Can prehospital Modified Early Warning Score identify non-trauma patients requiring life-saving intervention in the emergency department?

Siu Chung LeungLing Pong LeungKit Ling FanWai Lam Yip

Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2015)

Prehospital MEWS is useful in identifying non-trauma patients requiring LSI within 4 h of ED presentation. This may in turn enhance the triage accuracy in the ED in addition to clinical assessment.

Keyphrases

trauma patients
emergency department
randomized controlled trial
fluorescent probe
sensitive detection
living cells
case report
cardiac arrest
clinical evaluation