Active clinical trials for "Emergencies"

Development, validation and impact of an alert management system using social workers' observations and machine learning algorithms to predict 7-to-14-day alerts for the risk of Emergency Department (ED) Visit and unplanned hospitalization. Multi-center trial implementation of electronic Home Care Aides-reported outcomes measure system among patients, frail adults >= 65 years living at home and receiving assistance from home care aides (HCA).

As part of the management of a patient with suspected bone fractures, emergency physicians are required to make treatment decisions before obtaining the imaging reading report from the radiologist, who is generally not available only a few hours after the patient's admission, or even the following day. This situation of the emergency doctor, alone interpreting the radiological image, in a context of limited time due to the large flow of patients to be treated, leads to a significant risk of interpretation error. Unrecognized fractures represent one of the main causes of diagnostic errors in emergency departments. This comparative study consists of two cohorts of patients referred to the emergency department for suspected bone fracture. The first will be of interest to patients whose radiological images will be interpreted by the reading of the emergency doctor systematically doubled by the reading of the artificial intelligence. The other will interest a group of patients cared for by the simple reading of the emergency doctor. All of the images from both groups of patients will be re-read by the establishment's group of radiologists no later than 24 hours following the patient's treatment. A centralized review will be provided by two expert radiologists. Also, patients in both groups will be systematically recalled in the event of detection of an unknown fracture for hospitalization.

Comparison of analgesia between ultrasound guided supracondylar radial nerve block and hematoma block for closed reduction of distal end radius fractures- an observational study

Antithrombotics with antiplatelet agents, vitamin K antagonist (VKA), heparin and related substances, and new oral anticoagulants are prescribed for arterial diseases, especially in secondary prevention of embolic disease in carrier patients of heart valves and in patients with fibrillation atrial, and venous diseases, in prevention and treatment. The prescription of these treatments is increasing especially in older patients associated with many comorbidities. Today, an estimated number of 900 000 patients under anti-vitamin K in France, and more than 1.5 million for patients on antiplatelet agents. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is common in the general population with an annual incidence of 10-18 cases per 10 000. The most severe form of VTE is represented by pulmonary embolism with a third of cases. Even if a large literature allows for high grade recommendations on many areas, there is still some gray areas regarding the long-term outcomes, the early evolution and tolerance of treatment, including long-term recurrence, the incidence of embolic sequelae with post-embolic pulmonary hypertension and association with other cardiovascular arterial accident (acute Coronary Syndrome, Stroke, arterial disease of the Lower Extremities ...). The major risk of these antithrombotic is bleeding both in terms of morbidity mortality. Despite this risk, little study focuses on the exact epidemiology of bleeding associated with the use of antithrombotic. If the frequency of hemorrhagic stroke is low, some populations particularly at risk of bleeding represent the majority of serious bleeding events under VKA or anti-platelet. However, the VKA and antiplatelet agents are the first providers of hemorrhagic serious side effects drugs when looking at all national and international studies on the iatrogenic with in topped gastrointestinal bleeding and intracerebral hemorrhage (mortality of about 10 to 15%). Moreover the recent arrival of new oral anticoagulants (Apixaban rivaroxaban, dabigatran ...) should profoundly change the management of venous thromboembolism and cardioembolic event. Because of their risk-benefit, simplicity and convenience of their prescription, the number of patients treated with these new anticoagulants were to rise rapidly. In addition, many patients deemed too "fragile" to be treated with VKA, should be treated with these treatments. These new anti-Xa and anti-IIa anticoagulants already marketed or about to be. They have the advantage over VKA: an oral way, their pharmacokinetic characteristics, absence of biological monitoring, chemical synthesis .... If it is not possible today to give the advantage to one or the other of these molecules, the choice will be directed by their pharmacokinetic characteristics, their half life, their method of disposal but also by patients co-morbidities. Although biological tests are currently available for the monitoring of these products, therapeutic solutions for severe bleeding does not exist: there is indeed no antidote for now, though the issue is finding a balance between increased therapeutic benefit and bleeding risk optimization. But hemorrhagic stroke is the most serious complications of oral anticoagulant therapy, with substantial documentation for these events occurring under VKA but little data on those occurring with the new oral anticoagulants (Apixaban rivaroxaban, dabigatran ...).

