A short-cut systematic review was carried out to establish if strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ED could succeed while maintaining comparable care standards. Of 2914 papers found in ...

Effective communication between the physician and patient is required for optimum post-emergency department management. Written emergency department discharge instructions, when used to complement ...

Correspondence to Professor Clint Hendrikse, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care, University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, Western ...

Background Forearm fractures are a common ED presentation. This study aimed to compare the resource utilisation of three anaesthetic techniques used for closed forearm fracture reduction in the ED: ...

Background One of the reasons physiotherapy services are provided to emergency departments (EDs) and emergency extended care units (EECUs) is to review patients' mobility to ensure they are safe to be ...

1 Department of Neurology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Ramón Y Cajal, Madrid, Spain Correspondence to: R Toledano Department of Neurology, ...

Emergency Department, Hospital de Bellvitge, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Correspondence to: A Juan Emergency Department, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Feixa Llarga s/n 08907 ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether nail removal and nail bed repair is better than simple trephining in patients with significant subungual haematoma. Altogether 312 papers were ...

The University of Birmingham, School of Health Sciences, The Medical School, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Mr T Kilner, The University of Birmingham, School of Health Sciences, The Medical School, ...

2 Department of Medicine, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to: Jean-Luc af Geijerstam Department of Medicine N4:01, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Changwon Fatima Hospital, Changwon, Republic of Korea Dr J W Park, Department of Emergency Medicine, Changwon Fatima Hospital, 212 Myeongseo-Dong, Changwon, 641–560, ...

Objectives & Background We aimed to determine the effectiveness of pre-hospital continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or bi-level inspiratory positive airway pressure (BiPAP) compared with usual ...