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Advances in Emergency Medicine and Point-of-Care Testing

A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 544

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ancor Sanz-Garcia

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Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Talavera de la Reina, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Interests: prehospital; emergency medicine; risk scores; biomarkers; emergency medical services
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Dr. Raúl López-Izquierdo

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Emergency Department, Hospital Universitario Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain
Interests: biomarkers; early warning scores; emergency medicine; risk scores; sepsis

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The inclusion of biomarkers in diagnostic tools has been shown to provide critical support in several healthcare disciplines. Now, the development of point-of-care testing allows us to implement those biomarkers at the bedside, which is extremely useful in emergency medicine.

This Special Issue aims to shed light on the many advances in, and cutting-edge works on, the point-of-care testing tools used in emergency settings, whether in hospital and out of hospital.

For inclusion in this Special Issue, we welcome original research articles, reviews, communications, brief reports, interesting images, and so on. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: emergency medicine; prehospital care; point-of-care testing tools; critical care; and bedside diagnostic tools.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Ancor Sanz-Garcia
Dr. Raúl López-Izquierdo
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at mdpi.longhoe.net by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Diagnostics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • diagnostic tools
  • point-of-care testing
  • prehospital
  • emergency

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A Comparison of the Clinical Characteristics of Short-, Mid-, and Long-Term Mortality in Patients Attended by the Emergency Medical Services: An Observational Study
by Rodrigo Enriquez de Salamanca Gambara, Ancor Sanz-García, Carlos del Pozo Vegas, Raúl López-Izquierdo, Irene Sánchez Soberón, Juan F. Delgado Benito, Raquel Martínez Diaz, Cristina Mazas Pérez-Oleaga, Nohora Milena Martínez López, Irma Domínguez Azpíroz and Francisco Martín-Rodríguez
Diagnostics 2024, 14(12), 1292; https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics14121292 - 19 Jun 2024
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Aim: The development of predictive models for patients treated by emergency medical services (EMS) is on the rise in the emergency field. However, how these models evolve over time has not been studied. The objective of the present work is to compare the [...] Read more.
Aim: The development of predictive models for patients treated by emergency medical services (EMS) is on the rise in the emergency field. However, how these models evolve over time has not been studied. The objective of the present work is to compare the characteristics of patients who present mortality in the short, medium and long term, and to derive and validate a predictive model for each mortality time. Methods: A prospective multicenter study was conducted, which included adult patients with unselected acute illness who were treated by EMS. The primary outcome was noncumulative mortality from all causes by time windows including 30-day mortality, 31- to 180-day mortality, and 181- to 365-day mortality. Prehospital predictors included demographic variables, standard vital signs, prehospital laboratory tests, and comorbidities. Results: A total of 4830 patients were enrolled. The noncumulative mortalities at 30, 180, and 365 days were 10.8%, 6.6%, and 3.5%, respectively. The best predictive value was shown for 30-day mortality (AUC = 0.930; 95% CI: 0.919–0.940), followed by 180-day (AUC = 0.852; 95% CI: 0.832–0.871) and 365-day (AUC = 0.806; 95% CI: 0.778–0.833) mortality. Discussion: Rapid characterization of patients at risk of short-, medium-, or long-term mortality could help EMS to improve the treatment of patients suffering from acute illnesses. Full article
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