Background In 2015, Ambulance Service Medical Directors raised concerns regarding a perceived increase in suicide deaths among ambulance service staff. The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives ...

1 Centre for Prehospital Research, Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland 2 Centre for Emergency Medical Science, School of Medicine & Medical Sciences, University ...

Department of Plastic Surgery, Queen Victoria Hospital, Holtye Road, West Sussex, England Correspondence to: MrM S Lloyd The Hospital Royal Free, 3rd Floor, Dawson Ward, Pond Street, London NW3 2QG; ...

In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term the “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961, but because of misinterpretation as to ...

Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...

University of Florida Jacksonville, Department of Internal Medicine, Jacksonville, USA Correspondence to: F J Arnaldo University of Florida Jacksonville, Department of Internal Medicine, Jacksonville, ...

Objectives: To identify the key features of effective clinical supervision in the emergency department (ED) from the perspectives of enthusiastic consultants and specialist registrars. To highlight ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Peterborough District Hospital, Peterborough, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to: Dr A Boyle Department ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Cathay General Hospital, and Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 2 Department of ...

Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...

Background Diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) requires chest CT angiography for pulmonary embolism and venous ultrasound for deep vein thrombosis. To reduce imaging, guidelines recommend ...

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 ...