Background Despite pronounced increases in homelessness and mental health problems in the USA over the past decade, further ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr S Verelst, Emergency Department, University Hospitals Leuven, Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; sandra.verelst{at}uzleuven.be Study objective The epidemiology, management and ...

Emergency medicine in The Netherlands is faced with an increasing interest by politicians and stakeholders in health care. This is due to crowding, increasing costs, criticism of the quality of ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Birmingham, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr I Velissariou Accident and Emergency, Department, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse, ...

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. Airbags drastically reduce both morbidity and mortality from crashes, but with the increased use of airbags ...

Background Patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke commonly present first to the ambulance service. Little is known about experiences of prehospital care which are ...

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 ...

2 South Yorkshire Cardiac Centre, Chesterman Unit, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK 3 Deparment of Cardiology, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Paul D Morris, ...

In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term the “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961, but because of misinterpretation as to ...

Objectives Many drug and fluid regimens in emergency medicine are weight dependent in adults, but no standard adult weight estimation tools exist. Paediatric weight is often estimated in emergency ...

Objectives: To describe the injuries misdiagnosed as a sprain of the wrist and to determine the approximate incidence of misdiagnosis in patients diagnosed as having a sprain of the wrist. Methods: ...