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  1. High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) and non-invasive ventilation (NIV) are widely utilized respiratory support modalities for patients presenting with suspected sepsis and respiratory distress.This study aims to co...

    Authors: Chuenruthai Angkoontassaneeyarat, Prapimporn Charoenphon, Pitsucha Sanguanwit, Chaiyaporn Yuksen and Suteenun Seesuklom
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:52
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  2. The Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand, India, poses significant healthcare challenges due to high altitude, limited medical infrastructure, and increased risk of emergencies, including high-altitude illnesses and...

    Authors: Nidhi Kaeley, Shantam Pokhriyal, Madhur Uniyal, Johnny Saxena, Mimanshu Mittal, Patel Sanket Mukeshkumar, Aditya Choudhary and Pushpendra Kaushik
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:48
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  3. This case describes an atypical presentation of isolated posterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), who presented with left arm numbness and weakness, mimicking an acute stroke. Diagnosis wa...

    Authors: Annisa Dewi Utami Rakun and Mathew Yi Wen Yeo
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:47
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  4. Ogilvie’s Syndrome (OS) is a rare but serious functional disorder characterized by dilatation of the colon, typically affecting the cecum and right colon, in the absence of any mechanical obstruction.

    Authors: Mazen Mohammad, Khaled Alsheikh, Sabet El Madlaji and Muhamad Zakaria Brimo Alsaman
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:46
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  5. Acid-base disturbances significantly impact cardiac function and prognostic outcomes in cardiac arrest. Previous studies have highlighted the correlation between pH levels from arterial blood gas (ABG) analyse...

    Authors: Pariwat Phungoen, John M. O’Donnell, Jirat Tosibphanom, Praew Kotruchin, Thummasorn Phurisetthasak and Thanat Tangpaisarn
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:45
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  6. Disseminated tuberculosis (TB) presenting as miliary nodules on the gallbladder and liver is extremely rare and poses significant diagnostic challenges. This report describes a case of disseminated TB discover...

    Authors: Tianyu Li, Liang Zhu, Bo Chen, Mengyi Wang, Di Shi, Chen Lin, Weibin Wang and Xuan Wang
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:44
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  7. Adenocarcinoma of the distal common bile duct (CBD) is a rare and aggressive malignancy that is often diagnosed at an advanced stage owing to nonspecific symptoms and delayed presentation. This case report det...

    Authors: Sakhr Alshwayyat, Hamdah Hanifa, Yamen Alshwaiyat, Mustafa Alshwayyat, Hussein Alhussein, Malak Abu-Naja, Tala Abdulsalam Alshwayyat, Basil Alsaleh, Mohammad Shafa’a and Muhammad Fadi Alkurdi
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:43
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  8. Mentorship is vital to foster personal and professional growth. Speed mentoring is a newer model of mentorship that introduces trainees to several potential mentors. The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine...

    Authors: Wendy W. Sun, Katja Goldflam, Zachary T. Pennington, Lucia Derks, Wendy C. Coates, Madison A. Nashu, Tamanna Hossin, Avery Clark, Alina Tsyrulnik and Judith A. Linden
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:42
    Content type: Educational Advances in Emergency Medicine Published on:

  9. Emergency department (ED) revisits within 72 h is a standard quality measure for emergency care but most revisits are managed and discharged. However, a sub-group of revisits are due to clinical deterioration ...

    Authors: Zhenghong Liu, Raziyeh Mohammadi, Seyed Ehsan Saffari, Wei Lin Tallie Chua, Mingwei Ng, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui and Marcus Eng Hock Ong
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:41
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  10. Diaphragmatic hernias can be congenital or acquired, with trauma being the primary cause of the latter. Both types may have delayed presentations, with abdominal organs protruding into the thoracic cavity, cau...

    Authors: Ákos Sóti, Gábor Nagy, Zoltán Győri, Tamás Vass, László Hetzman, Bánk Gábor Fenyves and Csaba Varga
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:40
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  11. Postpartum acute pancreatitis (PAP) is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that can occur following childbirth. The incidence of PAP is estimated to be between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 10,000 deliveri...

