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Measuring ‘Need for Recovery’ as an indicator of staff well-being in the emergency department: a survey study

Background The Need for Recovery (NFR) Scale is an 11-item questionnaire that assesses how work affects intershift recovery. Items are summated to form a score with a maximum value of 100. Previously ...
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Investigation into the predictive capability for mortality and the trigger points of the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) in emergency department patients

Introduction National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) is widely used to monitor and trigger assessment throughout a patient’s hospital journey. Since the development and role out of NEWS2, its ability ...
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Implementing human factors in clinical practice

3 Trent Simulation & Clinical Skills Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, UK Objectives To understand whether aviation-derived human factors training is acceptable and useful ...
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Fluid resuscitation in prehospital trauma care: a consensus view

1 Specialist Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK 3 Department of Accident and Emergency ...
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02 A pilot study to assess the feasibility of paramedics delivering antibiotic treatment to ‘red flag’ sepsis patients

Background Sepsis is associated with a 36% mortality rate rising up to 50% for septic shock. Currently when an East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) clinician recognises ‘red flag’ sepsis, only the ...
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Capecitabine-associated coronary vasospasm: a case report

Dr C A Papadopoulos, Abbotswood Gardens, Clayhall, Essex IG5 0BG, UK; Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK; christina.papadopoulos{at}imperial.ac.uk Capecitabine (Xeloda) is an oral ...
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Delirium within the emergency care setting, occurrence and detection: a systematic review

Academic Unit of Psychiatry, St. James University Hospital, University of Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK Correspondence to Dr Ewan Alexander Barron, Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Basement floor Beckett ...
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2660 Wellbeing interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study

Aims and Objectives Stress and burnout are prevalent among emergency department (ED) staff in the UK, impacting upon staff health, service provision and patient care. The concept of wellbeing ...
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Does the Manchester triage system detect the critically ill?

BACKGROUND: The Manchester triage system (MTS) is now widely used in UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments. No clinical outcome studies have yet been published to validate the system. Safety of ...
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Myocardial contusion: emergency investigation and diagnosis

Correspondence to: Dr P Kaye, Emergency Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Marlborough Street, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK Cardiac contusion is an infrequent but occasionally serious complication of ...
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The comparison of modified early warning score with rapid emergency medicine score: a prospective multicentre observational cohort study on medical and surgical patients ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Bursa Sevket Yılmaz Education and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey 3 ...
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BET 3: Peripheral metaraminol infusion in the emergency department

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