Electrocardiographic abnormalities in COVID-19 patients visiting the emergency department: a multicenter retrospective study.

Background: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can be associated with myocardial injury. Identification of at-risk patients and mechanisms underlying cardiac involvement in COVID-19 remains unclear. During hospitalization for COVID-19, high troponin level has been found to be an independent variable associated with in-hospital mortality and a greater risk of complications.

Prognostic value of PCT, copeptin, MR-proADM, MR-proANP and CT-proET-1 for severe acute dyspnea in the emergency department: the BIODINER study.

Context: Acute dyspnea is a frequent complaint in patients attending the emergency department (ED).

Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of PCT, MR-proANP, MR-proADM, copeptin and CT-proET1 for the risk-stratification of severe acute dyspnea patients presenting to the ED.

Methods: Multicenter prospective study in adult patients with a chief complaint of acute dyspnea.

Results of an outpatient transient ischemic attack evaluation: a 90-day follow-up study.

Background: Transient ischemic attack (TIA) is common and precedes 15% of strokes. TIA should be managed as a time-sensitive illness to prevent a subsequent stroke. However, management of TIA is heterogeneous, with little consensus about its optimal assessment.

Predictive factors of successful telephone-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Background: Our emergency medical service developed a telephone (phone)-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (PACPR) procedure.

Objectives: To describe this procedure and study the factors modulating its implementation.

Methods: We conducted a single-center prospective study of telephone calls to our emergency medical communication center for cardiac arrest, for which PACPR was initiated.

Palliative care for patients who died in emergency departments: analysis of a multicentre cross-sectional survey.

Objectives: A growing number of patients die each year in hospital emergency departments (EDs). Decisions to withhold or to withdraw life-support therapies occur in 80% of patients as described in a multicentre cross-sectional survey including 2420 patients. Palliative care has not been explored in patients dying in this setting.

Base excess is an accurate predictor of elevated lactate in ED septic patients.

Background: Prior studies showed that lactate is a useful marker in sepsis. However, lactate is often not routinely drawn or rapidly available in the emergency department (ED).

Objective: The study aimed to determine if base excess (BE), widely and rapidly available in the ED, could be used as a surrogate marker for elevated lactate in ED septic patients.

Identification of potential organ donors of advanced age in EDs.

Objective: In France and in Belgium, as in many countries, there is a shortage of organs for transplantation, which has led to strategies to recruit older potential donors who may die of stroke.

Methods: We conducted a post hoc analysis to identify potential organ donors with cardiac function among a population of dying patients in emergency departments. This population had been selected for a separate multicenter prospective observational study.