A retrospective survey of over 2000 patients with inversion injuries of the ankle joint was undertaken to examine the validity of criteria commonly used in an accident and emergency department to ...

Background Complications in early pregnancy, such as threatened or actual miscarriage is a common occurrence resulting in many women presenting to the emergency department (ED). Early pregnancy ...

Introduction Recent evidence suggests that presenting GCS may be higher in older rather than younger patients for an equivalent anatomical severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The aim of this ...

Background Analgesia is an important component for patient well-being, but commonly delayed during trauma resuscitation. The Pharmacists in Trauma trial assessed the effects of integrating pharmacists ...

2 Centre for Clinical Trials and Population Studies, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK 3 Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre ...

Background Data on the safety of non-transport decisions for paediatric patients attended by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are lacking. We describe the characteristics and outcomes of paediatric ...

Background There has been little research into the prehospital management of cardiac arrest following hanging despite it being among the most prevalent methods of suicide worldwide. The aim of this ...

Correspondence to Tansel Yilmaz, Department of Neurology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Hilvarenbeekseweg 60, 5022 GC Tilburg, The Netherlands; t.yilmaz{at}elisabeth.nl Objectives To determine the ...

Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...

Correspondence to Dr T E Martin, Anaesthetic Department MP 25, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester SO22 5DG, UK; Terry.Martin{at}wehct.nhs.uk Pulmonary thromboembolism has an incidence of more ...

3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Gayle Elizabeth McLelland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, PO BOx 527, ...

3 Editor in Chief, European Journal of Emergency Medicine, Hong Kong, China 4 Former Editor in Chief, Academic Emergency Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 5 Editor in Chief, Canadian Journal of ...