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Falls occur increasingly frequently with age. 35% of people aged over 65 fall each year rising to 50% at age 85. Many patients fall repeatedly. 56% of patients attending an emergency department were ...
1 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth, UK Correspondence to: Mr H Sharma ...
Introduction Emergency department (ED) crowding has significant adverse consequences, however, there is no widely accepted tool to measure it. This study validated the National Emergency Department ...
Correspondence to Dr Jestin N Carlson, Department of Emergency Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Saint Vincent Hospital, 232 West 25th St, Erie, PA 16544, USA; jcarlson{at}svhs.org Background While ...
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Regent Court, UK Correspondence to Professor Steve Goodacre, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of ...
In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term the “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961, but because of misinterpretation as to ...
Background and objectives: The consequences of missing fever in children can be grave. Body temperature is commonly recorded at the axilla but accuracy is a problem. This study aimed to evaluate the ...
Background Understanding the views and opinions of ambulance clinicians about counter-terrorism is limited, as are the roles they have in identifying individuals vulnerable to radicalisation. The aim ...
Background Severe sepsis is likely to account for around 37 000 deaths annually in the UK. Five years after the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) care bundles were published, care ...
Background Previous studies have indicated that crowding within the emergency department (ED) is associated with longer lengths of stay in the ED and higher mortality. Boarding, the time patients ...
Background The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the ...
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