Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient ...

2 Senior house officer in Intensive Care Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK 3 Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA ...

Background Menopausal symptoms can have a significant impact on workplace attendance and performance, yet limited evidence regarding the menopause transition in the emergency services exists. The aim ...

Correspondence to: Dr T R J Parke Accident and Emergency Department, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; tim.parkesgh.scot.nhs.uk Effective resuscitation includes the rapid identification ...

Correspondence to: Mr J Dunning Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 3BW, UK; joeldunningdoctors.org.uk This review examines the derivation of the ...

Introduction: The Paediatric Triage Tape (PTT) is an easy to use major incident primary triage tool, based upon a modification of the Triage Sieve. The purpose of this study was to prospectively ...

The primary objective of this survey was to establish current practice in emergency departments in the UK. Variation in obtaining consent, how image collection is achieved, and the images stored were ...

Correspondence to Dr Aravindan Veiraiah, NPIS Edinburgh (Scottish Poisons Information Bureau), The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; drveiraiah{at}doctors.org.uk Objective ...

Correspondence to Dr J S Rowlinson, Emergency Department, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD UK; jrowlinson{at}doctors.org.uk Background Digital nerve blocks (DNB) are ...

Introduction Ambulance services are facing increased demand to provide both urgent and emergency care. Details of a paramedic’s case load, patient mix and interventions delivered during patient ...

Objectives: To produce an easily understood and accessible tool for use by researchers in diagnostic studies. Diagnostic studies should have sample size calculations performed, but in practice, they ...

A shortcut systematic review was carried out to establish whether in patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes presenting to the emergency department, measurement of electrocardiographic ST ...