pain; patients; pertini; presentation; rare; rome; rupture; sandro; splenic; surgery; tomography cache: aaem-925.pdf plain text: aaem-925.txt item: #625 of 640 id: aaem-928 author: Jadgal, Nasir; Nikravan Mofrad, Malahat; Jamsahar, Maryam; Nasiri, Malihe title: The Clinical Skills of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) Personnel Regarding Spinal Immobilization of Trauma Victims; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2021-01-10 words: 4617 flesch: 54 summary: Regarding clinical skills of the participants in spinal immobi- lization of trauma victims lying in supine position, our find- ings showed that the highest score belonged to the use of cervical collar in the victims and the majority of participants applied it correctly, but they had poor clinical skills regard- ing pulling the trauma victims in the longitudinal axis of the body to put them on a long backboard and immobilize their torso, legs and head using the Kendrick Extrication Device (KED) and most of them applied it incorrectly. Most of the studied personnel had moderate clinical skills in spinal immobiliza- tion, and they had poor clinical skills required to correctly pull the trauma victims in the longitudinal axis of the body to put them on a long backboard and immobilize their torso, legs, and head using the Kendrick Extrication Device (KED). keywords: backboard; body; care; cervical; checklist; clinical; clinical skills; collar; cord; correct; data; emergency; ems; ems personnel; head; hospital; immobilization; injury; iranshahr; journal; legs; level; long; longitudinal; medical; nursing; participants; patients; personnel; position; pre; prehospital; prone; results; sciences; score; skills; spinal; spinal immobilization; straps; study; supine; training; trauma; trauma victims; traumatic; use; victims; year cache: aaem-928.pdf plain text: aaem-928.txt item: #626 of 640 id: aaem-93 author: Khani, Mohammad; Bayat, Fariba; Rohani, Atoosheh; Pishgahi, Mehdi title: Paradoxical Embolism in a Patient with Patent Foramen Ovale; a Case Report date: 2018-08-13 words: 1598 flesch: 54 summary: Introduction: Simultaneous occurrences of cerebrovascular accident and pulmonary embolism (PE) demonstrates the presence of paradoxical embolism according to the Johnson criteria (1). Abstract: Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is usually asymptomatic; however, it could be quite dangerous for patients with right side clot in which thrombus can transmit the PFO and paradoxically emboli to systemic circulation. keywords: article; atrial; cardiology; case; circulation; clot; department; embolism; emergency; foramen; iran; journal; left; mashhad; medical; ovale; paradoxical; patent; patients; pfo; pressure; pulmonary; report; right; sciences; septal; septum; shunting; surgery; surgical; systemic; therapy; thrombosis; treatment; university cache: aaem-93.pdf plain text: aaem-93.txt item: #627 of 640 id: aaem-931 author: Parvareshi Hamrah, Mohsen; Rezaei Tavirani, Mostafa ; Movahedi, Monireh ; Ahmadi Karvigh, Sanaz title: Identification of Serum Biomarkers for Differentiating Epileptic Seizures from Psychogenic Attacks Using a Proteomic Approach; a Comparative study date: 2020-10-29 words: 5212 flesch: 58 summary: Downloaded from: http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem 3 Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine. 2020; 8(1): e87 Figure 1: Representative two-dimensional electrophoresis gels of serum proteins of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy (A) and psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (B). In the present study, serum proteins of patients suffering from ES and PNES were compared. keywords: academic; access; acid; alpha-1; american; analysis; approach; archives; article; attribution; binding; biological; biomarkers; blood; brain; ceruloplasmin; changes; clinical; commons; comparative; concentration; copper; creative; dehydrogenase; diagnosis; differentiate; drugs; e87; emergency; enolase; epilepsia; epilepsy; epileptic; epileptic