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An elderly woman with bilateral raccoon eyes

Correspondence to Dr Ryota Inokuchi, Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan; ...
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Clinician characteristics associated with CT use in children with minor blunt head trauma at very low risk for clinically important traumatic brain injuries ...
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Trends in the mortality of intra-abdominal infections in adults over 25 years in the USA, 1999–2021

6 Shaanxi Clinical Medical Research Center of Infectious Diseases, Xi'an, China Correspondence to Professor Kamran Samakar, Division of Upper GI and General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University ...
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Does a single dose of intravenous dexamethasone reduce Symptoms in Emergency department patients with low Back pain and RAdiculopathy (SEBRA)? A double-blind randomised ...

6 Griffith Graduate Research School, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 7 School of Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 8 School of Medicine, Griffith ...
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A pilot study of workplace violence towards paramedics

Monash University, Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice, Frankston, Victoria, Australia Background: International studies have shown that some 60% of paramedics have ...
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Emergency department noise: mental activation or mental stress?

Correspondence to Dr Lindy-Lee Folscher, Division of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Parktown, Gauteng, South Africa, P.O. Box 1889, Heidelberg 1438, ...
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Packers, pushers and stuffers—managing patients with concealed drugs in UK emergency departments: a clinical and medicolegal review

Body packing, pushing and stuffing are methods by which illicit drugs may be carried within the human body. Patients involved in these practices may present UK emergency departments with complex ...
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Lowering levels of bed occupancy is associated with decreased inhospital mortality and improved performance on the 4-hour target in a UK District General Hospital

Objective To evaluate whether there is an association between an intervention to reduce medical bed occupancy and performance on the 4-hour target and hospital mortality. Methods This before-and-after ...
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Interventions to improve the management of pain in emergency departments: systematic review and narrative synthesis

1 Health Services Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Fiona C Sampson, Health Services Research, ScHARR, ...
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Lactic acidosis not hyperlactatemia as a predictor of inhospital mortality in septic emergency patients

Objective: To compare the prognostic abilities of lactic acidosis and hyperlactatemia and determine the influence of metabolic acidosis when attempting to predict the outcome of septic patients using ...
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Temperature measurement in the adult emergency department: oral, tympanic membrane and temporal artery temperatures versus rectal temperature

Correspondence to Dr Polly E Bijur, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Rose F. Kennedy Center room 915F, 1410 Pelham Parkway South, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; polly.bijur{at}einstein.yu.edu Objective The ...
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Development of key performance indicators for prehospital emergency care

Correspondence to Professor Ronan O'Sullivan, School of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland; rgosullivan{at}bonsecours.ie Introduction Key performance indicators (KPIs) are used to ...