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Access to physician-based Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in the UK: a service analysis in 2024

Background Physician-based prehospital teams provide advanced critical care services in the UK (eg, prehospital anaesthesia). The last review of such teams in 2009, which included England, Wales and ...
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Preoxygenation in prehospital critical care: a survey of HEMS practices in eight European countries

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Patient satisfaction in emergency medicine

Correspondence to: Dr J Benger Academic Department of Emergency Care, Emergency Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK; Jonathan.Bengerubht.swest.nhs.uk A systematic review was ...
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Oxygen therapy and inpatient mortality in COPD exacerbation

Results In patients with COPD receiving supplemental oxygen, oxygen saturations above 92% were associated with higher mortality and an adverse dose–response. Compared with the 88%–92% group, the ...
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Diagnostic errors in an accident and emergency department

Objectives—To describe the diagnostic errors occurring in a busy district general hospital accident and emergency (A&E) department over four years. Method—All diagnostic errors discovered by or ...
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Validity of the Japan Acuity and Triage Scale in adults: a cohort study

Correspondence to Dr Akira Kuriyama, Department of Health Informatics, Kyoto University School of Public Health, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; akira.kuriyama.jpn{at}gmail.com Objective The Japan Acuity and ...
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Distributions of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across a healthcare system following a large-scale roll-out

Background Early warning scores (EWS) were developed in acute hospital settings to improve recognition and response to patient deterioration. In 2012, the UK Royal College of Physicians developed the ...
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Factors that influence the accuracy of triage nurses' judgement in emergency departments

2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 4 Graduate ...
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Defining and improving the role of emergency medical services in Cape Town, South Africa

Introduction Low and middle income countries bear a disproportionate burden of paediatric morbidity and mortality. South Africa, a middle income country, has unacceptably high mortality in children ...
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How events in emergency medicine impact doctors’ psychological well-being

Background Emergency medicine is a high-pressured specialty with exposure to disturbing events and risk. We conducted a qualitative study to identify which clinical events resulted in emotional ...
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The impact of an emergency telephone consultation service on the use of ambulances in Tokyo

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2 Department of Critical and Emergency Medicine, Showa University hospital, Tokyo, Japan Introduction The ...
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NICE guideline for the management of head injury: an audit demonstrating its impact on a district general hospital, with a cost analysis for England and Wales

Correspondence to: B P Shravat Department of Accident and Emergency, Barnet Hospital, Barnet, EN5 3DJ, UK; brijendra.shravat{at}bcf.nhs.uk Objectives: To answer concerns related to implementation of ...