Asst. Prof. Mehmet Can GİRGİN

Turkish Emergency Medicine Association (TATD)

Turkish Medical Association (TTB)

Istanbul Medical Chamber

Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA)

Scientific Studies, Publications and Presentations

Specialty Thesis

Determination of the Frequency of Adverse Drug Reactions in Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine

(The frequency of emergency department visits associated with adverse drug reactions in Dokuz Eylul University Hospital)

Author: Mehmet Can Girgin
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Sedat Yanturalı, Prof. Yeşim Tunçok
Institution: Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine
Year: 2012

Book Translation and Chapter Contribution

Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide
Publisher: Nobel Medical Bookstore, 2013

Translated Chapter:
Part 26, Chapter 298 – Legal Issues in Emergency Medicine (pp. 2021–2031)

Editors:
Yıldıray Çete, Arzu Denizbaşı, Arif Alper Çevik, Cem Oktay, Rıdvan Atilla

Translators:
Mehmet Can Girgin, Özgür Doylan, İpek Duygu

Articles Published in International Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Novel biochemical marker for differential diagnosis of seizure: ischemia-modified albumin. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 32 (2014), 962–965.
• An investigation of the emergency medicine journals published in Turkey. Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine, 15 (2015), 155–158.
• Comparison of near-infrared spectroscopy and head CT interpretations of ED patients with minor head injury. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 34 (2016), 1364–1368.
• Emergency department visits caused by adverse drug reactions: results of a Turkish university hospital. Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences, 46(4), 2016.
• Dokuz Eylul Triage System: A five-category triage algorithm, reliability and validity study. Anatolian Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2019;2(3):1–7.
• Low Blood Iron Levels May Be a Good Prognostic Factor for Novel Coronavirus. International Medical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3, June 2021.
• Novel Coronavirus from the Point of Thirty-Six Stratagems. International Medical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, August 2021.

Presentations at International Scientific Meetings

• Reliability and Validity of a New Triage Algorithm: Dokuz Eylul Triage System. 2nd EACEM Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2010.
• Comparison of Tris-hydroxymethyl aminomethane (THAM) and sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃). 4th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2014.
• A technique that should be remembered in advanced airway management: Surgical cricothyrotomy. 4th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2014.
• Comparison of THAM and sodium bicarbonate. 10th European Congress on Emergency Medicine, Vienna, 2016.
• Brain abscess in a young patient. 5th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2016.
• Rectal perforation due to coccyx dislocation. 5th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2016.
• The role of serum procalcitonin in predicting infection in chronic kidney disease patients. 9th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2023.
• Comparison of clinical probability scores for suspected pulmonary embolism in patients with malignancy. 9th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2023.
• Comparison of inter-practitioner consistency of the Turkish Ministry of Health triage scoring system. 9th Eurasian Congress on Emergency Medicine, Antalya, 2023.

Presentations at National Scientific Meetings

(Selected examples)

• A rare cause of syncope in the emergency department: Rupture of left common iliac artery aneurysm. 9th TATKON Turkish Emergency Medicine Congress, Eskişehir, 2013.
• Phototoxic dermatitis caused by a plant: Chenopodium album. 9th TATKON, Eskişehir, 2013.
• Omental infarction. 11th TATKON Turkish Emergency Medicine Congress, TRNC, 2015.
• A rare cause of abdominal pain in the emergency department: Acute intermittent porphyria. 11th TATKON, TRNC, 2015.
• A forgotten cause of abdominal pain. 15th TATKON Turkish Emergency Medicine Congress, Antalya, 2019.