Objective: To devise a physiology-based scoring system for assessment of children presenting to the emergency department (ED) and to validate the system retrospectively. Study design: Age-dependent ...

Objectives: To estimate the incidence of ankle sprains and severe ankle sprains attending accident and emergency (A&E) units; to describe current practice for severe ankle sprains in A&E units in the ...

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Introduction Ambulance transport of patients with stroke is common, with rapid sequence intubation (RSI) to secure the airway used regularly. Randomised controlled trial evidence exists to support the ...

1 Specialist Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK 3 Department of Accident and Emergency ...

Correspondence to: Dr A J Gray Emergency Department, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Old Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; alasdair.gray{at}luht.scot.nhs.uk The ...

BACKGROUND: The Manchester triage system (MTS) is now widely used in UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments. No clinical outcome studies have yet been published to validate the system. Safety of ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czechia 2 Department of Military Internal Medicine and Military Hygiene, Military Faculty of Medicine, University of Defence, ...

Objectives: To describe the case mix, activity, and outcome for admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) from emergency departments (EDs). Design: An observational study using data from a high ...

Emergency departments are one of the highest risk areas in health care. Emergency physicians have to assemble and manage unrehearsed multidisciplinary teams with little notice and manage critically ...

Background In 2017, general practitioners in or alongside the emergency department (GPED), an approach that employs GPs in or alongside the ED to address increasing ED demand, was advocated by the ...

Academic Unit of Psychiatry, St. James University Hospital, University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK Correspondence to Dr Ewan Alexander Barron, Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Basement floor Beckett ...