Correspondence to: Professor T J Coats Department of Emergency Medicine, Leicester University, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK; t.coatsvirgin.net The Medicines for ...

Are acute asthma presentations to the emergency department an opportunity for optimising long-term management? A qualitative study on beliefs and behaviours of healthcare professionals ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, UK Correspondence to Dr Jamie G Cooper, Department of ...

Introduction: Clashes between state security forces and civilian populations can lead to mass casualty incidents (MCI), challenging emergency medical service (EMS) systems, hospitals and medical ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr S Sener Attending Physician of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether the Bone Injection Gun is better than a standard intraosseous (IO) needle at obtaining IO access. A total of 129 papers were found using the ...

3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany Correspondence to PD Dr Christoph H R Wiese, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre ...

2 Violence Research Group, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to: Professor J P Shepherd Dental School, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Health ...

Background Community violence is a substantial problem for the NHS. Information sharing of emergency department data with community safety partnerships (CSP) has been associated with substantial ...

Correspondence to: Dr Iain R S Robertson-Steel West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Millennium Point, Waterfront Business Park, Waterfront Way, Brierley Hill, West Midlands DY5 1LX; ...

Background and objective The hypothesis of the present work derives from clinical experience that suggests that patients who are more ill have less facial expression variability in response to ...

Background The pain of renal colic, mediated in part by ureteral spasm and inflammation, is often severe and difficult to control. Salbutamol has been shown to cause ureteral relaxation, but its ...