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 ...
Dear editor, We read with great interest the review entitled ‘Paracetamol vs other analgesia in adult patients with minor musculoskeletal injuries: a systematic review’,1 published in the Emergency ...
An in vivo experimental study was performed of the temperatures produced by a setting plaster cast using hot and cold water. The results confirmed a statistical difference in the temperatures reached ...
Introduction Occupational stress is a major modern health and safety challenges. While the ED is known to be a high-pressure environment, the specific organisational stressors which affect ED staff ...
1 Emergency Department, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, ...
Objective: Access block refers to the situation where patients in the emergency department (ED) requiring inpatient care are unable to gain access to appropriate hospital beds within a reasonable time ...
Correspondence to Mr Tesfay Mehari Atey, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; tesfaymehari.atey{at}utas.edu.au Background Pharmacists have an ...
Background As many as 90% of all trauma-related deaths occur in developing nations, and this is expected to get worse with modernisation. The current method of creating an emergency care system by ...
Background The third international consensus definition for sepsis recommended use of a new prognostic tool, the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA), based on its ability to predict ...
Objectives To evaluate the role of ambulance response times in improving survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods OHCAs were identified by sampling consecutive life-threatening ...
Echocardiography Laboratory, Division of Cardiology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA Correspondence to: Dr M K Bansal Albert Einstein Medical Center, Department of Medicine, ...
Correspondence to: Dr N C Proudlove, Manchester School of Management, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK; nathan.proudlove{at}umist.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please ...
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