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Trauma-related hyoid fractures are rare entities. These fractures represent only 0.002% of head and neck region fractures. Victims of hanging and strangling constitute the great majority of cases. Fractures associated with trauma are extremely rare. These fractures are difficult to diagnose and can easily be overlooked during physical examination. However, they are also important traumas since airway safety is endangered in these rare cases. We describe a case of a young male presenting with isolated neck injury associated with hitting an electric cable while riding a motorbike. Tenderness was present in the anterior neck region at physical examination, but movement was not restricted and no respiratory difficulty was determined. Isolated hyoid fracture was detected at tomography of the neck performed in the emergency department. Hyoid bone fractures should not be forgotten in patients with pain and tenderness in the anterior neck region following blunt trauma to the neck.©Copyright 2020 by Emergency Physicians Association of Turkey - Available online at www.jemcr.com.
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe long COVID-19 symptoms in patients receiving outpatient treatment.Materials and Methods: This prospective, observational, descriptive study was conducted in the COVID-19 clinic of a university hospital in February-May 2022. Patients who applied to the outpatient clinic and were diagnosed with COVID-19 were included in the study. Patients were follow up for prolonged COVID-19 symptoms for a 12 -week period. It was investigated whether there was a relationship between long COVID-19 symptoms frequency and gender, age and blood type.Results: At least one long COVID symptom was observed in 23% of 7139 patients included in the study. Myalgia was the most common symptom detected in 4.33% of all patients. Cough and loss of taste/smell were the most common symptoms in women, and dizziness in men. The frequency of 26 of 29 symptoms varied with age. While the symptoms most affected by the Body Mass Index were peripheral neuropathy and tinnitus, the least affected symptoms were loss of taste/smell, anxiety and depression.Conclusion: Long COVID symptoms were widely detected in COVID-19 outpatients. Age, gender and BMI may be factors affecting long COVID symptoms.
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Aim: Scientometrics refers to the analysis of scientific literature related to a certain field. Even though the number of publications on methyl alcohol poisoning has recently increased, there has been no bibliometric or scientometric analysis conducted to date. In 2020 in particular, cases of methyl alcohol poisoning have increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is expected to draw greater attention to this field. Material(s) and Method(s): All data used in this study were collected from four databases accessed via the Web of Science. All studies published between 1980 and 2019 identified by searching for the keywords "methanol" and "poisoning" were included in the study. The relationship between the number of publications and productivity and characteristics of countries was analyzed with Spearman's correlation test, while GunnMap and VOSviewer were used to create infographics and infomaps. This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki Results: A total of 744 articles, most of which were original (79.70%), were identified from the four databases accessed via the Web of Science. An analysis of the number of publications by country ranked the United States in the first place, with 174 articles (23.387 %), while the Czech Republic was found to have the most productive researchers. The most popular area was toxicology (20.565%), and Charles University was the most productive institution. It was found that the number of publications and citations did not increase over the years Discussion: The developed countries dominated the literature on methyl alcohol poisoning. It was further observed that articles on methyl alcohol abuse started to appear in 2020 in developing countries, which can be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the mistaken belief that it has anti-viral properties. Since the diagnosis and treatment of methyl alcohol poisoning are gaining significance, we recommend that researchers be encouraged to make further studies in this area.Copyright © 2022, Derman Medical Publishing. All rights reserved.
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Aim: In our study, we investigated the relationship of lactate clearance with disease severity and predictive mortality in patients with COVID-19 infection, which can lead to high mortality such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. Material(s) and Method(s): The vital signs, demographic data and laboratory results of the patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia according to the results of CT and PCR analysis were recorded in the patient forms. Hospitalization status, intensive care requirements and disease outcomes of the patients were noted. Lactate clearance was calculated with the values at the time of admission to the emergency department and at the 6th hour. Data analyzes were performed in terms of the need for intensive care and its power to predict mortality. Result(s): Data from 439 patients were analyzed for the study, and data from 318 patients who met the inclusion criteria were analyzed. The ROC analysis was performed to determine the value of lactate clearance in demonstrating mortality. When the areas under the curve were examined to test the power of LC in predicting survival, it was observed that the sensitivity was 82.76% and 75.69%. Discussion(s): In our study, the power of LC to predict survival according to the severity of the infection in people with COVID-19 infection was examined and it was observed that it could significantly predict survival, especially in patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Therefore, this method, which is easy to apply, reproducible, non-invasive and cost-effective, can be recommended to predict the prognosis in patients with COVID-19 infection.Copyright © 2022, Derman Medical Publishing. All rights reserved.
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Aim: In our study, we investigated the relationship of lactate clearance with disease severity and predictive mortality in patients with COVID-19 infection, which can lead to high mortality such as acute respiratory distress syndrome.Material and Methods: The vital signs, demographic data and laboratory results of the patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia according to the results of CT and PCR analysis were recorded in the patient forms. Hospitalization status, intensive care requirements and disease outcomes of the patients were noted. Lactate clearance was calculated with the values at the time of admission to the emergency department and at the 6th hour. Data analyzes were performed in terms of the need for intensive care and its power to predict mortality.Results: Data from 439 patients were analyzed for the study, and data from 318 patients who met the inclusion criteria were analyzed. The ROC analysis was performed to determine the value of lactate clearance in demonstrating mortality. When the areas under the curve were examined to test the power of LC in predicting survival, it was observed that the sensitivity was 82.76% and 75.69%.Discussion: In our study, the power of LC to predict survival according to the severity of the infection in people with COVID-19 infection was examined and it was observed that it could significantly predict survival, especially in patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Therefore, this method, which is easy to apply, reproducible, non-invasive and cost-effective, can be recommended to predict the prognosis in patients with COVID-19 infection.
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Aim: Scientometrics refers to the analysis of scientific literature related to a certain field. Even though the number of publications on methyl alcohol poisoning has recently increased, there has been no bibliometric or scientometric analysis conducted to date. In 2020 in particular, cases of methyl alcohol poisoning have increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is expected to draw greater attention to this field. Material and Methods: All data used in this study were collected from four databases accessed via the Web of Science. All studies published between 1980 and 2019 identified by searching for the keywords "methanol" and "poisoning" were included in the study. The relationship between the number of publications and productivity and characteristics of countries was analyzed with Spearman's correlation test. while GunnMap and VOSviewer were used to create infographics and infomaps. This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki Results: A total of 744 articles, most of which were original (79.70%), were identified from the four databases accessed via the Web of Science. An analysis of the number of publications by country ranked the United States in the first place, with 174 articles (23.387 %), while the Czech Republic was found to have the most productive researchers. The most popular area was toxicology (20.565%), and Charles University was the most productive institution. It was found that the number of publications and citations did not increase over the years Discussion: The developed countries dominated the literature on methyl alcohol poisoning. It was further observed that articles on methyl alcohol abuse started to appear in 2020 in developing countries, which can be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the mistaken belief that it has anti-viral properties. Since the diagnosis and treatment of methyl alcohol poisoning are gaining significance, we recommend that researchers be encouraged to make further studies in this area.