Objective To describe the population of patients who attend emergency departments (ED) in England for mental health reasons. Methods Cross-sectional observational study of 6 262 602 ED attendances at ...

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Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr Y-F Choi Medical Officer, Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole ...

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, ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Terris, Department of Accident and Emergency, St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK; j.terris{at}gstt.sthames.nhs.uk ...

1 Pre-hospital Emergency Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine/Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust, Cardiff, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology, Statistics, and Public Health, University ...

The communication process in the emergency department (ED) is complex, and a number of studies have described problems and breakdowns in communication with significant implications for patient care. 1 ...

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 ...

Methods/Design This prospective multi-centre observational study recruited from four UK EDs between December 2018 and March 2020. Eligible patients were those with symptoms suggestive of CO poisoning ...

1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 2 Department of General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 3 Knowledge and Encounter Research, ...

Objectives: Activated charcoal is now the mainstay of non-specific treatment for self poisoning in accident and emergency (A&E) departments and should be administered within one hour of ingestion of ...

Objectives A two-part study identifying best practice for shift handover and introducing a new handover tool; the ABC of Handover. We evaluate its impact and explore user opinions. The ABC tool aims ...