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.

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 ...

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

1 Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK 2 Institute for Ageing and Health, Institute of Health and Society, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK Correspondence to ...

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 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 ...

1 Department of Neurology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Ramón Y Cajal, Madrid, Spain Correspondence to: R Toledano Department of Neurology, ...

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 ...

Scottish Poisons Information Bureau, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: W S Waring Scottish Poisons Information Bureau, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France ...

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 ...