Objectives—For pre-hospital spinal immobilisation the spinal board is the established gold standard. There are concerns that its subsequent use in hospital may adversely affect patient outcome. This ...

Objectives: To describe the injuries misdiagnosed as a sprain of the wrist and to determine the approximate incidence of misdiagnosis in patients diagnosed as having a sprain of the wrist. Methods: ...

Objectives: Several trials have been published examining the role of antibiotics in dog bite wound management. A meta-analysis of these suggests that there is very little benefit to routine antibiotic ...

Background Increasing numbers of older patients are presenting to the ED following trauma. These patients require multidisciplinary care that the traditional trauma model fails to provide. A Silver ...

Correspondence to Dr Kashif Waqar Faiz, Akershus University Hospital, Department of Neurology, N-1478 Lørenskog, Norway; kashif.faiz{at}medisin.uio.no Background Early management improves outcome in ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey 2 Department of General Surgery, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey Correspondence to ...

Correspondence to: Dr P Leman Emergency Department, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, WA 6001, Australia; peter.lemanhealth.wa.gov.au Objective: To determine whether using intravenous ...

2 Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr C A Eynon Director of Neurosciences Intensive Care, Wessex Neurological Centre, Tremona Road, ...

2 HEMS ‘Lifeliner 1’, Trauma Center North-West Netherlands/VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Lothar A Schwarte, HEMS ‘Lifeliner 1’, Trauma Center North-West Netherlands/VUmc, De ...

Background: It is widely believed that placing a patient who has been subjected to suspension trauma in a horizontal position after rescue may cause rescue death. The discussion whether position is ...

2 Division of Cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA 3 Division of Cardiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Background The authors previously described ...

Correspondence to Dr Akshay Kumar, Emergency Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110016, India; akshay2111{at}gmail.com Background Prolonged wait times prior to ...