Are there differences in low-acuity emergency department visits between culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and people with English-speaking background: a population-based linkage study of ...

Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle and Department of Clinical Toxicology and Pharmacology, Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Australia Correspondence to: Dr G K ...

Background Blood transfusion for bleeding trauma patients is a promising pre-hospital intervention with potential to improve outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which patients may benefit from ...

1 Emergency Medicine Research Group, University of Warwick and Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust, Coventry 2 Emergency Medicine Research Group, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University ...

Objective To describe trends regarding snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) from 2004 to 2010. Methods The NPIS telephone enquiry database, the UK Poisons ...

1 Paris Descartes University, Faculty of Medicine; Assistance Publique—Hôpitaux de Paris; Department of Emergency Medicine, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France 2 Paris Descartes University, Faculty of ...

Department of Anaesthetics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. A case of severe methaemoglobinaemia caused by the abuse of volatile nitrites is reported. The agents are commonly abused, but ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ...

Objectives—To validate an accident and emergency (A&E) based approach to assisting early discharge or avoiding admission to acute hospital beds by means of two separate teams, one in hospital and the ...

Purpose/Background—Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is usually a blinding event, and is not an infrequent presentation to the accident and emergency (A&E) department. The evidence-base in ...

National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Dargan, National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, Avonley Road, ...

Objective—To assess the complication rate of tube thoracostomy in trauma. To consider whether this rate is high enough to support a selective reduction in the indications for tube thoracostomy in ...