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Objective To explore the influence of medical care reform on crowded emergency department in the tertiary hospital.Methods The 8 April 2017 was considered as turning point when Beijing began to implement medical care reform.The research subgroups consisted of pre-medical reform group,intra-medical reform group and post-medical reform group,according to the date 20 days before the medical reform,20 days after the medical reform and 21-40 days after the medical reform.During this period,The NEDOCS scores(The National Emergency Department Overcrowding Scale) were calculated at 10:00,14:00,18:00 in the Emergency Department of Peking University Third Hospital every day,the mean of which assessed the degree of crowding.The key indicators in the NEDOCS scoring formula were compared to find the reasons for the change of emergency crowding.All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS version 25.0.Continuous data presented as means ± standard deviation (normal distribution),analyzed by t-tests or median ± quartile(abnormal distribution),analyzed by Mann-Whitney U test.Results The NEDOCS scores in the intra-medical reform group were statistically higher than that in the pre-medical reform group (401.69 vs 339.68,P＜0.05).The NEDOCS scores in the post-medical reform group were higher than that in the pre-medical reform group,but the difference was not statistically significant (380.83 vs 339.68,P＞0.05).The number of ventilated patients (Rn) significantly increased after the reform (P＜0.05).Conclusions The degree of emergency department crowding in the tertiary hospital has increased after the Beijing medical care reform in 2017.The increase in the number of critically ill patients may be the reason for the increased overcrowding in the emergency department.
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Objective To compare the time consumed for the procedure done,satisfaction and safety of the establishment of intraosseous (IO) access and central intravenous line placement (CVL) in critically ill patients using a randomized controlled trial.Methods The patients were randomly divided into the IO access group versus CVL group according to the inclusion criteria.The IO access and CVL were established,respectively for medicine or fluid administration.The success rates at the first attempt,time required for procedure completed,satisfaction and complications were recorded.Results During the study period,24 patients were enrolled,and divided equally and randomly into IO group (n=12) and CVL group (n=12).There were no significant differences in age,gender,BMI between the two groups.The patients with shock and cardiac arrest accounted for 83.3 ％ in IO group and 58.3 ％ in CVL group,respectively.The success rates at the first attempt was 91.7 ％ in IO access group versus 66.7 ％ in CVL group (P=0.158).the time required for procedure done was significantly shorter in IO access group (74.9 ±43.7)s compared with CVL group (944.0 s±491.5 s) (P＜0.01).The satisfaction of operators at the instruments used was 8.0±1.1 for IO access group versus 7.2±0.8 for CVL group (P==0.053).The overall satisfaction of the operators at the entire course of procedure was 3.7 + 0.7 in IO access group versus 3.9±0.3 in CVL group (P=0.377).Complications were not observed during the study period in the two groups.Conclusions The success rate at the first attempt was significantly higher in IO access group compared with CVL grouThe mean time consumed for procedure completed in IO group was much shorter than that in CVL group,and the operation was simple and practicable.During the emergency care of critical patients,if the peripheral intravenous line placement was difficult to establish,and IO access could be a choice of alternative used as a bridging procedure to rapidly establish the vascular access and win the rescue opportunity.
