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 ...

Etimbuk Umana, Hannah Norman-Bruce, Clare Mills, Oenone Rodgers, Hannah Mitchell, Lisa McFetridge, Gareth McKeeman, Steve Foster, Michael Barrett, Damian Roland, Mark ...

In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term the “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961, but because of misinterpretation as to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction Pain is the most common presenting feature within the ED, yet undertreatment of pain in the ED is a well-documented problem worldwide. Despite the development of interventions to address ...

Background Understanding the views and opinions of ambulance clinicians about counter-terrorism is limited, as are the roles they have in identifying individuals vulnerable to radicalisation. The aim ...