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 ...

Test characteristics of clinical findings and clinical decision rules for the diagnosis of septic arthritis in children with an acute limp presenting to the emergency department: a prospective ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A diagnosis of tension pneumothorax is usually only considered within the context of trauma, incorrect chest drain insertion or positive pressure ventilation. Four patients are presented who developed ...

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 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: 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 ...

This is a brief overview of the development of the specialty of Emergency Medicine from small beginnings fifty years ago. It describes how the specialty evolved simultaneously in the UK and the USA ...