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An outcomes evaluation of an emergency department early pregnancy assessment service and early pregnancy assessment protocol
Background Complications in early pregnancy, such as threatened or actual miscarriage is a common occurrence resulting in many women presenting to the emergency department (ED). Early pregnancy ...
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Vomiting should be a prompt predictor of stroke outcome
1 Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization, Minami Kyoto Hospital, Kyoto, Japan 2 Department of Neurology and Department of Epidemiology for Community Health and Medicine, Kyoto ...
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Management of low back pain in Australian emergency departments for culturally and linguistically diverse populations from 2016 to 2021: a further analysis ...
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Factors that affect the flow of patients through triage
2 Accident and Emergency Department, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK 3 Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, Imperial College, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK ...
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Knowledge of initial management of caustic ingestions: a national survey of emergency physicians in France
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Association of clinically important traumatic brain injury and Glasgow Coma Scale scores in children with head injury
Objective Head injury (HI) is a common presentation to emergency departments (EDs). The risk of clinically important traumatic brain injury (ciTBI) is low. We describe the relationship between Glasgow ...
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Prehospital clinical signs are a poor predictor of raised intracranial pressure following traumatic brain injury
Background For the prehospital diagnosis of raised intracranial pressure (ICP), clinicians are reliant on clinical signs such as the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS), pupillary response and/or Cushing’s triad ...
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Stability of succinylcholine solutions stored at room temperature studied by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
The effect of storage temperature on the stability of two succinylcholine chloride solutions (20 and 50 mg/ml) was evaluated. Molecular composition was analysed using nuclear magnetic resonance ...
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LYRICA NIGHTS–RECREATIONAL PREGABALIN ABUSE IN AN URBAN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Objectives & Background Since ‘legal highs' emerged as drugs of abuse in the UK, Emergency Physicians have battled to keep up with the latest drug craze. Whilst many of these drugs present with ...
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2108 Metoclopramide for analgesia in renal colic – a systematic review
Aims and Objectives Renal colic is often extremely painful, and existing analgesic regimes frequently provide insufficient relief. There is biological plausibility that metoclopramide, a prokinetic ...
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Comminuted fracture of the talus not visible on the initial radiograph
Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, General Infirmary, Leeds, UK Correspondence to: Dr T Burton, Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, General Infirmary, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; ...
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Ultrasound to detect haemothorax after chest injury
A short cut review was carried out to establish whether ultrasonography is as sensitive and specific as chest x ray or computed tomography (CT) scan in detecting haemothorax after chest trauma. Thirty ...