T he importance of evidence based medicine in improving clinical care has been emphasised significantly in recent years. Opportunities to conduct research within emergency care, however, have been restricted by time and financial constraints as well as a lack of a research tradition. Research networks in primary care have enabled healthcare professionals to conduct research despite similar diff...

Paediatric Emergency Medicine Department, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and BRC Imperial NIHR, Imperial College, London, UK Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK Department of Anaesthesia, Paediatric Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Auf der Bult Children’s Hospital, Hannover, Germany Paediatric Intensive Care Department, Hospit...

Rural emergency nurses face unique obstacles to providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care. Stories provided by emergency nurses embody their most difficult EOL care obstacles. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to 53 rural hospitals. Respondents were asked to share stories that epitomized the obstacles faced while providing EOL care in the rural emergency setting. RESULTS The lack of an ideal ...

BACKGROUND Some emergency admissions can be avoided if acute exacerbations of health problems are managed by the range of health services providing emergency and urgent care. AIM To identify system-wide factors explaining variation in age sex adjusted admission rates for conditions rich in avoidable admissions. DESIGN National ecological study. SETTING 152 emergency and urgent care system...

The Committee on Issues of the Association for Academic Surgery surveyed the Association’s membership, surgical department chairmen, and university hospital emergency department directors as to their attitudes about the role of surgeons and emergency medicine specialists in emergency care. Major differences in attitudes exist between surgeons and nonsurgeons regarding the surgeon’s role in the ...

Background: Acute poisonings are common presentations to emergency departments (EDs) worldwide and require rapid assessment. Consultant emergency physicians (EPs) faced with various toxicological presentations must initiate rapid investigations and empirical management. This study aimed to determine emergency department doctors’ level of knowledge and confidence in toxicological presentations, ...

Objective: Patients’ satisfaction (PS) is recognized as an important emergency department service design and it has received a high interest and attention in the health management where many studies have focused on determining factors affecting PS in health-related circumstances. In this study, we aimed to examine PS in emergency department (ED) of the European Gaza Hospital (EGH) in the Gaza S...

a high number of people in the world suffered from spinal cord injury (sci). spinal cord injuries are happen due to falls from height, accidents, climbing, sports and etc. emergency care according to the standards not performed immediately after sci. a significant enhancement in the number of mortality and complications was observed every year. the aim of this study is to prevent the mortality,...