Imagine if a new multicenter, randomized trial of a pharmaceutical drug found that for every
3 patients treated on presentation to the hospital with a common severe illness, one …

Importance Tracheal intubation is recommended for coma patients and those with severe
brain injury, but its use in patients with decreased levels of consciousness from acute …

There is an immense gap between the number of poisoned patients with impaired
consciousness admitted in our hospitals every day worldwide and the lack of solid evidence …

Aim: In patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with significant poisoning and
reduced Glasgow coma score (GCS), the decision to proceed with rapid sequence …

Objective: To determine whether the initial Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score is predictive of
intubation difficulty in out‐of‐hospital airway management of poisoned patients. Methods: A …

in the August 2004 issue of Annals and are of the opinion that comparing the Glasgow
Coma Scale (GCS) with the alert/verbal/painful/unresponsive (AVPU) responsiveness scale …

Aims and objectives: To analyse the initial management of acute poisoning patients, and
whether respiratory morbidity was related to inadequate assessment of airway and …

Background: Decreased consciousness is a common reason for presentation to the
emergency department (ED) and admission to acute hospital beds. In trauma, a Glasgow …

Patients frequently present to the ED with drug overdose and reduced conscious level
leading to coma. There is considerable practice variation around which patients require …

Objectives. The hospital mortality from acute poisoning in the western world is approximately
0.6%. However, this figure is based on series of consecutive cases, including mild …