Background Haemorrhage is a major cause of mortality and morbidity following both military and civilian trauma. Haemostatic dressings may offer effective haemorrhage control as part of prehospital ...
Background There are approximately 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in the United Kingdom (UK) each year. Within the UK there are well-established clinical practice guidelines that define ...
Correspondence to Dr James David van Oppen, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; jvo3{at}leicester.ac.uk Objectives To evaluate the expectations and preferred ...
In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term the “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961, but because of misinterpretation as to ...
Background The number of trauma patients in the East of England Trauma Network has been steadily increasing since 2013, raising concerns about whether the existing design (one Major Trauma Centre (MTC ...
Etimbuk Umana, Hannah Norman-Bruce, Clare Mills, Oenone Rodgers, Hannah Mitchell, Lisa McFetridge, Gareth McKeeman, Steve Foster, Michael Barrett, Damian Roland, Mark ...
3 University of Western Australia, Perth; New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to: L Murray Emergency ...
Background Understanding the views and opinions of ambulance clinicians about counter-terrorism is limited, as are the roles they have in identifying individuals vulnerable to radicalisation. The aim ...
Background Exit block (or access block) occurs when ‘patients in the ED requiring inpatient care are unable to gain access to appropriate hospital beds within a reasonable time frame’. Exit block is ...
Background The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the ...
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Background An acute scrotum is an urological emergency. One of its most important causes is testicular torsion, which can result in testicular necrosis unless quickly diagnosed and treated. Along with ...
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