An 85-year-old woman presented with left hip pain after an unwitnessed mechanical fall. The patient was standing at home washing her face when her legs gave out and she landed onto her left hip. She ...

2 School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Correspondence to: Dr M Ziman School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, ...

Ultrasound is widely used in the US and continental Europe in the immediate assessment of patients after blunt abdominal trauma. There are also now other recognised “primary” indications for ...

Victims of near hanging are being increasingly seen in accident and emergency (A&E) department. This paper reports on seven cases of near hanging seen over four years in a district general hospital.

Are there differences in low-acuity emergency department visits between culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and people with English-speaking background: a population-based linkage study of ...

3 South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK Background Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic drug used to prevent bleeding. It was introduced as an intervention for ...

Background Acute coronary syndromes remain a leading cause of preventable early deaths. However, previous studies have indicated that paramedics' compliance with chest pain protocols is suboptimal and ...

This is the second paper on research in accident and emergency medicine. It discusses the potential for research in A&E medicine and how to identify a good research question.

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Department of Medicine, ...

Primary care services in or alongside emergency departments look and function differently and are described using inconsistent terminology. Research to determine effectiveness of these models is ...

Correspondence to Domagoj Schunk, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, Regensburg 93053, Germany; domagojschunk{at}yahoo.de Objective The aim of this study ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados 2 School of Clinical Medicine and Research, University of the West Indies, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, ...