Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Ms I van der Wulp, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, UMC Utrecht, P O Box 85500, 3508 GA ...

The Centre for Suicide Prevention, Psychiatry, University of Manchester, Manchester, England Correspondence to Mr Damian Da Cruz, The National Confidential Inquiry, University of Manchester, Community ...

Objectives: Overdoses account for a quarter of all suicides in England. The number of people who survive the immediate effects of their overdose long enough to reach medical attention, but who ...

Ambulance Research Institute, Ambulance Service of New South Wales (ASNSW), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Roger Price, Ambulance Research Institute, Ambulance Service of New ...

Department of Accident & Emergency, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing, Imperial College School of Medicine at St. Mary’s Hospital, London, UK ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 3 Department of Medicine of the ...

This paper provides a guideline for the management of prehospital chest injuries after a consensus meeting held by the Faculty of Prehospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, ...

Emergency Departments (EDs) are increasingly seeing more seriously unwell older people living with frailty. In the context of limited resources and increasing demand it’s the ED practitioner’s ...

Correspondence to Dr Lisa Mellon, Division of Population Health Sciences, Department of Psychology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland; lisamellon{at}rcsi.ie Background and ...

A 50 year old woman with a previous diagnosis of epilepsy presented to the emergency department with a generalised seizure. Her admission ECG showed QT prolongation secondary to bradycardia and a ...

Methods/Design Data were collected from electronic and written ED records for all patients meeting the inclusion criteria who attended over a 14-day period. Patient records were identified by manually ...

Background Hypothermia is an independent predictor of increased morbidity and mortality in patients with trauma. Several strategies and products have been developed to minimise patients’ heat loss in ...