Airbags have been shown to significantly reduce mortality and morbidity in motor vehicle crashes. However, the airbag, like the seat belt, produces its own range of injuries. With the increasing use ...

An outline of the principles behind economic evaluation of emergency care. Clinicians working in accident and emergency (A&E) medicine will have little difficulty accepting the idea that health ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke, UK Correspondence to Dr Sarah Noble, Basingstoke Emergency Department, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, ...

Objectives Many drug and fluid regimens in emergency medicine are weight dependent in adults, but no standard adult weight estimation tools exist. Paediatric weight is often estimated in emergency ...

Correspondence to Dr T E Martin, Anaesthetic Department MP 25, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester SO22 5DG, UK; Terry.Martin{at}wehct.nhs.uk Pulmonary thromboembolism has an incidence of more ...

Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...

1 Department of Cardiology, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, Berkshire and Imperial College, London, UK 2 Departments of Cardiology and Emergency Medicine, Wexham Park Hospital 3 Department of Cardiology ...

3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Gayle Elizabeth McLelland, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, PO BOx 527, ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands ...

5 Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Henriette A Moll, Department of Paediatrics, Room Sp 1540, Erasmus ...

Objective Aeromedical retrieval services face the difficult problem of appropriate levels of sedation for transport of acutely agitated patients to definitive care. This paper describes a technique ...

Correspondence to: Mr Fitzgerald, Specialist Registrar in Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic Surgery, St John's Hospital, Howden Road West, Livingston EH54 6PP Volar dislocation of the ...