Emergency Medicine

UK air ambulance critical care expands but unequal access still limits lifesaving treatment

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Expanded physician-led air ambulance services are improving access to advanced prehospital care across the UK, yet important regional and overnight gaps highlight ongoing challenges in delivering equitable lifesaving treatment. Study: Access to physician-based Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in the UK: a service analysis in 2024. Image Credit: Jaromir Chalabala / Shutterstock In a recent study … Read more

New 2026 guideline expands access to advanced acute ischemic stroke care

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Expanded eligibility for advanced stroke therapies and new recommendations for diagnosing and treating stroke in children and adults are among the major updates in the new 2026 Guideline for the Early Management of Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke from the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association, published today in the Association’s flagship journal Stroke. … Read more

Stroke transfer delays reduce access to life-saving thrombectomy

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Gaps in the nation’s stroke transfer system are drastically reducing survivors’ chances of receiving critical treatment and increasing the likelihood that they will leave the hospital with a disability, a new study suggests. Around one-third of ischemic stroke survivors are eligible for endovascular thrombectomy, an effective intervention that changed the landscape of stroke treatment more … Read more

Non-drug therapies to calm agitated dementia patients

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Music, light, and digital therapies show promise as safer alternatives to risky medications in easing dementia-related agitation, offering a potential path for some patients and caregivers alike. Story: Treatment of agitation in dementia – a systematic review. Image credit: RasaSopittakamol/Shutterstock.com Millions of people suffer from dementia conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. The occurrence of anxiety and distress … Read more

Stem cell-derived co-grafts contribute to retinal reconstruction and visual functional improvement in a laser damaged rat model | Military Medical Research

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This work was supported by the National Eye Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA [CIRM DISC1-09912 (BBT), NIH EY031144 (BBT), R01 EY031834, EY-017337], the USC Ophthalmology Core (NIH P30EY029220, an unrestricted grant to the USC Department of Ophthalmology from RPB), and the BrightFocus Foundation (M2016186, BBT). The authors acknowledge departmental support from a … Read more

Mini PCNL has gained more recognition in stone treatment guidelines | Military Medical Research

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Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. … Read more

Ethical and Clinical Challenges in Emergency Medicine: Dr. Eugenio Donaire at UCT

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Predictors of pre-hospital delay among stroke patients in Yekatit-12 hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: unmatched case-control study | International Journal of Emergency Medicine

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Study design and study area The study was conducted at Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, which is among the six regional hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The hospital provides service for more than 3,000,000 people living in its catchment area. A retrospective unmatched case-control study design was adopted at the hospital for acute stroke patients … Read more

Fostering hope and recovery: enhancing psychological resources in military personnel with post-traumatic stress disorder | Military Medical Research

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Fostering hope and recovery: enhancing psychological resources in military personnel with post-traumatic stress disorder Letter to the Editor Open access Published: 09 April 2025 Military Medical Research volume 12, Article number: 17 (2025) Cite this article … Source link

Study investigates D-dimer testing in patients at higher risk of pulmonary embolism

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A new study investigating D-dimer testing in patients who are at higher risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) has been published in the February issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM). The study, titled Failure rate of D-dimer testing in patients with high clinical probability of … Read more