Thoracostomies, and subsequent placements of chest tubes (CTs), are a standard procedure in several domains of medicine. In emergency medicine, thoracostomies are indicated to release a relevant ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Anaesthetics, Charing Cross ...

Objectives We described the population of people who frequently use ED for mental disorders, delineating differences by the number of visits for substance use disorders (SUDs), and predicted the ...

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 ...

Department of Anaesthesia, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The use of intravenous administration systems incorporating 3-mm internal diameter tubing is becoming more common in ...

Correspondence to Tansel Yilmaz, Department of Neurology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Hilvarenbeekseweg 60, 5022 GC Tilburg, The Netherlands; t.yilmaz{at}elisabeth.nl Objectives To determine the ...

1 Paediatric Emergency Department, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK 2 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh Correspondence to: Dr M Ryan, ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore Background Previous studies have examined the utility of ultrasonography performed by radiologists for diagnosing ...

Correspondence to Jussi Pirneskoski, Department of Emergency Medicine and Services, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland; jussi.pirneskoski{at}helsinki.fi Background National Early ...

Accident and Emergency Department, The Ulster Hospital Dundonald, Northern Ireland Correspondence to: Mr J E Johnston Accident and Emergency Department, Newcastle General Hospital, Westgate Road, ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Dr D M Macgregor, Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Cornhill ...