16 papers
Emergency medicine represents the critical frontline of healthcare, where rapid decisions can mean the difference between life and death. This field focuses on the immediate assessment and treatment of acute illnesses and injuries, ranging from heart attacks and strokes to trauma and infectious disease outbreaks. It is a dynamic discipline that thrives on speed, precision, and the ability to adapt instantly to evolving situations.
On Gist.Science, we bring the latest research from medRxiv directly to you. We process every new preprint in this category as soon as it is published, offering both plain-language explanations for general readers and detailed technical summaries for specialists. This ensures you stay ahead of the curve with the most current evidence before it undergoes formal peer review.
Below are the latest papers in emergency medicine, curated to help you understand the cutting edge of urgent care research.
Through an international Delphi consensus study, this paper establishes a scalable roadmap of 227 core components across three maturity levels to guide the development and strengthening of Emergency Medical Dispatch Systems in diverse global resource settings.
This paper presents and validates a low-cost, rapidly deployable mechanical ventilator constructed from widely available automotive and hardware components, demonstrating its ability to effectively support both adult and pediatric patients in resource-limited settings during pandemic crises.
This retrospective cohort study of nearly 250,000 emergency department patients in Denmark found that even slightly elevated plasma potassium levels above 4.4 mM are significantly associated with increased 30-day mortality, with risk rising progressively as potassium levels increase.
This study demonstrates that a multimodal deep learning model utilizing ECG-derived spectrograms significantly outperforms established clinical scores and vital sign-based models in predicting the deterioration of patients with suspected sepsis within 48 hours of emergency department admission.
This integrated clinical and network pharmacology study demonstrates that adjunctive Shenfu Injection significantly reduces 28-day mortality and accelerates recovery in septic shock patients, likely through a multi-target mechanism modulating inflammatory and cellular signaling pathways such as TNF, PI3K-Akt, and IL-17.
This six-year follow-up study demonstrates that a nurse-led triage tool successfully redirecting low-acuity emergency department patients to a co-located general practitioner cooperative remains a safe, efficient, and sustainable intervention in routine practice without dedicated post-trial support.
This paper presents a clinically oriented deep learning framework utilizing a high-performing ResNeXt-50 model and Grad-CAM++ interpretability to accurately classify venomous versus non-venomous Indian snakes, aiming to assist primary care providers in rural settings with timely triage and treatment decisions.
This statewide cross-sectional study of Massachusetts public high schools reveals that while most institutions offer some CPR instruction, student training coverage remains limited and is significantly lower in Title I schools, highlighting a critical need for equitable policies to improve cardiac emergency preparedness.
This paper describes the development of the AMEND implementation package, a theory- and evidence-based intervention utilizing a person-based approach to support the transition from salbutamol to Maintenance and Reliever Therapy (MART) for adults discharged from the Emergency Department with uncontrolled asthma.
The REVIVE-PEEP trial is a multicenter, triple-blind, randomized controlled study designed to determine whether applying 8 cm H2O of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) during manual ventilation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest improves neurological outcomes at hospital discharge compared to zero end-expiratory pressure.