Background Physician-based prehospital teams provide advanced critical care services in the UK (eg, prehospital anaesthesia). The last review of such teams in 2009, which included England, Wales and ...

A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether tranexamic acid improves outcomes for patients with life-threatening haematuria. Sixteen papers were found in Medline using the reported searches ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 4 Graduate ...

Correspondence to: B P Shravat Department of Accident and Emergency, Barnet Hospital, Barnet, EN5 3DJ, UK; brijendra.shravat{at}bcf.nhs.uk Objectives: To answer concerns related to implementation of ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine and the Section of Critical Care Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Cooper Health System, ...

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 ...

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Correspondence to Dr Akira Kuriyama, Department of Health Informatics, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; akira.kuriyama.jpn{at}gmail.com Objective The Japan Acuity and ...

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 ...