Community emergency medicine: a service review of patients that sustain head injuries in the community—can early intervention ...
A short systematic review assessed the diagnostic accuracy of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in febrile adults from malaria-endemic regions. A database search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane and Google ...
Methods We undertook a substudy of an observational cohort study across 70 emergency departments during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. We collected data prospectively, using a ...
1 University of Nottingham Medical School, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK 2 University of Nottingham Medical School, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, Queen’s Medical Centre, ...
Objectives & Background The safety of intravenous ketamine in procedural sedation is well described. 1 2 Guidelines produced by NICE 3 and the College of Emergency Medicine 4 are used by Emergency ...
Background Ambulance services need to identify and prioritise patients with sepsis for early hospital assessment. We aimed to determine the accuracy of early warning scores alongside paramedic ...
Ambulance Research Institute, Ambulance Service of New South Wales (ASNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Roger Price, Ambulance Research Institute, Ambulance Service of New ...
Objectives To gather data on the ages and weights of children aged between 1 and 16 years in order to assess the validity of the current weight estimation formula ‘Weight(kg)=2(age+4)’ and the newly ...
2 Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Anthony Bleetman Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, ...
Emergency Departments (EDs) are increasingly seeing more seriously unwell older people living with frailty. In the context of limited resources and increasing demand it’s the ED practitioner’s ...
A literature search was undertaken for evidence of the effect of succinylcholine (SCH) on the intracranial pressure (ICP) of patients with acute brain injury and whether pretreatment with a ...
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Ms I van der Wulp, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, P O Box 85500, 3508 GA ...