Sepsis Code in emergency department: Performance of q-SOFA score compared to SIRS score.

Introduction: The early diagnosis and treatment of sepsis remains a challenge in hospital emergency departments.

Objective: The objective was to evaluate the performance of the qSOFA (quick Sequential related Organ Failure Assessment) for activating a Sepsis Code in the emergency department, compared to applying previous criteria based on SIRS (Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome).

Methods: Patients ≥18years were included who consulted an emergency department of a tertiary hospital over two periods of time (May-October 2015), using SIRS criteria (SIRS Group) and over the same months in 2017 using qSOFA criteria (qSOFA Group).

Pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19: incidence, risk factors, clinical characteristics, and outcome.

Aims: We investigated the incidence, risk factors, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with COVID-19 attending emergency departments (EDs), before hospitalization.

Methods And Results: We retrospectively reviewed all COVID-19 patients diagnosed with PE in 62 Spanish EDs (20% of Spanish EDs, case group) during the first COVID-19 outbreak. COVID-19 patients without PE and non-COVID-19 patients with PE were included as control groups.

Activation of a code sepsis in the emergency department is associated with a decrease in mortality.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a code sepsis (CS) activation, complying with recommendations, the evolution of patients with severe sepsis in the emergency room and determine independent factors associated to mortality.

Method: All patients attending the emergency room with severe sepsis during a 6-month period were included. Complying with Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations, patients' average stay, intensive care admissions and 30-day mortality were assessed.

Prognostic power of biomarkers for short-term mortality in the elderly patients seen in Emergency Departments due to infections.

Objectives: To analyse and compare 30-day mortality prognostic power of several biomarkers (C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, lactate, suPAR and pro-adremomedullin) in elderly patients seen in Emergency Departments (ED) due to infections. Secondly, if these could improve the prognostic accuracy of sepsis criteria (systemic inflammatory response syndrome and quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment [qSOFA]).

Methods: A prospective, observational, multicentre and analytical study.

[Impact of an emergency department short-stay unit on clinical management and quality of hospital care indicators].

Objectives: The primary aim was to study the impact that creating a short-stay unit (SSU) had on clinical management and quality of care indicators of a hospital overall and its conventional wards. The secondary aim was to establish values for those indicators and determine the level of satisfaction of patients admitted to the SSU.

Material And Methods: Quasi-experimental before-after study of the impact of establishing a SSU in a tertiary care teaching hospital.