6 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Background Mechanical thrombectomy for stroke is highly effective but ...

Background Nausea and vomiting is a common ED chief complaint. However, randomised trials comparing antiemetic agents to placebo have not demonstrated superiority. This systematic review investigates ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether antibiotics reduce infective complications after puncture wounds to the foot. A totla of 29 papers were found using the reported search, of ...

Introduction Major trauma is the third leading cause of avoidable mortality in the UK. Defining which patients require care in a major trauma centre is a critical component of developing, evaluating ...

Background Patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke commonly present first to the ambulance service. Little is known about experiences of prehospital care which are ...

Joint RCEM and NPIS best practice guideline: assessment and management of acute opioid toxicity in adults in the emergency department ...

2 Department of Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to Alistair Ivan William Mayne, Department of Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic ...

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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Correspondence to Dr Chinedu Ulrich Ebenebe, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; c.ebenebe{at}uke.de Background Endotracheal tube (ETT) malposition ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 3 School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 4 ...

Introduction The aim of this study was to compare a combination of three commonly used tests to identify scaphoid fractures with MRI in patients with normal x-ray after a wrist trauma. Patients and ...