Background Physician-based prehospital teams provide advanced critical care services in the UK (eg, prehospital anaesthesia). The last review of such teams in 2009, which included England, Wales and ...
Background An acute scrotum is an urological emergency. One of its most important causes is testicular torsion, which can result in testicular necrosis unless quickly diagnosed and treated. Along with ...
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Etimbuk Umana, Hannah Norman-Bruce, Clare Mills, Oenone Rodgers, Hannah Mitchell, Lisa McFetridge, Gareth McKeeman, Steve Foster, Michael Barrett, Damian Roland, Mark ...
2 Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark ...
Background Hypothermia is an independent predictor of increased morbidity and mortality in patients with trauma. Several strategies and products have been developed to minimise patients’ heat loss in ...
Trauma involving the parotid gland is rare and is usually caused by penetrating injuries or fractures of the facial skeleton. A unique case is presented of rupture of the parotid gland after a minor ...
A short cut review was carried out to establish whether pre-injury aspirin increases the risk of intracranial complications following head injury. 124 papers were found using the reported searches, of ...
3 University of Western Australia, Perth; New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to: L Murray Emergency ...
Aims and Objectives Decompression sickness (DCS) occurs due to inert gas bubble formation in tissues and can cause serious injury. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is the definitive treatment. Dive ...
Background Exit block (or access block) occurs when ‘patients in the ED requiring inpatient care are unable to gain access to appropriate hospital beds within a reasonable time frame’. Exit block is ...
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