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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, James Cook Hospital, Middlesborough, Middlesborough, UK This paper reviews the ...
Defining research priorities in a specialty as broad as emergency medicine is a significant challenge. In order to fund and complete the most important research projects, it is imperative that we ...
2 School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK Background As an important part of a pilot study to determine the feasibility of a large randomised controlled trial ...
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 ...
Robert Meek, Zhong Xian Lu, Udara Dilrukshi Senarathne, Sean Tan, Louise Cullen, John W Pickering, Martin Paul Than, Georgina Hayden, Adam Damianopoulos, Claire Charteris, Alex Duong, Diana ...
Correspondence to: MrHywel Hughes Emergency Department, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Croesnewydd Road, Wrexham, Wales, UK; Hywel.hughes{at}new-tr.wales.nhs.uk Objectives: To assess the scale of drink ...
Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...