Ozgur Karcioglu

• Professor
• SBU Taksim Training and Research Hospital

This meta-analysis was undertaken to compare the effects of succinylcholine (SCH) and rocuronium (RCR) on endotracheal intubation (ETI) conditions. Eligible randomised controlled trials (RCTs) were identified via medline and a manual search of references. The frequencies of excellent and unacceptable ETI conditions in subjects receiving SCH 1.0-1.5...

To determine the impact of accompanying medical illnesses on the cause, course, mortality and morbidity of a geriatric trauma population. This prospective and observational study was carried out in a university hospital that is a level 1 trauma center between January 2002 and January 2003 with a total of 55 patient aged over 65 years. All consecuti...

Objective: The study analysed the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), the Verbal Rating Scale (VRS) and the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) to determine: 1. Were the compliance and usability different among scales? 2. Were any of the scales superior over the other(s) for clinical use? Methods: A systematic review of currently published studies was perform...

Objective: To carry out a systematic review to estimate the rate and magnitude of adverse effects following Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) procedure in patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and highlight the specific complications seen after the procedure. Methods: A systematic review of currently published studies was perf...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Blood gas analysis provides real-time information about the oxygenation, ventilation, and acid-base balance of the critically ill and injured. This book has been prepared for all physicians and healthcare professionals who wish to gain a deeper understanding of blood gas analysis and integrate it into their clinical practice. It covers fundamental...

Sepsis is recognized with dysregulated host response to infection triggering life-threatening organ dysfunction, which composes a high risk for grave outcomes. Severe sepsis is suspected in a significant ratio of patients presenting with an infection in the emergency departments (ED). Sepsis is a great burden on society, especially affecting the el...

The diagnosis and treatment of emergency cardiac care, including ischemic heart disease and arrhythmias, have evolved in daily clinical practice. Patients with cardiac arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia often require advanced multidisciplinary assessments and treatments with the collaboration of cardiac surgeons for...

Intoxication with methanol and other toxic alcohols remains a major public health issue in most parts of the world. Recognition of pathological mechanisms and outcomes that can be encountered following methanol intake is necessary for all healthcare providers. Symptoms begin as early as half an hour and if there is no treatment, progress to decompe...

Evaluation of syncope etiology and serious clinical outcome

Ingestion of button batteries (BB) represents a substantial health hazard, causing more common and severe complications than most other ingested objects. While the primary mechanism of injury is alkaline caustic injury (mediated by hydroxide ions produced through electrolysis at the site of the button battery), additional pathophysiological process...

This editorial article is intended to perform a discussion on the manuscript entitled “Simultaneous portal vein thrombosis and splenic vein thrombosis in a COVID-19 patient: A case report and review of literature” written by Abramowitz et al. The article focuses on the diagnostic processes in a 77-year-old-male patient with a simultaneous portal ve...

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to announce again that I've been serving as the Guest Editor in the Journal 'Diagnostics' (ISSN 2075-4418) for the Special Issue (SI: Advances in Emergency Medicine) as shown by the link below. I'll appreciate seeing your articles. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics/special_issues/KMWV2YACR9

How can we ensure the best outcomes for the trauma victim? The two most common causes of traumatic deaths and major sequelae are blood loss and neurological injuries, which account for two-thirds of trauma-related deaths. Hemorrhagic shock is an important cause of organ failure and late mortality, and 50% of early deaths (within the first 24 hours)...

1. Introduction 1.1 Case presentation Time 05.30: after the motor-vehicle accident (MVA), a 28 year-old man has been transported to the emergency department (ED) by a taxi. The patient had been driving the vehicle himself, his seat belt was not fastened, and he smelt alcohol. He was on the ground next to the vehicle that had tumbled off the road at...

COVID-19 is a major cause of preventable deaths throughout the world. Although four years have passed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 is not over. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there were more than 700 million confirmed cases and almost 7 million deaths d...

Life-threatening arrhythmias, shock and airway compromise represent the most crucial situations to treat in the daily routine of acute medicine. Rapid access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and other necessary equipment increases survival rates significantly. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) appear to revolutionize prehospital medicin...

