2 Department of Emergency Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore Background Previous studies have examined the utility of ultrasonography performed by radiologists for diagnosing ...

Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...

Following resuscitation from cardiorespiratory arrest 80% of patients are comatose. Of these patients, 20% will survive and regain consciousness. Is it possible to predict an individual’s long term ...

Introduction Major trauma is the third leading cause of avoidable mortality in the UK. Defining which patients require care in a major trauma centre is a critical component of developing, evaluating ...

Background Delay to reperfusion in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is detrimental, but can be minimised with prehospital notification by ambulance to the treating hospital. We aimed to ...

1 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2 NIHR Biomedical Research Unit for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK 3 Department of Vascular ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Dr D M Macgregor, Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Cornhill ...

1 Emergency Center, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, P.R. China 2 Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R. China 3 Medical College of Wuhan University, P.R. China 4 Public Health School ...

Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK Dr N P Curzen, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; ...

Objective—To assess whether the attending of the communication skills workshops by the emergency department doctors improves patient satisfaction and reduces the number of complaints on doctors' ...

Correspondence to Dr Wan-Ching Lien, Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; wanchinglien{at}ntu.edu.tw A healthy, obese 38-year-old man had acute flank ...

Background: Inter-hospital transfer of critically ill patients is potentially hazardous. If executed poorly, both patient and staff can come to harm. Guidelines have been published by the Association ...