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 ...

Objective To determine if intravenous paracetamol was superior to oral paracetamol as an adjunct to opioids in the management of moderate to severe pain in the ED setting. Methods A prospective, ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr Y-F Choi Medical Officer, Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole ...

1 Pre-hospital Emergency Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine/Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Public Health, University ...

1 Department of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 3 ...

In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term the “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961, but because of misinterpretation as to ...

Introduction For a patient nearing the end of his or her life, transfer from a nursing home to the ED can be inappropriate, with potentially negative consequences, but transfer in these circumstances ...

Background Injury to the spinal cord can result in loss of sympathetic innervation causing a drop in BP and HR, this condition is known as neurogenic shock. There is debate among the literature on how ...

1 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield University Management School, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to ...

1 DREEAM: Department of Research and Education in Emergency Medicine, Acute Medicine and Major Trauma, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK 2 Emergency Department, Royal Victoria ...

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 ...

Introduction: Litigation claims against the NHS are increasing. Society is less tolerant of mistakes or inadequate service and litigation claims are now becoming increasingly accepted. Methods: All ...