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Objective To assess and compare the incidence,clinical characteristics,treatment,and prognosis of acute heart failure patients from different grades hospitals in Beijing.Methods In this prospective internet prognosis registered study (Beijing AHF Registry),a total of 3 335 consecutive patients admitted to 14 emergency departments in Beijing from January 1st 2011 to September 23rd 2012 were enrolled.According to hospital grade,these patients were divided into two groups,349 patients were from secondary hospitals,and 2 956 patients were from tertiary hospitals.Results Among the 3 335 patients,the medium age was 71 (58,79) years,and male accounted for 53.16％.The most common underlying disease were coronary disease (43.27％),hypertension (17.73％),cardiomyopathy (16.07％) etc.The average treatment time in Emergency Department was 66.82 h.The emergency department mortality rate was 3.81％ (127 cases).The 30-day and 1-year cumulative all-cause mortality were 15.3％ and 32.27％,respectively.The 30-day and 1-year cumulative all-cause readmission were 15.64％ and 46.89％,respectively.Compared with patients in tertiary hospitals,patients in secondary hospitals had more onset acute heart failure patients (63.64％ vs.49.93％),shorter emergency department treatment time (12 h vs.41 h),lower discharge rate (3.43％ vs.37.45％) and emergency department mortality(1.58％ vs.4.09％).Compared with those in tertiary hospitals,1-year cumulative all-cause mortality (25.6％ vs.33.2％),cardiovascular disease mortality (20.2％ vs.26.0％),aggravated heart failure mortality (22.4％ vs.28.8％) were lower in secondary hospitals.Following propensity score matching,compared to tertiary hospitals,patients in secondary hospitals showed lower utilization rate of beta-blockers and ACEFARB (4.51％ vs.28.17％,1.41％ vs.9.58％),except the pironolactone.Conclusion Acute heart failure in emergency department is associated with a high mortality rate and readmission rate.There is still a big gap between guidelines recommend medication current treatments for acute heart failure.
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Now the visiting physicians are usually trained without effective supervision and guidance mechanism.Since 2017,the Emergency Department of Peking University Third Hospital has adopted the training model under tutor system for visiting physicians.Tutors and visiting physicians are matched 1∶1.Personalized training program is made by tutors and visiting physicians depending on the level of the hospital where visiting physicians practice in,educational background,clinical experience,length and the goal of study.The training plan is refined according to the timeline in order to facilitate the tutor and training physician's own precise management.Since implementation of this training model,the visiting physicians say they are more efficient to complete the training program and learned more than before.The teaching ability of tutors has further been enhanced.
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Objective To explore the impact of atrial fibrillation (AF) recognized at primary diagnosis on clinical features and outcomes of patients with AF in emergency service.Methods Data were collected from consecutive patients admitted in resuscitation room in the Department of Emergency (ED) of a major comprehensive teaching hospital,from January 1,2011 through December 31,2015.Patients were checked by electrocardiogram examination and / or monitored in resuscitation room after admission,and were divided into patients with AF recognized at a primary diagnosis and those with AF judged by alternative primary diagnoses in ED.The main criteria of prognosis were the length of resuscitation room stay,number of repeated ED visits,and outcome scale (such as death,transferred to intensive units,transferred to general wards,or direct discharge).Non-paired student t test,x2,and circular distribution analysis were performed using SPSS 10.0 and EXCEL 2007 software.Results A total of 929 patients with mean age of (70.3 ± 12.7) years,and 502 (54.0％) female were enrolled.There were 122 cases with AF not recognized at primary diagnosis but by an alternative primary diagnosis (non-primary group,NPG),and 807 cases with AF recognized at primary diagnosis (primary group,PG).Compared with the PG,the patients were older [(76.9 ±9.3) vs.(68.7 ± 14.4),P ＜0.01],had more comorbidities [(1.75 ± 1.26) vs.(0.08±0.39),P＜0.01],higher APACHE Ⅱ scores [(17.89±8.19) vs.(8.64±4.15),P＜ 0.01],longer resuscitation room stay (P ＜ 0.01),higher mortality (11.5％ vs.0.2％,OR =52.176,95％ CI:11.698-232.710,x2 =78.928,P ＜ 0.01) and a higher percentage of transferring to intensive careunit (14.8％ vs.5.1％,OR=3.234,95％CI:1.791-5.838,x2 =16.674,P＜0.01) in NPG.There were no significant difference in number of repeated-visits in ED between the PG and the NPG.Conclusion Patients with AF in the ED judged by alternative primary diagnosis are older and have more comorbidities,higher mortality and higher probability to be transferred to intensive care unit than patients with AF directly recognized by a primary diagnosis.This cohort of patients with special characteristics should be meticulously cared for and be distinguished from the patients with AF crystal clear at a primary diagnosis.Future studies are needed to examine the specific impact of AF on outcomes in the setting of primarydiagnoses in ED.
