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The nasopharyngeal airway: dispelling myths and establishing the facts

2 Senior house officer in Intensive Care Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK 3 Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA ...
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Triage rapid initial assessment by doctor (TRIAD) improves waiting time and processing time of the emergency department

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 ...
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Pre-hospital aspirin for suspected myocardial infarction and acute coronary syndromes: A headache for paramedics?

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 ...
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Cerebral oedema in childhood diabetic ketoacidosis: Is treatment a factor?

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Let the kids play: gamification as a CPR training methodology in secondary school students. A quasi-experimental manikin simulation study

Objective Gamification is a non-evaluation and competition-based training methodology with high emotional involvement. The goal of this study was to evaluate gamification methodology as compared with ...
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True posterior myocardial infarction: the importance of leads V7–V9

London Ambulance NHS Trust, Department of Education and Development, London, UK Mrs J Lindridge, London Ambulance NHS Trust, Department of Education and Development, Hannibal House, Level 2, Elephant ...
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The potential role of prehospital administration of activated charcoal

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 ...
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Histamine fish poisoning: a common but frequently misdiagnosed condition

Accident and Emergency Department, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr F Probst, Accident and Emergency Department, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK Scombrotoxic or ...
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Methylene blue: a treatment for severe methaemoglobinaemia secondary to misuse of amyl nitrite

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 ...
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Application of the Canadian CT head rules in managing minor head injuries in a UK emergency department: implications for the implementation of the NICE guidelines

Objective:: In 2002 a new protocol was introduced based on the Canadian CT rules. Before this the Royal College of Surgeons “Galasko” report guidelines had been followed. This study evaluates the ...
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791 The EDCO study: screening patients for unintentional carbon monoxide exposure in emergency department patients

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 ...
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The Q**** Study – basic randomised evaluation of attendance at a children's emergency department

Introduction Health Professionals are superstitious; be it a little ritual before sitting a cannula, or wearing a particular item of clothing while on-call, there are many things that we irrationally ...