Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...

Department of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, West Sussex, England Correspondence to: MrM S Lloyd The Hospital Royal Free, 3rd Floor, Dawson Ward, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG; ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Cathay General Hospital, and Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 2 Department of ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Peterborough District Hospital, Peterborough, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to: Dr A Boyle Department ...

Objectives: To identify the key features of effective clinical supervision in the emergency department (ED) from the perspectives of enthusiastic consultants and specialist registrars. To highlight ...

Background Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) requires urgent diagnosis with computed tomographic angiography (CTA). Diagnostic strategies need to weigh the benefits of detecting AAS against the costs of ...

Background Patients with traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (t-OHCA) require on-scene airway management to maintain tissue oxygenation. However, the benefits of prehospital endotracheal ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Wright, Accident and Emergency Department, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, UK; john.wright{at}nuth.northy.nhs.uk Carbon monoxide is ...

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. Airbags drastically reduce both morbidity and mortality from crashes, but with the increased use of airbags ...

Background The Emergency Department(ED) team need to make sense of an ever-changing dynamic environment. The stories people tell about everyday occurrences are central to how sense-making occurs.

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5 Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Henriette A Moll, Department of Paediatrics, Room Sp 1540, Erasmus ...