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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Olive View Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, David ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Wright, Accident and Emergency Department, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, UK; john.wright{at}nuth.northy.nhs.uk Carbon monoxide is ...

Objectives: This study was designed to investigate the effect on skin temperature of different methods of use of a hydrogel dressing. Methods: Twelve volunteers had temperature measured under a ...

1 Emergency Medicine Research Group, University of Warwick and Walsgrave Hospitals NHS Trust, Coventry 2 Emergency Medicine Research Group, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, University ...

Department of Anaesthetics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. A case of severe methaemoglobinaemia caused by the abuse of volatile nitrites is reported. The agents are commonly abused, but ...

Objective Despite ‘hospital resilience’ gaining prominence in recent years, it remains poorly defined. This article aims to define hospital resilience, build a preliminary conceptual framework and ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether d-dimer concentrations are increased during normal menstruation–. – studies were directly relevant to the question. The author, date and country ...