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PP21 Non-technical skills in the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – identification for future practice

Background The use and assessment of non-technical skills (NTS) in healthcare has gained recognition in recent years. Mainly adopted from aviation key NTS have enabled specific teams such as surgical ...
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Association between delays to patient admission from the emergency department and all-cause 30-day mortality

Background Delays to timely admission from emergency departments (EDs) are known to harm patients. Objective To assess and quantify the increased risk of death resulting from delays to inpatient ...
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Tricyclic antidepressant overdose: a review

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Ayr Hospital, Dalmellington Road, Ayr, Scotland 2 Accident and Emergency Department, Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock Overdoses of tricyclic antidepressants are ...
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Public perception towards bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Objective Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) improves survival and neurological outcomes. Nonetheless, many OHCA patients do not receive ...
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Pharmacological management of agitation in emergency settings

Objective: To review, firstly, published studies comparing classic antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, and/or combination of both; and secondly, available data on the use of atypical antipsychotic ...
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Brief history of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine

Correspondence to Dr Roderick Mackenzie, Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Pre-hospital Care Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, ...
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INITIAL RESULTS OF THE RE-VERSE AD TRIAL: IDARUCIZUMAB REVERSES THE ANTICOAGULANT EFFECTS OF DABIGATRAN IN PATIENTS IN AN EMERGENCY SETTING OF MAJOR ...

Objectives & Background Dabigatran, an oral thrombin inhibitor, is widely used for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation. Idarucizumab, a monoclonal antibody fragment directed against dabigatran, ...
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Randomised trial comparing the recording ability of a novel, electronic emergency documentation system with the AHA paper cardiac arrest record

3 Department of Surgery and the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA ...
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Are there differences in the relationship between respiratory rate and oxygen saturation between patients with COVID-19 and those without COVID-19? Insights from a cohort-based ...

Background Physicians have observed patients with COVID-19 without respiratory distress despite marked hypoxaemia and extensive radiographic abnormalities, a controversial phenomenon called ‘silent ...
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What is an ROC curve?

The paper by Body et al is concerned with the evaluation of decision aids, which can be used to identify potential acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in the ED. The authors previously developed the ...
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Empathy can be taught and learned with evidence-based education

Correspondence to Dr Helen Riess, Empathy and Relational Science Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA; HRiess{at}Partners.Org While many believe some people are ...
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Non-sterile gloves and dressing versus sterile gloves, dressings and drapes for suturing of traumatic wounds in the emergency department: a non-inferiority multicentre ...

Background Patients with traumatic wounds frequently present to the ED. Literature on whether to treat these wounds sterile or non-sterile is sparse. Non-sterile treatment has the advantage of saving ...