2 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham City Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Hulme, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham City ...

Background In 2017, general practitioners in or alongside the emergency department (GPED), an approach that employs GPs in or alongside the ED to address increasing ED demand, was advocated by the ...

Background Handover of care is one of the most perilous procedures in medicine. 1 The unique shift-based work in the ED, where there is a high degree of patient turnover, unpredictability and patient ...

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 ...

Primary care services in or alongside emergency departments look and function differently and are described using inconsistent terminology. Research to determine effectiveness of these models is ...

Objectives: Several trials have been published examining the role of antibiotics in dog bite wound management. A meta-analysis of these suggests that there is very little benefit to routine antibiotic ...

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. Airbags drastically reduce both morbidity and mortality from crashes, but with the increased use of airbags ...

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Objectives & Background The average age of patients occupying the ED in Beaumont ED is seen to be rising and this fact coupled with an aging population points to potential future demand pressures on ...

Objective To describe trends regarding snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) from 2004 to 2010. Methods The NPIS telephone enquiry database, the UK Poisons ...

Department of Accident and Emergency, University College London Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr A K Demetriades Department of Accident and Emergency, University College London Hospital, ...

3 Department of Surgery and the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA ...