Correspondence to Dr Andrew Christian Stevens, Department of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1050 Wishard Blvd Rm RG2200, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; ...

Background The dogma that traumatic wounds should not be sutured after 6 h is based on an animal experiment by P L Friedrich in 1898. There is no adequately powered prospective study on this cut-off ...

Correspondence to Dr Mohammed Qandil, Palestinian Ministry of Health, Gaza, Palestine; mohpalga88{at}gmail.com Dr Mohammed Qandil, an Emergency Medicine and Critical Care consultant and member of the ...

1 Centre for Prehospital Research, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland 2 Centre for Emergency Medical Science, School of Medicine & Medical Sciences, University ...

Background In 2015, Ambulance Service Medical Directors raised concerns regarding a perceived increase in suicide deaths among ambulance service staff. The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives ...

Study objective—To investigate the correlation between the Respi-check sensor and simultaneous chest auscultation in determining the respiratory rates in adults. Methods—Random visits to a local ...

Aims, Objectives and Background HealthCall is a digital health initiative that aims to reduce emergency department attendances by upskilling care home staff to use app-based technology whereby ...

Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...

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 ...

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Department of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, West Sussex, England Correspondence to: MrM S Lloyd The Hospital Royal Free, 3rd Floor, Dawson Ward, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG; ...

Objective It is often asserted that the crowding phenomenon in emergency departments (ED) can be explained by an increase in visits considered as non-urgent. The aim of our study was to quantify the ...