Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock最新文献

{"title":"A Case of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome with Normal C-reactive Protein Levels and an Inverse Relationship between Lactate Dehydrogenase and C-reactive Protein in the Early Phase.","authors":"Youichi Yanagawa, Rino Isogai, Hiroki Nagasawa","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_151_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_151_24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"94-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258523/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of Cases of Mild Head Trauma Resulting in Fatal Outcome from the Doctor Helicopter Registry Data.","authors":"Youichi Yanagawa, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Chihiro Maekawa, Noriko Tanaka, Kenji Kawai, Michika Hamada, Soichiro Ota, Hiroki Nagasawa","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_87_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_87_24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>In cases of mild head trauma, there have been no comprehensive studies on cases that resulted in death. This study aims to conduct a factor analysis of mild head trauma cases resulting in death. Patients with Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) scores of 14 or 15 in the Japan Doctor Helicopter (DH) Registration System were studied.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Variables included age, sex, DH request timing, vital signs at DH contact (GCS, blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate), head trauma severity, hospitalization, and 1-month outcomes (survival or death). Wilcoxon rank-sum test and median test were used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Analysis involved 26 deaths and 2256 survivals. No significant differences were found in sex, request timing, pulse rate, systolic blood pressure, or AIS. The death group had higher mean age, respiratory rate and hospitalization rate, and lower GCS scores. Age and respiratory rate cutoffs for mortality were 78 years and 21 breaths/min, respectively. No deaths occurred below 21 breaths/min or at the age of 78 or younger. For those over 79 with 22 or more breaths per minute, 7.8% died.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The study identifies increased mortality risk in elderly patients with mild head trauma, high respiratory rates, and GCS scores of 14 at the scene. This emphasizes the need for careful monitoring and prompt treatment in these cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"53-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258530/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What's New in Emergencies Trauma and Shock - Impact of Doctor Helicopter Emergency Medical Services on Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury.","authors":"Neeraj Kumar, Ashley Grant","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_81_25","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_81_25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"51-52"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258526/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Fly Awry Precipitates Larva in the Eye.","authors":"George Marc Nackley, Sagar Galwankar, Sangita Ranjitsinh Sawant","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_60_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_60_24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258524/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emergency Physicians: Creating Ripples, Expanding Domains, and Negotiating VUCA Situations.","authors":"Fatimah Lateef, Yao Qun Yeong, Sagar Galwankar, Andrew Soxman, Steve Kamm","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_112_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_112_24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"69-73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258531/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Posttraumatic Atlantoaxial Rotatory Subluxation in a Child.","authors":"Pradeep Kumar Gunasekaran, Bharat Choudhary, Sivanesan Sivagnanaganesan, Sarbesh Tiwari, Vikas Janu, Lokesh Saini","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_142_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_142_24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"95-96"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258528/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tattoo-associated Uveitis Presenting to the Emergency Department.","authors":"Sara Twadell, Anabelle N Taveras, William Benda, Scott M Alter","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_52_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_52_24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Eye complaints are common presentations to the emergency department that require prompt diagnosis and appropriate care to prevent visual impairment. Uveitis is a serious cause of visual problems needing urgent treatment. An uncommon etiology of uveitis is secondary to a systemic autoimmune reaction to dermal tattoos, whereby tattoo ink serves as an antigenic trigger that targets the eye. In this case, we describe a 22-year-old male who presented with 2 weeks of eye pain and blurred vision. Physical examination revealed conjunctival injection with decreased visual acuity bilaterally and skin peeling with elevation exactly along the lines of his tattoos. Based on these unusual but concomitant findings, a diagnosis of tattoo-associated uveitis was made. The patient received an emergency ophthalmology consultation and was treated with topical steroids. When presented with clinical findings of uveitis, physicians should ask about and inspect tattoos as a possible etiology of systemic inflammation, which may be overlooked.