Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...

Background Most headache presentations to emergency departments (ED) have benign causes; however, approximately 10% will have serious pathology. International guidelines recommend that patients ...

Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Mr K Allison Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson ...

Correspondence to Dr Prasanthi Govindarajan, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA; pgovinda{at}stanford.edu Background Timely management of ...

Correspondence to: Dr S E Kim Emergency Department, Chung-Ang University Hospital, 224-1 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-755, Korea; emkse{at}cau.ac.kr A 32-year-old woman without a remarkable ...

Department of Orthopaedics “A”, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Dr Elisha Krasin, Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery, ...

1 School of Public Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town & Stellenbosch University, Capetown, South Africa 3 Occupational ...

Correspondence to Professor Geoffrey Hughes, Emergency, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia; cchdhb{at}yahoo.com In January the government of Western ...

3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Gayle Elizabeth McLelland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, PO BOx 527, ...

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, ...

Objectives: This study was designed to investigate the effect on skin temperature of different methods of use of a hydrogel dressing. Methods: Twelve volunteers had temperature measured under a ...

Department of Anaesthetics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. A case of severe methaemoglobinaemia caused by the abuse of volatile nitrites is reported. The agents are commonly abused, but ...