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Violence-Related Emergency Medical Services Encounters in the Anatolian Side of Istanbul: A Retrospective Registry-Based Study
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness · 2026-09-29 · Added 3 October 2026
A retrospective registry review of 29,335 violence-related EMS encounters in Istanbul found confirmed prehospital death in only 0.45%, most strongly associated with severe respiratory compromise (aOR 56), altered consciousness (aOR 10.7) and cyanosis (aOR 4.2).
- Study type
- Cohort
- Design
- Retrospective registry-based observational study
- Participants
- 29,335 violence-related EMS encounters, 2019–2023
- Main finding
- Confirmed prehospital death in 132 encounters (0.45%); severe respiratory status (aOR 56.02), altered consciousness (aOR 10.71) and cyanotic skin (aOR 4.24) had the highest adjusted odds
- Caveat
- Exploratory Firth model with wide confidence intervals, and the registry coding of violence may be inconsistent
- Bottom line
- Context only
Why it matters in Australia (Medium relevance). Assaults are a routine call type for Australian crews too, but this is descriptive epidemiology from a different urban system with no intervention to adopt — useful context on which assault patients are actually crashing.
Learning goal
Recognise the early signs of prehospital deterioration in patients injured through interpersonal violence.
More
- Topic: Trauma
- Daily scan: 3 October 2026
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