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End tidal carbon dioxide monitoring in prehospital and retrieval medicine: a review
Accident and Emergency Department, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, UK Correspondence to: Dr M J Donald Accident and Emergency Department, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee DD19SY UK ...
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SONO case series: an 85-year-old woman with left hip pain
An 85-year-old woman presented with left hip pain after an unwitnessed mechanical fall. The patient was standing at home washing her face when her legs gave out and she landed onto her left hip. She ...
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Admissions to intensive care units from emergency departments: a descriptive study
Objectives: To describe the case mix, activity, and outcome for admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) from emergency departments (EDs). Design: An observational study using data from a high ...
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Impact of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign on the recognition and management of severe sepsis in the emergency department: are we failing?
4 Good Hope Hospital, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK 5 Heartlands Hospital, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Helen Lindsay Cronshaw, ...
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Echoes of things to come. Ultrasound in UK emergency medicine practice
Ultrasound is widely used in the US and continental Europe in the immediate assessment of patients after blunt abdominal trauma. There are also now other recognised “primary” indications for ...
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Management of isolated minor head injury in the UK
School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Regent Court, UK Correspondence to Professor Steve Goodacre, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of ...
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Audit of oxygen use in emergency ambulances and in a hospital emergency department
Respiratory Medicine, Salford Royal Hospitals Foundation NHS Trust, Salford, UK Dr B R O’Driscoll, Respiratory Medicine, Hope Hospital, Salford M6 8HD, UK; ronan.o'driscoll{at}srft.nhs.uk Background: ...
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The face arm speech test: does it encourage rapid recognition of important stroke warning symptoms?
1 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2 NIHR Biomedical Research Unit for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK 3 Department of Vascular ...