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Acute urinary retention attributable to sacral herpes zoster
Correspondence to: Dr J Acheson c/o Department of Surgery, Antrim Area Hospital, 45 Bush Road, Antrim BT28 3QE, Northern Ireland; achesonjonnyhotmail.com Acute urinary retention in women is uncommon.
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Video laryngoscopy may improve the intubation outcomes in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials ...
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Preoperative management of the amputated limb
Department of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, West Sussex, England Correspondence to: MrM S Lloyd The Hospital Royal Free, 3rd Floor, Dawson Ward, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG; ...
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Oral methionine compared with intravenous n-acetyl cysteine for paracetamol overdose
A short cut review was carried out to establish whether methionine was better than n-acetyl cysteine at reducing the severity of liver damage after paracetamol overdose. Thirty nine papers were found ...
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Framing of clinical information affects physicians’ diagnostic accuracy
Correspondence to Dr Ivor Popovich, Critical Care, Auckland City Hospital, Auckland 1023, New Zealand; ivor.popovich{at}xtra.co.nz Background Framing bias occurs when people make a decision based on ...
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The minimum clinically significant difference in visual analogue scale pain score does not differ with severity of pain
Correspondence to: Professor Kelly, Department of Emergency Medicine, Western Hospital, Private Bag, Footscray, Vic 3011, Australia (Anne-Maree.Kelly{at}nwhcn.org.au) Objective—To determine whether ...
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A case of familial third ventricular colloid cyst
1 Department of Neurosurgery, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, UK 2 Department of Accident and Emergency, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, UK Colloid cyst of the third ...
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Response time of the Beijing 120 emergency medical service
Background To assess the response time and the details of the operating procedure of the Beijing 120 Emergency Medical Service (EMS). Methods Between June and December 2005, 51 918 EMS cases recorded ...
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Early out-of-hospital non-invasive ventilation is superior to standard medical treatment in patients with acute respiratory failure: a pilot study
1 Department of Anaesthesiology, Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, University Medicine, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany 2 Department of Medical Statistics, Georg-August-University, ...
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Delayed diagnosis of foreign body aspiration in children
1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol, UK 2 Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, Royal Hospital for Children, Bristol Correspondence to: Dr T Hilliard, ...
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Pyrethroid poisoning: features and predictors of atypical presentations
Background Although pyrethroids are known for low toxicity to humans, clinical systemic characteristics of pyrethroid poisoning remain undefined. We investigated atypical presentations of pyrethroid ...
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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 ...