Objectives We set out to investigate paramedics’ views of ethics and research, drawing on experiences from Paramedic-2, a randomised controlled trial comparing epinephrine and placebo in ...
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 ...
Correspondence to Dr Lia Ilona Losonczy, Department of Emergency Medicine, Highland Hospital – Alameda Health System, 1411 E. 31st Street Oakland, CA 94602, United States; lia.losonczy{at}gmail.com ...
Objectives Patient flow and crowding are two major issues in ED service improvement. A substantial amount of literature exists on the interventions to improve patient flow and crowding, making it ...
1 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China 2 Trauma and Emergency Centre, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, ...
Methods/Design Data were collected from electronic and written ED records for all patients meeting the inclusion criteria who attended over a 14-day period. Patient records were identified by manually ...
Objective To determine the patient and clinical variables associated with administration of any analgesia, nurse-initiated analgesia (NIA, prescribed and administered by a nurse) and early analgesia ...
Correspondence to Dr Fraser Birse, Emergency Department, Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol BS10 5NB, UK; fraserbirse{at}gmail.com UK Trauma data collected by Trauma Audit and ...
Introduction Foot and ankle injuries are common in the Emergency Department (ED). Of those requiring radiographs in accordance with the Ottawa Foot and Ankle Rules, approximately 22% have a fracture.
A short cut review was carried out to establish how long after onset of headache a lumbar puncture should be carried out to rule out subarachnoid haemorrhage. Altogether 142 papers were found using ...
Background A variety of factors influence the decision making of pre-hospital clinicians when considering conveying patients to the Emergency Department. This study aimed to explore the utility of a ...
Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to: Dr M Cooke, Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary ...