2 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham City Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Hulme, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham City ...

Background In 2017, general practitioners in or alongside the emergency department (GPED), an approach that employs GPs in or alongside the ED to address increasing ED demand, was advocated by the ...

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A short cut review was carried out to establish whether fizzy drinks alone are effective at resolving food bolus impaction. Altogether 46 papers were found using the reported search, of which six ...

Psychometric validation of a patient-reported experience measure for older adults attending the emergency department: the PREM-ED 65 study ...

Introduction Venous sampling for blood gas analysis has been suggested as an alternative to arterial sampling in order to reduce pain. The main objective was to compare pain induced by venous and ...

Aim Junior doctors joining EDs are required to rapidly acquire new knowledge and skills, but there is little research describing how this process can be facilitated. We aimed to understand what would ...

Correspondence to Dr Lane M. Smith, Emergency Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA; lane_smith{at}bellsouth.net Conclusion These data suggest that patients with HEAR ...

Objectives We sought to estimate the prevalence of patients with cancer presenting to the emergency department (ED) who are undergoing treatment with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy; report ...

1 Department of Cardiology, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire and Imperial College, London, UK 2 Departments of Cardiology and Emergency Medicine, Wexham Park Hospital 3 Department of Cardiology ...

Background The SADPERSONS Scale is commonly used as a screening tool for suicide risk in those who have self-harmed. It is also used to determine psychiatric treatment needs in those presenting to ...

Department of Trauma, University of Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham UK and West Midlands Central Accident Resuscitation and Emergency (CARE) Team, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Mr K Porter ...