Global emergency medicine: a review of the literature from 2013

TK Becker, GA Jacquet, R Marsh… - Academic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objectives The Global Emergency Medicine Literature Review (GEMLR) conducts
an annual search of peer‐reviewed and grey literature relevant to global emergency …

mHealth for image-based diagnostics of acute burns in resource-poor settings: studies on the role of experts and the accuracy of their assessments

L Blom - Global Health Action, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Diagnostic assistance using mobile technology is instrumental to timely and adequate care
in resource-scarce settings, particularly for acute burns. Little is known, however, as regards …

Coma prevalence in critical care units in Chile: results of a cross-sectional survey on World Coma Day

A Giglio, A Reccius, T Regueira, C Carvajal… - Neurocritical Care, 2024 - Springer
Background The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of coma among
patients in critical care units in Chile. We also aimed to provide insight into the demographic …

Non-traumatic coma in young children in Benin: are viral and bacterial infections gaining ground on cerebral malaria?

J Brisset, KA Baki, L Watier, E Kinkpé… - Infectious Diseases of …, 2022 - mednexus.org
Background: While malaria morbidity and mortality have declined since 2000, viral central
nervous system infections appear to be an important, underestimated cause of coma in …

Traumatic brain injury and infectious encephalopathy in children from four resource-limited settings in Africa

EL Fink, A von Saint Andre-von Arnim… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To assess the frequency, interventions, and outcomes of children presenting with
traumatic brain injury or infectious encephalopathy in low-resource settings. Design …

The Etiological Spectrum of Febrile Encephalopathy in Adult Patients: A Cross‐Sectional Study from a Developing Country

E Peidaee, F Sheybani, HR Naderi… - Emergency Medicine …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The profile of febrile encephalopathy varies based on different demographic and
geographical characteristics of the study population. This retrospective, cross‐sectional …

[HTML][HTML] Viral, bacterial, metabolic, and autoimmune causes of severe acute encephalopathy in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicenter cohort study

A Edridge, R Namazzi, A Tebulo, A Mfizi, M Deijs… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives To assess whether viral, bacterial, metabolic, and autoimmune diseases are
missed by conventional diagnostics among children with severe acute encephalopathy in …

Aetiology and outcomes of suspected infections of the central nervous system in children in Mbarara, Uganda

AL Page, Y Boum Ii, E Kemigisha, N Salez… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Infections of the central nervous system (CNS) are severe conditions, leading to
neurological sequelae or death. Knowledge of the causative agents is essential to develop …

Modified Glasgow coma scale and the alert verbal painful unresponsive scale for assessing the level of consciousness in Pediatric critical care patients—a …

R Chaudhary, K Nagula… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Altered consciousness is a common problem encountered in the pediatric emergency
department. Modified Glasgow coma scale (MGCS) has been widely used in pediatric …

[HTML][HTML] Acute febrile encephalopathy in children: A prospective study of clinical features, etiology, mortality, and risk factors from Western India

K Gupta, CS Purani, A Mandal… - Journal of neurosciences in …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Materials and Methods: A prospective, observational study was carried out including
children aged between 1 month and 12 years with AFE admitted to the Pediatric Intensive …