1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...
4 Department of General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK 5 Pre-Hospital Emergency Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine Correspondence to: Dr P Bennett Bristol ...
Correspondence to: MrHywel Hughes Emergency Department, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Croesnewydd Road, Wrexham, Wales, UK; Hywel.hughes{at}new-tr.wales.nhs.uk Objectives: To assess the scale of drink ...
3 Department of Public Health, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Correspondence to Dr Darryl Wood, Nelson Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, University of Kwazulu ...
4 Department of Psychology, Marldon Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK Correspondence to Dr Adam Reuben, Emergency Department, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 ...
Background In 2015, Ambulance Service Medical Directors raised concerns regarding a perceived increase in suicide deaths among ambulance service staff. The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives ...
University of Florida Jacksonville, Department of Internal Medicine, Jacksonville, USA Correspondence to: F J Arnaldo University of Florida Jacksonville, Department of Internal Medicine, Jacksonville, ...
This is the second paper on research in accident and emergency medicine. It discusses the potential for research in A&E medicine and how to identify a good research question.
OBJECTIVES: To determine how British Thoracic Society (BTS) guidelines for the management of spontaneous pneumothorax have been implemented over a four year period in a large district general hospital ...
Introduction There is a lack of indicators to guide quality improvement activities in virtual emergency medicine internationally. We developed quality indicators for use across a collaboration of four ...
Background The use and assessment of non-technical skills (NTS) in healthcare has gained recognition in recent years. Mainly adopted from aviation key NTS have enabled specific teams such as surgical ...
The paper by Body et al is concerned with the evaluation of decision aids, which can be used to identify potential acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the ED. The authors previously developed the ...