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<b>Objectives:</b> The food delivery market is growing rapidly. As most delivery riders use motorcycles, motorcycle crashes will increase along with the growing delivery market size. This study aimed at examining the proportions of motorcycle crashes and characteristics of injuries incurred while using motorcycles for occupational purposes.<b>Methods:</b> This retrospective analysis included motorcycle crash patients aged 16 years or older, who were treated in 23 emergency rooms in Korea, betwee

Airway management is a fundamental and complex process that involves a sequence of integrated tasks. Situations requiring emergency airway management may occur in the emergency department, intensive care units, and various other clinical spaces. A variety of challenges can arise during emergency airway preparation, intubation, and postintubation, which may result in significant complications for patients. Therefore, many countries are establishing step-by-step systemization and detailed guidelin

BACKGROUND: Early identification of patients at risk of potential death and timely transfer to appropriate healthcare facilities are critical for reducing the number of preventable trauma deaths. This study aimed to establish a cutoff value to predict in-hospital mortality using the reverse shock index multiplied by the Glasgow Coma Scale (rSIG). METHODS: This multicenter retrospective cohort study used data from 23 emergency departments in South Korea between January 2011 and December 2020. The

Background Red blood cell transfusion is frequently prescribed in the emergency department for patients with gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB), but the association of time to transfusion with patient outcome has not been thoroughly evaluated.Methods A retrospective cohort study analyzed adult patient data with GIB who visited the emergency department of single university-affiliated hospital between January 2016 and April 2022. The associations of time to transfusion and patient outcomes, 30-day an

Background/Objectives: Despite the growing burden caused by pediatric trauma, the accuracy of prehospital triage remains suboptimal due to the lack of reliable pediatric-specific tools. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the predictive validity of the reverse shock index multiplied by the Glasgow Coma Scale (rSIG) for in-hospital mortality in pediatric trauma patients and to determine appropriate age-specific rSIG cutoff values for triage use. Methods: We conducted a multicenter retrospective o

The effect of the duration of red blood cell (RBC) storage on the outcomes of transfused patients remains controversial, and studies on patients in the emergency department (ED) are limited. This study aimed to determine the association between RBC storage duration and outcomes of patients receiving transfusions in the ED. For RBCs issued to patients in the ED between 2017 and 2022, the storage period of the RBC and data on the transfused patient were obtained. Patients were divided into fresh (