emergency

Awareness, Knowledge of First Aid and First Emergency Behavioral Perception of Medical Students in a University in Southeastern Nigeria

Nkechi Clara Nwosu, Osah Martins Onwuka & John Aja O’Brian Chukwu · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2022

Background: Students are usually exposed to all kinds of injury in schools and with inadequate health care services in most schools; administering first aid is important in such emergency situations. Hence, this study was conducted to assess the awareness, knowledge and behaviora...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2022/v20i930490

Umbilical Cord Prolapse and Perinatal Outcomes in a Tertiary Hospital in Yenagoa, South-South Nigeria: A 5-Year Review

P. C. Oriji, D. O. Allagoa, D. C. Briggs, M. N. Chika, A. E. Ubom, C. E. Unachukwu & G. Atemie · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2021

Background: Umbilical cord prolapse is an obstetric emergency when the foetus is still alive, and it is associated with high foetal morbidity and mortality. If umbilical cord prolapse occurs outside the hospital, mortality rate can be as high as 44% – 70%, and as low as 3% when i...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2021/v19i930368

Characteristics of the Admissions of Old-old Patients to the Emergency Department

Serkan Dogan, Busra Bildik, Melis Dorter, Utku Murat Kalafat, Doganay Can & Basar Cander · Asian Journal of Medicine and Health · 2020

Aim: Through advances in technology and medicine, life expectancy is longer than before. The area covered by elderly people in the population pyramid has been changing over the years. Emergency departments are often used by elderly patients. It increases the density and fullness...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i430198