H. Akodad

Research in prehospital emergency medicine: comparison by geographic origin of publications.

Evaluation of the geographic origin of publication is highly complex. A publication can, with the same legitimacy, be attributed according to the origin of the first or the last author, the source of funding or the location or the number of patients included. This leads to further issues for multicentre studies. To compare a paper or a project’s origin by country, other parameters should be considered such as the ratio of publications to the number of researchers/physicians in that field or the geographic organization of emergency care and its network in that country. For example, the presence of prehospital physicians should explain ‘the interest of European teams in the specific field of prehospital emergency medicine’ and influence the number and type of research projects in this area. This is also the case with acute coronary syndromes in France, where emergency physicians are involved in prehospital teams [2].

Optimal Seat Location to Reduce Risk of Thromboembolic Event on Long-Distance Flights: Analysis of 246,766 Seats on the Five Top Airway Companies

observed finding suggests that bariatric surgery may reverse part of the immunologic relationship between obesity, psoriasis, and COPD exacerbation (eg, decreasing the T helper 17/regulatory T-cell ratio). However, given the limited statistical power in the psoriasis group, these findings merit further investigations into the association between bariatric surgery and COPD in patients with psoriasis and on the complex interplay between obesity, psoriasis, and COPD.

Quand le patient appelle le Samu car son pacemaker fait « tic-tac ». Enquête sur la connaissance de l’existence d’une alarme sonore dans les pacemakers

INTRODUCTIONnMore than 60,000xa0pacemakers are inserted every year in France. This number has been steadily increasing for a decade. Miscellaneous incidents can lead patients with pacemakers or their relatives to contact emergency services. Following the call to the SAMU-Centerxa015 of a asymptomatic 90-year-old woman reported that her pacemaker was making beep-beep, we assessed the knowledge of physicians of the SAMU-Centerxa015 (call center) dispatching center on the existence of pacemaker sound alarms.nnnMETHODSnForty-two physicians, emergency physicians and general practitioners, regularly participating in the medical dispatching of the SAMU-Centerxa015 in Seine-Seine-Denis were interviewed. We asked them how a patient with a pacemaker could be informed of a malfunction of it without being symptomatic.nnnRESULTSnNo physician interviewed mentioned an audible alarm. All of them confirmed their ignorance of its existence. One physician had already been asked for a similar reason and had referred the patient to the emergency department without knowing it was an alarm.nnnCONCLUSIONnPatients and physicians seem insufficiently aware of the existence of the existence of pacemakers sound alarm. An effort must be made regarding the information on the existence of such an alarm and the way to managed it.

Impact of the January 11 National March on the calls received at the emergency medical services centers (SAMU) in Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris.

La Presse Medicale - In Press.Proof corrected by the author Available online since vendredi 8 mai 2015