</p>","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"91-93"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Updated Review of Neurologic Concussion Biomarkers for Time-sensitive Point-of-care Testing.","authors":"Milin J Kurup, Amit Agrawal, Sarah R Temple, Sagar Galwankar","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_76_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_76_24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) continue to rise annually, scientists are continuing to improve point-of-care (POC) testing, involved in TBI diagnosis. TBIs, having various levels of severity, are often misdiagnosed or overlooked, especially in acute mild TBI or concussion scenarios. At the POC, currently, medical professionals utilize neuroimaging, cognitive scales, and biomarker assays to diagnose concussions and other forms of TBI. However, many of these parameters hinder diagnostic value due to accessibility and time-sensitive restraints. After analyzing the profuse research surrounding time sensitive concussion biomarkers kinetics, in the National Institute of Health National Library of Medicine database, this review aims to compile all published research on concussion POC biomarkers, screened between 2022 and 2023. Commonly studied concussion POC biomarkers include ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1, glial fibrillary acidic protein, visinin-like protein-1, S100 calcium-binding protein B, tau, and neurofilament light chain. Each neurologic biomarker has various implications and limitations when characterizing TBI. Novel biomarkers and multimodal paired concussion parameter models are continuously being evaluated for their respective diagnostic strengths and weaknesses.</p>","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"74-89"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258534/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"STRAUMA Code: The Systematic Approach to Simultaneous Stroke and Trauma Assessment - Strengthening the \"Stroke-Trauma\" Chain of Survival.","authors":"Fatimah Lateef, Francesca Lim, Liew Yee Kent, M Ng Ya Genevieve, Mohamed Ridzuan Bin Sulaiman, Sagar Galwankar, Rose V Goncalves, Danielle Glaze, Michael Lai","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_92_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_92_24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>In clinical practice, it is common to see stroke and trauma simultaneously in the same patient. When such a patient presents to the emergency department (ED), rapid assessment must be done to adequately manage both conditions. As the assessment will cover a significant number of steps and tasks to be accomplished, it may prove challenging, especially for a novice practitioner. As a result, key diagnostic signs may be missed or overlooked. This may cause nondiagnosis, misdiagnosis, or delay in the handling of time-dependent diagnoses (e.g. thrombolytic therapy decision for stroke and recognition of early shock in trauma). Therefore, the need for a comprehensive approach to the management of the patient who has simultaneous acute stroke and trauma is needed.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We propose the Stroke-Trauma (STRAUMA) Code framework for use in the ED and by first-line healthcare staff. We used a trans-continental approach by testing our proposed STRAUMA framework at two centers: in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Singapore General Hospital in Singapore and in the Emergency Care Center at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, USA.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Both teams agreed that the new proposed STRAUMA Code framework is systematic, structured, and organized thus making it easier to apply in the clinical setting.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>A structured approach to manage the more complex cases presenting to the ED is useful so as not to miss important and often critical information and steps which will affect patient management as well as outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"56-61"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association of Presenting Complaint at Triage with 72-h Mortality and Intensive Care Admission.","authors":"Niraj Rauniyar, Ankit Kumar Sahu, Bharath Gopinath, Akshay Kumar, Nayer Jamshed, Meera Ekka, Prakash Ranjan Mishra, Sanjeev Bhoi, Tej Prakash Sinha, Gaurav Rajwanshi","doi":"10.4103/jets.jets_127_24","DOIUrl":"10.4103/jets.jets_127_24","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Triage is a critical process in prioritizing patients based on acuity to ensure timely care. Patients arrive at the emergency department (ED) with complaints, not diagnoses. High-risk patients are identified based on history, vital signs, mechanism of injury in trauma, and clinical findings. Chief complaints in the ED may suggest acuity independent of other clinical parameters. The objective of this study was to identify high-risk chief complaints associated with intensive care unit (ICU) admission or mortality within 72 h of ED presentation. We also characterized the chief complaints by frequency and evaluated the accuracy of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Triage Protocol (ATP) in conjunction with high-risk complaints for predicting mortality.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This prospective observational study was conducted at AIIMS, New Delhi, from March 2021 to October 2023, including 1225 patients. Inclusion criteria covered all patients older than 16 years presenting to the ED, excluding cardiac arrest cases, pregnancy-related complications, and individuals declared dead on arrival. Data were collected using predesigned proformas. Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses identified high-risk chief complaints.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 1754 patients screened, 1225 were included in the analysis. Thirty-four complaints were identified, with six deemed high risk. Specific complaints such as shortness of breath (odds ratio [OR] 43.691, 95% confidence interval [CI] 20.033-95.291, <i>P</i> = 0.001), altered mental status (OR: 6.243, 95% CI: 3.282-11.876, <i>P</i> < 0.001), hematemesis (OR: 3.88, 95% CI: 2.019-7.454, <i>P</i> < 0.001), fall from height (OR: 3.875, 95% CI: 1.874-8.014, <i>P</i> < 0.001), weakness of one side (OR: 3.159, 95% CI: 1.656-6.024, <i>P</i> < 0.001), and chest pain (OR: 1.784, 95% CI: 1.22-3.209, <i>P</i> = 0.043) were significantly associated with adverse outcomes (mortality or ICU admission) at 72 h, even after adjusting for age, gender, and comorbidities. Incorporating high-risk complaints into the ATP triage system increased predictive value (OR 3.12 vs. 7.14).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our findings highlight specific chief complaints as valuable indicators for the early identification of patients at risk of 72-h mortality or ICU admission in the ED. Early identification of high-risk patients can enhance early resuscitation, timely referral to higher-level care, and improve patient outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":15692,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock","volume":"18 2","pages":"62-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12258527/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144642728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}