Background The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the ...

Introduction It is well-recognised that the detection of rib fractures is unreliable using chest radiograph. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate whether the use of lung ultrasound is ...

Background A promising modality for diagnosing pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 in the emergency department (ED) is point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs. The currently used PCR as well as ...

1 Department of Surgery College of Medicine, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, USA 2 Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA 3 ...

Emergency Department, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester Hospital, Gloucester, UK Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Sieniewicz, Emergency Department, Gloucestershire Hospitals ...

Objective Pain is one of the six general discriminators of the Manchester triage system (MTS). The frequency of pain assessments conducted at triage with the MTS, and patient, nurse and triage ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to: Mr C R FitzSimmons ...

A shortcut review of the literature was carried out to establish whether the Testicular Workup for Ischemia and Suspected Torsion (TWIST) score was reliable and accurate enough to rule out testicular ...

Background Emergency medical services (EMS) are often patients’ first point of contact for urgent and emergency care needs. Patients are triaged over the phone and may subsequently receive an ...

Objective Pain management in the ED is often suboptimal, with many patients not receiving analgesia. We aimed to determine why some patients refuse it, why others do not receive it, and whether these ...