Publications by authors named "Derek Chi Fung Tam"
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- A multicenter study was conducted on 1,200 paediatric patients in emergency departments to identify risk factors for cardiac arrest during intubation.
- Researchers focused on six high-risk criteria, including persistent hypoxemia and hypotension, and found that 27.7% of patients met at least one of these factors.
- The study concluded that patients meeting any high-risk criteria had significantly higher rates of peri-intubation cardiac arrest, need for ECMO, and mortality compared to those who did not meet any criteria.
Background: Head injuries are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children and young adults. There are multiple sight-threatening complications of head injury, even in closed head injury without visible violation of the globe or orbits. One such entity is traumatic optic neuropathy.
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