- Global research trends in violence against emergency department healthcare workers. [Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: Research on violence in ED settings has expanded rapidly, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. The literature remains concentrated in high-income countries and is dominated by descriptive and prevalence-focused work. Future research should prioritize multicenter intervention studies, implementation science, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and greater representation of low- and middle-income settings.
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- The Mobile Hospital delivers outreach acute care to nursing homes: healthcare staff interviews. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: The Mobile Hospital can be described as an interprofessional missing link in the acute care of nursing home residents, which the healthcare staff perceived as a promising model for avoiding unnecessary ED visits when implemented with adequate expertise and system support.
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- Marburg virus disease outbreak and response in South Ethiopia Region. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: This case series demonstrates that recovery from confirmed MVD is achievable with early diagnosis, comprehensive supportive care, and antiviral therapy, even in the presence of severe gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Dynamic monitoring of liver enzymes and viral clearance is essential. These findings underscore the potential for favorable outcomes with early diagnosis and antiviral treatment even in resource-limited settings.
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- Meeting people where they are, whenever they are here: the implementation of harm reduction programs in two U.S. emergency departments. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Integration of harm reduction into acute care can be safe and feasible. Creating partnerships with community organizations, leadership from an ED champion, and pairing implementation with education for ED staff are key for programmatic success.
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- Evaluating the East African point-of-care ultrasound (E-POCUS) training program pilot: lessons learned and best practices. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: This study highlighted the value of flexible, longitudinal, and hybrid curriculums in POCUS education. The E-POCUS pilot also illustrated that the hybrid model of education allowed participants to prioritize hands-on skill development teaching during in-person months. Advancing POCUS education in resource-limited settings is critical to improving patient care, and it is important to evaluate efforts at increasing access and education on the topics that are most relevant to their patient population.
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- Aconitine accidental poisoning: two case reports and literature review. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: These cases emphasize the urgent need to enhance the awareness of healthcare professionals and the public regarding the risks of certain traditional Chinese medicines, especially those containing aconitine. Heightening vigilance and promoting their rational use are crucial for improving public health knowledge and preventing similar adverse events.
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- Cardiac tamponade caused by effusive-constrictive pericarditis in a patient with common variable immunodeficiency: a case report. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: ECP with tamponade is a rare life-threatening complication in CVID patients. In the case of unexplained cardiopulmonary failure in an immunocompromised patient, tamponade cannot be considered only due to the infection. Urgent echocardiography, drainage, and investigation of various infectious, tuberculous, malignant and inflammatory causes is crucial.
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- Hearing loss in HEMS operations: a prospective analysis of audiometric tests for temporary hearing threshold shift of an air rescue helicopter crew during several days of emergency duty. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Hearing sensitivity of HEMS crews substantially declines over the course of a shift. Unprotected medical personnel seems more affected than pilots. Hearing threshold level is greater in left ears than in right ears and most severely affects the ability to hear high-frequency sounds. Helmets alone may not provide adequate hearing protection.
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- Ethical and responsible use of artificial intelligence in medical education. [Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: This field has grown rapidly but remains concentrated among few countries and institutions, with citation impact dominated by capability-testing studies rather than governance-focused scholarship. Future research should prioritize empirical evaluation of AI governance frameworks and broader institutional and geographic representation.
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- Multiple bee stings leading to a delayed fatal coronary event with probable Kounis syndrome: a case report. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: This case highlights a temporally plausible, though not definitively established, instance of delayed probable Type II Kounis syndrome following an apparently mild, local Hymenoptera sting reaction. It underscores the need for continued vigilance for delayed coronary events even after seemingly benign allergic presentations, and emphasises the inherent challenge of distinguishing Kounis syndrome from conventional atherosclerotic ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the absence of confirmatory allergic or mechanistic evidence.
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- Knowledge and attitudes toward advanced cardiac life support among healthcare professionals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a multicenter cross-sectional study. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Fewer than half of participants had good ACLS knowledge or a positive attitude. These findings identify educational gaps and support consideration of accessible, competency-oriented ACLS education, accompanied by local evaluation of practical performance and patient outcomes.
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- Ludwig's angina in Somalia: clinical characteristics, emergency management, and outcomes from a tertiary academic referral center. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Ludwig's angina in this Somali cohort was characterized by delayed presentation, a high complication burden, and predominantly odontogenic origin, but low overall mortality when managed with prompt airway surveillance, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and selective surgical drainage. These findings underscore the critical need to enhance primary dental care access and early referral pathways in resource-limited settings.
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- The perils of a "hypertensive" diagnosis. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Subarachnoid hemorrhage from a spinal aneurysm is a rare entity. Typical presenting symptoms of back pain and leg weakness help localize the lesion, but when intracranial symptoms such as headache or confusion predominate the diagnosis can be challenging. In this case, misconceptions about hypertension led clinicians to anchor on a diagnosis of "symptomatic hypertensive urgency." When clinicians attribute signs and symptoms directly to elevated blood pressure they may fail to search for real disease processes.
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