Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Dr D M Macgregor, Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Cornhill ...

Following resuscitation from cardiorespiratory arrest 80% of patients are comatose. Of these patients, 20% will survive and regain consciousness. Is it possible to predict an individual’s long term ...

Background Delay to reperfusion in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is detrimental, but can be minimised with prehospital notification by ambulance to the treating hospital. We aimed to ...

1 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 2 NIHR Biomedical Research Unit for Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, UK 3 Department of Vascular ...

1 Emergency Center, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, P.R. China 2 Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R. China 3 Medical College of Wuhan University, P.R. China 4 Public Health School ...

Wessex Cardiothoracic Unit, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK Dr N P Curzen, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK; ...

Objective—To assess whether the attending of the communication skills workshops by the emergency department doctors improves patient satisfaction and reduces the number of complaints on doctors' ...

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1 Emergency Physician, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8XP, United Kingdom 2 Clinical Fellow in Intensive Care Medicine, Intensive Therapy Unit, Royal Liverpool ...

Correspondence to Dr Wan-Ching Lien, Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; wanchinglien{at}ntu.edu.tw A healthy, obese 38-year-old man had acute flank ...

Background: Inter-hospital transfer of critically ill patients is potentially hazardous. If executed poorly, both patient and staff can come to harm. Guidelines have been published by the Association ...