Pre- and Post-Implementation of One-Hour Rule for the Boarding of Referral of Critically Ill Patients in the Emergency Department.

In 2017, the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare established a regional electronic referral system in Central Taiwan to streamline transfers of critically ill patients from the intensive care unit (ICU) of a regional hospital to a medical hospital center. Moreover, in 2018, a one-hour rule for the boarding of referral of critically ill patients from emergency department (ED) to ICU was implemented. This pre- and post-implementation study enrolled consecutive critically ill referral patients from a single academic medical center hospital from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2018.

Prehospital Predictors of Initial Shockable Rhythm in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Findings From the Taichung Sudden Unexpected Death Registry (THUNDER).

Objective: To identify the incidence and prehospital predictors of ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF) as the initial arrhythmia in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in central Taiwan.

Patients And Methods: The Taichung Sudden Unexpected Death Registry program encompasses the Taichung metropolitan area in central Taiwan, with a population of 2.7 million and 17 destination hospitals for patients with OHCA.