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Introduction The Major Trauma Triage Study (‘MATTS’) triage tool was designed to identify patients with major trauma who could benefit from expedited care in specialist major trauma centres (MTCs). We ...

Objective This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and time-to-diagnosis of compression ultrasonography performed by emergency physicians compared with radiologist-performed Doppler ...

Background Hyponatraemia is associated with greater mortality in emergency patients. Therefore, the correction of low serum sodium levels remains an important field in clinical practice. Methods ...

Background Communication in a family’s primary language can support safe care. Vital steps within the care delivery process are contingent on successful communication, including reporting symptoms, ...

Background Physician-based prehospital teams provide advanced critical care services in the UK (eg, prehospital anaesthesia). The last review of such teams in 2009, which included England, Wales and ...

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A short systematic review assessed the diagnostic accuracy of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in febrile adults from malaria-endemic regions. A database search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane and Google ...

Background and objective Heat-related illnesses can range from mild to severe, potentially causing death or disability. Central nervous system abnormalities are crucial clinical indicators, yet their ...

Emergency medicine (EM) is often mischaracterised as symptom-based care, yet, in practice, it is the discipline of making time-critical decisions with incomplete information, under conditions where ...

The Urgent and Emergency Care system generates a wealth of clinical information, but our ability to harness this for public health planning and to address health inequalities is constrained by ...

Emergency departments (EDs) and NHS ambulance services often serve as the first and only point of contact with healthcare for individuals from deprived communities, marginalised populations and other ...