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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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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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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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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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Predictors of infection from dog bite wounds: which patients may benefit from prophylactic antibiotics?
Correspondence to Meg E Tabaka, Stanford School of Medicine, c/o Dr. James Quinn, Stanford Emergency Department, 300 Pasteur Drive, Always Building M121 MC 5119, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; ...
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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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Identifying and profiling prearrival characteristics of avoidable emergency department visits transported by paramedics: a cohort study using linked prehospital and hospital data ...
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Paediatric laceration repair in the emergency department: post-discharge pain and maladaptive behavioural changes
Background Paediatric laceration repair procedures are common in the ED; however, post-discharge recovery remains understudied. Perioperative research demonstrates that children exhibit maladaptive ...
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An outcomes evaluation of an emergency department early pregnancy assessment service and early pregnancy assessment protocol
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 ...
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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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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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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 ...