Emergency department sepsis patients with higher acuity scale scores get their antibiotics sooner than their counterparts with lower scores, giving them a greater chance at survival, researchers found ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . TAMPA, Fla. — A retrospective registry review of trauma patients older than 55 years highlighted the Injury ...

Background: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) currently face inacceptable delays in initial treatment, and long, costly hospital stays due to suboptimal initial triage and ...

image: in a new study, researchers at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City found that antibiotic delivery was significantly faster -- by up to 32 minutes -- for sepsis patients being treated in ...

Providing early, appropriate antibiotic treatment for patients with sepsis — serious complication of infection that can lead to organ failure and death — is crucial for their survival. But in a new ...

A new, simplified tool for predicting better neurological outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) could one day help in deciding whether a patient should be rushed for further cardiac ...

(Reuters Health) - Patients assigned a “nonurgent” status on arrival in the emergency room might still be sick enough to be hospitalized, a new study shows. Patients deemed by triage nurses to be ...

Hospital emergency departments (ED) are increasingly overwhelmed by patients with both, urgent and non-urgent problems. [1,2] This leads to crowded waiting rooms with long waiting times. As a ...