The effects of oxygen therapy on myocardial salvage in ST elevation myocardial infarction treated with acute percutaneous coronary intervention – The Supplemental Oxygen in Catheterized Coronary Emergency Reperfusion (SOCCER) study
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The effects of oxygen therapy on myocardial salvage in ST elevation myocardial infarction treated with acute percutaneous coronary intervention – The Supplemental Oxygen in Catheterized Coronary Emergency Reperfusion (SOCCER) study

The SOCCER trial addresses a significant knowledge gap in the routine care of patients with AMI. Even though oxygen therapy is part of standard care, oxygen may not be beneficial to these patients, and possibly even harmful. The results of the present and concurrent oxygen trials may thus change international treatment guidelines for patients with…

The ABC of Vertigo at the Emergency Department [Swedish]

The ABC of Vertigo at the Emergency Department [Swedish]

The majority of patients who present to the Emergency Department with vertigo suffer from benign conditions. However, a few percent of these patients have life-threatening conditions, such as a cerebellar stroke. The HINTS clinical decision rule (Head-Impulse test, Nystagmus, Test-of-Skew) allows the physician to identify patients with an acute vestibular syndrome of central origin. HINTS…

Checklists and »crowdsourcing« for Increased Patient Safety in the Emergency Department [Swedish]

Checklists and »crowdsourcing« for Increased Patient Safety in the Emergency Department [Swedish]

Checklists make it easier to do the right thing in the emergency room. That’s the idea behind a website launched this month. It will contain proposals for checklists on what information should be obtained for the assessment of different conditions at the emergency department. All emergency personnel are invited to participate in this development project.

Routine Rectal Palpation in Acute Abdomen has no Proven Value: A Review of the Literature [Swedish]

Routine Rectal Palpation in Acute Abdomen has no Proven Value: A Review of the Literature [Swedish]

A digital rectal examination (DRE) is standard practice in cases of acute abdomen in adult patients. We analyzed the evidence for this by a systematic literature search, and identified 16 relevant original studies. These studies showed that there is no evidence for a diagnostic value of DRE in adult patients with acute abdomen. We should…

Likelihood of acute coronary syndrome in emergency department chest pain patients varies with time of presentation

Likelihood of acute coronary syndrome in emergency department chest pain patients varies with time of presentation

Background There is a circadian and circaseptal (weekly) variation in the onset of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The aim of this study was to elucidate whether the likelihood of ACS among emergency department (ED) chest pain patients varies with the time of presentation. Methods All patients presenting to the Lund ED at Skåne University Hospital…