1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...
Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...
OBJECTIVES: To determine how British Thoracic Society (BTS) guidelines for the management of spontaneous pneumothorax have been implemented over a four year period in a large district general hospital ...
Background In 2015, Ambulance Service Medical Directors raised concerns regarding a perceived increase in suicide deaths among ambulance service staff. The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives ...
Accident and Emergency Department, Birmingham, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr I Velissariou Accident and Emergency, Department ...
Background The use and assessment of non-technical skills (NTS) in healthcare has gained recognition in recent years. Mainly adopted from aviation key NTS have enabled specific teams such as surgical ...
The Department of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India Correspondence to: Dr N Sharma, The Department of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate ...
Correspondence to Dr Roderick Mackenzie, Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Pre-hospital Care Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, ...
Background Pre-hospital clinicians are involved in examining, treating and diagnosing patients. The accuracy of pre-hospital diagnoses is evaluated using diagnostic accuracy studies. We undertook a ...
Correspondence to Emir Battaloglu, Academic Department of Clinical Traumatology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, 6th Floor, Nuffield House, ...
Background The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) defines sepsis as a life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection.
Background Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted image interpretation is a fast-developing area of clinical innovation. Most research to date has focused on the performance of AI-assisted algorithms ...