Objective—To determine factors associated with vomiting after minor head injury in a paediatric population with the intention of defining the role of vomiting in management decisions. Methods—A ...

Dr H Adlington, Department of Emergency Medicine, Poole Hospital, Poole BH15 2JB, UK; harryadlington{at}yahoo.co.uk A 63-year-old women with a history of palpitations presented to the emergency ...

Objectives To assess if a nurse-led application of a paediatric head injury clinical decision tool would be safe compared with current practice. Methods All paediatric (<17 years) patients with head ...

1 Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA Correspondence to ...

Correspondence to Professor Geoffrey Hughes, Emergency Department, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; cchdhb{at}yahoo.com Speak it loudly and speak it clearly: the ...

Aims/Objectives/Background The Ottawa ankle rules (OAR) have been validated as a highly sensitive tool to rule out ankle fractures and reduce need for radiography ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether electrical stimulation had any advantages over facial exercises in promoting recovery after Bell’s palsy. Altogether 270 papers were found using ...

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 ...

The case is reported of a patient who had taken a deliberate overdose of sustained release bupropion. The patient suffered from prolonged symptoms including seizures before fully recovering. The ...

Background Paediatric laceration repair procedures are common in the ED; however, post-discharge recovery remains understudied. Perioperative research demonstrates that children exhibit maladaptive ...

6 Shaanxi Clinical Medical Research Center of Infectious Diseases, Xi'an, China Correspondence to Professor Kamran Samakar, Division of Upper GI and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University ...