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Modified early warning score predicts the need for hospital admission and inhospital mortality

Background: The modified early warning score (MEWS) is a useful tool for identifying hospitalised patients in need of a higher level of care and those at risk of inhospital death. Use of the MEWS as a ...
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The PAWS score: validation of an early warning scoring system for the initial assessment of children in the emergency department

Objective: To devise a physiology-based scoring system for assessment of children presenting to the emergency department (ED) and to validate the system retrospectively. Study design: Age-dependent ...
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Population based epidemiology of ankle sprains attending accident and emergency units in the West Midlands of England, and a survey of UK practice for severe ankle sprains

Objectives: To estimate the incidence of ankle sprains and severe ankle sprains attending accident and emergency (A&E) units; to describe current practice for severe ankle sprains in A&E units in the ...
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BET 3: Peripheral metaraminol infusion in the emergency department

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The association of paramedic rapid sequence intubation and survival in out-of-hospital stroke

Introduction Ambulance transport of patients with stroke is common, with rapid sequence intubation (RSI) to secure the airway used regularly. Randomised controlled trial evidence exists to support the ...
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Fluid resuscitation in prehospital trauma care: a consensus view

1 Specialist Registrar, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, UK 3 Department of Accident and Emergency ...
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Critical care in the emergency department: patient transfer

Correspondence to: Dr A J Gray Emergency Department, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Old Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; alasdair.gray{at}luht.scot.nhs.uk The ...
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Does the Manchester triage system detect the critically ill?

BACKGROUND: The Manchester triage system (MTS) is now widely used in UK accident and emergency (A&E) departments. No clinical outcome studies have yet been published to validate the system. Safety of ...
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#165 The impact of early use of echocardiography performed by non-cardiologist in patients with chest pain – the ENDEMIC study

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czechia 2 Department of Military Internal Medicine and Military Hygiene, Military Faculty of Medicine, University of Defence, ...
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Admissions to intensive care units from emergency departments: a descriptive study

Objectives: To describe the case mix, activity, and outcome for admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) from emergency departments (EDs). Design: An observational study using data from a high ...
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Human factors and error prevention in emergency medicine

Emergency departments are one of the highest risk areas in health care. Emergency physicians have to assemble and manage unrehearsed multidisciplinary teams with little notice and manage critically ...
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Case management of patients who frequently present to a Scottish emergency department

Aims: To assess whether case management of frequent attenders to the emergency department (ED) reduces subsequent attendances made by these patients. Methods: Patients who attended the ED 10 times or ...