Objectives Quality and safety of emergency care is critical. Patients rely on emergency medicine (EM) for accessible, timely and high-quality care in addition to providing a ‘safety-net’ function.

Background Supporting people to quit smoking is one of the most powerful interventions to improve health. The Emergency Department (ED) represents a potentially valuable opportunity to deliver a ...

4 Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery King's College London, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Sunil Dasan, Emergency Department, St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, London SW17 0QT, ...

Background Despite concerns that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) contribute to acute kidney injury (AKI), up to 75% of ultramarathon runners ingest these during competition. The effect ...

Correspondence to Dr Rachel Showstack, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 67260, USA; Rachel.Showstack{at}wichita.edu ...

1 Department of Surgery/Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 3 ...

School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Maysam Ali Abdulwahid, School of Health and Related Research, ScHARR, University of Sheffield ...

Jackson Newberry-Dupe, Marietta R John-White, Franz E Babl, Meredith L Borland, Elyssia M Bourke, Sandra Brownlea, Paul Buntine, Brooke Charters, Mathew Coleman, Tahnee Dunlop, Olga Gaitsgory, Shane ...

3 Department of Public Health, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Correspondence to Dr Darryl Wood, Nelson Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, University of Kwazulu ...

Blood Pressure Unit, Department of Cardiac & Vascular Science, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE Correspondence to: Dr B Fisher Dept of Rheumatology, Charing Cross ...

2 Senior house officer in Intensive Care Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK 3 Consultant in Accident and Emergency Medicine, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, UK The nasopharyngeal airway (NPA ...

2 Medical Management, Regional Ambulance Service Hollands-Midden, Leiden, The Netherlands Background In Dutch ambulance practice, failure or inability to intubate patients with altered oxygenation and ...