Real-Time Measurement of Crowding in Pediatric Emergency Department: Derivation and Validation Using Consensual Perception of Crowding (SOTU-PED).

Our study aimed to develop and validate a real-time crowding composite scale for pediatric emergency department (PED). The study took place in one teaching PED for 2 months. The outcome was the perception of crowding evaluated by triage nurses and pediatricians on a 10-level Likert scale.

Drowning in fresh or salt water: respective influence on respiratory function in a matched cohort study.

Introduction: For the most severe drowned patients, hypoxemia represents one of the major symptoms. As the influence of the type of water (fresh or salt water) on respiratory function is still unclear, the primary endpoint of this multicenter study was to compare hypoxemia according to the type of water.

Methods: Medical records of adult patients who experienced a drowning event and were consequently admitted to 10 ICU for acute respiratory failure were analyzed retrospectively using data collected over three consecutive summer periods.

Impact of venous thromboembolism on the natural history of pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

Background: Few studies have analyzed the effect of venous thromboembolism (VTE) events on the prognosis of pancreatic cancer, but their results were conflicting. The present study was undertaken to determine the effect of VTE on pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) outcomes.

Methods: All consecutive patients diagnosed with PA from May 2004 to January 2012 in a single oncology center were retrospectively studied.

Characteristics and natural history of patients with colorectal cancer complicated by infectious endocarditis. Case control study of 25 patients.

Unlabelled: Association between streptococcal endocarditis and gastrointestinal disease has been well-documented in the literature. However oncological impact of this complicated presentation has not yet been reported. We have conducted to our knowledgethe first case-control study on this subject.