seizures; et al; expression; glycoprotein; group; hamrah; higher; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; ictal; iran; isoelectric; journal; kinase; kit; levels; license; lobe; mdh2; medical; medicine; molecular; neurology; non; noncommercial; open; parvareshi; patients; pnes; potential; prl; prolactin; protein; proteomics; psychogenic; research; results; s100; samples; sciences; scn1a; seizures; serum; studies; study; tehran; temporal; terms; tle; treatment; university; veeg; years cache: aaem-931.pdf plain text: aaem-931.txt item: #628 of 640 id: aaem-933 author: janbazi, Shahriar; Bahadorimonfared, Ayad; Rezaei-Tavirani, Mostafa; Maher, Ali; Zonoobi, Mojtaba; Vazifehshenas, Naser; Hanani, Khatereh title: Implementation of the Health System Reform Plan in Hospital Emergencies of Iran: A Qualitative Study date: 2020-09-27 words: 4657 flesch: 49 summary: Health system reform plan in Iran: Approaching universal health coverage. Based on the results of this research, in the learning and growth dimension, using health data in line with research goals and unraveling the country’s health problems, reform- ing the educational system based on the country’s health map, expanding creativity, innovation and technology in the field of health, and comprehensive knowledge management in all levels of the health transformation plan had the most significant weight and impact on the effectiveness of the plan and its outcome in hospital emergency services, respectively. keywords: beheshti; care; comprehensive; departments; dimension; effectiveness; emergency; evaluation; findings; growth; health; health reform; health system; hospital; implementation; indicators; internal; iran; management; medical; medicine; modarres; model; pakdasht; patients; performance; phase; plan; processes; providers; recipients; reform plan; research; results; satisfaction; sciences; score; service; shahid; shohadaye; social; staff; studied; study; system; system reform; tehran; university; zaeem cache: aaem-933.pdf plain text: aaem-933.txt item: #629 of 640 id: aaem-94 author: Motie, Mohammad-Reza; Soleimani, Anvar; Soltani, Arash; Hashemy, Seyed Isaac title: Serum Procalcitonin and Lactoferrin in Detection of Acute Appendicitis; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-01-01 words: 4071 flesch: 57 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of serum lactoferrin (LF) and procalcitonin (PCT) in detection of patients with acute appendicitis. Conclusion: Based on the main finding of present study, the overall accuracy of serum PCT and LF in detection of patients with acute appendicitis are in poor to failed range and it seems that they could not be considered as good screening tools for this purpose. keywords: accuracy; acute; acute appendicitis; alvarado; appendectomy; appendicitis; article; attribution; auc; biomarkers; cases; characteristics; clinical; commons; correlation; count; creative; crp; department; detection; diagnosis; emergency; group; lactoferrin; level; license; mashhad; mean; medical; negative; neutrophil; noncommercial; patients; pct; procalcitonin; research; results; sciences; score; sensitivity; serum; specificity; study; surg; terms; test; university; value; wbc cache: aaem-94.pdf plain text: aaem-94.txt item: #630 of 640 id: aaem-943 author: Aghili, Mehrad ; Vahidi, Elnaz; Mohammadrezaei, Narges ; Mirrajei, Tina; Abedini, Atefeh title: Effectivness of Nebulized Budesonide for COPD Exacerbation Management in Emergency Department; a Randomized Clinical Trial: Nebulized budesonide and COPD severity date: 2020-10-28 words: 4332 flesch: 63 summary: The upward trend of PEFR in NB group was significantly better than that of OP group during 24 hours of treatment (p=0.005). This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of nebulized budesonide (NB) versus oral pred- nisolone (OP) in increasing peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) of COPD patients in emergency department (ED). keywords: