You see an 81-year-old man in the emergency department. He has been troubled by abdominal and back pain that has been worsening over the last two days. He has smoked 20 cigarettes a day for the last 60 years. On examination his heart rate is 110 beats per minute and his blood pressure is 130/80 mmhg. He is tender over the central abdomen and you feel a pulsatile mass above the umbilicus. You re...

this study was an attempt to investigate iranian and spanish intermediate nonnative english learners’ request strategies to their faculty. to this aim, 74 (50 iranian and 24 spanish) nonnative english intermediate learners participated in this study. a discourse completion test (dct) was used to elicit the request strategies used by the participants. the findings suggested the participants empl...

From the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, and Department of Anatomic Pathology, and Department of Emergency Medicine, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Received: October 24, 2012 Accepted: December 6, 2013 Address reprint request and correspondence to: Yaw-Sen Chen, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, E-Da Hospital, No. 1, Yida Road, Jiaosu ...

Correspondence to: P Hormbrey, Senior Registrar in Accident and Emergency Medicine, Accident and Emergency Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom. Abstract Objective-To investigate organised teaching in accident and emergency (A&E) departments in England and Wales. Methods-A survey was carried out by postal questionnaire. Directed to senior ...