Emergency department recognition of pulmonary hypertension may be expedited by the use of bedside ultrasound and can help direct physicians towards further workup, management, and definitive treatment.
In severe cases, this condition may rapidly lead to major cardiopulmonary compromise and constitutes an emergency requiring prompt recognition and early management.
A system of care designed to measure and improve process measures such as symptom recognition, emergency response, and hospital care has the potential to reduce mortality and improve quality of life for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Nowadays wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) have great potential to enable a broad variety of assisted living applications such as human biophysical/biochemical control and activity monitoring for health care, e-fitness, emergency detection, emotional recognition for social networking, security, and highly interactive games.
Acute hyperammonemia is a medical emergency requiring rapid recognition and treatment to prevent devastating neurologic sequelae.
Septic arthritis, a medical emergency, requires prompt recognition and aggressive treatment for a good prognosis [ 15].
Septic arthritis is a medical emergency, and prompt recognition and rapid and aggressive treatment are critical to ensuring a good prognosis.
Bacterial meningitis is a potentially life-threatening neurological emergency requiring early recognition of meningitis symptoms, rapid diagnostic evaluation of etiology, and immediate antimicrobial therapy.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) continues to be a frequent medical emergency requiring rapid recognition so as to reach diagnosis and initiate anticoagulation therapy.
The increasing pressure on emergency departments and recognition of their role in end-of-life care highlight the dearth of community based services and failure of advance care planning [ 90- 92].