    Authors: Changiz Delavari, Delaram J. Ghadimi, Maryam Taheri, Harsh Kumar, Pouya Ebrahimi, Amir Nasrollahizadeh and Sepide Javankiani
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:39
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  12. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are increasingly utilized in trauma patients, particularly those with critical chest trauma who are susceptible to significant blood loss, leading to renal hypope...

    Authors: Yu Huang, Hongchun Xu, Feng Xiang, Wei Feng, Yuchao Ma and Longyu Jin
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:38
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  14. Hypermagnesemia is a rare electrolyte abnormality that is difficult to diagnose because its symptoms are nonspecific. In addition to magnesium administration, renal dysfunction is often a major risk factor ass...

    Authors: Kana Yanagisawa, Daisuke Mizu, Hidenori Higashi, Masataka Miyamoto and Mika Nagatomo
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:36
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  15. Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is a common condition in elderly patients, typically diagnosed through neuroimaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Cases of s...

    Authors: Yibo Han, Bin Chen, Meiyu Zeng, Dong Liang, Yibao Wang and Yong Wang
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:35
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  16. Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder characterized by defective hemoglobin production, leading to chronic anemia and the necessity for lifelong blood transfusions. Extramedullary hematopoiesis is a compe...

    Authors: Zainab Habbash, Ali Hassan, Sawsan Kadhem, Nawra Mujbel and Mahdi Aljawad
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:34
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  17. Elevated serum anion gap at hospital admission is often linked to a poor prognosis in critically ill patients, but there is insufficient data on this correlation in patients with acute myocardial infarction ac...

    Authors: Muzheng Li, Chenyang Li, Jihua Wang and Qinghua Yuan
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:33
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  18. Atropine, a cholinergic receptor antagonist, counteracts the parasympathetic nervous system’s inhibitory effects on the sinus node, thereby increasing heart rate. It is frequently used to manage atrioventricul...

    Authors: Sara Timerga and Aynalem Befkadu
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:32
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  19. The Arab Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) examination is a critical milestone for emergency medicine residents (EMRs) aiming to transition to independent practice. Prior to this study, no structured course h...

    Authors: Shahzad Anjum, Khalid Bashir, Haris Iftikhar, Biju Gafoor and Aftab Mohammad Umar
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:31
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  20. Sepsis mortality can be significantly reduced with early diagnosis and appropriate treatment. It is crucial to have tools that enable the early identification of patients at high risk of sepsis mortality from ...

    Authors: German Devia Jaramillo and Lilia Erazo Guerrero
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:30
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  21. Emphysematous cholecystitis is a rare and rapidly progressive disease that requires prompt diagnosis and intervention. Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is a useful diagnostic imaging tool in the emergency depa...

    Authors: Min Seok Chae and Olga A. Kravchuk
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:29
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  22. There is limited literature on the emergency medicine (EM) specialty in Kuwait, and this paper evaluated the development status of the specialty under Arnold’s classification.

    Authors: Feras Husain Abuzeyad, Abdulaziz Alburaidi, Hanan H. AlRazzuqi, Fatema M. Alkandari, Leena Alqasem and Sara Ahmad Al Qabandy
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:28
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  23. Injuries due to falling coconuts are a common yet underreported form of trauma in the tropical regions. Although these might appear insignificant at first glance, the physical forces involved are potentially f...

    Authors: A. Sai Deepak, Aaditya Katyal, Neeraja A Nair, Tanvee Walia and Rachana Bhat
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:27
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  24. Older adults present to Emergency Departments (ED) with complex conditions, requiring triage models that support effective disposition decisions. While existing models perform well in the general population, t...

    Authors: Ashraf Abugroun, Saria Awadalla, Sanjay Singh and Margaret C. Fang
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:26
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  25. Gamification can be defined as the use of game design elements in non-game contexts, in this case, education. As such, gamification seeks to augment the interactive approach of adult learning theory which prom...

