The Role of Point-of-Care Testing to Improve Acute Care and Health Care Services.

Health care is one of the most important services that need to be provided to any community. Many challenges exist in delivering proper and effective health services, including ensuring timely delivery, providing adequate care through effective management and achieving good outcomes. Point-of-care testing (POCT) plays a crucial role in delivering urgent and appropriate health services, especially in peripheral communities, emergency situations, disaster areas and overcrowded areas.

Can Hot Weather Cause Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Young Athletic Male Runners?

Athletes are a group of people who have good activity, regular muscular exercise, an almost standard lifestyle, and should be in good condition with low rates of medical, particularly cardiovascular, complications. However, cardiac attacks, sudden cardiac deaths, and fatal arrhythmogenic syndromes have been reported in athletes with low incidences. We can determine external and internal factors that lead to cardiac attacks in athletes.

COVID-19: Pulmonary and Extra Pulmonary Manifestations.

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been the most significant event in 2020, with ~86.8 million cases and 1.88 million deaths worldwide.

Al Wakra type II myocardial infarction-a case report in our emergency department.

In our emergency department (ED), we found one interesting case that had dramatic deterioration. The patient initially presented with a fever that deteriorated to sepsis, then a septic shock and chest discomfort and finally resulting in an intensive care unit (ICU) admission. He waited more than 6 hours in the waiting area, for a bed in an observation room.

Huge hydro pneumoperitoneum reported as complication of perforated duodenal ulcer with interesting images.

This case has interesting images of huge hydro pneumoperitoneum. It is a rare view in the medical practice and a good point to learn one of the complications of perforated duodenal ulcer and failure of omental patch operation. We reported a case of acute abdominal pain with hydro pneumoperitoneum that appeared as an air fluid line in X-ray.