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Dextrose 10% or 50% in the treatment of hypoglycaemia out of hospital? A randomised controlled trial

1 Pre-hospital Emergency Research Unit, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, Lansdowne Hospital, Cardiff, UK 2 Faculty of Pre-hospital Care Research Unit, the James Cook University Hospital/University ...
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Implementing human factors in clinical practice

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 ...
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The relationship between distance to hospital and patient mortality in emergencies: an observational study

Correspondence to: Professor Jon Nicholl Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK; j.nicholl{at}sheffield.ac.uk Objectives: ...
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2660 Wellbeing interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study

Aims and Objectives Stress and burnout are prevalent among emergency department (ED) staff in the UK, impacting upon staff health, service provision and patient care. The concept of wellbeing ...
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2326 Does a novel ED triage tool for patients aged 65 and over who have fallen less than two metres identify the seriously injured older adult?

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 ...
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Emergency department overcrowding in the United States: an emerging threat to patient safety and public health

1 Department of Emergency Medicine and the Section of Critical Care Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Cooper Health System, ...
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Retention of information by emergency department staff at ambulance handover: do standardised approaches work?

2 Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Anthony Bleetman Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, ...
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The Manchester triage system: improvements for paediatric emergency care

1 Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Center for Medical Decision Making, Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department ...
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Population based epidemiology of ankle sprains attending accident and emergency units in the West Midlands of England, and a survey of UK practice for severe ankle sprains

Objectives: To estimate the incidence of ankle sprains and severe ankle sprains attending accident and emergency (A&E) units; to describe current practice for severe ankle sprains in A&E units in the ...
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BET 3: Peripheral metaraminol infusion in the emergency department

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Pre-hospital spinal immobilisation: an initial consensus statement

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 ...
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The association of paramedic rapid sequence intubation and survival in out-of-hospital stroke

Introduction Ambulance transport of patients with stroke is common, with rapid sequence intubation (RSI) to secure the airway used regularly. Randomised controlled trial evidence exists to support the ...