Background Physician-based prehospital teams provide advanced critical care services in the UK (eg, prehospital anaesthesia). The last review of such teams in 2009, which included England, Wales and ...

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Department of Cardiac Rhythm Management, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK Yaver Bashir, Department of Cardiac Rhythm Management, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 4 Graduate ...

Background Early warning scores (EWS) were developed in acute hospital settings to improve recognition and response to patient deterioration. In 2012, the UK Royal College of Physicians developed the ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine and the Section of Critical Care Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Cooper Health System, ...

Objectives—To describe the diagnostic errors occurring in a busy district general hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department over four years. Method—All diagnostic errors discovered by or ...

Correspondence to Dr Akira Kuriyama, Department of Health Informatics, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; akira.kuriyama.jpn{at}gmail.com Objective The Japan Acuity and ...

Objectives: To examine the emerging role of the emergency care practitioner (ECP) with comparisons to paramedic practice. Key activities were identified of newly appointed ECPs using qualitative ...

Correspondence to Dr Andre Briosa e Gala, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK; andre.gala{at}ouh.nhs.uk ...

A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether tranexamic acid improves outcomes for patients with life-threatening haematuria. Sixteen papers were found in Medline using the reported searches ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon ...