Objectives Many drug and fluid regimens in emergency medicine are weight dependent in adults, but no standard adult weight estimation tools exist. Paediatric weight is often estimated in emergency ...
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1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Musculoskeletal trauma to the foot is a common presentation to EDs. A Lisfranc fracture dislocation ...
Renée A M Tuinte, Claudia Bull, Job M Hoonhorst, Reinier P Akkermans, Marie Louise Moors, Jaap ten Oever, Marlies EJL Hulscher, Jacobien J Hoogerwerf ...
Dr A I Grouse, Department of Emergency Medicine, Nepean Hospital, PO Box 63, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia; grousea{at}wahs.nsw.gov.au Background: The Australasian Triage Scale is a simple five-point ...
Introduction The aim of this study was to compare a combination of three commonly used tests to identify scaphoid fractures with MRI in patients with normal x-ray after a wrist trauma. Patients and ...
Background Female patients with lower limb fractures experience pain and loss of dignity when manoeuvered onto a bedpan. Poor bladder management, including urinary catheterisation for convenience, can ...
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 ...
The sport and leisure industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of the business market. It has been estimated that each year 1–1.5 million people attend accident and emergency (A&E) departments ...
Methods/Design Data were collected from electronic and written ED records for all patients meeting the inclusion criteria who attended over a 14-day period. Patient records were identified by manually ...
Introduction Health Professionals are superstitious; be it a little ritual before sitting a cannula, or wearing a particular item of clothing while on-call, there are many things that we irrationally ...
Emergency Departments, Horton and John Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK Correspondence to: Dr G George Emergency Department, Horton Hospital, Oxford Radcliffe ...