Evaluating the consistency of coding in the Emergency Care Data Set compared with data recorded in the electronic patient record (9 January, 2026) ...
Aims and Objectives Hip fracture is the commonest fracture in older people. Multiple RCEM national audits on this group have demonstrated a wide variation in the standard of care. RCEM collaborated on ...
Correspondence to Matt Wilkinson-Stokes, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; matt.wilkinson-stokes{at}outlook.com ...
Aims, Objectives and Background The use of pre-hospital blood components in the early resuscitation of patients with life-threatening bleeding is becoming more common. Understanding the national ...
Background Delay to reperfusion in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is detrimental, but can be minimised with prehospital notification by ambulance to the treating hospital. We aimed to ...
Introduction In response to anticipated challenges with urgent and emergency healthcare delivery during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust (YAS) introduced ...
Venous thromboembolic disease is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality. An estimated 10 million episodes are diagnosed yearly; over half of these episodes are provoked by hospital ...
Inflammatory "one hit" and "two hit" models have recently been proposed to account for the development of multiple organ failure (MOF) in trauma and critically ill surgical patients when no source of ...
Tenderness in the anatomical snuff box (ASB) has long been accepted as an indicator of a possible scaphoid fracture. The longitudinal axis of the scaphoid lies in an anteroposterior plane, ...
Background Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) performed by emergency physicians has been gaining acceptance as a less invasive technique than resuscitative thoracotomy.
Background Networked organised systems of care for patients with major trauma now exist in many countries, designed around the needs of the majority of patients (90% adults). Non-accidental injury is ...
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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