    Authors: Danielle DiCesare, Bridget Scheveck, Jeffrey Adams, Maria Tassone, Vanessa I. Diaz-Cruz, Christine Van Dillen, Latha Ganti, Shayne Gue and Ayanna Walker
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:25
    Content type: Educational Advances in Emergency Medicine Published on:

  26. Pyrethroid insecticides are widely used because of their low toxicity in humans. Spray-type pyrethroids are often formulated with kerosene as a carrier solvent, and inhalation of kerosene-containing products c...

    Authors: Kohei Ofune, Tomoya Hirose, Hiroki Kai, Yoshinori Yokono, Ryosuke Takegawa and Jun Oda
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:24
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  27. Traumatic diaphragmatic injury (TDI) is well-known worldwide as rare and life-threatening. However, because no nationwide cohort study of penetrating and blunt TDI has been conducted in Japan and other countri...

    Authors: Takafumi Shinjo, Yoshimitsu Izawa, Chikara Yonekawa, Tomohiro Matsumura and Takashi Mato
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:23
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  28. Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a potentially lethal medical condition that might never be diagnosed and cause sudden cardiac death. It is mainly caused by mutation in electrolyte transporter genes. Due to the sign...

    Authors: Mohammadrafie Khorgami, Fatemeh Naderi and Samira Kalayinia
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:22
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  29. Institutions, departments, and individuals are increasingly facing challenges to determine how to enable their learners to acquire and curate rapidly changing knowledge and to foster the creation of lifelong l...

    Authors: Wendy C. Coates
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:21
    Content type: Educational Advances in Emergency Medicine Published on:

  30. Artificial intelligence (AI) uses a process by which machines perform human-like functions such as automated clinical decisions. This may operate efficiently in gynecologic and obstetric emergencies. We aimed ...

    Authors: Hassan M. Elbiss and Fikri M. Abu-Zidan
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:20
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. The Oakland Score predicts risk of 30-day adverse events among hospitalized patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) possibly identifying patients who may be safe for discharge. The Oakland Score h...

    Authors: Daniel D. DiLena, Sean C. Bouvet, Madeline J. Somers, Maqdooda A. Merchant, Theodore R. Levin, Adina S. Rauchwerger and Dana R. Sax
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:19
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  32. Emergency department (ED) crowding is a growing concern worldwide and associated with negative effects. In 2013, 68% of Dutch ED-managers experienced crowding on several days of the week. This resulted into th...

    Authors: E. C. M. Baan-Kooman, S. Mol, M. C. van der Linden, M. I. Gaakeer and V. A. de Ridder
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:18
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  33. Here we describe a patient admitted for a stroke that was unexpectedly correlated with subclinical infective endocarditis attributable to a rarely opportunistic pathogen, Abiotrophia defectiva.

    Authors: Silvia Puxeddu, Valeria Virdis, Daniele Sacco, Mario Depau, Alessandro M. Atzei, Lorella Pisano, Marcello Di Rosa, Stefania Vacquer, Giorgio Accardi, Emiliano M. Cirio, Aldo Manzin, Cristiana Marinelli and Fabrizio Angius
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:17
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  34. Timely emergency medical services (EMS) are particularly important among trauma patients, as inefficient EMS systems can result in potentially avoidable death before reaching a hospital. The Dhulikhel Hospital...

    Authors: Maxwell L. Mantych, Shiva Neupane, Machchendra Sapkota, Laura D. Cassidy, Sarah C. Young, Ronald Anguzu and Samjhana Basnet
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:16
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  35. Globally, most children seek emergency care at general rather than specialized pediatric emergency departments. There remains significant variation in the provision of pediatric emergency care, particularly in...

    Authors: Sonia Y. Jarrett, Andrew Redfern, Joyce Li, Camilo E. Gutierrez, Priyanka Patel, Olurotimi Akinola and Michelle L. Niescierenko
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:15
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  37. Psychiatric emergency departments (EDs) in France have been under pressure from several factors, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic led to an increase in psychiatric disorders, particularly anx...

