Correspondence to Dr Margaret Samuels-Kalow, Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; msamuels-kalow{at}partners.org The use of telemedicine has grown immensely ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, Devon, UK 2 Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Correspondence to: A Appelboam Department of ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Kocaeli Universtiy, Kocaeli, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr S Yanturali Dokuz Eylul ...

The use of dock leaves to ease the discomfort of nettle stings is a well-known folk remedy in the British Isles, yet has never been tested in a clinical trial. A group of Emergency Department doctors ...

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. Airbags drastically reduce both morbidity and mortality from crashes, but with the increased use of airbags ...

A short-cut review was performed to evaluate whether inflammatory markers such as C reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), white cell count (WCC) and procalcitonin (PCT) are ...

Objectives—For pre-hospital spinal immobilisation the spinal board is the established gold standard. There are concerns that its subsequent use in hospital may adversely affect patient outcome. This ...

Background Increasing numbers of older patients are presenting to the ED following trauma. These patients require multidisciplinary care that the traditional trauma model fails to provide. A Silver ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey 2 Department of General Surgery, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey Correspondence to ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. OBJECTIVE--To examine the management of traumatic pneumothorax in a department where some of these injuries do not receive chest drains ...

Objectives—To study the current practice of rapid sequence intubations (RSIs) in four different emergency medicine training programmes in the UK. Methods—Observational study design involving four ...

Olanzapine postinjection delirium/sedation syndrome after long-acting olanzapine depot injection presenting to the emergency department: practical guidelines for diagnosis and management ...