Objectives Diverting patients away from the emergency department (ED) has been proposed as a solution for mitigating overcrowding. This systematic review examined the impact of interventions designed ...

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Background The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shortcut review of the literature was carried out to establish whether the Testicular Workup for Ischemia and Suspected Torsion (TWIST) score was reliable and accurate enough to rule out testicular ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...