Accident and Emergency Nursing

Accident and emergency services.

A CONFERENCE of this nature is most valuable in bringing together people who are interested and involved in the accident and emergency services, to discuss the problems and to look at possible solutions. Increasingly over the last few years it has become more difficult to staff accident and emergency departments. This situation has caused eminent bodies such as the Royal College of Physicians, ...

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Accident and Emergency Trainees' Association

Over the last three years the accident and emergency trainees in Merseyside have developed a self directed training programme which now consists of twice monthly meetings. This has been achieved through a process of evolution, shaped by the core curriculum, and supervised by the region's consultants with the support of the postgraduate dean. The meetings have proved both popular and valuable. T...

Accident and emergency medicine--II.

The principle ofprioritization by degree ofurgency obviously benefits patients whose condition is critical. This practice should be instilled in all who work in accident and emergency medicine. The Patients' Charter" highlights the importance of triage and states that patients should be seen immediately and their need for treatment assessed. Triage derives from the French word meaning 'to sort'...

Casualty, accident and emergency, or emergency medicine, the evolution.

Hospitals have always had to make arrangements for those who arrive at their doors seeking help. Over the years the numbers and complexity of problems presenting in this way have increased at an exponential rate. This increase in demand has been managed in diVerent ways in diVerent countries but in North America, Australia, some parts of Europe and the United Kingdom a new medical specialty has...