Journal of Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Acute Care - 2 - International Conference in Emergency Medicine and Public Health-Qatar Proceedings, October 2016

Developing cultural competency in mental health provision became an imperative skill in the age of globalization. This involves the enhanced knowledge and attitudes of care givers (NKI). We will review the geodemographic, religious, linguistic, and family structure in the Middle East so we can understand some of the special approaches needed to achieve our goal. We evaluate the common pitfalls and caveats of our own practices starting with Read More

Background: Hamad General Hospital (HGH) houses the main Emergency Department (ED) in Qatar. This busy ED has a 27 bedded resuscitation area. Within a 24 hour period there could be any number between 1 to 10 cases that needed emergency or urgent intubation. Over the years, there has been multiple addition of new life saving devices to the resuscitation areas. All these devices add to the clutter of the already crowded resuscitatio Read More

Background: A minority of children attend an Emergency may have a serious underlying, systemic infection as a cause of fever. Blood culture remains the gold standard approach to establish the diagnosis and presence of pathogens in a child with suspected, serious bacterial infection. This study describes the proportion of positive blood cultures and correlation with a basic investigation (C-reactive protein, absolute neutrophil count) an Read More

Background: Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is the most common parasitic disease of the central nervous system. On the basis of an incorrect assumption that human NCC does not occur in countries in which law prohibit swine breeding and consumption of pork, the disease has been considered rare in Arab world. Materials and methods: A retrospective study carried out in Emergency Department, Alkhor hospital, HMC from April 2014 to May 201 Read More

Background: Chickenpox is a contagious viral disease that affects any age group. Chickenpox is the most common infectious disease in Qatar. Most affected age groups in Qatar in the last three years are children. Chickenpox vaccination has been included in Qatar National Immunization Program in 2000. Aim: To describe the epidemiological characteristics of chickenpox in Qatar in the year 2012–2014. Methods: Descriptive analysis based Read More

Background: Marked variations in the incidence and survival of particular types of childhood cancer exist between countries. This study is to explore epidemiology, survival and trends of pediatric cancers in Jordan 2001–2011. Methods: Descriptive study done. Cases were identified from Jordan cancer registry. All Jordanian pediatric cancers which diagnosed during 2001–2011 were included. Data about age, sex, site, morphology, vital status Read More

Background: Standard Emergency Department (ED) operations goals include minimization of the time interval (hereafter tMD) between patients' initial ED presentation and initial physician evaluation. Methods: The study was conducted using one month (May 2015) of an ED administrative database (EDAD), in HGH-ED, during the study month the ED saw 39,593 cases. The first step was generation of a multivariate model identifying the pa Read More

Background: Age and sex are major determinants of cancer incidence. The objective of the study is to explore epidemiology of cancer in Jordan by age and sex for 2001–2011. Methods: Descriptive study done, cases were identified from Jordan cancer registry (JCR), all Jordanian cancers patients that diagnosed and registered in 2001–2011 were included variables collected SPSS 20 used for analysis. Results: Total number of cases in JCR we Read More

Background: To test the effectiveness of a school-based, peer-led smoking and asthma education program, known as the Triple A (Adolescent Asthma Action) in Jordan (TAJ), with an additional class smoke-free pledge strategy (TAJ-Plus) as compared to the TAJ alone on smoking-related knowledge and perception, nicotine dependence, and asthma control in male high school students in Jordan four months post-intervention. Methods: In this c Read More

Objective: The study aimed to measure the status of cold chain management among primary health care professionals at primary healthcare centers (PHCC) in Qatar. Methods: A cross-sectional design with pre-post-intervention study was conducted, and 570 primary health professionals were selected from 21 PHCCs using random sampling. A structured self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data regarding the status of cold ch Read More

Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus is characterized by high blood glucose levels during pregnancy. The reported prevalence of GDM is 7% worldwide while 8% in Pakistan. About 19.5% of the women with GDM develop post-partum metabolic syndrome. Methods: A prospective cohort study carried out at tertiary-care hospital in Lahore from Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 to determine the incidence of Mets in women with GDM. After inform Read More

Background: Early identification and isolation of suspected communicable diseases are a major health concern, especially when there is an outbreak of a communicable disease. The ED is an essential component of the health care system and subject to workflow challenges, which may hinder ED personnel adherence to guideline based infection prevention practices. Methods: In total, 993 suspected MERS-COV patients and their assign Read More

Background: Emergency Department (ED) is amongst the most crucial departments in the hospital. It receives around 1000 patient/day. ED overcrowding (EDOC) and increased Length of Stay (LOS) are key global issues for more than 20 years, as they have serious repercussions. No measurements have been done to assess the situation nationally. Methods: The paper used direct observation for seven days to collect patie Read More

Introduction: A mass casualty incident (MCI) or disaster can happen at any time. People at the extremes of ages are affected more especially children. Working in the nation's biggest Emergency Department (ED), Hamad General Hospital (HGH)-ED, staff preparedness is crucial to handle such unfortunate event or events. This study aims to assess the preparedness level, knowledge and the willingness of the HGH-ED staff to deal wit Read More

Background: Pesticide poisoning is a global public health problem. With growing population and rapid industrialisation in Qatar, there has been a natural increase in pesticide usage and hence, exposure amongst the workers handling them. It is therefore vital to understand existing knowledge, attitudes and practices about handling pesticides. Methods: 100 municipality employees in Qatar who work with pesticides, were interviewed in person Read More

Introduction: Sleeve gastrectomy has been a rising trend in management of morbid obesity in the Qatari population. National health insurance has included sleeve gastrectomy in the coverage scheme for patients with BMI of 40 or above, which has contributed to the consistent increase. Objective: We aim to highlight one complication that we saw in our clinical practice of a 32 years old female who developed acute foot drop after sleeve Read More

Background: Conventional endotracheal intubation (ETI) is challenging and requires high level of individual skills and experience. At the same time we are also committed to provide ETI training for Emergency Medicine Residents (EMR). Video laryngoscope (VDL) like the C-MAC (by Karl Storz) is designed to have a similar blade to the normal Macintosh blades (size 3 and 4). It has a bright light source and blade thickness that allow Direct Laryng Read More

Background: Obesity is a public health concern in both developed and developing countries, and it is a main risk factor for chronic diseases. Thus, Palestinian adults aren't spared from obesity and non-communicable diseases epidemic. This study aimed to assess the pattern of obesity among mothers in the Gaza Strip. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on of 357 mothers aged 18–50 years between April-October 2012 Read More

Background: Worldwide ambulances are regularly involved in accidents as staff may not anticipate other drivers' actions, suffer from fatigue, or overestimate their driving privileges. An ambulance driving safety campaign started in June 2015 targeting some 935 registered HMCAS drivers. We aim to determine if our approach is effective in changing behaviours and believes, and reducing the number of accidents involving HMCAS vehicle Read More

Infant mortality is a sensitive indicator of development of a country and investing in the health of children. Since 1997 Morocco has been engaged in a the program of the integrated care of the child. We evaluated the information system of the integrated child-care program and the opportunity for collecting reliable data and good quality necessary to identify priorities. We conducted an evaluation of the information system of the integra Read More