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Serious Outcomes Among Emergency Department Pat...

Conclusions: The prevalence of short-term serious outcomes among ED patients with presyncope ranges from 4% to 27%, with arrhythmia being the most common. The findings suggest that presyncope may carry a...

Development of Clinically Validated Artificial ...

Conclusion: The deep ensemble AI model exhibited outstanding and balanced performance in detecting STEMI. The model's explainability, visualized through gradient-weighted class activation mapping, was deemed reasonable. Further studies are needed to...

Low-dose Ketamine as an Adjunct to Morphine: A ...

Conclusions: Low-dose ketamine, when used as an adjunct to morphine, effectively enhances short-term pain relief in ED patients, regardless of their opioid use history. While promising, this approach may increase the...

Optimal Bowel Diameter Thresholds for Diagnosin...

Conclusions: The study proposes a revised bowel diameter threshold of 2.75 cm for the POCUS-based diagnosis of SBO, which shows improved diagnostic accuracy over the traditional 2.5 cm threshold. The findings...

Is Older Age an Appropriate Criterion Alone for...

Conclusions: The findings suggest a relatively low incidence of cervical spine fractures among older trauma patients, particularly those between 65 and 70 years old. The minimal risk of missed fractures in...

Low-Dose Corticosteroids for Critically Ill Adu...

Conclusions and Relevance: Low-dose corticosteroids improve survival rates in severe respiratory infections and are particularly beneficial in conditions like severe COVID-19, severe community-acquired pneumonia, and Pneumocystis pneumonia in HIV patients. They...