Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr Y-F Choi Medical Officer, Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole ...

Objectives Many drug and fluid regimens in emergency medicine are weight dependent in adults, but no standard adult weight estimation tools exist. Paediatric weight is often estimated in emergency ...

Objective In the era of damage control resuscitation of trauma patients with acute major haemorrhage, transfusion practice has evolved to blood component (component therapy) administered in a ratio ...

Introduction Non-accidental injury (NAI) in children is an important cause of major injury. The Trauma Audit Research Network (TARN) recently analysed data on the demographics of paediatric trauma and ...

Correspondence to Dr Tzu-Yao Hung, Emergency, Taipei City Hospital, Zhong-Xing Branch, Taipei 10341, Taiwan; bryansolitude{at}gmail.com At the end of December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS ...

A short-cut review was carried out to determine the clinical features associated with acute intoxication with Salvia divinorum. Sixty-six papers were found using the reported searches, of which three ...

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A diagnosis of tension pneumothorax is usually only considered within the context of trauma, incorrect chest drain insertion or positive pressure ventilation. Four patients are presented who developed ...

Background Blood transfusion for bleeding trauma patients is a promising pre-hospital intervention with potential to improve outcomes. However, it is not yet clear which patients may benefit from ...

3 National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care, Uni Research Health, Bergen, Norway 4 Uni Research Health, Bergen, Norway Correspondence to Dr Christina Brudvik, Bergen Accident and Emergency ...

Purpose/Background—Central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is usually a blinding event, and is not an infrequent presentation to the accident and emergency (A&E) department. The evidence-base in ...

The University of Birmingham, School of Health Sciences, The Medical School, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Mr T Kilner, The University of Birmingham, School of Health Sciences, The Medical School, ...