Active clinical trials for "Emergencies"

Acute dyspnea is a common disease in emergency medicine. Mortality remains high is estimated at 15%. One third of initial diagnoses before paraclinical examination are estimated to be inaccurate. Lung ultrasound is a quick and immediate examination. Also, it is provided and performed at the bedside. The " Blue protocol " was designed by Daniel A. Lichtenstein as a diagnostic aid in dyspneic patients. It allows to obtain a diagnostic in more than 90% of acute dyspnea. However there is no validation in emergency medicine. The main purpose is to evaluate the interest of the " Blue protocol "in the management and orientation of the dyspneic patient

Prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial. Individualized perioperative open lung ventilatory approach in emergency abdominal laparotomy.

In this single-center retrospective study we wanted to investigate mortality and postoperative complications after emergency laparotomy performed in patients aged 80 years or above.

With the help of medical progress, life expectancy has increased in our country, resulting in an increase in the number of elderly people and especially so-called complex patients. These complex elderly patients present with a combination of poly pathology, locomotor disorders and loss of autonomy, which leads to increased risks of hospitalization, re-hospitalization or difficulty in remaining at home. These risks could be reduced by early adapted care specific to this type of patient. To do this, it is necessary to identify these complex elderly patients as early as possible in their care pathway. Screening complex elderly patients in the emergency department would require trained and educated staff, or the use of a simple, rapid and reliable diagnostic scale. The purpose of this study is to compare two scales for the screening of complex elderly patients, whose use is adapted to the Hospital Emergency Department environment. This study assess the diagnostic performance of the ISAR and SoCoLoc scales for complex elderly patients.

After emergency room visits, the elderly patients can increase their dependence and functional decline. In this context the goal of this study is to demonstrate that there are robustness predictive factors after visit to the emergency room.

The COVID-19 outbreak leads to optimize the pathway in emergency departments. The length of time spent in the Emergency Department is linked to the morbi-mortality and the risk of COVID-19 transmission. The Amiens-Picardy University Hospital has developed an application (3P-U) that optimizes patient flow. It identifies the need of hospitalization and problems on the care path. Patients are categorized in high risk or not high probabilty of hospitalization. The main goal of this project is to evaluate the impact on the patient flow of the 3P-U application. Early lookup of bed for high probability hospitalization should be linked to a reduced time of length. This study will compare the time of length between this both groups.

Frailty is a common clinical syndrome in older adults, which may be assessed through various assessment tools. One frequently used tool is the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) which potentially can be adopted for daily use in the Emergency Department and has been appraised for reliability to some extent, but have so far not been evaluated in the Swedish emergency care context. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the inter-rater reliability of the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) in a clinical Swedish Emergency Department (ED) setting. Members of multidisciplinary emergency care teams will conduct the assessments individually.

Achieving the optimal sedation level for patient management is not always possible using our standard intravenous medications in Pre-hospital Emergency medicine. Inhaled sedation is possible with the Anesthetic-conserving device with a standard respirator. The pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of halogenated agents allow deep sedation quickly after absorption. The feasibility of inhaled sedation has never been studied in hospital.

Several studies have shown that going to the emergency room is a risk factor for loss of independence in the elderly. It has been shown that the period following an emergency room visit without hospitalization is a period of vulnerability for the elderly. The functional decline, or loss of functional autonomy, of the elderly is associated with an increase in institutionalization, mortality and costs to society. Studies have highlighted the risk factors for functional decline in the elderly, such as pre-existing functional and cognitive decline, undernutrition, but no model of care has yet prevented the risk of loss of autonomy after a stay in the emergency room. A full and early geriatric assessment could prevent functional decline after the emergency room visit. The primary objective of the study is to assess the impact of a dedicated geriatric sector on the functional decline at 1 month of patients admitted to emergencies without hospitalization by comparing an intervention group (patient having benefited from the geriatric sector) and a group witness ("classic" emergency patient). The secondary objective is to evaluate the impact of this sector on the number of falls at home as well as the readmission rate within 1 month of going to the emergency room.

Due to the limitations of current approaches to assess emergency paramedics' fatigue, a portable, quick, easy, and objective technique is required to be developed. The aim of the study was to investigate the reliability of automated pupillometry to assess mental fatigue based on a driver simulator.