Background: The NICE head injury guidelines recommend a different approach in the management of head injury patients. It suggests that CT head scan should replace skull x ray (SXR) and ...

Background The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the ...

Triage is a process that is critical to the effective management of modern emergency departments. Triage systems aim, not only to ensure clinical justice for the patient, but also to provide an ...

Background Healthcare workers (HCWs) are frontline responders to emergency infectious disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. To avoid the rapid spread of disease, adherence to protective measures is ...

Introduction Healthcare-associated infection caused by insufficient hygiene is associated with mortality, economic burden, and suffering for the patient. Emergency medical service (EMS) providers ...

1 Department of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 3 ...

Correspondence to Dr Ananda Vishnu Pandurangadu, Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont School of Medicine, Beaumont Health System, Oakland University, Royal Oak, MI 48309, USA; ...

Correspondence to Dr Melanie Edwards, Clinical Audit & Research Unit, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, HQ Annexe, 8-20 Pocock Street, London, SE1 0BW, UK; melanie.edwards{at}rocketmail.com ...

Correspondence to Jeremy David Pallas, Emergency Department, John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights, NSW 2305, Australia; jeremy.pallas{at}health.nsw.gov.au Background Medical team leaders in ...

Emergency Medicine Journal accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including original research, reviews and image challenges. The Author Information section provides specific article ...