Community emergency medicine: a service review of patients that sustain head injuries in the community—can early intervention ...

Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...

Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Dr J J Brywczynski, Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt ...

Footnotes Funding The Clinical Safety Research Unit is affiliated with the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust which is funded by the National ...

Correspondence to Dr Francesca Maria Trovato, Department of Clinical and Experimental medicine, Emergency Medicine unit, Universita degli Studi di Catania Scuola di Facolta di Medicina, Catania 95123, ...

Management of patients with suspected but unidentified poisoning in the emergency department: a joint Royal College of Emergency Medicine and National Poisons Information Service best practice ...

Background The SADPERSONS Scale is commonly used as a screening tool for suicide risk in those who have self-harmed. It is also used to determine psychiatric treatment needs in those presenting to ...

5 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA ...

Objectives To gather data on the ages and weights of children aged between 1 and 16 years in order to assess the validity of the current weight estimation formula ‘Weight(kg)=2(age+4)’ and the newly ...

Acute hyperkalaemia is a potentially life-threatening electrolyte disturbance frequently encountered in emergency departments. Timely recognition and appropriate treatment are critical to prevent ...

Objectives & Background The safety of intravenous ketamine in procedural sedation is well described. 1 2 Guidelines produced by NICE 3 and the College of Emergency Medicine 4 are used by Emergency ...

Objectives To assess if a nurse-led application of a paediatric head injury clinical decision tool would be safe compared with current practice. Methods All paediatric (<17 years) patients with head ...