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A six-site randomised trial of point-of-care high-sensitivity troponin cut emergency-department length of stay by 47 minutes, with no change in 30-day heart attacks or cardiac deaths.
A 37-hospital registry tracked 17,602 adults whose hearts stopped while admitted. CPR usually started within a minute, yet only 9.1% survived to discharge — and after-care lagged far behind the initial response.
The FDA classified the nationwide recall Class I, its most serious tier. About 31,935 multi-dose vials are affected, with particulate identified as nylon, glass and other materials, plus broken and leaking units.
A double-blind Danish trial gave the drug or placebo during resuscitation at 21 hospitals. Restored circulation occurred in 39% versus 37% — no meaningful difference — and bicarbonate raised blood alkalosis and sodium.
The crushing chest pressure is real and common. But in a registry of more than a million patients, 42% of women arrived without chest pain, against 31% of men — and the gap was widest in the young.
Face, arm, speech, time is the message that saves lives. But in one US stroke centre 14% of ischaemic strokes had no FAST sign at all — and every minute of delay costs an estimated 1.9 million neurons.
Croup gives young children a barking cough and noisy breathing. It is usually mild and self-limiting, and a single dose of oral steroid shortens it — with a low dose working about as well as a high one.
It is a surgical emergency in which a twisted cord cuts off the testicle's blood supply. Salvage rates fall from over 90% inside six hours to single digits after two days, so speed to surgery is the whole game.
Commercial software reads an X-ray for breaks about as well as a radiologist. A prospective paediatric emergency study found that accuracy did not translate into fewer missed-fracture recalls.
TARGET-CTCA randomised 3,170 emergency patients whose troponin had cleared them of a heart attack. Outpatient CT angiography-guided care matched standard care on later infarction or cardiac death.
PRESC1SE-MI covered 67,624 chest-pain presentations at 19 hospitals. The one-hour troponin pathway matched the three-hour one on safety, and median length of stay was identical: 309 minutes.
START-AI reads triage comments, case notes and whether anyone ordered a blood test. Adding heart rate and blood pressure to the model produced no measurable improvement — a result the team published rather than buried.
A quasi-experimental analysis of 23 hospitals finds about 95 additional self-harm and suicide-related emergency visits a month after the law changed, alongside fewer psychiatric admissions.
A paper in the journal Resuscitation lays out how a large language model could help dispatchers recognize cardiac arrest and coach CPR in real time — while acknowledging the concept still needs to prove it saves lives.
Physicians editing AI drafts wrote better notes than they did unaided, and worse notes than the AI produced alone. Both directions of that result matter.