One Swedish study estimates that urgent primary care services handle 42 500 potentially life-threatening presentations annually.
Possibly, working in an environment in which one regularly sees serious and life-threatening presentations, compared with other settings, such as an immunisation clinic or family physician's workplace, increases a hospital emergency doctor's threshold for the definition of "severe" or "serious" and, therefore, what would be reported.
Severe acute malnutrition (SAM), marasmus and kwashiorkor, is the most severe and life-threatening presentation of childhood malnutrition.
Affecting nearly 500,000 patients in the US annually and contributing to about 3% of all ED visits, [ 2, 7, 8], uncontrolled hypertension can be a serious and life-threatening presentation.
This high-grade transformation of CLL was first recognised in 1928 by Maurice Richter who described an aggressive, life-threatening presentation of rapidly fatal generalized lymphadenopathy and hepatosplenomegaly [ 4] that he called a "reticular cell sarcoma" arising in a patient with B-CLL.
These children can have a specific and life-threatening clinical presentation consisting of hemorrhage and thrombosis, resulting in a relatively high induction death rate [ 6].
After the offset of these faces, a probe appears replacing the threatening face (congruent presentation) or neutral face stimulus (incongruent presentation).
Among premature neonates and immunocompromised infants, these infections can be life-threatening, with clinical presentations of septicaemia, meningitis and necrotising enterocolitis.
"This has meant that we are necessarily having to prioritise those who have the most urgent and pressing need, and we have no capacity for earlier intervention and very little capacity for seeing those perhaps with the less life-threatening or urgent risky presentations.
The hypothetical scenarios reflected a mix of potentially life-threatening and less-urgent presentations (ie, within the range of emergency care alternatives for which different models of care might potentially exist), and were developed in consultation with health service partners.
To determine how often the fellow eyes of patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) without proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR) harbor vision-threatening conditions at presentation and during follow-up.
