Acute hyperkalaemia is a potentially life-threatening electrolyte disturbance frequently encountered in emergency departments. Timely recognition and appropriate treatment are critical to prevent ...
Objective The quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been shown to affect the survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases (OHCA). There are various individual factors that can affect ...
Objectives & Background The safety of intravenous ketamine in procedural sedation is well described. 1 2 Guidelines produced by NICE 3 and the College of Emergency Medicine 4 are used by Emergency ...
Community emergency medicine: a service review of patients that sustain head injuries in the community—can early intervention ...
Objectives To gather data on the ages and weights of children aged between 1 and 16 years in order to assess the validity of the current weight estimation formula ‘Weight(kg)=2(age+4)’ and the newly ...
Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...
2 Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Anthony Bleetman Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, ...
A literature search was undertaken for evidence of the effect of succinylcholine (SCH) on the intracranial pressure (ICP) of patients with acute brain injury and whether pretreatment with a ...