University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, City General Hospital, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, UK Correspondence to Dr Ruth Kinston, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, ...

Aims: To describe the nature, frequency, and characteristics of adult critical care transfers originating from the emergency department (ED). Methods: A one year prospective regional descriptive study ...

Background Diagnosing pulmonary embolism (PE) can be a difficult process for junior doctors, because it relies on clinical probability scoring and knowledge of how to apply and interpret D-dimer, VQ ...

Correspondence to: H R Guly Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK; henry.guly{at}phnt.swest.nhs.uk We describe five cases of scombroid that presented ...

A new clinic was set up to deal with all toenail problems referred to a large general hospital. Ingrowing toenails were the commonest problem dealt with and phenol cauterization, either partial or ...

2 Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Background A new pre-triage screening tool, Nature of Call (NoC), has been introduced into the ...

Aims/Objectives/Background In Manchester Royal Infirmary, a major trauma centre, there are many patient presentations which require fast acting analgesia. Often these ...

Correspondence to Dr Keith A Marill, Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Place, Suite 3B, Boston, MA 02114, USA; kmarill{at}mgh.harvard.edu Emergency physicians use ...

A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether augmentation of blood pressure to a high mean arterial pressure (MAP) target in the early phase of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) could lead ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Mt Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2 Sunnybrook-Osler Centre for Prehospital Care and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of ...