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Background Patients with end-of-life care (EoLC) needs present to the emergency departments (ED) frequently and at times, it can be difficult to provide a high standard of care. Within the Irish ...

Are there differences in low-acuity emergency department visits between culturally and linguistically diverse migrants and people with English-speaking background: a population-based linkage study of ...

Ultrasound is widely used in the US and continental Europe in the immediate assessment of patients after blunt abdominal trauma. There are also now other recognised “primary” indications for ...

2 School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia Correspondence to: Dr M Ziman School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science, Edith Cowan University, ...

This is the second paper on research in accident and emergency medicine. It discusses the potential for research in A&E medicine and how to identify a good research question.

Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle and Department of Clinical Toxicology and Pharmacology, Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Australia Correspondence to: Dr G K ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, Barbados 2 School of Clinical Medicine and Research, University of the West Indies, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown, ...

Victims of near hanging are being increasingly seen in accident and emergency (A&E) department. This paper reports on seven cases of near hanging seen over four years in a district general hospital.

Background Acute coronary syndromes remain a leading cause of preventable early deaths. However, previous studies have indicated that paramedics' compliance with chest pain protocols is suboptimal and ...

Correspondence to Domagoj Schunk, Department of Anaesthesiology, University Hospital, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, Regensburg 93053, Germany; domagojschunk{at}yahoo.de Objective The aim of this study ...

3 South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK Background Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an antifibrinolytic drug used to prevent bleeding. It was introduced as an intervention for ...