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How emergency physicians use biomarkers: insights from a qualitative assessment of script concordance tests
Correspondence to Professor Yann-Erick Claessens, Department of Emergency Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace, 1 avenue Pasteur BP489, Principalty of Monaco MC-98012, Monaco; ...
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Traumatic pneumothorax: is a chest drain always necessary?
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 ...
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Risk events during intrahospital transport of patients from the emergency department: a prospective observational study
Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...
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Emergency department management of mild traumatic brain injury in the USA
3 Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA Correspondence to: Dr J J Bazarian Department of Emergency Medicine, University of ...
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Thunderclap headache syndrome presenting to the emergency department: an international multicentre observational cohort study
Background Most headache presentations to emergency departments (ED) have benign causes; however, approximately 10% will have serious pathology. International guidelines recommend that patients ...
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PILOT EVALUATION OF UTILISING MENTAL HEALTH NURSES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF AMBULANCE SERVICE PATIENTS WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS
Background The urgent and emergency care review advocates new models of care to provide safer, faster and better care. Available evidence highlights scope for improvement in the delivery of care for ...
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Consensus on the prehospital approach to burns patient management
Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Mr K Allison Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson ...
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Evaluating the utility of Rapid Response EEG in emergency care
Correspondence to Dr Prasanthi Govindarajan, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA; pgovinda{at}stanford.edu Background Timely management of ...
BMJ7d
Isolated cricoid fracture associated with blunt neck trauma
Correspondence to: Dr S E Kim Emergency Department, Chung-Ang University Hospital, 224-1 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-755, Korea; emkse{at}cau.ac.kr A 32-year-old woman without a remarkable ...
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Transport with ongoing resuscitation: a comparison between manual and mechanical compression
Department of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Section Emergency Medicine, Armed Forces Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany Correspondence to Dr Holger Gässler, Armed Forces Medical Centre Ulm, ...
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Community emergency medicine throughout the UK and Ireland: a comparison of current national activity
Background Community emergency medicine (CEM) aims to bring highly skilled, expert medical care to the patient outside of the traditional ED setting. Currently, there are several different CEM models ...