Suicidal behavior (SB) is a major public health problem in France, with over 10,000 suicides (6th in the EU28) and 220,000 suicide attempts (SA) per year. These data seem underestimated by 20%. A large percentage of men (6%) and women (9%) in France made at least one lifetime SA. In addition, SBs are common among young people and are the second leading cause of death among 15-44 year-olds. The interaction of multiple factors in SB complicates the creation of predictive models. These are currently imprecise and prevent the development of consensual recommendations for the management of suicidal patients. Most suicide attempters are evaluated in the emergency room where it is imperative to identify people with a high risk of relapse. Risk assessment is generally based on the experience of the practitioner who uses psychometric scales as support for clinical decisions. This assessment could be improved and supplemented by other sources of information. Thus, we aim to develop a short and specific tool that combines: Neurocognitive measures carried out using computer software on domains strongly associated with SB: impulsivity, affective dysregulation, alterations in decision-making (risky choices), selective attention and verbal fluency. Clinical and psychological assessment including the most predictive items of future SA: life events (environment) and personality traits (vulnerability). Suicide attempters will be assessed for SB and suicidal ideation in the emergency department. These measures will be repeated during a 12-month follow-up. We will use the data obtained to provide a more accurate measure of risk.

This is a non-randomized, prospective, population-based, single-center study designed to evaluate conditions resulting emergency admission in patients with abdominal pain. Furthermore, we are interested in how many patients are discharged with "non-specific abdominal pain" but later readmitted and diagnosed with a specific diagnosis.

The hypothesis is that intranasal dexmedetomidine will provide significantly more effective analgesia and anxiolysis for subjects undergoing a simple laceration repair when compared to either intranasal fentanyl or intranasal midazolam. Additional hypotheses include that there will be 1) no significant increase in adverse effects between drugs and 2) significantly higher satisfaction rates for both subject experience and ease of laceration repair based on structured, proceduralist feedback.

Compare the number of attempts to place a peripheral venous catheter in the group of patients hospitalized in the post-emergency unit and benefiting from echo guidance and therapeutic communication, to the group of patients hospitalized on the post-emergency unit using traditional technique.

This study will explore the result of different skill-mix in ED/UTCs in England, to make recommendations about the best balance. Patient and public involvement (PPI) representatives have helped design the study. There will be an independent PPI panel who can feed in their views and experiences to all parts of the study. The panel will be run by an experienced patient and public involvement expert, who is a member of the core study team. The study will be split into four phases over two-and-a-half years. Phase One will find out in detail what the staffing models are in EDs/UTCs. The investigators will look at published research evidence and at NHS public documents, and will interview regional and national senior NHS clinicians, managers, commissioners and lay representatives. Then, information about staff which is already collected regularly across England will be analysed for patterns. What non-medical practitioners do and how independently they work in two different ED/UTCs will also be examined. The panel of patient and public involvement representatives and a panel of non-medical practitioners will help interpret these findings. The study will develop a system for classifying 'skill-mix' in each organisation and a way to measure how much support and supervision non-medical practitioners need. Phase Two will look at figures regularly collected from all NHS Trusts in England between 2017 and 2021, to assess whether different skill mixes lead to different patient outcomes. The number of patients who return again to the ED within a week is the primary outcome. Phase Three will involve looking in detail in six ED/UTCs. The investigators will collect in depth local data to add to the national data we looked at in Phase Two. This will include looking closely at staff records and patients' clinical records to illustrate more detail about skill-mix in the organisations and the outcomes for patients. The study plans to gauge how independently the types of practitioners assess and treat patients and to also survey and interview patients so that their experience can be understood, alongside the views of staff who will also be interviewed. Phase Four will pull all of the results together. The panels of patient and public involvement representatives and non-medical practitioners will help with this synthesis. The study aims to make recommendations on skill-mix and levels of independence that will deliver the best outcomes for patients, for staff and for the NHS.

This study evaluates the Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations (GEDI) program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to care for older adults in the emergency department. Half of the patients will be cared for by a standard ED team plus the GEDI team, while half of the patients will receive usual ED care.