BMJ3 天
The changing face of major trauma in the UK
2 Centre for Clinical Trials and Population Studies, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK 3 Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre ...
BMJ3 天
An outcomes evaluation of an emergency department early pregnancy assessment service and ...
Background Complications in early pregnancy, such as threatened or actual miscarriage is a common occurrence resulting in many women presenting to the emergency department (ED). Early pregnancy ...
BMJ2 天
Sprain or fracture? An analysis of 2000 ankle injuries.
A retrospective survey of over 2000 patients with inversion injuries of the ankle joint was undertaken to examine the validity of criteria commonly used in an accident and emergency department to ...
BMJ1 个月
Are medical students in prehospital care at risk of moral injury?
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 ...
BMJ3 天
Pharmacists in Trauma: a randomised controlled trial of emergency medicine pharmacists in ...
Background Analgesia is an important component for patient well-being, but commonly delayed during trauma resuscitation. The Pharmacists in Trauma trial assessed the effects of integrating pharmacists ...
BMJ1 年
Understanding pre-hospital blood transfusion decision-making for injured patients: an ...
Background Blood transfusion for bleeding trauma patients is a promising pre-hospital intervention with potential to improve outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which patients may benefit from ...
BMJ2 个月
Emergency oxygen therapy for the breathless patient. Guidelines prepared by North West ...
7 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, North Manchester General Hospital 8 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester 9 Department of ...
BMJ4 个月
Lung ultrasonography: an effective way to diagnose community-acquired pneumonia
Correspondecenn to Dr Guo-qiang Zhang, Emergency Department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, 2 Yinghua Dongjie, Hepingli, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100029 China; zhangchong2003{at}vip.sina.com ...
BMJ3 个月
Decision analytical modelling of strategies for investigating suspected acute aortic syndrome
Background Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) requires urgent diagnosis with computed tomographic angiography (CTA). Diagnostic strategies need to weigh the benefits of detecting AAS against the costs of ...
BMJ1 个月
Chronic and occult carbon monoxide poisoning: we don’t know what we’re missing
Carbon monoxide is colourless, odourless, and ubiquitous in our environment. In large concentrations it is known to be a stealth killer. This article reviews the evidence that carbon monoxide is a ...
BMJ22 天
Digital disparities: designing telemedicine systems with a health equity aim
Correspondence to Dr Margaret Samuels-Kalow, Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; msamuels-kalow{at}partners.org The use of telemedicine has grown immensely ...