Clostridium botulinum toxin-A (BoNT-A) creates temporary paralysis in the muscles by acting on the muscle-nerve junction. It is injected into the mimic muscles when a decrease in the movements of the mimic muscles is desired. Despite many favorable applications, the use of BoNT-A is not without drawbacks. Although there is no expected serious side...

Pain has long been defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience originating from any region of the body in the presence or absence of tissue injury. Physicians involved in acute medicine commonly undertake a variety of invasive and painful procedures that prompt procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA), which is a condition sparing the...

Cardiac arrest (CA) resulting from sudden cardiac death and acute coronary syndromes affects many people every day all over the world. Post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) encompasses post-CA brain injury, myocardial dysfunction, reperfusion injury, and the continuation of the causative event, as a complex and critical issue that requires multidisci...

Objective The aim of this study is to analyze the diagnostic value of Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA), modified qSOFA, National Early Warning Score (NEWS) and NEWS + Lactate (NEWS + L) scores in the detection of severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Methods This research is a retrospective cohort study. Patients admitted to...

Ülkemizde sağlık hizmetleri son üç dekadda acil tıp uzmanlığı ile birlikte yeni bir kulvara girmiştir. Onyıllardır konuyla ilgili özel bir eğitim almadan göreve başlayan pratisyen hekim ve dğer uzmanlıktan hekimler eliyle yürütülen acil servis hizmetleri, 90’lardan itibaren önemli şekilde değişikliğe uğramıştır. 2000’lerde hızla artan acil tıp uzma...

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is among the most common causes of death and one of the leading healthcare concerns worldwide. It can evolve into sepsis and septic shock, which have a high mortality rate, especially in critical patients and comorbidities. The definitions of sepsis were revised in the last decade as “life-threatening organ dysfun...

Local anesthetic (LA) compounds decrease the permeability of the ion channels to sodium, which in turn, diminishes the rate of depolarization. These agents (a.k.a. -caines) are also used to depress mucosal sensations, e.g., gag reflex in the form of topical anesthetics. Overdose of LA can lead to local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST), which is...

This study analyzes the effectiveness of adding lactate levels to the Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) scoring system to better predict short-term mortality and outcomes in patients over 40 years of age who present to the emergency department (ED) with dyspnea. This prospective observational study recruited all consecutive patients with shortn...

Acil servisler, tanısı konulmamış akut hastalık ya da yaralanmalara sahip hastaların ‘hemen’ değerlendirildiği, gerekli girişimlerle resüsite ve stabilize edildiği, ardından ayrıştırılıp gerekli tedaviye uygun hale getirildiği, hastanelerin yaşam merkezi, kalbi ve beynidir. Yönetilen hastalar, hastanede uygun servise yatırılır, çeşitli nedenlerle b...

Objectives: Vitals are the most important parameters for assessing a patient’s status and the National Early Warning Score helps to assess vitals to predict how urgent a patient’s condition is. The perfusion index is the ratio of the pulsatile blood flow to the non-pulsatile/static blood flow in a patient’s peripheral tissue. We aimed to investigat...

The elderly or geriatric patients represent a significant portion of emergency department (ED) admissions. Factors affecting poor outcome in these patients suspected or diagnosed with sepsis include shock, hyperlactatemia, and organ failure. Atypical presentations should be emphasized in the training of triage and ED personnel due to difficulties a...

Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is one of the most common neurological emergencies, especially in elderly patients with high morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study is to evaluate the use of monocyte and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) values, which play important roles in the inflammatory process after ischemia, in the predic...

Cardiovascular disease remains among the most prominent health issues worldwide and the leading cause of death in the developed world. Developing countries well experienced a rampant threat of relevant figures in the last decades. It is of vital importance to increase awareness on risk factors for having the disease, to alleviate probable complicat...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Abdominal pain is one of the frequent reasons for admission to emergency departments in hospitals. Diagnosis in patients presenting abdominal pain is a challenge for physicians owing to several indications, and a lack of contraindications. Delay in diagnosis and misdiagnosis is a common problem even for the most experienced emergency physician or g...

Supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is a type of tachyarrhythmia with a narrow QRS complex and regular rhythm. These patients are often symptomatic and present to the emergency department (ED) due to acute attacks called paroxysmal SVT. Attacks of SVT start suddenly with the reentry mechanism in most patients. Anginal chest pain and dyspnea occur in...

