What this study adds In an observational study of 2645 consecutive patients admitted with COPD exacerbation to 1 of 6 UK hospitals, 1027 had oxygen therapy at admission. In those treated with oxygen, ...

Correspondence to Dr Rob Mitchell, Emergency and Trauma Centre, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia; ro.mitchell{at}alfred.org.au The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic will ...

Pre-hospital Care Research Unit, Department of Academic Emergency Medicine, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK Correspondence to: Mr M Woollard The James Cook University Hospital, ...

Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...

2 Centre for Clinical Research in Emergency Medicine, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Methods A search of the relevant literature was performed ...

Correspondence to: Dr P Leman Emergency Department, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, WA 6001, Australia; peter.lemanhealth.wa.gov.au Objective: To determine whether using intravenous ...

Objectives: To produce an easily understood and accessible tool for use by researchers in diagnostic studies. Diagnostic studies should have sample size calculations performed, but in practice, they ...

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Objective We sought to determine the performance characteristics of remifentanil as an agent of procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) for adult and paediatric patients undergoing procedures similar ...

1 Clinical Effectiveness Committee, College of Emergency Medicine, London, UK 2 Clinical Standards Department, Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK ...

1 Emergency Department Clinical Research Group, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2 The Migrant Health Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s, University ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether nail removal and nail bed repair is better than simple trephining in patients with significant subungual haematoma. Altogether 312 papers were ...