Defining research priorities in a specialty as broad as emergency medicine is a significant challenge. In order to fund and complete the most important research projects, it is imperative that we ...

3 Trent Simulation & Clinical Skills Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK Objectives To understand whether aviation-derived human factors training is acceptable and useful ...

1 Specialist Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK 3 Department of Accident and Emergency ...

Objective To determine if intravenous paracetamol was superior to oral paracetamol as an adjunct to opioids in the management of moderate to severe pain in the ED setting. Methods A prospective, ...

Introduction National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) is widely used to monitor and trigger assessment throughout a patient’s hospital journey. Since the development and role out of NEWS2, its ability ...

Correspondence to: Dr P Kaye, Emergency Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK Cardiac contusion is an infrequent but occasionally serious complication of ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, James Cook Hospital, Middlesborough, Middlesborough, UK This paper reviews the ...

2 Conquest Emergency Department, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Hastings, UK 3 The Royal London Hospital Emergency Department, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK 4 St Mary's Emergency ...

Aims and Objectives The novel ED triage tool was developed after the authors found that 3 current triage tools for older adults injured by low level falls had very low specificity, resulting in ...

Dr C A Papadopoulos, Abbotswood Gardens, Clayhall, Essex IG5 0BG, UK; Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK; christina.papadopoulos{at}imperial.ac.uk Capecitabine (Xeloda) is an oral ...

Correspondence to Dr Brian H Rowe, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta Hospital, 1G1.42 Walter C. Mackenzie Centre, 8440-112 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2B7; ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Bursa Sevket Yılmaz Education and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey 3 ...