Aim:Dynamic changes in troponin levels have been shown to be effective indicators of acute injury and useful for distinguishing acute injuries from chronic injuries. This study investigates the role of the change in troponin I (TnI) values in the prediction of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and its relationship with the findings of percutaneous...

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Acute abdominal pain is one of the most common chief complaints in the acute setting all over the world. The definitive diagnoses of these patients vary depending on age, gender, geographical and sociodemographic characteristics etc. Apart from these, aging of the population, obesity, advanced diagnostic imaging modalities and changes in nutritiona...

EMS (Call number: 112 in Turkey) encompasses services provided by professional healthcare teams in case of diseases and injuries emerging acutely, accessed expediently following the event, using specialized equipment as necessary. The main purpose of this study is to determine the difficulties faced by 112 pre-hospital healthcare workers (HCWs) in...

Yeniocak S, Karcıoğlu Ö. COVID-19 Tedavisi: İlaçlar ve aşılar. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing. ISBN: 978-620-4-72518-5. COVID-19 salgını, insanlık tarihinin en ciddi afetlerinden birisi olup günümüzde halen tüm ciddiyetiyle devam etmekte ve bütün dünyayı etkisi altına almış durumdadır. Bu salgın tehdidi ortamında hem toplumsal hem de bireysel soru...

Introduction: The use of a single-dose of intramuscular (IM) dexamethasone in emergency department (ED) is a commonly employed practice. Along with its anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects, dexamethasone use has considerable adverse effects and complications that affect almost all body systems. This paper describes a middle-aged patient r...

Karcıoğlu Ö, Yılmaz S. İlk Yardım Olgularla Temel Yaşam Desteği. Ematip Kitabevi, 2021. ISBN: 978-625-7849-39-5

Fransızca kökenli "choc" kelimesinden türetilen şok, yaygın hücresel hipoksiye ve hayati organ disfonksiyonuna yol açan sistemik bir perfüzyon düzensizliği ile tetiklenen bir sendrom olarak tanımlanır. Hücrelerin gereksinimi olan yeterli enerjinin karşılanamaması, yani akut enerji yetersizliği nedeniyle şok, önemli morbidite ve mortalite ile ilişki...

Direct (New-generation) Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) have emerged as effective agents which are used in place of vitamin-K antagonists in treatment and prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE), atrial fibrillation and other thrombotic diseases. Among them, the FIIa-direct thrombin inhibitor dabigatran and FXa inhibitors (rivaroxaban, apixaban, ed...

Background and Objective Direct (new) Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) have emerged as a contemporary and promising option in the treatment of thromboses and VTE, while protecting the coagulation cascade against untoward bleeding events. They are used in the management and prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) and other thrombotic diseases. The mo...

The objective of present study is to evaluate mechanisms and causes of head trauma, factors influencing management of pediatric minor head trauma, to highlight decision making processes in diagnostic imaging as well as searching for preventive measures for head trauma. Children younger than two years of age who were admitted to emergency department...

The optimal management of patients with cardiac disease warrants a multifaceted approach undertaken in harmony. The recent decades have witnessed major advances in methods for monitoring and interventions aiming to improve outcomes in this outstanding cause of death worldwide. Other than technological improvements, the medical community is aware th...

The optimal management of patients with cardiac disease warrants a multifaceted approach undertaken in harmony. The recent decades have witnessed major advances in methods for monitoring and interventions aiming to improve outcomes in this outstanding cause of death worldwide. Other than technological improvements, the medical community is aware th...

Introduction: The use of a single-dose of intramuscular (IM) dexamethasone in emergency department (ED) is a commonly employed practice. Along with its anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects, dexamethasone use has considerable adverse effects and complications that affect almost all body systems. This paper describes a middle-aged patient r...

Background: The aim of the present study is to analyze the data obtained in the pandemics to highlight the picture that emerged in the struggle against the disease in Turkey, with special emphasis on the deaths of healthcare workers (HCW). Methods: In this report, the age, gender, province and institution of employment, distribution of death by mon...

Introduction: The aim of this study is to investigate the education-inflicted changes in the test-ordering behavior of the emergency physicians in the management of patients with a presumptive diagnosis of acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Methods: The study was designed as a single-center interventional study and was conducted in a large training hospi...