Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...

Correspondence to Dr Prasanthi Govindarajan, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA; pgovinda{at}stanford.edu Background Timely management of ...

Background Blood transfusion for bleeding trauma patients is a promising pre-hospital intervention with potential to improve outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which patients may benefit from ...

Department of Orthopaedics “A”, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Dr Elisha Krasin, Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery, ...

1 School of Public Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town & Stellenbosch University, Capetown, South Africa 3 Occupational ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea Dr S P Chung, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Gangnam ...

Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...

The importance of the electrocardiographic differential diagnosis of ST segment depression in patients presenting with acute chest pain is discussed.

Background Most headache presentations to emergency departments (ED) have benign causes; however, approximately 10% will have serious pathology. International guidelines recommend that patients ...

Dr L Moore, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, 5 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6SP, UK; lynda.moore{at}southwarkpct.nhs.uk Background: There is a significant literature examining the reasons ...

Background Nausea and vomiting is a common ED chief complaint. However, randomised trials comparing antiemetic agents to placebo have not demonstrated superiority. This systematic review investigates ...

Objective Despite ‘hospital resilience’ gaining prominence in recent years, it remains poorly defined. This article aims to define hospital resilience, build a preliminary conceptual framework and ...