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Am J Emerg Med
December 2024
Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Electronic address:
Am J Emerg Med
September 2024
Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Electronic address:
SAGE Open Med
October 2023
Department of Emergency Medicine, Myongi Hospital, Gyeonggi, South Korea.
Introduction: Emergency departments around the world have been struggling to deal with patients with COVID-19 and presumed COVID-19. Triaging patients who need further medical support is the key matter to emergency physicians as the delay of proper treatment may worsen the results. The aim of this study was to validate the ability of age shock index and hypoxia-age-shock index at the time of presentation to the emergency department to predict case fatality in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.
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March 2023
Department of Emergency Medicine, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Electronic address:
Study Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has caused a severe burden on medical professionals, as the rapid disposition of patients is important. Therefore, we aimed to develop a new clinical assessment tool based on the shock index (SI) and age-shock index (ASI). We proposed the hypoxia-age-shock index (HASI) and determined the usability of triage for COVID-19 infected patients in the first scene.
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