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Moderate to severe hyperphosphataemia as an independent prognostic factor for 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis
Correspondence to Dr You Hwan Jo, Emergency medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam 13620, the Republic of Korea; emdrjyh{at}gmail.com Background Ischaemic tissue injury caused ...
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Retention of information by emergency department staff at ambulance handover: do standardised approaches work?
2 Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Anthony Bleetman Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, ...
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Paramedics' non-technical skills: a literature review
Healthcare organisations have started to examine the impact that the human worker has on patient safety. Adopting the Crew Resource Management (CRM) approach, used in aviation, the CRM or ...
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Recombinant activated factor VII use in the emergency department
Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Critical Care, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York, USA Dr T L Slesinger, Department of Emergency Medicine, North Shore University Hospital ...
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02 A pilot study to assess the feasibility of paramedics delivering antibiotic treatment to ‘red flag’ sepsis patients
Background Sepsis is associated with a 36% mortality rate rising up to 50% for septic shock. Currently when an East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) clinician recognises ‘red flag’ sepsis, only the ...
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Risk events during intrahospital transport of patients from the emergency department: a prospective observational study
Background We aimed to determine the incidence, nature of and predisposing factors for risk events (REs) that occur during the intrahospital transport of patients from the ED. Methods We undertook a ...
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Impact of pharmacist interventions provided in the emergency department on quality use of medicines: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Correspondence to Mr Tesfay Mehari Atey, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; tesfaymehari.atey{at}utas.edu.au Background Pharmacists have an ...
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Scalp lacerations demand careful attention before interhospital transfer of head injured patients.
Department of Neurosurgery, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland. Blood loss from scalp lacerations may be considerable. Two cases are described to illustrate the hazards of transferring ...
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Predicting emergency department admissions
3 Gold Coast Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia 4 Toowoomba Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Toowoomba, Queensland ...
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Aspirin administration by emergency medical dispatchers using a protocol-driven aspirin diagnostic and instruction tool
1 Research and Standards International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, Bristol, UK 2 Research and Standards International Academies of Emergency Dispatch, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Background The ...
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Seeing the invisible: painless aortic dissection in the emergency setting
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Dokuz Eylul University Medical School and Hospital, Izmir, Turkey 2 Department of Radiology, Dokuz Eylul University Medical School and Hospital, Izmir, Turkey 3 ...
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Diagnosis and management of common maxillofacial injuries in the emergency department. Part 3: orbitozygomatic complex and zygomatic arch fractures
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