Evaluating the consistency of coding in the Emergency Care Data Set compared with data recorded in the electronic patient record (9 January, 2026) ...

The infusion after the bolus: a quality improvement programme to support emergency department airway governance in Ireland (19 March, 2026) ...

Aims, Objectives and Background The use of pre-hospital blood components in the early resuscitation of patients with life-threatening bleeding is becoming more common. Understanding the national ...

Introduction In response to anticipated challenges with urgent and emergency healthcare delivery during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) introduced ...

Venous thromboembolic disease is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality. An estimated 10 million episodes are diagnosed yearly; over half of these episodes are provoked by hospital ...

Correspondence to Dr Jan O Jansen, Center for Injury Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA; jjansen{at}uabmc.edu Background Helicopter emergency medical services ...

Inflammatory "one hit" and "two hit" models have recently been proposed to account for the development of multiple organ failure (MOF) in trauma and critically ill surgical patients when no source of ...

Tenderness in the anatomical snuff box (ASB) has long been accepted as an indicator of a possible scaphoid fracture. The longitudinal axis of the scaphoid lies in an anteroposterior plane, ...

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 Caroline Leech, Emergency Department, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Walsgrave, Coventry CV2 2DX, UK; caroline.leech{at}uhcw.nhs.uk Whole body CT (WBCT) ...

Objectives & Background Patient waiting times in Emergency Departments (ED) have risen in recent years, leading to increasing pressure on EDs to meet targets. As increased funding for EDs is an ...

Correspondence to Dr Ziad Obermeyer, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Neville House, 10 Vining Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA; zobermeyer{at}partners.org Objective To ...