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 ...

Introduction Workforce issues prevail across healthcare; in emergency medicine (EM), previous work improved retention, but the staffing problem changed rather than improved. More experienced doctors ...

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 ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Radiology, Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust Miss Rust, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Royal ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Center for Medical Decision Making, Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department ...

Background: Diagnostic error is a significant problem in emergency medicine, where initial clinical assessment and decision making is often based on incomplete ...