Whooping cough is a notifiable bacterial respiratory infection caused by Bordetella pertussis. It may produce serious disease, especially in immunocompromised individuals and very young children. The ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Wythenswawe Hospital, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: Mr S D Carley, Department of ...

Objectives—For pre-hospital spinal immobilisation the spinal board is the established gold standard. There are concerns that its subsequent use in hospital may adversely affect patient outcome. This ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Dr D M Macgregor, Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Cornhill ...

Objectives: Several trials have been published examining the role of antibiotics in dog bite wound management. A meta-analysis of these suggests that there is very little benefit to routine antibiotic ...

Correspondence to Dr Kashif Waqar Faiz, Akershus University Hospital, Department of Neurology, N-1478 Lørenskog, Norway; kashif.faiz{at}medisin.uio.no Background Early management improves outcome in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...