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 ...
Background and objectives: The consequences of missing fever in children can be grave. Body temperature is commonly recorded at the axilla but accuracy is a problem. This study aimed to evaluate the ...
Methods We conducted a retrospective observational study using media reports and coroner verification to identify and characterise nightclub-related deaths in the UK between 2009 and 2024.
Background There are approximately 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in the United Kingdom (UK) each year. Within the UK there are well-established clinical practice guidelines that define ...
Correspondence to Dr James David van Oppen, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; jvo3{at}leicester.ac.uk Objectives To evaluate the expectations and preferred ...
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 ...
Correspondence to Dr Jestin N Carlson, Department of Emergency Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Saint Vincent Hospital, 232 West 25th St, Erie, PA 16544, USA; jcarlson{at}svhs.org Background While ...
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Background The number of trauma patients in the East of England Trauma Network has been steadily increasing since 2013, raising concerns about whether the existing design (one Major Trauma Centre (MTC ...
Etimbuk Umana, Hannah Norman-Bruce, Clare Mills, Oenone Rodgers, Hannah Mitchell, Lisa McFetridge, Gareth McKeeman, Steve Foster, Michael Barrett, Damian Roland, Mark ...
3 University of Western Australia, Perth; New South Wales Poisons Information Centre, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to: L Murray Emergency ...
Background Understanding the views and opinions of ambulance clinicians about counter-terrorism is limited, as are the roles they have in identifying individuals vulnerable to radicalisation. The aim ...
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