COVID-19 and its impact on healthcare professionalism: a qualitative study of behaviour among paediatric emergency physicians by Kent Mun Loh, Catrin Kar Yee Kong, Sashikumar Ganapathy

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Assessing the Role of Emergency Physicians in Medical Clearance: Predictors of Diagnosing Psychiatric Illness in the Emergency Department – A Retrospective Cross-sectional Study by Ibrahim Khamis Abdullah Almamari, Darpanarayan Hazra, Awatif K. Alsarrai Al-Alawi

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Hikikomori, a risk factor for life-threatening malnutrition: a case report of an emergency within the vulnerability by Nicola Artusi, Emanuele Russo, Gianmaria Valeri, Marzia Tecchiolli, Franco Cominotto

“…Why  should  an  emergency  physician  be  aware  of  this?  Emergency  physicians  should  start  considering  hikikomori  as  a  risk  factor  in  the  assessment  of  malnutrition  and  anaemia,  above  all  in  young  adults.  …”
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Prehospital management of earthquake crush injuries: A collective review by Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Kamal Idris, Arif Alper Cevik

“…Recognizing these conditions and treating them timely and properly in the field will save many patients. Majority of emergency physicians who have worked in the field of the recent Kahramanmaraş 2023, Turkey, earthquakes, have acknowledged their lack of knowledge and experience in managing earthquake crush injuries. …”
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E-HEART score: A novel scoring system for undifferentiated chest pain in the emergency department by V. Yuvaraj, Sachin Sujir Nayak, S. Vimal Krishnan

“…METHODS: A diagnostic accuracy study involving 250 patients with chest pain at the ED of a single tertiary care teaching hospital in India was conducted. The emergency physicians assessed the E-HEART score after integrating their point-of-care echo/focused echo findings into the conventional HEART score on presentation. …”
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