Unlabelled: In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic started to spread among the Belgian territory. Our university hospital was confronted to the very need of specific reorganizations guided by the implementation of the Hospital Emergency Plan.This article aims to describe the experience of the University Hospital of Liège (CHU Liège) during the COVID-19 outbreak and demonstrates the efficiency of advanced triage centers to regulate hospital admissions from the emergency department (ED).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The evidence of the Trauma Induced Coagulopathy Clinical Score (TICCS) accuracy has been evaluated in several studies but the potential effect of its use on patient outcomes needs to be evaluated. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the impact on mortality of a prehospital discrimination between trauma patients with or without a potential need for damage control resuscitation.
Methods: The trial will be designed as randomized phase II clinical trial with comparison of the experimental protocol against the standard of care.