Accident and Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. OBJECTIVE--To examine the management of traumatic pneumothorax in a department where some of these injuries do not receive chest drains ...

Correspondence to Professor Yann-Erick Claessens, Department of Emergency Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace, 1 avenue Pasteur BP489, Principalty of Monaco MC-98012, Monaco; ...

Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Mr K Allison Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson ...

1 St George's Healthcare NHS Trust, Anaesthetic Department, London, UK 2 Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London UK Correspondence to Dr Claas Siegmueller, St George's ...

Background Community emergency medicine (CEM) aims to bring highly skilled, expert medical care to the patient outside of the traditional ED setting. Currently, there are several different CEM models ...

Correspondence to Dr Prasanthi Govindarajan, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA; pgovinda{at}stanford.edu Background Timely management of ...

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, ...

Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...

1 School of Public Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town & Stellenbosch University, Capetown, South Africa 3 Occupational ...

Correspondence to: Dr S E Kim Emergency Department, Chung-Ang University Hospital, 224-1 Heukseok-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul 156-755, Korea; emkse{at}cau.ac.kr A 32-year-old woman without a remarkable ...