Background: Consultants in emergency medicine have to deal with a wide range of problems, many of which they will not have encountered during their training. One way to assess the adequacy of ...

Isolated first rib fractures are uncommon. They are usually associated with severe blunt trauma, although other mechanisms have been suggested, these being (a) indirect trauma, (b) sudden contraction ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr F Probst, Accident and Emergency Department, St Thomas’ Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK Scombrotoxic or ...

Orbital fractures are a common, potentially vision-threatening presentation to an emergency department. Appropriate early management and referral by the emergency medicine practitioner has a ...

National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Dargan, National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, Avonley Road, ...

7 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, North Manchester General Hospital 8 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester 9 Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Hope ...

Correspondence to: MrK M Porter Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Selly Oak Hospital,Raddlebarn Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6JD, UK; keith.porteruhb.nhs.uk Lower limb fractures are common ...

Department of Accident and Emergency, University College London Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr A K Demetriades Department of Accident and Emergency, University College London Hospital, ...

Correspondence to Dr Demian Szyld, Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; dszyld{at}bwh.harvard.edu The authors defined criteria for an HoD as: ...

2 Public Policy Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA 3 Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA 4 Department of Emergency Medicine, ...

Is arrival by ambulance a risk factor for myocardial infarction in emergency department patients with cardiac sounding chest pain?

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Center for Emergency Medicine of Western PA Inc, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, ...