Active clinical trials for "Emergencies"

To evaluate the effectiveness of music listening (with a musicotherapy application Music Care) on patients pain associated with care during wound suturing in the Adults emergency unit.

In the trial the effectiveness of pre-briefing physicians with the current guideline on Status epilepticus (SE) treatment or a consolidated "one page" guideline regarding quality enhancement of the physician's clinical performances is investigated.

The objective of this research is to assess the effects of engaging in coloring activities on patients' self-reported pain and anxiety scores while they wait to be seen by a physician in an emergency department (ED). The current literature on patient visits in the ED highlights the significance of anxiety, stress, and frustration in patient experiences, especially when accounting for long wait times before the physician-patient encounter. The study will address this common problem by looking at the potential impact of nature-themed or geometric shape coloring activities on the ED patient experience as it relates to self-reported anxiety and pain scores. Given that long wait times are increasingly being reported across the country, this study may offer a possible meaningful low-budget, low-resource intervention which could be offered to patients.

The "Emergency Department (ED) Pharmacist" is an integrated part of the ED interdisciplinary team in many countries, which have shown to improve medication safety and reduce costs related to hospitalisations. In Norway, few EDs are equipped with an ED pharmacist, and research describing effects on patients has not been conducted. This is a multicentre study where the intervention will be implemented in the regular operation of three EDs in Northern Norway; Tromsø, Bodø and Harstad. Clinical pharmacists will work as an integrated part of the ED team, and provide pharmaceutical care services such as medication reconciliation, medication review or medication counselling. The medical condition and complexity of the patient's disease will influence the extend and type of service from the pharmacist. A non-randomized stepped wedge study design will be applied, where the ED pharmacist will be implemented in all three EDs after a three, six- and nine- month control period, respectively. Each ED will consequently have both intervention and control periods. All patients going through the three EDs during the 12-month study period will be included. Patients admitted in the control periods will be allocated to the control group, while patients admitted in the intervention periods will be allocated to the intervention group. The primary endpoint is "Time in hospital during 30 days after admission to the ED", which is a composite endpoint combining i) time in ED during stay, ii) time in hospital during stay if hospitalized and iii) time in urgent care clinic, ED and/or hospital if rehospitalized within 30 days after admission to ED Secondary endpoints include time to rehospitalization, length of stay (LOS) during first hospitalisation, LOS in EDs, rehospitalisation rates and mortality rates. Patient data will be collected retrospectively from national data registries, from the hospital system and from patient records. The Regional Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics and Local Patient Protection Officers in all hospitals have approved the study.

Although a CT scan is required for some Emergency Department patients with signs and symptoms of a kidney stone, recent evidence has shown that routine scanning is unnecessary and may expose young patients to significant cumulative radiation, increasing their risk of future cancers. Shared Decision-Making may facilitate diagnostic imaging decisions that are more inline with patients' values and preferences. By comparing a shared approach to diagnostic decision-making to a traditional, physician-directed approach, this study lays the foundation for a future randomized trial that will reduce radiation exposure, improve engagement, and improve the quality and patient-centeredness of Emergency Department care.

Analysis of emergency department (ED) visits with a billing code for 'epilepsy' or 'seizure' found up to 37% are eligible for deferral. This study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of the Clinic To Community© program (C2C) as an intervention for adults with epilepsy visiting emergency departments at a mid size hospital in Ontario, Canada. Participants in the intervention arm receive patient education to improve knowledge of epilepsy and access to community-based services. Participants in the control group are wait-listed and receive patient education 12 months later. The study objective is to successfully implement, recruit and retain participants for this intervention and evaluate whether C2C will reduce the frequency of ED visits, reduce felt stigma and improve quality of life, epilepsy knowledge, and self-management skills.

Collaborative care is a comprehensive patient-centered model of healthcare delivery targeting behavioral health or substance use that stems from the chronic disease management framework. The intervention being tested ('Emergency Department Longitudinal Integrated Care' or ED LINC) derives from the collaborative care model and has demonstrated feasibility in previous studies. This study expands on the model to test the effectiveness of the ED-LINC intervention when compared with usual care. The study team primarily hypothesizes that patients randomized to the ED-LINC intervention, when compared to patients randomized to usual care, will demonstrate: 1) significant reductions in self-report illicit opioid use, 2) significant increases in initiation and retention of medications for opioid use disorder, and 3) significant reductions in ED utilization.

The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a massive open online course (MOOC) for training lay first responders in sub-Saharan Africa. The research team will assess educational outcomes of first responder training implemented at program locations in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Kenya, through previously validated pre- and post-course survey instruments, standardized patient assessments, and incident reporting. The research team will investigate efficacy of MOOC training amongst diverse populations with variable technology literacy and utilize data gathered to develop more efficient means of disseminating basic first aid training information.

The study is a single-centre, open-label randomized comparative trial. Adult patients admitted to the emergency department for a hip fracture will be enrolled. Pericapsular nerve block (PENG-block) is a regional anesthesia technique developed primarily as an analgesic technique in a perioperative setting during hip fractures related surgical procedures. Some authors propose the use of PENG-Block as an alternative to fascia iliaca block and femoral block for the analgesic management of hip fracture in the emergency department, but scientific evidence is weak in this setting. The hypothesis of this study is that the use of PENG Block in the emergency department provides a better pain management for patients suffering from hip fractures with less opioid use.

This is a two-armed, parallel-design, pre-/post-intervention assessment study. The investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial for ED GOAL on a cohort of 120 older adults with serious illness to collect patient-centered outcomes and determine preliminary efficacy on increasing advance care planning engagement (self-reported and/or in the electronic medical record) one month after leaving the emergency department. The investigators will also conduct qualitative interviews with participants of ED GOAL.