A 26 year old motorcyclist was received by the trauma team in our accident and emergency department after a head on collision with a motor vehicle. He had been correctly immobilised and his primary ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Mt Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 2 Sunnybrook-Osler Centre for Prehospital Care and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of ...

2 Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Background A new pre-triage screening tool, Nature of Call (NoC), has been introduced into the ...

A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether augmentation of blood pressure to a high mean arterial pressure (MAP) target in the early phase of traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) could lead ...

Aims/Objectives/Background In Manchester Royal Infirmary, a major trauma centre, there are many patient presentations which require fast acting analgesia. Often these ...

Correspondence to Dr Keith A Marill, Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Zero Emerson Place, Suite 3B, Boston, MA 02114, USA; kmarill{at}mgh.harvard.edu Emergency physicians use ...

A 30 year old woman with a history of depression and previous suicide attempts was brought to the emergency department in coma. She had injected herself with cyanide subcutaneously and had severe ...

1 Department of Surgery, Queen’s Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK 2 Department of Accident and Emergency, Queen’s Medical Centre Correspondence to: Mr A Brooks Department of Surgery ...