Background Severe sepsis is likely to account for around 37 000 deaths annually in the UK. Five years after the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) care bundles were published, care ...
Application of Step-by-Step and Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Clinical Decision Aids in the management of young febrile infants in a UK cohort ...
Correspondence to: Dr J Wright, Accident and Emergency Department, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, UK; john.wright{at}nuth.northy.nhs.uk Carbon monoxide is ...
Correspondence to Dr You Hwan Jo, Emergency medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam 13620, the Republic of Korea; emdrjyh{at}gmail.com Background Ischaemic tissue injury caused ...
Objectives: The recent introduction of a disposable laryngeal mask airway has provided paramedics with an alternative to endotracheal intubation. Time taken to secure the airway with each device was ...
1 Health Services Research, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 Sheffield Health Economics Group, School of Health and Related Research, University of ...
Objective Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) is a collaborative clinical studies group established in August 2012. It consists of a network of 43 centres from England, ...
Emergency clinicians worldwide are demonstrating increasing concern about the effect of climate change on the health of the populations they serve. The movement for sustainable healthcare is being ...
Correspondence to: Dr Iain R S Robertson-Steel West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Millennium Point, Waterfront Business Park, Waterfront Way, Brierley Hill, West Midlands DY5 1LX; ...
Correspondence to: Mr J Dunning Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 3BW, UK; joeldunningdoctors.org.uk This review examines the derivation of the ...
Background Early warning scores (EWS) were developed in acute hospital settings to improve recognition and response to patient deterioration. In 2012, the UK Royal College of Physicians developed the ...
Centre for Academic Primary Care, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Dr Matthew J Booker, Centre for Academic Primary Care, School of Social ...