Objectives A major cause for concern about increasing ED visits is that ED care is expensive. Recent research suggests that ED resource consumption is affected by patients’ health status, varies ...

Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient ...

Introduction It is well-recognised that the detection of rib fractures is unreliable using chest radiograph. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate whether the use of lung ultrasound is ...

Clinical Faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine, USA Ms T D Strout, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maine Medical Center, 321 Brackett Street, Portland, ME ...

Introduction Major trauma is the third leading cause of avoidable mortality in the UK. Defining which patients require care in a major trauma centre is a critical component of developing, evaluating ...

Objective Pain is one of the six general discriminators of the Manchester triage system (MTS). The frequency of pain assessments conducted at triage with the MTS, and patient, nurse and triage ...

Emergency Department, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester Hospital, Gloucester, UK Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Sieniewicz, Emergency Department, Gloucestershire Hospitals ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to: Mr C R FitzSimmons ...

Background A promising modality for diagnosing pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 in the emergency department (ED) is point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs. The currently used PCR as well as ...

1 Department of Surgery College of Medicine, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, USA 2 Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA 3 ...

Background Emergency medical services (EMS) are often patients’ first point of contact for urgent and emergency care needs. Patients are triaged over the phone and may subsequently receive an ...

A 59-year-old woman self presented to the emergency department with a painful right eye following a motor vehicle accident. She had reduced visual acuity and the eye had an alkaline pH with complete ...