Objective The emergency department assessment of chest pain score accelerated diagnostic pathway (EDACS-ADP) facilitates low-risk ED chest pain patients early to outpatient investigation. We aimed to ...

Background Numbers of asylum seekers and refugees living in Wales have increased sharply. Many are liable to have unmet health needs and difficulty accessing services. We investigated the experience ...

Background Our objective was to perform a systematic review of studies reporting the accuracy of termination of resuscitation rules (TORRs) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods We ...

Intra-abdominal infections are the second most common source of severe sepsis and successful treatment relies on early intervention and appropriate resources.1–3 The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted ...

A 15-year-old boy presents to the ED with 1 day of periumbilical non-radiating abdominal pain. The pain, described as a stinging sensation, started gradually 1 day prior to presentation after eating ...

WHAT IS POWER AND WHY DOES IT MATTER Power and sample size estimations are used by researchers to determine how many subjects are needed to answer the research question (or null hypothesis). An ...

Objective Advances in imaging technologies have precipitated uncertainty and inconsistency in the management of neurologically intact patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with ...

Background Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is a common and life-threatening medical emergency. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is a potentially beneficial prehospital treatment, but it is ...

Introduction Pain is the most common presenting feature within the ED, yet undertreatment of pain in the ED is a well-documented problem worldwide. Despite the development of interventions to address ...

Results From 29 211 admissions aged ≥65 who stayed at least one night in hospital, 12 385 (42.3%) were referred from the ED. Of the ED referrals, 8568 cases (69.2%) were included with paired CFS ...

Objectives We evaluated the association between timing of presentation and postconcussive symptoms (PCS) at 1, 4 and 12 weeks after injury. Methods This was a secondary analysis of a prospective ...

Background The pandemic has upended much clinical care, irrevocably changing our health systems and thrusting emergency physicians into a time of great uncertainty and change. This study is a ...