Emergency Medicine Journal

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What should be done to prepare clinicians for the introduction of machine learning in emergency medicine? A UK and Ireland network survey (13 October, 2026) Free ...
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A state-wide survey of medical emergency management in dental practices: incidence of emergencies and training experience

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Dr M P Müller, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive ...
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Investigation into the predictive capability for mortality and the trigger points of the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) in emergency department patients

Introduction National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) is widely used to monitor and trigger assessment throughout a patient’s hospital journey. Since the development and role out of NEWS2, its ability ...
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Capnometry in the prehospital setting: are we using its potential?

Capnometry is a non-invasive monitoring technique which allows fast and reliable insight into ventilation, circulation, and metabolism. In the prehospital setting it is mainly used to confirm correct ...
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Sudden visual loss after closed head injury

This is a report of a case of traumatic optic neuropathy after minor head injury: a rare cause of sudden visual loss after trauma. The aetiology and management are discussed.
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Emergency department crowding: prioritising quantified crowding measures using a Delphi study

Aims Emergency department (ED) crowding has been associated with a number of negative health outcomes, including unnecessary deaths, increased waiting times and a decrease in care quality. Despite the ...
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Paramedics' non-technical skills: a literature review

Healthcare organisations have started to examine the impact that the human worker has on patient safety. Adopting the Crew Resource Management (CRM) approach, used in aviation, the CRM or ...
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Ultrasound-guided intravenous catheter survival impacted by amount of catheter residing in the vein

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; ...
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Blood urea nitrogen and creatinine levels at admission for mortality risk assessment in patients with acute coronary syndromes

2 Department of Preventive and Urgent Cardiology, I M Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, City Clinical Hospital N 59, Moscow, Russian Federation 3 City Clinical Hospital N 7, Moscow, Russian Federation ...
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Renée A M Tuinte, Claudia Bull, Job M Hoonhorst, Reinier P Akkermans, Marie Louise Moors, Jaap ten Oever, Marlies EJL Hulscher, Jacobien J Hoogerwerf ...
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In children presenting to the paediatric emergency department (PED) with acute gastroenteritis, does the use of probiotics lead to a shorter duration of diarrhoeal symptoms?

A short review of the literature was conducted to assess whether probiotics shorten the duration of diarrhoeal symptoms in children presenting with acute gastroenteritis to the paediatric emergency ...
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Lowering levels of bed occupancy is associated with decreased inhospital mortality and improved performance on the 4-hour target in a UK District General Hospital

Objective To evaluate whether there is an association between an intervention to reduce medical bed occupancy and performance on the 4-hour target and hospital mortality. Methods This before-and-after ...