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Emergency physicians accumulate more stress factors than other physicians–results from the French SESMAT study

3 Department of Pharmacy, Hôpital Charles Richet Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France 4 Emergency Unit, Hôpital Saint-Antoine Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France 5 ...
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Is it cost effective to introduce paramedic practitioners for older people to the ambulance service? Results of a cluster randomised controlled trial

Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Background: A scheme to train paramedics to undertake a greater role in the care of ...
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Ionised calcium levels in major trauma patients who received blood en route to a military medical treatment facility

Background Hypocalcaemia is a common metabolic derangement in critically ill patients. Blood transfusion can also contribute to depleted calcium levels. The aims of this study were to identify the ...
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Emergency management of older people with cervical spine injuries: an expert practice review

Spinal fractures are the third most common traumatic injury in older people, of which cervical spine injuries make up around 15%. They are predominantly seen in people living with frailty who fall ...
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Dentures may be radiolucent

Correspondence to: Mr D R Strachan Department of Otolaryngology, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford BD9 6RJ, UK; drstrachanaol.com Diagnosing ingested dental prostheses can be ...
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Improving communication in the emergency department

Footnotes Funding The Clinical Safety Research Unit is affiliated with the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust which is funded by the National ...
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Diagnostic errors related to acute abdominal pain in the emergency department

5 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA ...
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Current Issue

Community emergency medicine: a service review of patients that sustain head injuries in the community—can early intervention by a senior clinical decision maker provide care closer to home? (3 March, ...
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Management of penetrating neck injury in the emergency department: a structured literature review

Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Dr J J Brywczynski, Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt ...
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Critical care in the emergency department: introduction

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High dose methylprednisolone in the immediate management of acute, blunt spinal cord injury: what is the current practice in emergency departments, spinal units, and ...

Background: The National Acute Spinal Cord Injuries Studies and the Cochrane Review advocate the administration of high dose methylprednisolone following acute traumatic spinal cord injury. However, ...
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2046 ‘Call before Convey’ – Delivering urgent care for patients in the right place with the right clinician, first time

Aims and Objectives Aim: Ensure patients have timely access to the right urgent care, in the right place with the right clinician. Many people access urgent care via the emergency department (ED) ...