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 ...

Trauma involving the parotid gland is rare and is usually caused by penetrating injuries or fractures of the facial skeleton. A unique case is presented of rupture of the parotid gland after a minor ...

Department of Cardiac Rhythm Management, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK Yaver Bashir, Department of Cardiac Rhythm Management, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK ...

A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether tranexamic acid improves outcomes for patients with life-threatening haematuria. Sixteen papers were found in Medline using the reported searches ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective:: In 2002 a new protocol was introduced based on the Canadian CT rules. Before this the Royal College of Surgeons “Galasko” report guidelines had been followed. This study evaluates the ...

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 ...

2 Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Dorothy Newbury-Birch, Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Baddiley-Clark ...

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3 Midlands Air Ambulance—HEMS paramedic, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 4 West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK Correspondence to Dr Carl McQueen, Warwick ...

Venous thromboembolic disease is a major global cause of morbidity and mortality. An estimated 10 million episodes are diagnosed yearly; over half of these episodes are provoked by hospital ...