Pain and heart failure during transport by emergency medical services and its associated outcomes: Hospitalization, mortality, and length of stay

AB Smith, M Jung, SJ Pressler - Western journal of nursing …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Over 22% of patients with heart failure (HF) are transported by emergency
medical services (EMSs) for a primary complaint of pain. The relationship between a primary …

Characterizing pain leading to emergency medical services activation in heart failure

AB Smith, M Jung, C Lee… - Journal of Cardiovascular …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background Pain is a common but understudied symptom among patients with heart failure
(HF) transported by emergency medical services (EMS). The aims were to determine …

Predictors of emergency medical services use by adults with heart failure; 2009–2017

SJ Pressler, M Jung, CS Lee, TP Arkins, D O'Donnell… - Heart & Lung, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Heart failure (HF) necessitates frequent transport by emergency medical
services (EMS), but few studies have been conducted to evaluate predictors of EMS use and …

Chest pain in the ambulance; prevalence, causes and outcome-a retrospective cohort study

CK Pedersen, C Stengaard, K Friesgaard… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background Chest pain is common in acute ambulance transports. This study aims to
characterize and compare ambulance-transported chest pain patients to non-chest pain …

Characteristics of and outcome for patients with chest pain in relation to transport by the emergency medical services in a 20-year perspective

ND Thang, BW Karlson, BO Bergman, M Santos… - The American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Aim The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of and outcome of patients
with chest pain in relation to transport by the emergency medical services (EMS) and to …

Incidence of cardiac arrest during self-transport for chest pain

L Becker, MP Larsen, MS Eisenberg - Annals of emergency medicine, 1996 - Elsevier
Study objective: To assess the incidence of cardiac arrest among patients who use self-
transport to seek medical care for chest pain. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study …

Pain, Return to Community Status, and 90-Day Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure

AB Smith, M Jung, D O'Donnell, FA White… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background Pain is common among patients with heart failure but has not been examined
with short-term discharge outcomes. The purpose was to examine whether pain at discharge …

911 calls for emergency medical services in heart failure: A descriptive qualitative study

M Jung, LM Hays, PS Pang… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Background Heart failure (HF) is a common condition leading to activation of emergency
medical services (EMS). Objective The aim of this study was to describe reasons given by …

Incidence, diagnoses and outcomes of ambulance attendances for chest pain: a population-based cohort study

LP Dawson, E Andrew, Z Nehme, J Bloom… - Annals of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aims This study aimed to determine incidences, diagnoses, and outcomes of patients with
chest pain attended by paramedics using a large population-based sample. Methods …

Frequent utilization of the emergency department for acute heart failure syndrome: a population-based study

K Hasegawa, Y Tsugawa, CA Camargo Jr… - … Quality and Outcomes, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Although most research on patients with acute heart failure syndrome (AHFS)
has focused on readmissions, this may provide an incomplete picture of health-care …