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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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Prevalence, causes and consequences of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in emergency care: a mixed-methods study of UK NHS Consultants

4 Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery King's College London, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Sunil Dasan, Emergency Department, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, ...
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What do hospital mortality rates tell us about quality of care?

1 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 Institute of Work Psychology, Sheffield University Management School, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to ...
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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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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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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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On-scene alternatives for emergency ambulance crews attending patients who do not need to travel to the accident and emergency department: a review of the literature

With rising demand and recognition of the variety of cases attended by emergency ambulance crews, services have been considering alternative ways of providing non-urgent care. This paper describes and ...
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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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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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Population based epidemiology of ankle sprains attending accident and emergency units in the West Midlands of England, and a survey of UK practice for severe ankle sprains

Objectives: To estimate the incidence of ankle sprains and severe ankle sprains attending accident and emergency (A&E) units; to describe current practice for severe ankle sprains in A&E units in the ...
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The relationship between body temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate in children

Aim: To describe and quantify the effect that increasing body temperature has on heart rate and respiratory rate in children attending a paediatric emergency department (ED). Methods: Data on pulse, ...