5 Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Duke of Kent Building, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Correspondence to Professor Tom Quinn, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Duke of Kent ...

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 ...

Introduction Occupational stress is a major modern health and safety challenges. While the ED is known to be a high-pressure environment, the specific organisational stressors which affect ED staff ...

Background Exit block (or access block) occurs when ‘patients in the ED requiring inpatient care are unable to gain access to appropriate hospital beds within a reasonable time frame’. Exit block is ...

Correspondence to Matt Wilkinson-Stokes, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia; matt.wilkinson-stokes{at}outlook.com ...

Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SA Correspondence to: Dr M J Reed Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France ...

Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Mr K Allison Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson ...

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 ...

An in vivo experimental study was performed of the temperatures produced by a setting plaster cast using hot and cold water. The results confirmed a statistical difference in the temperatures reached ...

Background: In a resource poor setting with poverty, a high burden of disease and critically low medical staff numbers, triage could potentially improve the long waiting times experienced at South ...

Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient ...

1 Emergency Department, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, ...