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Chronic and occult carbon monoxide poisoning: we don’t know what we’re missing

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 ...
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THE IMPACT OF PERIPHERAL INTRAVENOUS (IV) CANNULATION IN THE AMBULANCE AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Objectives & Background Intravenous cannulation in an emergency setting has significant potential benefits and harms to patients. Patients need to understand these in order to make an informed ...
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Patients who call emergency ambulances for primary care problems: a qualitative study of the decision-making process

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 ...
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Moderate to severe hyperphosphataemia as an independent prognostic factor for 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis

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 ...
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Posterior reperfusion T-waves: Wellens' syndrome of the posterior wall

Correspondence to Dr Brian E Driver, Department of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, 701 Park Ave S, Mail Stop R2, Minneapolis, MN 55415, USA; briandriver{at}gmail.com Background ...
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Environmentally sustainable emergency medicine

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 ...
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Educating the ambulance technician, paramedic, and clinical supervisor: using factor analysis to inform the curriculum

Objectives: This project aims to use information about the desirable attributes of the ambulance technician, paramedic, and clinical supervisor to inform future curriculum development. Methods: Data ...
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Effectiveness of emergency care practitioners working within existing emergency service models of care

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 ...
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Establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians in the UK and Ireland

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, ...
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Prehospital tranexamic acid shortens the interval to administration by half in Major Trauma Networks: a service evaluation

5 King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Kings College Hospital, London, UK 6 St. George’s University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, St. George’s Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Max E R ...
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Evolution of triage systems

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; ...
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Pre-hospital spinal immobilisation: an initial consensus statement

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, James Cook Hospital, Middlesborough, Middlesborough, UK SCI occurs when unstable ...