BMJ18h
TB or not TB: an unusual sore finger
A 25 year old Afro-Carribean presented to the accident and emergency department with a painful swelling of the little finger. Radiology revealed periosteal elevation and a bone scan showed a hot spot ...
BMJ1d
Risk factors and outcomes associated with post-traumatic headache after mild traumatic brain injury
Correspondence to Tansel Yilmaz, Department of Neurology, St. Elisabeth Hospital, Hilvarenbeekseweg 60, 5022 GC Tilburg, The Netherlands; t.yilmaz{at}elisabeth.nl Objectives To determine the ...
BMJ1d
Injuries initially misdiagnosed as sprained wrist (Beware the sprained wrist)
Objectives: To describe the injuries misdiagnosed as a sprain of the wrist and to determine the approximate incidence of misdiagnosis in patients diagnosed as having a sprain of the wrist. Methods: ...
BMJ2d
Frequent use of emergency departments for mental and substance use disorders
Objectives We described the population of people who frequently use ED for mental disorders, delineating differences by the number of visits for substance use disorders (SUDs), and predicted the ...
BMJ2d
Deliberate poisoning with dinitrophenol (DNP): an unlicensed weight loss pill
1 Department of Emergency Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Anaesthetics and Intensive Care, Northwick Park Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Anaesthetics, Charing Cross ...
BMJ3d
Use of the infant transwarmer mattress as an external warming modality in resuscitation from hypothermia
1 Paediatric Emergency Department, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK 2 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh Correspondence to: Dr M Ryan, ...
BMJ4d
Evaluation of 3-mm diameter intravenous tubing for the rapid infusion of fluids.
Department of Anaesthesia, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. The use of intravenous administration systems incorporating 3-mm internal diameter tubing is becoming more common in ...
BMJ6d
Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for paediatric testicular torsion: a systematic review and meta-analysis
2 Department of Emergency Medicine, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore Background Previous studies have examined the utility of ultrasonography performed by radiologists for diagnosing ...
BMJ8d
Predictors of hospital prenotification for STEMI and association of prenotification with outcomes
Background Delay to reperfusion in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is detrimental, but can be minimised with prehospital notification by ambulance to the treating hospital. We aimed to ...
BMJ8d
Are medical students in prehospital care at risk of moral injury?
Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...
BMJ8d
Effect of weather on attendance with injury at a paediatric emergency department
Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Dr D M Macgregor, Accident and Emergency Department, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital, Cornhill ...
BMJ8d
Venous pH can safely replace arterial pH in the initial evaluation of patients in the emergency department
Objective—This study aims to determine the extent of correlation of arterial and venous pH with a view to identifying whether venous samples can be used as an alternative to arterial values in the ...