Publications by authors named "Sandra Langkjaer"
Article Synopsis
- The TRIAGE study aims to improve emergency department (ED) protocols by identifying low-risk patients suitable for early discharge using new inflammatory biomarkers and vital signs, addressing the issue of patient crowding.
- Researchers collected extensive data on over 6,000 patients, focusing on demographics, triage levels (from non-urgent to resuscitation), and clinical events during their stays.
- Findings indicate that a significant portion of patients were classified as low urgency (green), with a notable percentage experiencing no major events during their hospital visits, suggesting potential for improving discharge processes.
Background: Current guidelines recommend that comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with ST-segment elevations (STEs) following return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) should be referred for an acute coronary angiography. We sought to investigate the diagnostic value of the pre-hospital ROSC-ECG in predicting ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Method: ROSC-ECGs of 145 comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, randomly assigned in the Target Temperature Management trial, were classified according to the current STEMI ECG criteria (third universal definition of myocardial infarction).
Purpose: Assessment of prognosis after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is challenging. Cerebral computed tomography (cCT) scans are widely available, but the use in prognostication of comatose OHCA-patients is unclear. We evaluated the prognostic value of cCT in a clinical cohort of OHCA-patients.
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