acute; article; asthma; attribution; baseline; budesonide; chronic; clinical; commons; copd; creative; data; disease; effects; emergency; exacerbation; group; hospital; hours; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; license; mean; medicine; nebulized; noncommercial; obstructive; oxygen; parameters; partial; patients; pco2; pefr; po2; pressure; rate; respiratory; results; significant; spo2; standard; study; terms; time; treatment; vbg cache: aaem-943.pdf plain text: aaem-943.txt item: #631 of 640 id: aaem-948 author: Haddadi, Soudabeh; Parvizi, Arman ; Niknama, Reza ; Nemati, Shadman ; Farzan, Ramyar ; Kazemnejad, Ehsan title: Baseline Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Head and Neck Burn Injuries; a Cross-Sectional Study of 2181 Cases date: 2021-02-01 words: 3575 flesch: 61 summary: Abstract: Introduction: Despite recent progress in treatment of burn injuries, head and neck burn and its complications is still considered a challenge. Participants All of the patients referring to Velayat Hospital, following face, head, and neck burn injuries from April 2017 to the end of March 2019 were included. keywords: abnormal; acute; airway; ards; article; baseline; burn; cases; characteristics; correlation; data; degree; edema; findings; head; hospital; inhalation; injuries; injury; intubation; laryngoscopy; length; management; mean; mechanical; medical; mortality; neck; need; outcomes; patients; pneumonia; present; rate; respiratory; significant; stay; study; ventilation; yes cache: aaem-948.pdf plain text: aaem-948.txt item: #632 of 640 id: aaem-95 author: Giordano, Mauro; Ciarambino, Tiziana; Castellino, Pietro; Malatino, Lorenzo; Signoriello, Giuseppe; Paolisso, Giuseppe; Elio Adinolfi, Luigi title: Correlation of Hyperchloremic Metabolic Acidosis and Renal Function in Critically ill Patients of Emergency Department: an Observational Study date: 2018-05-30 words: 2583 flesch: 61 summary: Conclusion This is the first report that shows an association between HCMA level and AKI in emergency department patients. The clinical epidemiology and 30-day outcomes of emergency department patients with acute kidney injury. keywords: abg; acidosis; acute; age; aki; arterial; chronic; clinical; correlation; creatinine; data; department; detection; early; emergency; filtration; formula; function; gfr; glomerular; group; hcma; health; hyperchloremic; ill; index; injury; journal; kidney; levels; mean; medicine; metabolic; non; patients; rate; renal; serum; study; years cache: aaem-95.pdf plain text: aaem-95.txt item: #633 of 640 id: aaem-96 author: Hajimaghsoudi, Majid; Bagherabadi, Mehdi; Zarepur, Ehsan; Ahmadi Hanzaei, Vahid title: Intravenous versus Subcutaneous Midazolam Using Jet-injector in Pediatric Sedation; a Randomized Clinical Trial date: 2018-05-01 words: 3908 flesch: 55 summary: The number in the envelope was placed in the SC with jet injector group if it was an even number and in the IV group if it was an odd number. Of course, the time of full recovery in jet injector group was 35.8Âś9.71 minute, which was significantly higher compared to the IV group. keywords: administration; article; cases; children; clinical; commons; complications; control; creative; diagnostic; dose; drug; effect; emergency; findings; group; injection; injector; intravenous; iran; jet; jet injector; level; license; medical; method; midazolam; need; parents; pediatric; physician; procedures; recovery; results; route; sadoughi; satisfaction; satisfied; sciences; sedation; shahid; stage; study; subcutaneous; time; trial; university; yazd; years cache: aaem-96.pdf plain text: aaem-96.txt item: #634 of 640 id: aaem-97 author: Manoochehry, Shahram; Vafabin, Masoud; Bitaraf, Saeid; Amiri, Ali title: A Comparison between the Ability of Revised Trauma Score and Kampala Trauma Score in Predicting Mortality; a Meta-Analysis date: 2019-01-27 words: 5667 flesch: 65 summary: Data Extraction and Quality Assessment Using two reviewers (AA and ShM) the following details were extracted from included studies independently: study loca- tion, year of