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Primary survey: highlights from this issue

We begin this month’s issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal with a focus on Patient Experience. We all know that currently it is hard to offer an excellent patient experience when our departments ...
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Role of ambulance response times in the survival of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Objectives To evaluate the role of ambulance response times in improving survival for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Methods OHCAs were identified by sampling consecutive life-threatening ...
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Educating the ambulance technician, paramedic, and clinical supervisor: using factor analysis to inform the curriculum

Objectives: This project aims to use information about the desirable attributes of the ambulance technician, paramedic, and clinical supervisor to inform future curriculum development. Methods: Data ...
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The comparison of modified early warning score with rapid emergency medicine score: a prospective multicentre observational cohort study on medical and surgical patients ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Bursa Sevket Yılmaz Education and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Kayseri Education and Research Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey 3 ...
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Oxygen therapy and inpatient mortality in COPD exacerbation

What this study adds In an observational study of 2645 consecutive patients admitted with COPD exacerbation to 1 of 6 UK hospitals, 1027 had oxygen therapy at admission. In those treated with oxygen, ...
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Why is pain management so difficult in the Emergency Department? A systematic mixed studies review and thematic synthesis of staff perceptions of enablers and barriers to pain ...

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 ...