Publications by authors named "Sibel Guclu Utlu"

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  • This study investigates out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) data in Türkiye, focusing on prognostic outcomes and influencing factors for patients aged 18 and older who were treated at 28 medical centers.
  • It found a survival rate upon hospital discharge of only 4.4%, with a significant majority of patients not receiving bystander CPR, which was only performed in 2.9% of cases.
  • Key predictors for better outcomes included male gender, initial shockable heart rhythms, shorter prehospital CPR duration, and no need for CPR in the emergency department, highlighting the importance of timely and effective CPR in emergencies.
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Introduction: Various scoring systems have been developed to safely rule out the diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome. Furthermore, the efficacy of these scoring systems in predicting the risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) is debated. Our aim was to compare parameters such as Integrated Pulmonary Index (IPI) and End Tidal Carbon Dioxide (etCO2) measured in the emergency department with the HEART score in terms of its success in predicting the risk of major adverse cardiac events.

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The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the patients who applied to the emergency department with acute urticarial and meteorological factors and determine the associated weather conditions. The relationship between acute urticaria patients who applied to the emergency department of a training and research hospital in a city with high altitude and continental climate characteristics in the eastern part of Turkey between January 2019 and December 2019 and meteorological data was evaluated retrospectively. The necessary data for the weather were obtained from the data of the Erzurum Meteorology Directorate, and the patient data were obtained from the hospital information management system and patient files.

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Objective: To compare sperm retrieval rates between unilateral and bilateral microdissection testicular sperm extraction (MD-TESE) procedures in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia and to contribute to the literature by comparing them with literature data.

Methods: This prospective study included 84 males with primary infertility who had azoospermic NOA, who had been married for at least one year, and whose female partners did not have a history of infertility. The study was conducted between January 2019 and January 2020.

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