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
| 18 April 2019

Trends and barriers of emergency medical service use in Addis Ababa; Ethiopia

Authors: Menbeu Sultan, Yonas Abebe, Assefu Welde Tsadik, Asmamaw Ababa, Alegnta Gebre Yesus and Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman
Content type: Research article
| 17 April 2019

Association between emergency department length of stay and adverse perioperative outcomes in emergency surgery: a cohort study in two Colombian University hospitals

Authors: Félix R. Montes, Skarlet Marcell Vásquez, Claudia Marcela Camargo-Rojas, Myriam V. Rueda, Lina Góez-Mogollón, Paula A. Alvarado, Danny J. Novoa and Juan Carlos Villar
Content type: Case report
| 12 March 2019

Severe Viperidae envenomation complicated by a state of shock, acute kidney injury, and gangrene presenting late at the emergency department: a case report

Authors: Agnès Esiéné, Paul Owono Etoundi, Joel Noutakdie Tochie, Arlette Junette Mbengono Metogo and Jacqueline Ze Minkande
Content type: Research article
| 4 March 2019

Prevalence and factors associated with road traffic incident among adolescents and children in the hospitals of Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

Authors: Bewket Tadesse Tiruneh, Berhanu Boru Bifftu and Berihun Assefa Dachew
Content type: Research article
| 1 March 2019

CT imaging history for patients presenting to the ED with renal colic--evidence from a multi-hospital database

Authors: Emily Schmid, Kimberly Leeson, K. Tom Xu, Peter Richman, Crystal Nwosu and Lynn Carrasco

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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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Amelia De Salis, BMC Series, London

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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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Trends and barriers of emergency medical service use in Addis Ababa; Ethiopia

Association between emergency department length of stay and adverse perioperative outcomes in emergency surgery: a cohort study in two Colombian University hospitals

Severe Viperidae envenomation complicated by a state of shock, acute kidney injury, and gangrene presenting late at the emergency department: a case report

Prevalence and factors associated with road traffic incident among adolescents and children in the hospitals of Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia

CT imaging history for patients presenting to the ED with renal colic--evidence from a multi-hospital database

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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