Background Healthcare professionals commonly believe that saying the word ‘quiet’ can jinx a shift and lead to increased workload or particularly unwell patients. A previous small integrative review ...

4 AP-HP Nord, Emergency Department, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, Paris, France 5 AP-HP Nord, Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Department, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, ...

Objective Paramedics are at the forefront of emergency healthcare. Quick and careful decision making is required to effectively care for their patients; however, excessive sleepiness has the potential ...

2 Centre for Clinical Trials and Population Studies, Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth, UK 3 Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre ...

Background Prereduction radiographs are conventionally used to exclude fracture before attempts to reduce a dislocated shoulder in the ED. However, this step increases cost, exposes patients to ...

Objective To identify studies describing the accuracy of prehospital sepsis identification and to summarise results of studies of prehospital management of patients with sepsis, severe sepsis or ...

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 ...

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Cardiac troponin (cTn) is a highly specific biomarker of myocardial injury and is central to the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). By itself, however, cTn cannot identify the cause of ...

Background Analgesia is an important component for patient well-being, but commonly delayed during trauma resuscitation. The Pharmacists in Trauma trial assessed the effects of integrating pharmacists ...

Background In order to deliver safe and effective healthcare to patients the NHS needs to create a good working environment for its staff. Healthcare professionals report high levels of physical and ...

Objectives Presentations to ED are growing, worsening pressure on the health system. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was undertaken to determine the factors that influence why patients choose the ...