Background An acute scrotum is an urological emergency. One of its most important causes is testicular torsion, which can result in testicular necrosis unless quickly diagnosed and treated. Along with ...
1 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth, UK Correspondence to: Mr H Sharma ...
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In any accident scene, rapid removal of the casualty to hospital improves their chances of survival. The term the “Golden Hour” was first introduced in 1961, but because of misinterpretation as to ...
Department of Cardiac Rhythm Management, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK Yaver Bashir, Department of Cardiac Rhythm Management, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK ...
Background The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the ...
Trauma involving the parotid gland is rare and is usually caused by penetrating injuries or fractures of the facial skeleton. A unique case is presented of rupture of the parotid gland after a minor ...
Introduction Pain is the most common presenting feature within the ED, yet undertreatment of pain in the ED is a well-documented problem worldwide. Despite the development of interventions to address ...
A short cut review was carried out to establish whether pre-injury aspirin increases the risk of intracranial complications following head injury. 124 papers were found using the reported searches, of ...
Background Hypothermia is an independent predictor of increased morbidity and mortality in patients with trauma. Several strategies and products have been developed to minimise patients’ heat loss in ...
Department of Emergency Medicine, Chungnam National University Hospital, Daejeon, Republic of Korea Correspondence to Dr S W Kim, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chungnam National University ...
Inflammatory "one hit" and "two hit" models have recently been proposed to account for the development of multiple organ failure (MOF) in trauma and critically ill surgical patients when no source of ...