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Review of sports injuries presenting to an accident and emergency department

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Robert Meek, Zhong Xian Lu, Udara Dilrukshi Senarathne, Sean Tan, Louise Cullen, John W Pickering, Martin Paul Than, Georgina Hayden, Adam Damianopoulos, Claire Charteris, Alex Duong, Diana ...
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Levels of mental health problems among UK emergency ambulance workers

4 Department of General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK 5 Pre-Hospital Emergency Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine Correspondence to: Dr P Bennett Bristol ...
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The impact of senior doctor assessment at triage on emergency department performance measures: systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies

School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Maysam Ali Abdulwahid, School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield ...
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Increasing emergency department attendances in central London with methamphetamine toxicity and associated harms

Correspondence to Dr James T Harnett, Emergency Department, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, NW1 2BU, UK; j.harnett{at}nhs.net Background Methamphetamine is a ...
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Comparison of a long spinal board and vacuum mattress for spinal immobilisation

Objectives: This study was designed to compare the stability and comfort afforded by the long spinal board (backboard) and the vacuum mattress. Methods: Nine volunteers wearing standardised clothing ...
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Are medical students in prehospital care at risk of moral injury?

Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...
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EXCELLENCE REPORTING (GREATIX): CREATING A DIFFERENT PARADIGM IN IMPROVING SAFETY AND QUALITY

Objectives & Background The NHS safety culture predominantly focuses on negative events with staff being encouraged to report incidents via online tools such as IR1 or Datix. Obligations in relation ...
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Does the use of the Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch System affect cardiac arrest detection?

Correspondence to: Mr A Heward London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, 220 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8SD, UK; andy.hewardlond-amb.nhs.uk Background: Cardiac arrest is the most widely recognised ...
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Postconcussion syndrome (PCS) in the emergency department: predicting and pre-empting persistent symptoms following a mild traumatic brain injury

4 Department of Psychology, Marldon Unit, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter, UK Correspondence to Dr Adam Reuben, Emergency Department, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 ...
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Clinical scaphoid score (CSS) to identify scaphoid fracture with MRI in patients with normal x-ray after a wrist trauma

Introduction The aim of this study was to compare a combination of three commonly used tests to identify scaphoid fractures with MRI in patients with normal x-ray after a wrist trauma. Patients and ...
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Incidence and causes of critical incidents in emergency departments: a comparison and root cause analysis

Objectives: To investigate the incidence of critical incidents in UK emergency departments (EDs) and to compare the root causes of such incidents between different EDs. Methods: An observational study ...