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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Trauma involving the parotid gland is rare and is usually caused by penetrating injuries or fractures of the facial skeleton. A unique case is presented of rupture of the parotid gland after a minor ...
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 ...
Venous thromboembolic disease is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality. An estimated 10 million episodes are diagnosed yearly; over half of these episodes are provoked by hospital ...
Objective:: In 2002 a new protocol was introduced based on the Canadian CT rules. Before this the Royal College of Surgeons “Galasko” report guidelines had been followed. This study evaluates the ...
Methods/Design Patients presenting with ankle injuries to an emergency department (ED) in England between June 2015 and November 2020 were identified retrospectively through a clinical-coding search.
This retrospective case series determined documentation quality and likelihood of safeguarding issues in girls aged 0–15 years with perineal and genital injuries presenting to a paediatric emergency ...
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 ...
Correspondence to: B P Shravat Department of Accident and Emergency, Barnet Hospital, Barnet, EN5 3DJ, UK; brijendra.shravat{at}bcf.nhs.uk Objectives: To answer concerns related to implementation of ...