Background Despite pronounced increases in homelessness and mental health problems in the USA over the past decade, further ...

2 Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr C A Eynon Director of Neurosciences Intensive Care, Wessex Neurological Centre, Tremona Road, ...

Objectives: Several trials have been published examining the role of antibiotics in dog bite wound management. A meta-analysis of these suggests that there is very little benefit to routine antibiotic ...

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 ...

Objective To describe trends regarding snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) from 2004 to 2010. Methods The NPIS telephone enquiry database, the UK Poisons ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael Jarvis Boyle, Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0203, USA; michael.boyle{at}ucsf.edu A 15-year-old boy presents to the ED ...

Suicide and self-injury-related emergency department visits and homelessness among adults 25–64 years old from 2016 to 2021 in the USA ...

Department of Anaesthetics, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London. A case of severe methaemoglobinaemia caused by the abuse of volatile nitrites is reported. The agents are commonly abused, but ...

Correspondence to Dr Leanne Greene, Rehabilitation, Aged and Extended Care, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia; leanne.greene{at}flinders.edu.au Background High emergency department (ED ...

Pre-hospital Care Research Unit, Department of Academic Emergency Medicine, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK Correspondence to: Mr M Woollard The James Cook University Hospital, ...

Background People presenting to the ED with acute severe headache often undergo investigation to exclude subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). International guidelines propose that brain imaging within 6 ...

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 ...