publication, the first author’s surname, study design, age, number of cases, proportion of male subjects, area under the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC), cut-off value, sensitivity, and specificity. Table 2: Quality assessment of included studies using QUADAS-2 Study Risk Of Bias Applicability Concerns Patient Selection Index Test Reference Standard Flow And Timing Patient Selection Index Test Reference Standard Ahun 1? keywords: access; accuracy; analysis; article; assessment; attribution; auc; bias; characteristic; commons; countries; creative; curve; diagnostic; different; dor; emergency; false; heterogeneity; higher; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; injury; iran; journal; kampala; kts; license; lmics; low; meta; mortality; negative; noncommercial; number; open; patients; performance; positive; prediction; quality; ratio; receiver; results; revised; risk; rts; sample; score; scoring; search; sensitivity; severity; specificity; studies; study; surgery; systems; table; terms; test; tools; trauma; trauma score; true; value; © © cache: aaem-97.pdf plain text: aaem-97.txt item: #635 of 640 id: aaem-971 author: Duboucher, Christophe title: Superinfection by Trichomonas, a Second Reason to Add Metronidazole to COVID-19 Treatment; a Letter to Editor date: 2020-10-22 words: 843 flesch: 51 summary: If our observations show that trichomonads infection could develop during the late phase of ARDS, the deleterious action of trichomonads remains to be proven. So, on slides colored us- ing MGG, amoeboid trichomonads do not harbor a familiar appearance neither for parasitologists nor for cytopatholo- gists. keywords: academic; amoeboid; archives; ards; article; cells; covid-19; duboucher; editor; emergency; infection; metronidazole; pneumocystis; pneumonia; reason; treatment; trials; trichomonads cache: aaem-971.pdf plain text: aaem-971.txt item: #636 of 640 id: aaem-98 author: Beiraghi-Toosi, Arash; Askarian, Roya; Sadrabadi Haghighi, Faezeh; Safarian, Mohammad; Kalantari, Fereshteh; Hashemy, Seyed Isaac title: Burn-induced Oxidative Stress and Serum Glutathione Depletion; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2018-04-21 words: 4356 flesch: 64 summary: According to this study, the redox perturbation oc- curred in burn injury which was measured and proved by decreased GSH/GSSG ratio as well as the shift of PAB in favour of oxidants. The subsequent transportation of these free radi- cals to distant parts through blood flow may explain one of the mechanisms by which other organs such as liver, heart and lungs can get damaged in patients with burn injury (5). keywords: 1st; 2nd; 7th; access; acid; administration; age; antioxidants; area; article; ascorbic; attribution; burn; burn injury; cell; changes; clinical; coefficient; commons; correlation; creative; damage; data; day; diseases; emergency; figure; free; glutathione; glutathionylation; gsh; gssg; hashemy; hours; injury; iran; level; license; mashhad; medical; methods; noncommercial; open; oxidative; oxidative stress; pab; patients; protein; ratio; redox; reduced; research; sample; sciences; serum; significant; status; stress; study; surface; tbsa; terms; time; total; university; week cache: aaem-98.pdf plain text: aaem-98.txt item: #637 of 640 id: aaem-99 author: Abbasi, Saeed; Shaker, Hossein; Zareiee, Fariba; Farsi, Davood; Hafezimoghadam, Peyman; Rezai, Mahdi; Mahshidfar, Babak; Mofidi, Mani title: Screening performance of Ultrasonographic B-lines in Detection of Lung Contusion following Blunt Trauma; a Diagnostic Accuracy Study date: 2018-03-24 words: 4213 flesch: 62 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of B-Lines for diagnosing lung contusion in patients with blunt trauma of the chest. Conclusion: PPL and B-Lines>6 had the highest accuracy in detecting lung contusion. keywords: access; accuracy; american; article; attribution; blunt; chest; commons; contusion; creative; cxr; data; detection; diagnosis; emergency; high; journal; lesion; license; line>6; lines; lung; lung