Pre-hospital Care Research Unit, Department of Academic Emergency Medicine, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK Correspondence to: Mr M Woollard The James Cook University Hospital, ...

Respiratory Medicine, Salford Royal Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Salford, UK Dr B R O’Driscoll, Respiratory Medicine, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK; ronan.o'driscoll{at}srft.nhs.uk Background: ...

Background Long waiting times in the ED have been shown to cause negative outcomes for patients. This study aims to assess the effect in reducing length of stay of (1) preventing low-acuity attenders ...

Introduction Non-accidental injury (NAI) in children is an important cause of major injury. The Trauma Audit Research Network (TARN) recently analysed data on the demographics of paediatric trauma and ...

3 National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care, Uni Research Health, Bergen, Norway 4 Uni Research Health, Bergen, Norway Correspondence to Dr Christina Brudvik, Bergen Accident and Emergency ...

A 26 year old motorcyclist was received by the trauma team in our accident and emergency department after a head on collision with a motor vehicle. He had been correctly immobilised and his primary ...

Background Non-technical skills, such as task management, leadership, situational awareness, communication and decision-making refer to cognitive, behavioural and social skills that contribute to safe ...

Purpose/Background—Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is usually a blinding event, and is not an infrequent presentation to the accident and emergency (A&E) department. The evidence-base in ...

Aim: To review the function of an emergency department paediatric observation unit. Method: A retrospective observational study reviewing the activity of the observation unit for 12 months Results: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua W Joseph, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 1 Deaconess Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA; jwjoseph{at}bidmc.harvard.edu Objectives ...