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The development and evaluation of an evidence-based guideline programme to improve care in a paediatric emergency department
Introduction Care guidelines can improve the quality of care by making current evidence available in a concise format. Emergency departments (EDs) are an ideal site for guidelines given the wide ...
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Evaluating the utility of Rapid Response EEG in emergency care
Correspondence to Dr Prasanthi Govindarajan, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA; pgovinda{at}stanford.edu Background Timely management of ...
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Thunderclap headache syndrome presenting to the emergency department: an international multicentre observational cohort study
Background Most headache presentations to emergency departments (ED) have benign causes; however, approximately 10% will have serious pathology. International guidelines recommend that patients ...
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Complete open dislocation of the talus
Department of Orthopaedics “A”, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre affiliated to the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel Dr Elisha Krasin, Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery, ...
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Sports related fractures in children in north east England
Objective—To describe the epidemiology of fractures among children seen with sports injuries in a district general hospital accident and emergency department. Methods—A prospective study of children ...
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Audit of oxygen use in emergency ambulances and in a hospital emergency department
Respiratory Medicine, Salford Royal Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Salford, UK Dr B R O’Driscoll, Respiratory Medicine, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK; ronan.o'driscoll{at}srft.nhs.uk Background: ...
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Determination of the best early warning scores to predict clinical outcomes of patients in the emergency department
Objective Early warning scores (EWS) are used to predict patient outcomes. We aimed to determine which of 13 EWS, based largely on emergency department (ED) vital sign data, best predict important ...
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The prehospital management of pelvic fractures: initial consensus statement
Correspondence to Professor Keith Porter, Department of Anaesthesia, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen B15 2WB, UK; keith.porter{at}uhb.nhs.uk If you wish to reuse ...
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The four hour target in Western Australia: a progress report
Correspondence to Professor Geoffrey Hughes, Emergency, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia; cchdhb{at}yahoo.com In January the government of Western ...
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Performance of the MEDS score in predicting mortality among emergency department patients with a suspected infection: a meta-analysis
Correspondence to Dr Zhongheng Zhang, Department of Emergency Medicine, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; zh_zhang1984{at}zju.edu.cn ...
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The Manchester triage system: improvements for paediatric emergency care
1 Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Center for Medical Decision Making, Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department ...
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Emergency focussed assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) and haemodynamic stability
Department of Emergency Medicine, Ngwelezana Hospital, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa Correspondence to Dr Zoë A Smith, Ngwelezana Hospital Emergency Department, Empangeni, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa; ...