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

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, Devon, UK 2 Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Correspondence to: A Appelboam Department of ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Kocaeli Universtiy, Kocaeli, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr S Yanturali Dokuz Eylul ...

Performance Information Team, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Hampshire Division), Otterbourne, UK Correspondence to Dr Charles D Deakin, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Southern ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 3 School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 4 ...

Olanzapine postinjection delirium/sedation syndrome after long-acting olanzapine depot injection presenting to the emergency department: practical guidelines for diagnosis and management ...

A short-cut review was performed to evaluate whether inflammatory markers such as C reactive protein (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), white cell count (WCC) and procalcitonin (PCT) are ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Dr D M Macgregor, Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital, Cornhill ...

Introduction COVID-19 has an unpredictable clinical course, so prognostic biomarkers would be invaluable when triaging patients on admission to hospital. Many biomarkers have been suggested using ...

2 Department of Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to Alistair Ivan William Mayne, Department of Paediatric Trauma and Orthopaedic ...

Introduction Over the last decade, a number of European cities including London, have witnessed high profile terrorist attacks resulting in major incidents with large numbers of casualties. Triage, ...

Gas gangrene is a rare condition, usually associated with contaminated traumatic injuries. It carries a high rate of mortality and morbidity. A number of studies have implicated non-traumatic gas ...