Background Severe sepsis is likely to account for around 37 000 deaths annually in the UK. Five years after the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) care bundles were published, care ...

Background People presenting to the ED with acute severe headache often undergo investigation to exclude subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). International guidelines propose that brain imaging within 6 ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...

Correspondence to: Dr Adrian A Boyle Emergency Department, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ, UK; boylea{at}doctors.org.uk Objective: To establish whether UK emergency physicians ...

Objective: To compare the various paediatric weight estimation methods (Advanced Pediatric Life Support, Broselow Tape, Argall, and Best Guess) and parental estimate to measured weight. Patients and ...

Background Patients taking direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) commonly undergo CT head imaging after minor head injury, regardless of symptoms or signs. However, the risk of intracranial haemorrhage ...

Objective This study determined the impact of the caller’s emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...

A 59-year-old woman self presented to the emergency department with a painful right eye following a motor vehicle accident. She had reduced visual acuity and the eye had an alkaline pH with complete ...

Introduction Interarm systolic BP differential is a classic sign of acute aortic dissection (AAD). All previous studies looking at the association of BP differential with AAD combine systolic BP ...

ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Medical Care Research Unit, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Patricia Coleman, Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; ...

Department of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Section Emergency Medicine, Armed Forces Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany Correspondence to Dr Holger Gässler, Armed Forces Medical Centre Ulm, ...

2 Department of Gastroenterology, General Hospital of Rethymnon, Crete, Greece 3 Department of Anaesthesiology, General Hospital of Rethymnon, Crete, Greece Background: Interhospital transfer imposes ...