Department of Emergency Medicine, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Cnr Hawkesbury Road and Hainsworth Street, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia The incidence of anaphylaxis is under-reported. Children ...
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ...
A short-cut review of the literature was carried out to examine the benefits of caffeine as an analgesic adjunct in tension-type and migraine-type headache. Six papers were identified as suitable for ...
Aims/Objectives/Background Sepsis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and many tools exist to facilitate early recognition. The current international ...
Background/objectives A variety of interventions have been proposed to manage rising demand for Emergency and Urgent Care, described by an NHS England review as unsustainable in the long term. However ...
4 Department of Medicine and Radiology, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 7 Australasian Cochrane Centre, School of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, ...
Objectives To establish the accuracy of emergency department (ED) nursing staff risk assessment using an established chest pain risk score alone and when incorporated with presentation ...
1 Pre-hospital, Emergency and Cardiovascular Care Applied Research Group, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, UK Objective Compared with no music (NM), does listening ...
Objectives Massive transfusion protocols (MTPs) may improve survival in patients with uncontrolled haemorrhage. An MTP was introduced into the Dutch transfusion guidelines in 2011, the ninth edition ...
A retrospective survey of over 2000 patients with inversion injuries of the ankle joint was undertaken to examine the validity of criteria commonly used in an accident and emergency department to ...
Objective The potential increased risk of an emergency response using a rapid response vehicle (RRV) should only be accepted when it allows a clinically significant time saving for management of ...
Correspondence to Dr Rob Mitchell, Emergency and Trauma Centre, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia; ro.mitchell{at}alfred.org.au The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will ...