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Demand and capacity planning in the emergency department: how to do it

1 Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK 2 Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, UK Correspondence to Dr Ian Higginson, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Level 6, ...
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Aspirin and the risk of intracranial complications following head injury

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether pre-injury aspirin increases the risk of intracranial complications following head injury. 124 papers were found using the reported searches, of ...
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Sensitivity of modern multislice CT for subarachnoid haemorrhage at incremental timepoints after headache onset: a 10-year analysis

Correspondence to Dr Martin Than, Christchurch Hospital Emergency Department, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch 8140, Canterbury, New Zealand; martin{at}thanstedman.onmicrosoft.com ...
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Effect of delayed lumbar punctures on the diagnosis of acute bacterial meningitis in adults

Correspondence to Professor Tom Solomon, University of Liverpool Brain Infections Group, 8th Floor Duncan Building, Daulby Street, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK; tsolomon{at}liv.ac.uk Introduction Bacterial ...
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Validation of the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score (NEDOCS) in a UK non-specialist emergency department

Introduction Emergency department (ED) crowding has significant adverse consequences, however, there is no widely accepted tool to measure it. This study validated the National Emergency Department ...
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PROFESSIONALISM AND CARE: THE DAILY BREAD AND BUTTER OF A PARAMEDIC ATTENDING PATIENTS WHO FALL

Falls occur increasingly frequently with age. 35% of people aged over 65 fall each year rising to 50% at age 85. Many patients fall repeatedly. 56% of patients attending an emergency department were ...
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Avulsion fracture of the coracoid process

Correspondence to Satyajit Sinha, Department of Orthopaedics, Monklands Hospital, Monkscourt Avenue, Airdrie ML6 OJS, Scotland, UK; write2satya{at}hotmail.com If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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Management of patients presenting to the emergency department with sudden onset severe headache: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies

Objective Advances in imaging technologies have precipitated uncertainty and inconsistency in the management of neurologically intact patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with ...
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Delays to initial reduction attempt are associated with higher failure rates in anterior shoulder dislocation: a retrospective analysis of factors affecting reduction failure

Correspondence to Dr Paul Atkinson, Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Saint John Regional Hospital, 400 University Avenue, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada E2L 4L4; ...
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122 Penthrox: a service evaluation for methoxyflurane use in an emergency department setting

Methods/Design Data was prospectively gathered for patients who received Penthrox in the months of December 2019 to July 2020 using a questionnaire that was filled in by clinicians. Audit forms were ...
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Impact of the caller’s emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Objective This study determined the impact of the caller’s emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...
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Intra-articular lidocaine for acute anterior shoulder dislocation reduction

A short cut review was carried out to establish how intra-articular lidocaine compared with intravenous analgesia and sedation during reduction of anterior shoulder dislocations. Altogether 146 papers ...