    Authors: Marine Ambar Akkaoui, David Barruel, Valérie Dauriac-Le Masson, Raphael Gourevitch and Alexandra Pham-Scottez
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:13
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  38. Adenomyosis, typically associated with heavy menstrual bleeding and pelvic pain, is rarely linked to neurological complications. This case presents a rare instance of ischemic stroke in a young patient with ad...

    Authors: Qing Wan, Chao Wang, Weiyue Zhang, Weijia Zhong, Haoran Wang, Hee King SU, Mei Hwa Joanne HNG, Fan Yang and Xiaoguang Li
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:12
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  39. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) are the most common cause of drug-induced angioedema in the United States. Our primary objective was to provide descriptive evidence regarding emergency departme...

    Authors: Blake Briggs, David Cline and Iltifat Husain
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:11
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  40. Penetrating cardiac trauma is an entity with high pre and intrahospital mortality due to complications such as cardiac tamponade and massive hemothorax. A ventricular septal defect (VSD) occurs in 1–5% of case...

    Authors: Camilo Andres Calderon-Miranda, Maria Juliana Reyes-Cardona, Gabriel Roberto Lopez-Mora, Fernando Andrés Guerrero-Pinedo, Jairo Sanchez-Blanco, Carlos Enrique Vesga-Reyes, Jorge Alexander Zambrano-Franco and Pastor Olaya
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:10
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  41. Chest pain is a common reason patients are admitted to the hospital. The most clinically significant cases are those in which the pain is due to an immediate life-threatening condition, such as acute aortic di...

    Authors: Alicja Stankiewicz, Beata Moczulska, Wiktoria Izdebska, Aleksandra Wińska and Leszek Gromadziński
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:9
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  42. The Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course was created by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation for Emergency...

    Authors: Nichole Michaeli, Andrew Beck, Giovanna De Luca, Mary Gitau, Derek Lubetkin, Derick Ochieng, Grace W. Wanjiku and Justin G. Myers
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:8
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  44. Partial anomalous pulmonary vein connections (PAPVC) are rare congenital abnormalities in which one or more pulmonary veins drain into the right atrium. This pathological condition may present in various ways,...

    Authors: Pouya Ebrahimi, Mohammad Hossein Mandegar, Mehrdad Jafari Fesharaki, Negar Ghasemloo, Pedram Ramezani, Tooba Akbari and Fatemeh Naderi
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:6
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  46. Anticoagulants increase the risk of cardiac tamponade in patients with pericardial effusion (PE). Therefore, inappropriate administration of them in the presence of PE can lead to a catastrophic outcome. This ...

    Authors: Amin Bagheri, Morteza Sheikhi Nooshabadi, Pouya Ebrahimi, Roozbeh Nazari, Pedram Ramezani and Toktam Alirezaei
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:4
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  47. Traumatic head injuries (THIs) are among the leading cause of mortality and intensive care unit (ICU) admission in children worldwide. Most of the published literature concerning THIs arises predominantly from...

    Authors: Hussin Albargi, Rayan Jafnan Alharbi, Ateeq Almuwallad, Naif Harthi, Yahya Khormi, Hari Krishnan Kanthimathinathan and Sharfuddin Chowdhury
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:3
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  48. Ampicillin/sulbactam (ABPC/ SBT) is one of the most common β-lactam antibiotics for patients with status epilepticus complicated with aspiration pneumonia. It is known that β-lactam antibiotics such as penicil...

    Authors: Kaoru Obata, Masako Kinoshita, Akiyo Shinde and Toshihiko Suenaga
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:2
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  49. Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS), a rare complication of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) reactivation, presents with ipsilateral facial paralysis, ear pain, and vesicular rash. Early recognition is crucial for prompt t...

    Authors: Chen Yu, Haw-Yu Lee and Yen-Chia Chen
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2025 18:1
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  50. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) and subcutaneous emphysema (SE) are rare, severe, and potentially life-threatening complications associated with asthma exacerbation. Most of these conditions are benign and...

    Authors: Amal H. Aljohani, Hamdi Alsufiani and Ghousia Ahmed
    Citation: International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2024 17:203
    Content type: Case Report Published on:
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