Accident and Emergency Department, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr F Probst, Accident and Emergency Department, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK Scombrotoxic or ...
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, James Cook Hospital, Middlesborough, Middlesborough, UK This paper reviews the ...
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK Correspondence to Mark Newton, North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Ladybridge Hall, 399 Chorley New Road, Bolton, Greater ...
Dr N C Collins, Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Galway, Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland; nievoc{at}yahoo.co.uk Aims: The use of ice or cryotherapy in the management of acute soft ...
Background The Need for Recovery (NFR) Scale is an 11-item questionnaire that assesses how work affects intershift recovery. Items are summated to form a score with a maximum value of 100. Previously ...
Correspondence to: Dr P Kaye, Emergency Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK Cardiac contusion is an infrequent but occasionally serious complication of ...
Background Sepsis is associated with a 36% mortality rate rising up to 50% for septic shock. Currently when an East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) clinician recognises ‘red flag’ sepsis, only the ...
4 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK 8 Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Dr M J G ...
Objective: To devise a physiology-based scoring system for assessment of children presenting to the emergency department (ED) and to validate the system retrospectively. Study design: Age-dependent ...
Improving the care not just the figures We are all too well aware of the problems of waits in emergency health care. They are consistently the issues that the public and media comment about when asked ...
Dr C A Papadopoulos, Abbotswood Gardens, Clayhall, Essex IG5 0BG, UK; Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK; christina.papadopoulos{at}imperial.ac.uk Capecitabine (Xeloda) is an oral ...
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, St. James University Hospital, University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK Correspondence to Dr Ewan Alexander Barron, Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Basement floor Beckett ...