Journal of The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Retrospective validation of the Study of the Management of Blunt Chest Wall Trauma (STUMBL) scoring system with isolated blunt chest trauma
Objective: An external validation of the Study of the Management of Blunt Chest Wall Trauma (STUMBL) score was conducted in a Korean emergency department setting. Methods: A single-center, retrospective study was performed on patients with isolated blunt chest trauma who visite...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE Effects of rapid antigen testing for pre-admission COVID-19 screening: a before and after study in the emergency department
Objective: As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been prolonged, the pre-hospital screening test performed in hospitals has changed from polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to rapid antigen test (RAT). RAT has lower sensitivity than PCR, but a lower cost and shorte...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE The distribution of bacterial coinfection identified in sputum culture tests of coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia patients according to the epidemic period
Objective: This study compared the bacterial coinfection rates, identified major pathogens, and analyzed the antibiotic resistance patterns in pneumonia among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients across different pandemic periods (Before Delta, Delta, and Omicron) to inf...