Rib fractures occur in more than 10% of all trauma patients. 1 -3 Mechanisms of injury range from high-impact chest wall trauma to low-energy ground-level falls in the elderly. Fractured ribs can be ...

EMS doesn’t choose people — it prioritizes patients based on risk, access and the realities of an unstable scene ...

Patient access is one of the thorniest problems in healthcare. When patients need to schedule an appointment or have another time-sensitive concern, ensuring such issues can be addressed in an ...

Reverse triage, or identifying hospitalized patients at low-risk for adverse events and discharging them to increase surge capacity during a sudden influx of patients can be useful in pediatric ...

Piotr is the CEO of Infermedica, a leading AI health company dedicated to improving preliminary symptom analysis and digital triage. The current pattern of care-seeking behavior is one area in which ...

Injuries and sicknesses vary when people show up to an ER for medical care, so doctors must decide, depending on the severity ...

Background: Patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) currently face inacceptable delays in initial treatment, and long, costly hospital stays due to suboptimal initial triage and ...

Approximately 10% to 25% of facial trauma that presents to the emergency department (ED) involves an orbital fracture, while the overall rate of ocular injury in the setting of ocular fractures is low ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A machine learning model can effectively triage primary care patients who have respiratory symptoms. One ...