Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, Devon, UK 2 Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital Correspondence to: A Appelboam Department of ...

Correspondence to Dr Prasanthi Govindarajan, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94304, USA; pgovinda{at}stanford.edu Background Timely management of ...

Gas gangrene is a rare condition, usually associated with contaminated traumatic injuries. It carries a high rate of mortality and morbidity. A number of studies have implicated non-traumatic gas ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Kocaeli Universtiy, Kocaeli, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr S Yanturali Dokuz Eylul ...

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 3 School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 4 ...

Performance Information Team, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Hampshire Division), Otterbourne, UK Correspondence to Dr Charles D Deakin, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Southern ...

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1, UK Correspondence to: Andrew Chukwuemeka, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; ...

Accident and Emergency Department, St James's University Hospital, Leeds. A 15 year old girl presented to the accident and emergency (A&E) department with a 24 hour history of lower abdominal pain, ...

Introduction COVID-19 has an unpredictable clinical course, so prognostic biomarkers would be invaluable when triaging patients on admission to hospital. Many biomarkers have been suggested using ...

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 ...

Introduction Over the last decade, a number of European cities including London, have witnessed high profile terrorist attacks resulting in major incidents with large numbers of casualties. Triage, ...