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Review of sports injuries presenting to an accident and emergency department

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Ultrasound findings in 42 patients with cytotoxic tissue damage following bites by South African snakes

3 Department of Public Health, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Correspondence to Dr Darryl Wood, Nelson Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, University of Kwazulu ...
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Levels of mental health problems among UK emergency ambulance workers

4 Department of General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK 5 Pre-Hospital Emergency Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine Correspondence to: Dr P Bennett Bristol ...
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The impact of senior doctor assessment at triage on emergency department performance measures: systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies

School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Maysam Ali Abdulwahid, School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield ...
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Are medical students in prehospital care at risk of moral injury?

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 ...
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Postconcussion syndrome (PCS) in the emergency department: predicting and pre-empting persistent symptoms following a mild traumatic brain injury

4 Department of Psychology, Marldon Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK Correspondence to Dr Adam Reuben, Emergency Department, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 ...
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Management of pregnancy and obstetric complications in prehospital trauma care: prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy/perimortem caesarean section

Correspondence to Emir Battaloglu, Academic Department of Clinical Traumatology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, 6th Floor, Nuffield House, ...
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Retrospective observational cohort study of patients diagnosed with sepsis: is this really sepsis?

Background The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) defines sepsis as a life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection.
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Tricyclic antidepressant overdose: a review

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...
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Public perception towards bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...
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Prehospital use in emergency patients of a laryngeal mask airway by ambulance paramedics is a safe and effective alternative for endotracheal intubation

2 Medical Management, Regional Ambulance Service Hollands-Midden, Leiden, The Netherlands Background In Dutch ambulance practice, failure or inability to intubate patients with altered oxygenation and ...
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LYRICA NIGHTS–RECREATIONAL PREGABALIN ABUSE IN AN URBAN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Objectives & Background Since ‘legal highs' emerged as drugs of abuse in the UK, Emergency Physicians have battled to keep up with the latest drug craze. Whilst many of these drugs present with ...