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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. Airbags drastically reduce both morbidity and mortality from crashes, but with the increased use of airbags ...

Background In England the demand for emergency care is increasing, while there is also a staffing shortage. This has implications for quality of care and patient safety. One solution may be to ...

Objectives To assess if a nurse-led application of a paediatric head injury clinical decision tool would be safe compared with current practice. Methods All paediatric (<17 years) patients with head ...

Objective To develop comprehensive guidance that captures international impacts, causes and solutions related to emergency department (ED) crowding and access block. Methods Emergency physicians ...

1 Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia; University of Western Australia; and New South Wales Poison Information Centre, New South Wales, Australia 2 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, ...

Introduction Triage systems are scales developed to rate the degree of urgency among patients who arrive at EDs. A number of different scales are in use; however, the way in which they have been ...

Objective: To compare the prognostic abilities of lactic acidosis and hyperlactatemia and determine the influence of metabolic acidosis when attempting to predict the outcome of septic patients using ...

Departments of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr M Storm-Versloot, Department of Surgery, G4-233, Academic Medical Center, ...

Background Emergency departments (EDs) are the frontline of acute care in the USA, yet contemporary data on the most common presentations and causes of mortality remain limited. Understanding these ...