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WEB6 days ago · Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Emergency Medicine Journal is an international peer reviewed journal covering pre-hospital and hospital emergency medicine, and critical care. The journal publishes original research, evidence-based reviews and commentaries on resuscitation, trauma, minor injuries ...
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WEB6 days ago · August 29, 2024. Research letter. Implementing peer recovery coaches to increase linkages to recovery services among patients with substance use disorders seen in emergency departments. Joseph Carpenter, Umedjon Ibragimov, Alaina Steck, Tatiana Getz, Yan Li, Nicholas Giordano. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2023-213700.
Evidence-based medicine and COVID-19: what to believe and …
WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge of information being presented to clinicians regarding this novel and deadly disease. There is a clear urgency to collate, review, appraise and act on this information if we are to do the best for clinicians and patients. However, the speed of the pandemic is a threat to traditional models of knowledge translation and practice change. In this concepts ...
Updated framework on quality and safety in emergency medicine
WEBObjectives Quality and safety of emergency care is critical. Patients rely on emergency medicine (EM) for accessible, timely and high-quality care in addition to providing a ‘safety-net’ function. Demand is increasing, creating resource challenges in all settings. Where EM is well established, this is recognised through the implementation of quality standards and staff training for patient ...
Association between delays to patient admission from the …
WEBBackground Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient admission from EDs, using Hospital Episode Statistics and Office of National Statistics data in England. Methods A cross-sectional, retrospective observational study was carried out of patients ...
Major burns in adults: a practice review - Emergency Medicine …
WEBThere are approximately 180 000 deaths per year from thermal burn injury worldwide. Most burn injuries can be treated in local hospitals but 6.5% require specialist burn care. The initial ED assessment, resuscitation and critical care of the severely burned patient present significant challenges and require a multidisciplinary approach. The management of these patients in the resuscitation ...
Journal update monthly top five - Emergency Medicine Journal
WEBThis month’s update comes from the Royal Melbourne Hospital ED in Victoria, Australia. We used a multimodal search strategy, drawing on free, open-access medical education resources and literature searches. We identified the five most interesting and relevant papers (decided by consensus) and highlighted the main findings, key limitations and clinical bottom line for each paper.
Journal Update - Emergency Medicine Journal
WEBThe Emergency Medicine Journal has been publishing regular summaries of key publications regarding COVID-19 relevant to Emergency Medicine. While the disease remains with us and still dominates the news, we have broadened this journal update to include original research relevant to topics other than the COVID-19 pandemic that has appeared in both emergency and specialty journals.
Accessing mechanical thrombectomy treatment for stroke in …
WEBSevere disability due to large vessel occlusion (LVO) stroke can be avoided by emergency mechanical thrombectomy (MT)1 but provision varies nationally and internationally according to the availability of specialist facilities. Across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, only 26 hospitals can offer treatment,2 and the majority of stroke patients are instead admitted to local non-MT hospitals ...
Highlights from this issue | Emergency Medicine Journal
WEBThis first Primary Survey of 2022 marks the two-year anniversary of our awareness of SARS COVI-2 as a worldwide threat and one year since we began vaccinations. In this relatively short time frame, we have learnt a great deal about how COVID-19 is transmitted, treatments that do and don’t work, and tragically, how lethal it can be. Despite what can only be described as a medical marvel ...