A 30 year old woman with a history of depression and previous suicide attempts was brought to the emergency department in coma. She had injected herself with cyanide subcutaneously and had severe ...

Methods: The study was based in one emergency department (ED) in the UK and took a generic qualitative approach. A stratified sample of nine experienced ED nurses were recruited for semi-structured ...

Correspondence to Dr Keith A Marill, Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Place, Suite 3B, Boston, MA 02114, USA; kmarill{at}mgh.harvard.edu Emergency physicians use ...

Correspondence to: MrK M Porter Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Selly Oak Hospital,Raddlebarn Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6JD, UK; keith.porteruhb.nhs.uk Lower limb fractures are common ...

1 Abant Izzet Baysal University, Düzce Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Düzce, Turkey 2 Abant Izzet Baysal University, Izzet Baysal Medical School, Department of Cardiology, Düzce, Turkey ...

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BACKGROUND: The Manchester triage system (MTS) is now widely used in UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments. No clinical outcome studies have yet been published to validate the system. Safety of ...

Objective In the era of damage control resuscitation of trauma patients with acute major haemorrhage, transfusion practice has evolved to blood component (component therapy) administered in a ratio ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, James Cook Hospital, Middlesborough, Middlesborough, UK This paper reviews the ...

Correspondence to Dr Tzu-Yao Hung, Emergency, Taipei City Hospital, Zhong-Xing Branch, Taipei 10341, Taiwan; bryansolitude{at}gmail.com At the end of December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS ...

Correspondence to Dr Anton Sklavos, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, Cartlon VIC 3053, Australia; antonsklavos{at}hotmail.com Dental emergencies are common reasons ...