Background Despite concerns that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) contribute to acute kidney injury (AKI), up to 75% of ultramarathon runners ingest these during competition. The effect ...

Improving Care with the First measurement of high-sensitivity troponin T (ICare-FirsT) to enable early rule out and reduce length of stay: a diagnostic and observational study ...

Dabigatran is an oral direct thrombin inhibitor (DTI) licensed for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation and likely to be soon approved in Europe for treatment of venous thrombosis. Predictable ...

Objectives To evaluate the role of ambulance response times in improving survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods OHCAs were identified by sampling consecutive life-threatening ...

Background: The administration of analgesics to patients with acute abdominal pain due to acute appendicitis is controversial. A study was undertaken to assess the analgesic effect of morphine in ...

Background Evidence regarding high-dose inhaled corticosteroids (HDICS) in asthma exacerbations in adults is insufficient. This study compares the treatment outcomes of HDICS as add-on therapy to the ...

Serious pelvic injuries are associated with a high mortality rate,1 ,2 which has remained persistently high even with advances in hospital care. Hypovolaemia is often a significant contributing factor ...

Emergency edicine providers are responsible for ensuring the emergency department is staffed 24 hours a day. As such, providers must efficiently transition between day, swing and night shift on an ...

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of bedside lung ultrasound and chest radiography (CXR) in patients with suspected pneumonia compared with CT scan and final ...

Aims and Objectives High-Acuity Low-Occurrence (HALO) procedures are critical, rare procedures for Emergency Physicians. Cadaveric and high fidelity HALO courses are resource and faculty intensive, ...

Background: Rapid sequence induction (RSI) is increasingly used by emergency physicians in the emergency department. A feared complication of the technique is the inability to intubate and ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether there was any evidence to decide between the various described methods of tick removal. Altogether 40 papers were found using the reported ...