contusion; management; mean; medicine; negative; noncommercial; number; open; parenchymal; patients; peripheral; pleural; positive; ppl; predictive; pulmonary; radiography; residents; results; scan; screening; sensitivity; specificity; standard; study; terms; thoracic; trauma; ultrasonography; ultrasound; value; www.jemerg.com cache: aaem-99.pdf plain text: aaem-99.txt item: #638 of 640 id: aaem-990 author: Bozorgmehr, Rama; Pishgahi, Mehdi; Tajabadi, Zohreh; Aryafar, Mohammad title: Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases date: 2020-11-02 words: 3978 flesch: 54 summary: Just like COVID-19, pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) and pulmonary infarction may present with fever and res- piratory symptoms. Keywords: Pulmonary embolism; pulmonary infarction; COVID-19; venous thrombosis; signs and symptoms, respiratory Cite this article as: Bozorgmehr R, Pishgahi M, Tajabadi Z, Aryafar M. Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases. keywords: admission; angiography; article; associated; blood; case; chest; clinical; consistent; covid-19; diagnosis; diseases; dvt; dyspnea; emergency; fever; findings; flow; history; infarction; left; lower; lungs; medical; medicine; negative; normal; novel; pain; pandemic; patients; pcr; present; pte; pulmonary; pulmonary infarction; rate; respiratory; right; risk; scan; symptoms; tehran; test; therapy; thromboembolism; thrombosis; time; vein; venous cache: aaem-990.pdf plain text: aaem-990.txt item: #639 of 640 id: aaem-993 author: Saberian, Peyman ; Mireskandari, Seyed Mohammad ; Baratloo, Alireza; Hasani-Sharamin, Parisa ; Babaniamansour, Sepideh ; Aliniagerdroudbari, Ehsan ; Jamshididana, Mahnaz title: Antibody Rapid Test Results in Emergency Medical Services Personnel during COVID-19 Pandemic; a Cross Sectional Study date: 2021-01-10 words: 5376 flesch: 57 summary: This study aimed to evaluate the value of COVID-19 antibody rapid test as- sessment in emergency medical services (EMS) personnel. In this study, eigh- teen cases whose COVID-19 had been confirmed in the pre- vious two months had negative antibody test results. keywords: access; antibodies; antibody; antibody test; article; asymptomatic; attribution; cases; chest; chest ct; clinical; commons; coronavirus; cov-2; covid-19; creative; data; days; diagnostic; disease; emergency; ems; exposure; higher; history; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; igg; igm; immune; infectious; interval; iran; license; medical; medicine; negative; noncommercial; onset; open; participants; patients; pcr; pcr test; personnel; positive; positive result; rapid; rapid test; result; sars; scan; services; study; symptom; table; tehran; terms; test; time; value cache: aaem-993.pdf plain text: aaem-993.txt item: #640 of 640 id: aaem-994 author: Supatanakij, Praphaphorn ; Yuksen, Chaiyaporn; Chantawong, Terapat ; Sawangwong, Pilaiwan ; Jenpanitpong, Chetsadakon; Patchkrua, Jirayoot ; Kanchayawong, Ponlawat title: Straddle versus Conventional Chest Compressions in a Confined Space; a Comparative Study: Straddle chest compressions in confined space date: 2021-01-14 words: 3729 flesch: 55 summary: This study was performed to compare the quality of chest compressions in straddle versus conventional CPR on a manikin model. In both methods, statistically significant differences were observed in vital signs before and after performing chest compression, but the differences were not clin- ically significant. keywords: ambulance; arrest; article; attribution; cardiac; cardiopulmonary; chest; chest compression; commons; compression; confined; conventional; cpr; creative; data; depth; differences; emergency; groups; healthcare; heart; hospital; http://journals.sbmu.ac.ir/aaem; license; manikin; mean; medicine; minute; model; noncommercial; overall; participants; patients; quality; rate; results; resuscitation; significant; signs; space; standard; straddle; straddle chest; study; survival; techniques; terms; vital cache: aaem-994.pdf plain text: aaem-994.txt