Objective To describe trends regarding snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) from 2004 to 2010. Methods The NPIS telephone enquiry database, the UK Poisons ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Acheson c/o Department of Surgery, Antrim Area Hospital, 45 Bush Road, Antrim BT28 3QE, Northern Ireland; achesonjonnyhotmail.com Acute urinary retention in women is uncommon.

Effective communication between the physician and patient is required for optimum post-emergency department management. Written emergency department discharge instructions, when used to complement ...

2 Emergency Department, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr R Crouch Emergency Department, Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust, Tremona Road, ...

Correspondence to Professor Clint Hendrikse, Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care, University of Cape Town Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, Western ...

A short-cut systematic review was carried out to establish if strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the ED could succeed while maintaining comparable care standards. Of 2914 papers found in ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Smith Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth PL6 8DH, UK;jasonesmith{at}doctors.org.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...

Chemical burns of the eye represent 7.0%–9.9% of all ocular trauma. Initial management of ocular chemical injuries is irrigation of the eye and conjunctival sac until neutralisation of the tear ...

Objectives & Background We aimed to determine the effectiveness of pre-hospital continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or bi-level inspiratory positive airway pressure (BiPAP) compared with usual ...

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether nail removal and nail bed repair is better than simple trephining in patients with significant subungual haematoma. Altogether 312 papers were ...

Symptomatic sinus bradycardia is routinely treated in the emergency department with atropine and pacing. Two cases are presented that illustrate the importance of considering hyperkalaemia, ...

Correspondence to: Dr P Leman Emergency Department, Royal Perth Hospital, Wellington Street, Perth, WA 6001, Australia; peter.lemanhealth.wa.gov.au Objective: To determine whether using intravenous ...