Aim To improve the detection and quality of care of patients who attend the emergency department (ED) with confirmed or suspected domestic abuse (DA). Design A quality improvement report on the design ...

Symptomatic sinus bradycardia is routinely treated in the emergency department with atropine and pacing. Two cases are presented that illustrate the importance of considering hyperkalaemia, ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether a normal serum amylase value rules out the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis. Altogether 191 papers were found using the reported search, of which ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Klina Hospital, Brasschaat, Belgium 3 Department of Emergency ...

1 Emergency Medical Service Department, Beaujon University Hospital, Clichy, France 2 Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Beaujon University Hospital, Clichy, France 3 Department of ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Changwon Fatima Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea Dr J W Park, Department of Emergency Medicine, Changwon Fatima Hospital, 212 Myeongseo-Dong, Changwon, 641–560, ...

1 Department of Neurology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Ramón Y Cajal, Madrid, Spain Correspondence to: R Toledano Department of Neurology, ...

3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany Correspondence to PD Dr Christoph H R Wiese, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Centre ...

Background One of the reasons physiotherapy services are provided to emergency departments (EDs) and emergency extended care units (EECUs) is to review patients' mobility to ensure they are safe to be ...

Background The concept of situation awareness (SA) has become a core theme throughout human factors research. SA is a cognitive process, put simply, it refers to a person’s ability to be aware of what ...