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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Nella W Hendley, Department of Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA; chendley{at}wakehealth.edu Millions of patients present to US EDs ...

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 ...

1 Specialist Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK 3 Department of Accident and Emergency ...

Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...

1 Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA Correspondence to ...

Background Non-technical skills, such as task management, leadership, situational awareness, communication and decision-making refer to cognitive, behavioural and social skills that contribute to safe ...

Background Acute aortic syndrome (AAS) requires urgent diagnosis with computed tomographic angiography (CTA). Diagnostic strategies need to weigh the benefits of detecting AAS against the costs of ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Milan L Ridderikhof, Emergency Medicine, Amsterdam UMC - Locatie AMC, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; m.l.ridderikhof{at}amsterdamumc.nl Objectives Pain treatment in acute ...

Purpose/Background—Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is usually a blinding event, and is not an infrequent presentation to the accident and emergency (A&E) department. The evidence-base in ...

Objective—This study aims to determine the extent of correlation of arterial and venous pH with a view to identifying whether venous samples can be used as an alternative to arterial values in the ...