Publications by authors named "Eung Nam Kim"
Muscle mass depletion is associated with unfavorable outcomes in many diseases. However, its relationship with cardiac arrest outcomes has not been explored. This retrospective single-center study determined the relationship between muscle mass depletion and the neurological outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) by measuring muscle mass at various locations.
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- Most bee stings are not serious, but some can cause severe reactions or even death.
- In a study of nearly 10,000 people with bee stings in Korea, some suffered serious issues like low blood pressure or hospitalization, and 38 people died.
- Factors like being male, getting stung on the body or face, and receiving bee venom acupuncture increased the risk of severe reactions, showing the need for better safety education about bee stings.
Background: Patients who cannot be stabilized at a lower-level emergency department (ED) should be transferred to an upper-level ED by emergency medical services. However, some patients are subsequently discharged after transfer without any intervention or admission, and this secondary overtriage (SO) wastes the limited resources of upper-level EDs. This study aimed to investigate whether an emergency transfer coordination center (ETCC) could reduce the risk of SO among patients who were transferred to a tertiary ED by emergency medical services.
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