Objective To evaluate whether intra-arrest diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) are associated with improved return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in cardiac arrest.

Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...

2 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Background ...

Background Establishing intravenous access is often vital in an acute hospital setting but can be difficult. Ultrasound-guided cannulation increases success rates in prospective studies. However, ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether nail removal and nail bed repair is better than simple trephining in patients with significant subungual haematoma. Altogether 312 papers were ...

Correspondence to Dr Livia Santiago-Rosado, Emergency Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY 11554, USA; livia1999{at}hotmail.com Several studies have evaluated the practice of ...

Pre-hospital Care Research Unit, Department of Academic Emergency Medicine, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK Correspondence to: Mr M Woollard The James Cook University Hospital, ...

Correspondence to: Mr B McNicholl Emergency Department, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6AB, UK; brian.mcnichollroyalhospitals.n-i.nhs.uk Objective: To see whether three hours of ...

Emergency Department, Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China Correspondence to: Dr C-F Chong Emergency Department, Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, No.95 ...

Defining research priorities in a specialty as broad as emergency medicine is a significant challenge. In order to fund and complete the most important research projects, it is imperative that we ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2 School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, ...

National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr A Jones, National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, Avonley Road, ...