Resuscitation room management of patients with non-traumatic critical illness in the emergency department (OBSERvE-DUS-study).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies address the care of critically ill non-traumatic patients in the emergency department (ED). The aim of this study was to assess the epidemiology, management, and outcome of these patients.

Methods

In this retrospective study, we identified and analyzed data from all consecutive adult critically ill non-traumatic ED patients treated from March 2018 to February 2019. Patient characteristics, major complaint leading to admission, out-of-hospital, and in-hospital interventions and 30-day mortality were extracted from medical records of the electronic patient data management system.

Results

During the study period, we analyzed 40,764 patients admitted to the ED. Of these, 621 (1.5%) critically ill non-traumatic patients were admitted for life-threate

SUBMITTER: Dziegielewski J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111786 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature