Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...

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 ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Wright, Accident and Emergency Department, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, UK; john.wright{at}nuth.northy.nhs.uk Carbon monoxide is ...

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 ...

Objectives: To identify the key features of effective clinical supervision in the emergency department (ED) from the perspectives of enthusiastic consultants and specialist registrars. To highlight ...

Suicidal ingestions of fireworks containing yellow phosphorus occur often during holidays. A case is reported of a 17 year old woman who intentionally ingested an estimated amount of 5.5 mg of yellow ...

Department of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, West Sussex, England Correspondence to: MrM S Lloyd The Hospital Royal Free, 3rd Floor, Dawson Ward, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG; ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 3 School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 4 ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrew Christian Stevens, Department of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1050 Wishard Blvd Rm RG2200, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; ...

Objective It is often asserted that the crowding phenomenon in emergency departments (ED) can be explained by an increase in visits considered as non-urgent. The aim of our study was to quantify the ...

Aims, Objectives and Background HealthCall is a digital health initiative that aims to reduce emergency department attendances by upskilling care home staff to use app-based technology whereby ...

1 Centre for Prehospital Research, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland 2 Centre for Emergency Medical Science, School of Medicine & Medical Sciences, University ...