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013 Paramedic HEART scores in the prediction of MACE and AMI. The ambulance cardiac chest pain evaluation in scotland (ACCESS) study
Background Cardiac sounding chest pain represents about 5% of all Emergency Department (ED) attendances in the United Kingdom (UK), often via 999 ambulance. Much work has focused on the rapid ...
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Adequacy of the emergency point-of-care ultrasound core curriculum for the local burden of disease in South Africa
1 Division of Emergency Medicine, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa 2 Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa ...
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BET 2: Is there an association between iodine, shellfish and contrast agent allergies?
A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether having a shellfish or iodine allergy changed the risk of allergic reaction in patients receiving radiocontrast medium more than other concomitant ...
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Venous pH can safely replace arterial pH in the initial evaluation of patients in the emergency department
Objective—This study aims to determine the extent of correlation of arterial and venous pH with a view to identifying whether venous samples can be used as an alternative to arterial values in the ...
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Soft tissue injuries: principles of biomechanics, physiotherapy and imaging
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Cost and clinical effectiveness of MRI in occult scaphoid fractures: a randomised controlled trial
2 Department of Clinical Imaging, Worthing Hospital, Worthing, West Sussex, UK 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, Middlesex, UK 4 Department of Clinical Imaging, ...
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Bilateral blood pressure differential as a clinical marker for acute aortic dissection in the emergency department
Introduction Interarm systolic BP differential is a classic sign of acute aortic dissection (AAD). All previous studies looking at the association of BP differential with AAD combine systolic BP ...
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Blue calls—time for a change?
Prior alert via a landline telephone (“blue call”) is commonly used to warn accident and emergency (A&E) departments of the impending arrival of a seriously ill or injured patient. There are no ...
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Is time to closure a factor in the occurrence of infection in traumatic wounds? A prospective cohort study in a Dutch level 1 trauma centre
Background The dogma that traumatic wounds should not be sutured after 6 h is based on an animal experiment by P L Friedrich in 1898. There is no adequately powered prospective study on this cut-off ...
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The prehospital management of pelvic fractures: initial consensus statement
Correspondence to Professor Keith Porter, Department of Anaesthesia, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen B15 2WB, UK; keith.porter{at}uhb.nhs.uk Improved mortality has been seen with catastrophic ...
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Emergency nurse practitioners and doctors consulting with patients in an emergency department: a comparison of communication skills and satisfaction
Background: Emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) play an increasingly important role in UK emergency departments (EDs), but there is limited evidence about how this affects patient care and outcome. A ...