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Objective To evaluate the status of implementation of the chain of survival and the gap between the guideline's recommendations and clinical practice as well as to analyze the factors influencing the prognosis of cardiac arrest (CA) patients.Methods A retrospective analysis of CA in adult patients admitted to Emergency Department of Peking University Third Hospital from January 2012 to December 2013 was carried out.The epidemiology,clinical features,implementations of the chain of survival and outcome were compared between out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) patients,with regard to the analysis of the predictors for survival and neurological outcome.Results A total of 414 patients with 69.8％ male and average age of (61.7 ± 18.0) years were divided into two groups,OHCA group (n =190) and IHCA group (n =224).Cardiogenic cause was found in 30％ of CA patients.There were 27.5％ patients with restoration of spontaneous circulation (ROSC),8.2％ patients discharged in survival and 3.1％ patients with good neurologic outcome (CPC =1 and 2).There were higher proportion of medical responders arriving to CA patients within 5 minutes after onset (99.1％ vs.10.5％,P ＜0.01),bystander carrying out cardiopulmonary resuscitation (100％ vs.15.3％,P ＜0.01),CPR initiated in 5 minutes (98.7％ vs.11.1％,P ＜ 0.01),defibrillation performed in 5 minutes (87.5％ vs.12.5％,P ＜ 0.01) in IHCA group compared with OHCA.There were no statistical differences in epinephrine administration and epinephrine dose,and targeted temperature management between two groups.There were higher proportion of ROSC (37.1％ vs.16.3％,P ＜ 0.05),higher percentage of survivals discharged (31.0％ vs.22.6％,P =0.002) and good neurologic outcome with CPC =1 or 2 (48.1％ vs.0.0％,P =0.029) in IHCA group compared with OHCA.Location of CA occurred and initial arrhythmia rectifiable with defibrillation treatment after ROSC were the favorable predictors for assessing the percentages of ROSC and survivals discharged.In contrast,male and age over 65 years were the unfavorable predictors of ROSC.Conclusions Improvement in outcome of victims with CA is required in every link of the chain of survival,especially in prehospital rescue act,bystander carrying out CPR,defibrillation,and therapeutic hypothermia in unconscious patients after resuscitation.The effective implementation of chain of survival concept can improve the prognosis of CA patients.
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Emergency practice is an important part of clinical study.At present,the emergency teaching content of general practice is so wide that the teaching time is not enough,We do not pay enough attention to the cultivation of clinical thinking,pre-hospital care,two-way referral,and first aid skills training and so on.In this paper,the development of community emergency oriented teaching content,cultivation of de-escalation clinical thinking,and the pre-hospital emergency training and other aspects are studied for the students' teaching in emergency practice in order to improve the clinical practice teaching level of general medicine sttdents.
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Objective To explore the clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and repeated emergency department (ED) visits.Methods Patients with AF were examined and analyzed retrospectively.Data were collected from consecutive patients from resuscitation room in the Department of Emergency of a large-scale general teaching hospital,from January 1,2011 to December 31,2015.The patients were verified by electrocardiographic examination and/or monitoring.The main outcomes were length of resuscitation room stay and outcome scales (defined as death,transfer to intensive units,to ordinary wards,or direct discharge).Results 908 patients were enrolled in the study with a mean age of 70.3 ± 12.8 years,and 494(54.4％) were female.There were 262(28.9％) cases visited ED for more than one time,and 646(71.1％) visited ED without repetition.Compared with the patients without repeated visit,patients with repeated visits were older (73.0 ± 9.8 years versus 69.2 ± 13.6 years,t=4.705,P＜0.001),and had a larger proportion of patients with CHADS2-VASc score greater or equals to 2(70.6％ versus 60.2％,x2 =8.660,P=0.003),whereas those patients had a shorter stay in the resuscitation room (13.6 ± 27.1h versus 27.0 ± 89.7h,t=3.370,P=0.001),and a higher percentage of directly discharge (73.3％ versus 61.9％,x2=10.607,P=0.001).In multiple logistic regression analysis,a higher CHADS2-VASc score and a lower quartile of the resuscitation room stay were independently predictive factors of repeated ED visits.Conclusion Patients with AF and repeated ED visits would have relatively complex condition and more comorbidities.High CHADS2-VASc score and short ED stay are independently predictive factors for repeated ED visits.
