Department of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr S Sener Attending Physician of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department ...

An outline of the principles behind economic evaluation of emergency care.

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether the Bone Injection Gun is better than a standard intraosseous (IO) needle at obtaining IO access. A total of 129 papers were found using the ...

Background Blood transfusion for bleeding trauma patients is a promising pre-hospital intervention with potential to improve outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which patients may benefit from ...

Background Community violence is a substantial problem for the NHS. Information sharing of emergency department data with community safety partnerships (CSP) has been associated with substantial ...

Correspondence to: Professor T J Coats Department of Emergency Medicine, Leicester University, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK; t.coatsvirgin.net The Medicines for ...

Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...

Nuclear medicine techniques have received little attention in the practice of emergency medicine, yet radionuclide imaging can provide valuable and unique information in the management of acutely ill ...

Objectives—For pre-hospital spinal immobilisation the spinal board is the established gold standard. There are concerns that its subsequent use in hospital may adversely affect patient outcome. This ...

Objectives Many drug and fluid regimens in emergency medicine are weight dependent in adults, but no standard adult weight estimation tools exist. Paediatric weight is often estimated in emergency ...

Objective To examine the suitability of commonly available ballpoint pens as a substitute emergency tracheostomy tube. Methods commonly available ballpoint pens were examined and compared against two ...

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 ...