BMJ2d
Admissions to intensive care units from emergency departments: a descriptive study
Objectives: To describe the case mix, activity, and outcome for admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) from emergency departments (EDs). Design: An observational study using data from a high ...
BMJ5d
How well informed are patients when leaving the emergency department? comparing information provided and information retained
2 Institut de Psychologie du Travail et des Organisations, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Yvonne Bogenstätter, Institut de Psychologie du Travail et des ...
BMJ5d
Comparison of four decision aids for the early diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department
Objectives To directly compare the diagnostic accuracy of four decision aids (Troponin-only Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (T-MACS), History, ECG, Age, Risk factors and Troponin (HEART), ...
BMJ5d
The human bite injury: a clinical audit and discussion regarding the management of this alcohol fuelled phenomenon
Background: Human bite injuries are both deceptive and challenging in their presentation and management. They remain a frequent presentation to our unit, most often following late night alcohol ...
BMJ5d
A randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of double Tubigrip in grade 1 and 2 (mild to moderate) ankle sprains
Objective—To compare functional outcome in patients with acute grade 1 or 2 (mild to moderate) lateral ankle sprains randomised to treatment with or without a double tubigrip bandage (DTG).
BMJ5d
Decision analytical modelling of strategies for investigating suspected acute aortic syndrome
Background Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) requires urgent diagnosis with computed tomographic angiography (CTA). Diagnostic strategies need to weigh the benefits of detecting AAS against the costs of ...
BMJ6d
Incision and drainage preferable to oral antibiotics in acute paronychial nail infection?
A short cut review was carried out to establish whether incision and drainage or antibiotics was best for acute paronychia. No relevant papers were found using the reported search. There is currently ...
BMJ7d
Impact of introducing a major trauma network on a regional helicopter emergency medicine service in the UK
Introduction In the West Midlands region of the UK, the delivery of prehospital trauma care has recently been remodelled through the introduction of a regionalised major trauma network (MTN).
BMJ8d
Polymethylmethacrylate cement pulmonary embolism and infarct
Correspondence to Dr Andrew Christian Stevens, Department of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1050 Wishard Blvd Rm RG2200, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; ...
BMJ8d
Culture of safety in an adult and paediatric emergency department before and after the COVID-19 pandemic
Background The WHO recognises patient safety as a serious public health problem. The COVID-19 pandemic affected adult EDs (AEDs) and paediatric EDs (PEDs) differently. We compared the culture of ...
BMJ9d
Is time to closure a factor in the occurrence of infection in traumatic wounds? A prospective cohort study in a Dutch level 1 trauma centre
Background The dogma that traumatic wounds should not be sutured after 6 h is based on an animal experiment by P L Friedrich in 1898. There is no adequately powered prospective study on this cut-off ...
BMJ11d
External validation of the DIVA and DIVA3 clinical predictive rules to identify difficult intravenous access in paediatric patients
Correspondence to Dr Silvia Bressan, Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova 35128, Italy; silviabress{at}gmail.com Background Intravenous (IV) peripheral access is ...