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Objective To study the relationship between red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and the malignant arrhythmia event of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) during hospitalization. Methods A retrospective study was conducted. The clinical data of patients with CHF admitted to Department of Emergency and Cardiology of Peking University Third Hospital from January 2014 to February 2016 were reviewed. The patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) Class Ⅱ, Ⅲ, Ⅳ at hospital admission and courses lasted at least six months were enrolled. The patients were divided into two groups according to malignant arrhythmia events (ventricular tachycardia, ventricular flutter or ventricular fibrillation) during hospitalization, i.e. malignant arrhythmia group and non-malignant arrhythmia group. The value of RDW and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) were compared between two groups, and correlation of RDW, LVEF and malignant arrhythmia events by Spearman rank correlation analysis were studied, and the predictive value of RDW and LVEF for malignant arrhythmia events in patients with CHF was analyzed with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Results A total of 226 CHF patients were enrolled with 148 male and 78 female, the average age was (61.52±13.27) years old (range: 26-91 years old), the average hospitalization days were (14.5±3.5) days (range: 14-21 days), and malignant arrhythmia occurred in 102 patients (45.13%) during hospitalization. There were no statistically differences in gender, age, past history, etiology of heart disease, the usage of angiotensin receptor converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) or angiotensin Ⅱ receptor inhibitors (ARB) and beta blockers, serum potassium levels and so on between two groups. Compared with non-malignant arrhythmia group, the value of the RDW was significantly increased in malignant arrhythmia group [(13.28±1.07)% vs. (12.87±1.32)%, t = 2.531, P = 0.012], but the levels of LVEF was significantly reduced (0.425±0.116 vs. 0.458±0.104, t = 2.249, P = 0.026), the proportion of patients with NYHA Class Ⅱ was significantly lower (4.90% vs. 19.35%, χ2= 10.451, P = 0.000) and that of NYHA Class Ⅳ was just the opposite (57.84% vs. 41.13%, χ2 = 6.264, P = 0.011). The value of the RDW showed positively correlation with the malignant arrhythmia events (r = 0.758, P = 0.023), while LVEF was negatively correlated (r = -0.719, P = 0.019). The area under the ROC curve (AUC) for predicting the malignant arrhythmia events of RDW and LVEF was 0.882 [95% confidence interval (95%CI) = 0.839-0.925), 0.903 (95%CI = 0.866-0.941), respectively. The sensitivity and specificity for RDW in predicting in-hospital malignant arrhythmia event respectively were 82.0% and 79.0% with the optimal cut-off of 14.20%, and those for LVEF were 78.0% and 85.0% with the optimal cut-off of 0.375. Conclusion RDW can be used to predict the occurrence of malignant arrhythmia in patients with CHF during hospitalization.
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Objective To explore the relationship between content of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in atmospheric and the number of emergency room (ER) visits with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).Methods Daily data of ER visits to Peking University Third Hospital for ACS was collected from December 1st,2013 to November 30th,2014.All patients were resident population of Haidian District,Beijing.The daily meteorological data and contents of air pollutants in Beijing were also collected in the same time period.Generalized Additive Model (GAM) was fitted to estimate the association between the ambient PM2.5 and the ER visits for ACS,under controlling for time trends,holiday effect,day of week effect and weather conditions.Results The annual average amount of PM2.5 was 85.44 μg/m3 over the study period.There were 619 cases with ACS as ER visits.PM2.5 was positive related with PM10,NO2 and SO2.The corresponding correlation coefficients were 0.87,0.48 and 0.67,respectively (P ＜ 0.05).But PM2.5 was negative related with mean temperature (r =-0.04,P ＜ 0.05).In the polluted model,there was positive association between PM2.5 and ER visits with ACS.When each increament in PM2.2 with 10 μg/m3,the relative risk strength of ER visits with ACS was 1.019 (95％ CI:1.000-1.038).PM2.5 concentrations had a delayed effect on the onset of ACS occurred on the next day.This lagged 1 day phenomenon showed the most significant influence of PM2.5 on ER visits for ACS.Conclusions The ambient concentrations of PM2.5 are positively associated with ER visits for ACS.And there is a lag effect.