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A systematic review examining the impact of redirecting low-acuity patients seeking emergency department care: is the juice worth the squeeze?
Objectives Diverting patients away from the emergency department (ED) has been proposed as a solution for mitigating overcrowding. This systematic review examined the impact of interventions designed ...
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Understanding cardiac arrest dispatch of physician-paramedic critical care prehospital teams: a survey-based evaluation
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Refreshing the emergency medicine research priorities
Background The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the ...
BMJ10d
Intravenous versus oral paracetamol for acute pain in adults in the emergency department setting: a prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial
Objective To determine if intravenous paracetamol was superior to oral paracetamol as an adjunct to opioids in the management of moderate to severe pain in the ED setting. Methods A prospective, ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound in COVID-19
Background A promising modality for diagnosing pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 in the emergency department (ED) is point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs. The currently used PCR as well as ...
BMJ13d
Parental weight estimation of their child’s weight is more accurate than other weight estimation methods for determining children’s weight in an emergency department?
Objective: To compare the various paediatric weight estimation methods (Advanced Pediatric Life Support, Broselow Tape, Argall, and Best Guess) and parental estimate to measured weight. Patients and ...
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Effect of paralytic type on time to post-intubation sedative use in the emergency department
1 Department of Surgery College of Medicine, University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, USA 2 Department of Pharmacy Practice & Science, College of Pharmacy, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA 3 ...
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Retention of doctors in emergency medicine: a scoping review of the academic literature
Introduction Workforce issues prevail across healthcare; in emergency medicine (EM), previous work improved retention, but the staffing problem changed rather than improved. More experienced doctors ...
BMJ4d
Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis….can you spot the culprit?
Emergency Department, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester Hospital, Gloucester, UK Correspondence to Dr Benjamin J Sieniewicz, Emergency Department, Gloucestershire Hospitals ...
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Investigation into the predictive capability for mortality and the trigger points of the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) in emergency department patients
Introduction National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) is widely used to monitor and trigger assessment throughout a patient’s hospital journey. Since the development and role out of NEWS2, its ability ...
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Pain assessments at triage with the Manchester triage system: a prospective observational study
Objective Pain is one of the six general discriminators of the Manchester triage system (MTS). The frequency of pain assessments conducted at triage with the MTS, and patient, nurse and triage ...
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9 Assessment and care of musculoskeletal problems
1 Accident and Emergency Department, Sheffield Children’s Hospital, Sheffield, UK 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to: Mr C R FitzSimmons ...