Annie Axelsson, Ainhoa Goienetxea Uriarte, Joeri van Laere, Martin Gellerstedt, Rajna Knez
{"title":"Striving to make the right decision when seeking emergency care: patients' stories of navigating support alternatives in a digital society, a qualitative study.","authors":"Annie Axelsson, Ainhoa Goienetxea Uriarte, Joeri van Laere, Martin Gellerstedt, Rajna Knez","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01505-y","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01505-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12955183/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147302094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mehmet Murat Oktay, Bektaş Sarı, Kazım Ersin Altınsoy, İlker Akbaş, Erdal Yavuz, Gül Özlem Yıldırım
{"title":"Emergency department preparedness and hospital disaster planning: lessons from disasters.","authors":"Mehmet Murat Oktay, Bektaş Sarı, Kazım Ersin Altınsoy, İlker Akbaş, Erdal Yavuz, Gül Özlem Yıldırım","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01514-x","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01514-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Earthquakes significantly affect public health, causing mass casualties and increased mortality risks. They can damage healthcare facilities and disrupt essential services like information, energy, and water supplies. This study aims to explore the experiences of emergency medicine specialists and healthcare personnel involved in earthquake response efforts to improve Hospital Disaster and Emergency Plans (HAPs).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study used a phenomenological approach to explore the experiences of emergency medicine specialists and healthcare professionals after the earthquake. Eighteen participants were purposively selected, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews following ethical approval and consent, and analysed using MAXQDA software.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Six themes and twenty-four categories were identified. Participants reported fear and anxiety during the earthquake, particularly regarding their children's safety. Post-earthquake, concerns for family and patient overload were prevalent. Issues related to HAPs included staff feeling like disaster victims, poor protocol implementation, disorganisation, and unclear job roles. After the earthquake, patients were transferred to emergency departments, facing challenges with hygiene, sanitation, heating, and power.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>It is crucial to build hospitals and emergency departments that can withstand disasters and adhere to strict seismic codes and standards. Hospitals must adopt functional, context-specific disaster plans that recognize healthcare workers as disaster victims, ensure basic needs and family support, and embed role-based drills into routine practice to ensure staff understand their roles in the HAPs.</p>","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13036967/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147281994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Şakir Hakan Aksu, Fikret Bildik, İsa Kılıçaslan, Ayfer Keleş, Mehmet Ali Aslaner, Ahmet Demircan
{"title":"Comparative prognostic performance of identification of seniors at risk tool and national early warning score for 30-day adverse outcomes in older emergency department patients.","authors":"Şakir Hakan Aksu, Fikret Bildik, İsa Kılıçaslan, Ayfer Keleş, Mehmet Ali Aslaner, Ahmet Demircan","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01510-1","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01510-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13032227/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146775985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are you ready? A cross-sectional survey of education, training and learning activities for peacetime crisis and armed conflict preparedness in Swedish emergency departments.","authors":"Henrik Andersson, Michaela Hult, Anders Sterner","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01501-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01501-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12930848/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146257405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Staribacher, Guenther C Feigl, Dzmitry Kuzmin
{"title":"Does a physician's base specialty influence on‑scene efficiency? A four‑year analysis of 11,315 missions from five Austrian physician‑staffed HEMS bases.","authors":"Daniel Staribacher, Guenther C Feigl, Dzmitry Kuzmin","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01504-z","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01504-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13032680/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146257319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Felix Holzinger, Konrad Schmidt, David Legg, Daniela Krüger, Cornelia Wäscher, Sylwia Steinke, Martin Möckel, Christoph Heintze, Anna Slagman, Hendrik Napierala
{"title":"Effectiveness and safety of emergency department-based streaming interventions for low-acuity utilizers - systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Felix Holzinger, Konrad Schmidt, David Legg, Daniela Krüger, Cornelia Wäscher, Sylwia Steinke, Martin Möckel, Christoph Heintze, Anna Slagman, Hendrik Napierala","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01488-w","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01488-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":"26 1","pages":"58"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12922365/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146225328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pelin Çelik, Mukadder Mollaoğlu, Şimşek Çelik, Orhan Özsoy, Sevgi Sarzep Çatlak
{"title":"Level of knowledge and affecting factors regarding isolation precautions of emergency health workers: a cross-sectional multicenter study.","authors":"Pelin Çelik, Mukadder Mollaoğlu, Şimşek Çelik, Orhan Özsoy, Sevgi Sarzep Çatlak","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01500-3","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01500-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13023121/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146225362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peihong Guo, Wen Ye Loh, Kenwin Maung, Borame L Dickens, Sen Pei, Esther Li Wen Choo, Kelvin Bryan Tan, John Abishgenadan, Pei Ma, Jue Tao Lim
{"title":"Ascertaining cause-specific emergency department demand using forecast combinations.","authors":"Peihong Guo, Wen Ye Loh, Kenwin Maung, Borame L Dickens, Sen Pei, Esther Li Wen Choo, Kelvin Bryan Tan, John Abishgenadan, Pei Ma, Jue Tao Lim","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01497-9","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01497-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13019912/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146218514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ertuğ Günsoy, Fatma Selman, Ahmet Aykut, Cem Yıldırım, Mehmet Tatlı
{"title":"Kolb learning styles in Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC): a comparative study of military learners and civilian paramedics.","authors":"Ertuğ Günsoy, Fatma Selman, Ahmet Aykut, Cem Yıldırım, Mehmet Tatlı","doi":"10.1186/s12873-026-01509-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s12873-026-01509-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9002,"journal":{"name":"BMC Emergency Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13020355/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146225339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}