Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient ...

Background Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted image interpretation is a fast-developing area of clinical innovation. Most research to date has focused on the performance of AI-assisted algorithms ...

Background People presenting to the ED with acute severe headache often undergo investigation to exclude subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH). International guidelines propose that brain imaging within 6 ...

Correspondence to: MrHywel Hughes Emergency Department, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Croesnewydd Road, Wrexham, Wales, UK; Hywel.hughes{at}new-tr.wales.nhs.uk Objectives: To assess the scale of drink ...

OBJECTIVES: To determine how British Thoracic Society (BTS) guidelines for the management of spontaneous pneumothorax have been implemented over a four year period in a large district general hospital ...

Background: Clinical features may be used to determine which patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS), but a normal or non-diagnostic ECG, should be selected for further investigation or ...

5 Department of Emergency Medicine, Arrowe Park Hospital, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to: Dr D Wise Department of Emergency Medicine and Pre-hospital Care, Royal London Hospital, London E1 1BB, UK; ...

Correspondence to: Professor Jon Nicholl Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK; j.nicholl{at}sheffield.ac.uk Objectives: ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...

National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr A Jones, National Poisons Information Service, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, Avonley Road, ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael D Repplinger, BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health, 800 University Bay Drive, Suite 310 Mail Code 9123, ...

4 Department of General Practice, University of Wales College of Medicine, UK 5 Pre-Hospital Emergency Research Unit, University of Wales College of Medicine Correspondence to: Dr P Bennett Bristol ...