Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Correspondence to Professor Mark Hauswald, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of New Mexico, MSC 08 ...

Background There is an urgent need to develop prehospital research capability in order to improve the care of patients presenting to emergency medical services (EMS). The Prehospital Randomised ...

Correspondence to Dr David J Lowe, Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; davidlowe{at}nhs.net Aim We compared the abilities of two established clinical scores ...

National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Dargan, National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, Avonley Road, ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether a normal CT scan within 6 h of onset of a severe, sudden onset headache can be used to rule out a subarachnoid haemorrhage. Four studies were ...

Children’s Emergency Department, United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust, Bristol, UK Dr P Sidebotham, Division of Health in the Community, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK; ...

Objectives Only a small proportion of patients presenting to an ED with headache have a serious cause. The SNNOOP10 criteria, which incorporates red and orange flags for serious causes, has been ...

Introduction For a patient nearing the end of his or her life, transfer from a nursing home to the ED can be inappropriate, with potentially negative consequences, but transfer in these circumstances ...

Objectives: Overdoses account for a quarter of all suicides in England. The number of people who survive the immediate effects of their overdose long enough to reach medical attention, but who ...

An in vivo experimental study was performed of the temperatures produced by a setting plaster cast using hot and cold water. The results confirmed a statistical difference in the temperatures reached ...

Aims, Objectives and Background Corticosteroids can be used to treat idiopathic facial paralysis (Bell’s palsy) in children, but their effectiveness is uncertain. Aims To determine if prednisolone ...

1 Department of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 3 ...