Active clinical trials for "Emergencies"

Patients with a history of atrial fibrillation (AF) who frequently attend the emergency department (ED) with symptoms may not require emergency treatment, and may be more appropriately managed in an alternative outpatient setting. This may be the result of inappropriate or inadequate advice or a lack of patient understanding. The main research objective pertains to the reason for seeking medical attention for AF in the ED, ED management of the patient, outcomes of ED care and alternative strategies.

The goal of this study is to evaluate the prognostic values of non-invasive hemodynamic parameteres in relation to 30-day mortality and/or acute deterioration in patients who are admitted acutely to the department of emergency medicine or cardiology.

The investigators would like to include patients consulting in a Accident and Emergency Department (AED) during the permanence of care the week of March 11 to 17, 2018. The data collection would concern socio-demographic data, their consultation to the AED, the follow-up given to the consultation and would take place by telephone contact of patients within 48 hours of the consultation. why patients come to the emergency room, what are they waiting for? what are their main motivations? what do they do in emergencies, do they follow the treatments and recommendations?

The goal of this study is to create predictive models of emergency care and metrics for population health that can be used to analyze how events like hospital closures or disasters like Hurricane Sandy affect health care utilization by patients in specific populations or geographic regions. Additionally, it will allow the development of metrics for population health that can act as surveillance mechanisms to measure disease prevalence and identify patterns in emergency department use that can be used to identify specific geographic regions where health care is either optimized to promote health or needs to be improve so that population health can be improved.

We study the outcome and prequesties of emergency surgeries that were necessary following accidents in the pediatric cardiac catheterization lab

The purpose of this study is to determine the negative predictive value of protein S100B that could exclude subarachnoid and intracranial haemorrhage for patient that present severe headache within the last 3 hours.

Emergency laparotomies, which most often is performed due to high risk disease (bowel obstruction, ischemia, perforation, etc.), make up 11 % of surgical procedures in emergency surgical departments, however, give rise to 80 % of all postoperative complications. The 30-day mortality rates in relation to these emergent procedures have been reported between 14-30 %, with even higher numbers for frail and older patients. The specific reasons for these outcomes are not yet known, however, a combination of preexisting comorbidities, acute illness, sepsis, and the surgical stress response that arise during- and after the surgical procedure due to the activation of the immunological and humoral system, is most likely to blame. The complex endocrinological response and consequences of this response to emergency surgery are sparsely reported in the literature. The aim of this PHASE project is to evaluate and describe the temporal endocrine, endothelial and immunological changes after major emergency abdominal surgery, and to associate these changes with clinical postoperative outcomes.

The rate of patients with chronic pain (CP) is 40% in patients with acute pain in emergency department (ED). Patients with CP come more frequently to ED than patients without CP. Reasons for their visit to ED are often in relation with this CP. Few studies have been interested to management modalities of these patients in ED. The investigators are going to realize a prospective observational study in one center. The hypothesis is that patients with chronic pain are less satisfied of ED management that patients without CP.

Emergency ambulatory care ("day-case" care that does not involve staying in a hospital bed overnight) is now well-established for medical patients and is being used increasingly for surgical patients. However, it is not known how emergency surgical patients feel about being managed in this way compared to being admitted to a hospital ward. The investigating team believe that some people will find it easier and would prefer to be able to stay at home overnight but others may find this difficult or dislike this method of care. The investigators want to explore staff and patients' experience of this type of care with semi-structured telephone interviews. The interviews will take around 20-30mins each. The anticipated number of patient participants needed is 20 and 12-15 staff members.

Comparison in abdominal wound healing after contaminated or dirty surgery with incisional negative pressure wound therapy versus standard dressing.