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An Emergency Medicine Research Priority Setting Partnership to establish the top 10 research priorities in emergency medicine

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 ...
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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 This paper reviews the ...
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Is ice right? Does cryotherapy improve outcome for acute soft tissue injury?

Dr N C Collins, Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital Galway, Newcastle Road, Galway, Ireland; nievoc{at}yahoo.co.uk Aims: The use of ice or cryotherapy in the management of acute soft ...
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Emergency department overcrowding in the United States: an emerging threat to patient safety and public health

1 Department of Emergency Medicine and the Section of Critical Care Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Cooper Health System, ...
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Prevalence, causes and consequences of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in emergency care: a mixed-methods study of UK NHS Consultants

4 Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery King's College London, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Sunil Dasan, Emergency Department, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, ...
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Fluid resuscitation in prehospital trauma care: a consensus view

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 ...
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Managing patient deterioration: assessing teamwork and individual performance

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Victoria, Australia 2 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, UK Correspondence to Simon Cooper, Monash ...
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Population based epidemiology of ankle sprains attending accident and emergency units in the West Midlands of England, and a survey of UK practice for severe ankle sprains

Objectives: To estimate the incidence of ankle sprains and severe ankle sprains attending accident and emergency (A&E) units; to describe current practice for severe ankle sprains in A&E units in the ...
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Flumazenil use in benzodiazepine overdose in the UK: a retrospective survey of NPIS data

Correspondence to Dr Aravindan Veiraiah, NPIS Edinburgh (Scottish Poisons Information Bureau), The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; drveiraiah{at}doctors.org.uk Objective ...
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Intravenous versus oral paracetamol for acute pain in adults in the emergency department setting: a prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial

Objective To determine if intravenous paracetamol was superior to oral paracetamol as an adjunct to opioids in the management of moderate to severe pain in the ED setting. Methods A prospective, ...
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Measuring ‘Need for Recovery’ as an indicator of staff well-being in the emergency department: a survey study

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 ...
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The comparison of modified early warning score with rapid emergency medicine score: a prospective multicentre observational cohort study on medical and surgical patients ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Bursa Sevket Yılmaz Education and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey 3 ...