Correspondence to Dr Prasanthi Govindarajan, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA; pgovinda{at}stanford.edu Background Timely management of ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether topical antibiotics improved the outcome of simple wounds. Altogether 71 papers were found using the reported search, of which one presented the ...

Background Blood transfusion for bleeding trauma patients is a promising pre-hospital intervention with potential to improve outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which patients may benefit from ...

Background Nausea and vomiting is a common ED chief complaint. However, randomised trials comparing antiemetic agents to placebo have not demonstrated superiority. This systematic review investigates ...

Glucose and Pulmonary Infection Group, St George’s, University of London, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr Emma Baker Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, Physiological ...

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 the epidemiology of fractures among children seen with sports injuries in a district general hospital accident and emergency department. Methods—A prospective study of children ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, UK Correspondence to Dr Sarah Noble, Basingstoke Emergency Department, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, ...

5 Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 6 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK Background Hospital prealerting in acute ...

1 Pre-hospital Emergency Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine/Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Public Health, University ...

Department of Clinical Care and Patient Safety, North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK Correspondence to Jay Duckett, Department of Clinical Care and Patient Safety ...