In generations past, it was common practice for doctors to learn lifesaving technical skills on patients who had recently died. But this practice has lately been criticised on religious, legal, and ethical grounds, and has fallen into disuse in many hospitals and emergency departments. This paper uses four questions to resolve whether doctors in emergency departments should practise and teach n...

The urgent and emergency care services in England’s National Health Service (NHS) are currently the subject of a national review. The existing system, which is experiencing increases in demand, has been described as unaffordable, unsustainable and fragmented. In August 2013, the Prime Minister’s Office and Department of Health announced that an additional £500 million would be made available to...

BACKGROUND Bomb blast injuries result in premature deaths and burdening of healthcare systems. The objective of this study was to explore the characteristics and outcome of patients presenting to the emergency departments in Pakistan with bomb blast injuries. METHODS Active surveillance was conducted in seven major emergency departments of Pakistan from November 2010-March 2011. All the sites...

Designing patient flow in emergency departments Yariv N. Marmor a , Boaz Golany b , Shlomo Israelit c & Avishai Mandelbaum b a Mayo Clinic, Divisions of Health Care Policy and Research, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN, USA b Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Haifa, 32000, Israel c Rambam Health Care Campus, Emergency Department, Haifa, 31096, I...

INTRODUCTION According to the Spanish Stroke Health Care Plan and the Spanish Health National Service Stroke Strategy, thrombolysis should only be performed in hospitals with Stroke Units. However, the Andalusian Stroke Health Care Plan includes, within the list of services of the Stroke Team, the need to have a neurologist present for the performing of thrombolysis in local hospitals. The obje...