1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2 Department of Critical and Emergency Medicine, Showa University hospital, Tokyo, Japan Introduction The ...

Background Emergency medicine is a high-pressured specialty with exposure to disturbing events and risk. We conducted a qualitative study to identify which clinical events resulted in emotional ...

Objectives—To describe the diagnostic errors occurring in a busy district general hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department over four years. Method—All diagnostic errors discovered by or ...

Background Severe sepsis is likely to account for around 37 000 deaths annually in the UK. Five years after the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) care bundles were published, care ...

Objective The validated Predicting Abusive Head Trauma (PredAHT) clinical prediction tool calculates the probability of abusive head trauma (AHT) in children <3 years of age who have sustained ...

2 Centre for Clinical Trials and Population Studies, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK 3 Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre ...

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 ...

Results In patients with COPD receiving supplemental oxygen, oxygen saturations above 92% were associated with higher mortality and an adverse dose–response. Compared with the 88%–92% group, the ...

Background The third international consensus definition for sepsis recommended use of a new prognostic tool, the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA), based on its ability to predict ...

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 ...

Objective To describe the population of patients who attend emergency departments (ED) in England for mental health reasons. Methods Cross-sectional observational study of 6 262 602 ED attendances at ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...