Comparative effectiveness of ceftriaxone and ampicillin-sulbactam for empiric management of community-acquired pneumonia in ...

Dr A Campeau, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Emergency Health Services Branch, 6th Floor, 5700 Yonge Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M2M 4K5; anthony.campeau{at}ontario.ca ...

Triage is a key principle in the effective management of major incidents and is the process by which patients are prioritised on the basis of their clinical acuity. However, work published over the ...

Application of Step-by-Step and Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Clinical Decision Aids in the management of young febrile infants in a UK cohort ...

Correspondence to: Mr B McNicholl Emergency Department, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6AB, UK; brian.mcnichollroyalhospitals.n-i.nhs.uk Objective: To see whether three hours of ...

The importance of the electrocardiographic differential diagnosis of ST segment depression in patients presenting with acute chest pain is discussed.

School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Maysam Ali Abdulwahid, School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield ...

Emergency Department, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Haydown Road, Elizabeth Vale 5112, South Australia Correspondence to: Dr R Boyd Emergency Department, Lyell McEwin ...

BACKGROUND: The Manchester triage system (MTS) is now widely used in UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments. No clinical outcome studies have yet been published to validate the system. Safety of ...

Introduction Actively warming hypothermic patients or preventing hypothermia is critical in optimising outcomes in patients with traumatic injuries. Our aim was to investigate the effect of ambient ...

OBJECTIVES: To assess the degree of inappropriate use of the London Ambulance Service and analyse the reasons for misuse. DESIGN: An immediate assessment of the appropriateness of the "999" call by ...

Tenderness in the anatomical snuff box (ASB) has long been accepted as an indicator of a possible scaphoid fracture. The longitudinal axis of the scaphoid lies in an anteroposterior plane, ...