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Featured article: Optimal assessment choreography for critically ill patients

This pilot simulation study was to determine the optimal choreography for evaluation of the critically ill patients. The results showed that a focused history can be done in either series or parallel to the primary survey, however, there is less mental demand and effort associated with a parallel choreography.

Content type: Research article
| 15 November 2018

Creative adapting in a fluid environment: an explanatory model of paramedic decision making in the pre-hospital setting

Authors: Gudrun Reay, James A. Rankin, Lorraine Smith-MacDonald and Gerald C. Lazarenko
Content type: Research article
| 15 November 2018

Seasonal prevalence of hyponatremia in the emergency department: impact of age

Authors: Naohiko Imai, Kiyomi Osako, Nagayuki Kaneshiro and Yugo Shibagaki
Content type: Research article
| 8 November 2018

Pain score, desire for pain treatment and effect on pain satisfaction in the emergency department: a prospective, observational study

Authors: Judith E. van Zanden, Susanne Wagenaar, Jozine M. ter Maaten, Jan C. ter Maaten and Jack J. M. Ligtenberg
Content type: Research article
| 6 November 2018

Reduction in the IL-6 level at 24 h after admission to the intensive care unit is a survival predictor for Vietnamese patients with sepsis and septic shock: a prospective study

Authors: Pham Thi Ngoc Thao, Ton Thanh Tra, Nguyen Truong Son and Koji Wada
Content type: Case report
| 1 November 2018

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and minimal trauma: medical review and case report

Authors: Karim Hajjar, Ralphe Bou Chebl, Mohammad Kanso and Gilbert Abou Dagher

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Content type: Debate
| 7 October 2011

Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis

Authors: Ramesh P Aacharya, Chris Gastmans and Yvonne Denier
Content type: Research article
| 17 July 2007

A survey of knowledge, attitudes and practice of emergency contraception among university students in Cameroon

Authors: Eugene J Kongnyuy, Pius Ngassa, Nelson Fomulu, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Luc Kouam and Anderson S Doh
Content type: Research article
| 2 August 2012

Is the APLS formula used to calculate weight-for-age applicable to a Trinidadian population?

Authors: Khalid Ali, Ian Sammy and Paula Nunes
Content type: Research article
| 3 February 2011

Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop

Authors: Eric J Lavonas, Anne-Michelle Ruha, William Banner, Vikhyat Bebarta, Jeffrey N Bernstein, Sean P Bush, William P Kerns II, William H Richardson, Steven A Seifert, David A Tanen, Steve C Curry and Richard C Dart
Content type: Research article
| 13 December 2005

Simple technique for evacuation of traumatic subcutaneous haematomas under tension

Authors: George Chami, Belinda Chami, Edward Hatley and Hossam Dabis

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BMC Emergency Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all urgent and emergency aspects of medicine, in both practice and basic research. In addition, the journal covers aspects of disaster medicine and medicine in special locations, such as conflict areas and military medicine, together with articles concerning healthcare services in the emergency departments.

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Fiona Lecky, Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research, University of Sheffield
Suzanne Mason, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
Fabio Silvio Taccone, Erasme Hospital

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Fabio S. Taccone is Professor at the Department of Intensive Care of Erasme Hospital and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels (Belgium). He has a large area of interest in critical care medicine, with a particular research in antibiotic pharmacokinetics, brain injury, microcirculation during severe infections, therapeutic hypothermia as a neuro-protective strategy and ECMO.

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Creative adapting in a fluid environment: an explanatory model of paramedic decision making in the pre-hospital setting

Seasonal prevalence of hyponatremia in the emergency department: impact of age

Pain score, desire for pain treatment and effect on pain satisfaction in the emergency department: a prospective, observational study

Reduction in the IL-6 level at 24 h after admission to the intensive care unit is a survival predictor for Vietnamese patients with sepsis and septic shock: a prospective study

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and minimal trauma: medical review and case report

Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis

A survey of knowledge, attitudes and practice of emergency contraception among university students in Cameroon

Is the APLS formula used to calculate weight-for-age applicable to a Trinidadian population?

Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop

Simple technique for evacuation of traumatic subcutaneous haematomas under tension

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