Background People presenting to the ED with acute severe headache often undergo investigation to exclude subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). International guidelines propose that brain imaging within 6 ...
Correspondence to Dr Jestin N Carlson, Department of Emergency Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Saint Vincent Hospital, 232 West 25th St, Erie, PA 16544, USA; jcarlson{at}svhs.org Background While ...
Etimbuk Umana, Hannah Norman-Bruce, Clare Mills, Oenone Rodgers, Hannah Mitchell, Lisa McFetridge, Gareth McKeeman, Steve Foster, Michael Barrett, Damian Roland, Mark ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 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 ...
Inflammatory "one hit" and "two hit" models have recently been proposed to account for the development of multiple organ failure (MOF) in trauma and critically ill surgical patients when no source of ...
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 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 ...
Correspondence to Professor A Niroshan Siriwardena, Faculty of Health, Life and Social Sciences, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool, Lincoln LN6 7TS, UK; nsiriwardena{at}lincoln.ac.uk Background ...
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