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‘They do not care how much you know until they know how much you care’: a qualitative meta-synthesis of patient experience in the emergency department

Background Patient experience is positively associated with both clinical effectiveness and patient safety and should be a priority for emergency care providers. While both quantitative and ...
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Injuries associated with airbag deployment

Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United Kingdom. Airbags drastically reduce both morbidity and mortality from crashes, but with the increased use of airbags ...
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Intravenous fluid resuscitation: was Poiseuille right?

Aim To compare the flow rates of readily available intravenous infusion devices and to compare the effect of the addition of pressure or a needle-free intravenous connector device. Methods Several ...
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Routine use of antibiotic ointment and wound healing

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether topical antibiotics improved the outcome of simple wounds. Altogether 71 papers were found using the reported search, of which one presented the ...
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Management of patients presenting to the emergency department with sudden onset severe headache: systematic review of diagnostic accuracy studies

Objective Advances in imaging technologies have precipitated uncertainty and inconsistency in the management of neurologically intact patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with ...
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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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Role of ambulance response times in the survival of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Objectives To evaluate the role of ambulance response times in improving survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods OHCAs were identified by sampling consecutive life-threatening ...
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Aspirin and the risk of intracranial complications following head injury

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether pre-injury aspirin increases the risk of intracranial complications following head injury. 124 papers were found using the reported searches, of ...
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Does the use of the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System affect cardiac arrest detection?

Correspondence to: Mr A Heward London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, 220 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8SD, UK; andy.hewardlond-amb.nhs.uk Background: Cardiac arrest is the most widely recognised ...
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Effect of emergency department fast track on emergency department length of stay: a case–control study

Objective: To examine the effect of fast track on emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS). Design and setting: Pair-matched case–control design in a public teaching hospital in metropolitan ...
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Avulsion fracture of the coracoid process

Correspondence to Satyajit Sinha, Department of Orthopaedics, Monklands Hospital, Monkscourt Avenue, Airdrie ML6 OJS, Scotland, UK; write2satya{at}hotmail.com If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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Management of eclampsia in the accident and emergency department

Eclampsia is defined as the occurrence of seizures in pregnancy or within 10 days of delivery, accompanied by at least two of the following features documented within 24 hours of the seizure: ...