Introduction Analysis of adverse events in the Emergency Department (ED) reveals that contributory factors commonly relate to non-technical skills such as decision-making. Crisis Resource Management ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan 2 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Ivor Popovich, Critical Care, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland 1023, New Zealand; ivor.popovich{at}xtra.co.nz Background Framing bias occurs when people make a decision based on ...

This paper discusses the findings of a literature review of case based learning (CBL) from a multidisciplinary health science education perspective and attempts to draw comparisons with the available ...

Background: Heatstroke is a medical emergency that results from failure of thermoregulatory mechanism coupled with an exaggerated acute phase response, causing an elevation in core body temperature ...

We begin this month’s issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal with a focus on Patient Experience. We all know that currently it is hard to offer an excellent patient experience when our departments ...

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