BMC Emergency Medicine

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
| 5 December 2018

Trajectories of early secondary insults correlate to outcomes of traumatic brain injury: results from a large, single centre, observational study

Authors: Paola Cristina Volpi, Chiara Robba, Matteo Rota, Alessia Vargiolu and Giuseppe Citerio
Content type: Research article
| 3 December 2018

Management of acute coronary syndrome in emergency departments: a cross sectional multicenter study (Tunisia)

Authors: Asma Sriha Belguith, Kaouthar Beltaief, Mohamed Amine Msolli, Wahid Bouida, Hela Abroug, Manel Ben Fredj, Imen Zemni, Mohamed Habib Grissa, Hamdi Boubaker, Mohamed Hsairi and Samir Nouira
Content type: Research article
| 3 December 2018

Ear measurement of temperature is only useful for screening for fever in an adult emergency department

Authors: Christian Backer Mogensen, Malene Bue Vilhelmsen, Johanne Jepsen, Lilian Keene Boye, Maiken Hjuler Persson and Florence Skyum
Content type: Research article
| 29 November 2018

Predictive value of quick surgical airway assessment for trauma (qSAT) score for identifying trauma patients requiring surgical airway in emergency room

Authors: Kei Hayashida, Shokei Matsumoto, Mitsuhide Kitano and Junichi Sasaki
Content type: Research article
| 29 November 2018

Potential benefits of triage for the trauma patient in a Kenyan emergency department

Authors: Maria Lampi, Johan P. E. Junker, John S. Tabu, Peter Berggren, Carl-Oscar Jonson and Andreas Wladis

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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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Guangde Tu, BioMed Central

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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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Trajectories of early secondary insults correlate to outcomes of traumatic brain injury: results from a large, single centre, observational study

Management of acute coronary syndrome in emergency departments: a cross sectional multicenter study (Tunisia)

Ear measurement of temperature is only useful for screening for fever in an adult emergency department

Predictive value of quick surgical airway assessment for trauma (qSAT) score for identifying trauma patients requiring surgical airway in emergency room

Potential benefits of triage for the trauma patient in a Kenyan emergency department

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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