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Correspondence on 'Removing systolic blood pressure from the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) for mortality prediction: an observational study by Zaboli et al

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The nasopharyngeal airway: dispelling myths and establishing the facts

2 Senior house officer in Intensive Care Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK 3 Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA ...
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PP15 Situational awareness in pre-hospital practice – observational study using simulated scenarios

Background The concept of situation awareness (SA) has become a core theme throughout human factors research. SA is a cognitive process, put simply, it refers to a person’s ability to be aware of what ...
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Management of patients presenting to the emergency department with sudden onset severe headache: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies

Objective Advances in imaging technologies have precipitated uncertainty and inconsistency in the management of neurologically intact patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with ...
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The “4-hour target”: emergency nurses’ views

Methods: The study was based in one emergency department (ED) in the UK and took a generic qualitative approach. A stratified sample of nine experienced ED nurses were recruited for semi-structured ...
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Pre-hospital aspirin for suspected myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndromes: A headache for paramedics?

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 ...
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Extrication of the seriously injured road crash victim

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 ...
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qSOFA, SIRS and NEWS for predicting inhospital mortality and ICU admission in emergency admissions treated as sepsis

Background The third international consensus definition for sepsis recommended use of a new prognostic tool, the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA), based on its ability to predict ...
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Scapular manipulation technique for reduction of traumatic anterior shoulder dislocations: experiences of an academic emergency department

Department of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr S Sener Attending Physician of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department ...
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BET 3: Peripheral metaraminol infusion in the emergency department

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Prehospital aspirin administration for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in the USA: an EMS quality assessment using the NEMSIS 2011 database

Introduction National practice guidelines recommend early aspirin administration to reduce mortality in acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Although timely administration of aspirin has been shown to ...
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Rapid sequence intubation in Scottish urban emergency departments

3 Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh 4 Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK 5 Department of ...