The Impact of Ambulance Disinfection Methodology on 112 Emergency Health Care Parameters, During the COVID-19 Pandemic in İstanbul

Aydın, Yılmaz; Tunaligil, Verda; Hincal, Sakir Omur; Ödemiş, İsmail; Eyüpoğlu, Gökhan; Türkdoğan, Kenan Ahmet

doi:10.4274/globecc.galenos.2022.35119

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“…The number of patients transported to-and-from state, private, and university hospitals were 29,762, 4,969, and 672 in consecutive order ( 30 ). Emergency ambulance services personnel had to design critical adaptive strategies in the complex environment of health care provision ( 31 ). The current study reports experiences from cases which originated in the emergency department of the university hospital and were either discharged for at-home follow-up or referred for hospitalization on the wards or in the ICU of the same health care institution.…”

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Shedding light on the next pandemic path, from outpatient to ICU, the effect of vitamin D deficiency in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Celikmen,

Tunaligil,

Keles

et al. 2024

Front. Nutr.

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BackgroundVitamin D insufficiency is named “the pandemic of our era” by some experts. World Health Organization warns against a “deadlier outbreak” than the COVID-19 pandemic. Critical evidence is hereby for future pandemic prevention, with special emphasis on Vitamin D.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted with 172 unvaccinated adult participants, who presented to the emergency department. Blood measurements, radiological findings, and demographic features were evaluated in the four categories of “healthy adults, COVID-19 outpatients, hospitalized inpatients on the wards, and in the ICU.”ResultsResults were statistically significant in association with age, gender, weight, Vitamin D, glucose, urea, creatinine, leucocyte, aspartate transaminase, hemoglobin, C-reactive protein, troponin, platelet/thrombocyte, ferritin, D-dimer, triglycerate, glycated haemoglobin, lactate dehydrogenase measurements, and chest computed tomography features (each p < 0.050).ConclusionThis article presents evidence to support the importance of Vitamin D for global public health. Patients with adequate levels of Vitamin D, glucose, urea, creatinine, leucocyte, aspartate transaminase, hemoglobin, C-reactive protein, troponin, platelet/thrombocyte, ferritin, D-dimer, triglycerate, glycated haemoglobin, lactate dehydrogenase are less likely to be admitted to ICU versus being outpatients. Factors include gender, age, weight, comorbidities, and computed tomography findings. The ultimate goal is to globally minimize preventable burdens of disease and death.

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