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 ...

Introduction Workforce issues prevail across healthcare; in emergency medicine (EM), previous work improved retention, but the staffing problem changed rather than improved. More experienced doctors ...

Objective Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) is a collaborative clinical studies group established in August 2012. It consists of a network of 43 centres from England, ...

Correspondence to: M J Clancy, Emergency Department, Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK Mr M Clancy;janice.mills{at}suht.swest.nhs.uk The fourth paper in the research ...

Background Severe sepsis is likely to account for around 37 000 deaths annually in the UK. Five years after the international Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) care bundles were published, care ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Center for Medical Decision Making, Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department ...

Introduction Occupational stress is a major modern health and safety challenges. While the ED is known to be a high-pressure environment, the specific organisational stressors which affect ED staff ...

ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Medical Care Research Unit, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Patricia Coleman, Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; ...

Background: The NICE head injury guidelines recommend a different approach in the management of head injury patients. It suggests that CT head scan should replace skull x ray (SXR) and ...

Background People presenting to the ED with acute severe headache often undergo investigation to exclude subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). International guidelines propose that brain imaging within 6 ...

Objective To evaluate whether there is an association between an intervention to reduce medical bed occupancy and performance on the 4-hour target and hospital mortality. Methods This before-and-after ...

1 Nottingham Children's Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Queen's Medical Centre Campus, Nottingham, UK 2 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham Medical ...