Objective Gamification is a non-evaluation and competition-based training methodology with high emotional involvement. The goal of this study was to evaluate gamification methodology as compared with ...

Background Medical imaging use has increased progressively, prompting discussions about its clinical impact. Interventions to reduce low-value imaging have had varying success, as they generally do ...

Background Prehospital critical care is a rapidly evolving field. There is a paucity of evidence relating to its practice, with limited progress in answering those research questions identified over a ...

Objective This study determined the impact of the caller’s emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

Objective Intravenous cannulation is a routine procedure in the ED. Different methods are being used to reduce the pain of intravenous cannulation. Among them, there are studies which have shown the ...

A 55 year old right handed man presented with a three month history of left arm pain and precordial chest discomfort. His symptoms had started three months previously after a heavy game of squash.

Aim: To assess knowledge of capacity and consent among emergency healthcare workers. Design: A cross-sectional survey with a structured questionnaire. Methods: 86 questionnaires were distributed and ...

Background Sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and many tools exist to facilitate early recognition. This review compares two tools: the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA ...

The use of telemedicine has grown immensely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine provides a means to deliver clinical care while limiting patient and provider exposure to the COVID-19. As such, ...

Results In total, 473 eligible patients seen by one of 38 physicians were included in the study. Diagnostic resource consumption heavily depends on physicians’ ratings of case difficulty (p<0.001, ...

Objectives To identify characteristics of general practices associated with emergency hospital admission rates, and determine whether levels of performance and patient reports of access are associated ...

Empathy is a reigning topic in healthcare because of its relationship to the aims of medical practice: improved health outcomes1 adherence to treatment recommendations, improved quality of care and ...