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
| 16 October 2018

Prior CT imaging history for patients who undergo whole-body CT for acute traumatic injury and are discharged home from the emergency department

Authors: Mary Matthews, Peter Richman, Scott Krall, Kimberly Leeson, K Tom Xu, Albert L Gest and Osbert Blow
Content type: Research article
| 3 October 2018

Emergency response time and pre-hospital trauma survival rate of the national ambulance service, Greater Accra (January – December 2014)

Authors: Mohammed-Najeeb Mahama, Ernest Kenu, Delia Akosua Bandoh and Ahmed Nuhu Zakariah
Content type: Research article
| 29 September 2018

Socioeconomic gradients in admission to coronary or intensive care units among Australians presenting with non-traumatic chest pain in emergency departments

Authors: George Mnatzaganian, Janet E Hiller, Jason Fletcher, Mark Putland, Cameron Knott, George Braitberg, Steve Begg and Melanie Bish
Content type: Research article
| 25 September 2018

Platelet indices and outcome after cardiac arrest

Authors: Antonella Cotoia, Federico Franchi, Chiara De Fazio, Jean-Louis Vincent, Jacques Creteur and Fabio Silvio Taccone
Content type: Research article
| 19 September 2018

Epidemiological and clinical profiles of acute poisoning in patients admitted to the intensive care unit in eastern Iran (2010 to 2017)

Authors: Omid Mehrpour, Ayob Akbari, Firoozeh Jahani, Alireza Amirabadizadeh, Elaheh Allahyari, Borhan Mansouri and Patrick C. Ng

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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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Prior CT imaging history for patients who undergo whole-body CT for acute traumatic injury and are discharged home from the emergency department

Emergency response time and pre-hospital trauma survival rate of the national ambulance service, Greater Accra (January – December 2014)

Socioeconomic gradients in admission to coronary or intensive care units among Australians presenting with non-traumatic chest pain in emergency departments

Platelet indices and outcome after cardiac arrest

Epidemiological and clinical profiles of acute poisoning in patients admitted to the intensive care unit in eastern Iran (2010 to 2017)

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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Improving the conversation between doctors and patients about antibiotic benefits and harms for coughs and colds

Relationships between neurological and psychiatric disorders: Could migraine and ADHD be correlated?

Media multitasking may be linked to altered perception of other people

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