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Predicting emergency department admissions
3 Gold Coast Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia 4 Toowoomba Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Toowoomba, Queensland ...
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The presence of companions during emergency department evaluation and its impact on perceptions of clinician–patient communication
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 ...
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PP10 How senior paramedics determine a futile resuscitation in pulseless electrical activity out of hospital cardiac arrest: a mixed methods study
Background Pulseless electrical activity, a non-shockable cardiac arrest, is treated using advanced life support resuscitation. When resuscitation fails, evidenced-based guidelines are limited on when ...
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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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Children with seizures presenting to accident and emergency.
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the diagnoses made in children presenting to an accident and emergency (A&E) department with seizures. METHODS: All children who presented to a district general hospital A&E ...
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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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A state-wide survey of medical emergency management in dental practices: incidence of emergencies and training experience
Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Dr M P Müller, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive ...
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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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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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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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Sustained release bupropion overdose: an important cause of prolonged symptoms after an overdose
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 ...
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The Boarders in the Emergency Department (BED) study
Background and objectives: In the Boarders in the Emergency Department (BED) study the impact of overcrowding due to boarders on patients’ mortality and the likelihood of being diagnosed with ...