3 Gold Coast Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Gold Coast Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia 4 Toowoomba Hospital Emergency Department, Queensland Health, Toowoomba, Queensland ...

Background: The Valsalva manoeuvre (VM) is used in the prehospital setting as a first-line treatment for managing haemodynamically stable supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) in the form of ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...