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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
| 5 September 2019

Sensitivity of urinary pathogens for patients discharged from the emergency department compared with the hospital antibiogram

Authors: Sean Carlsen, Scott P. Krall, K. Tom Xu, Alainya Tomanec, Daylon Farias and Peter Richman
Content type: Research article
| 4 September 2019

Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tools for assessment of acute stroke: a systematic review

Authors: Daria Antipova, Leila Eadie, Ashish Macaden and Philip Wilson
Content type: Research article
| 2 September 2019

Patient’s perception of kidney stone prevention within the emergency department and its adherence factors: a single institution study

Authors: Mohamad Moussa and Mohamed Abou Chakra
Content type: Research article
| 27 August 2019

Do health care professionals’ perceptions help to measure the degree of overcrowding in the emergency department? A pilot study in an Italian University hospital

Authors: Andrea Strada, Francesca Bravi, Giorgia Valpiani, Roberto Bentivegna and Tiziano Carradori
Content type: Research article
| 8 August 2019

Body temperature measurement in ambulance: a challenge of 21-st century?

Authors: Paweł Podsiadło, Tomasz Darocha, Sylweriusz Kosiński, Tomasz Sanak and Robert Gałązkowski

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| 7 October 2011

Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis

Authors: Ramesh P Aacharya, Chris Gastmans and Yvonne Denier
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
| 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
| 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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Sensitivity of urinary pathogens for patients discharged from the emergency department compared with the hospital antibiogram

Diagnostic accuracy of clinical tools for assessment of acute stroke: a systematic review

Patient’s perception of kidney stone prevention within the emergency department and its adherence factors: a single institution study

Do health care professionals’ perceptions help to measure the degree of overcrowding in the emergency department? A pilot study in an Italian University hospital

Body temperature measurement in ambulance: a challenge of 21-st century?

Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis

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

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?

Simple technique for evacuation of traumatic subcutaneous haematomas under tension

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