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From:Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock (Vol. 6, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Angeline. Radjou, Preetam. Mahajan, Dillip. Baliga Background: The three pillars of a good trauma system are the prehospital care, definitive care, and rehabilitative services. The prehospital care is a...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI RECENTLY attended a national consensus conference to take part in a debate on advanced nursing practice. Discussion focused on the benefits of advanced practice and it was agreed that, because this involves a...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 20, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedALL FIVE Northern Ireland health and social care trusts have breached emergency department waiting time targets, according to the BBC. Performances were found to be particularly poor in the Northern and Belfast trusts,...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIn a motion laid before the Scottish parliament last week, Conservative MSP John Scott claimed that the board planned to close the service--at Ayr Hospital in his constituency--which would be to the detriment of patient...
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From:Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: Hans-Joachim. Trappe Atrial premature beats are frequently diagnosed during pregnancy (PR); supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) (atrial tachycardia, AV-nodal reentrant tachycardia, circus movement tachycardia)...
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From:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (Vol. 17) Peer-ReviewedAuthors: Morten T Bøtker (corresponding author) [1]; Skule A Bakke [1]; Erika F Christensen [1] Background The scientific evidence for an effect of prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) on patient survival...
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From:Psychiatric Times (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPsychiatrists and other mental health professionals leave voice mail messages on their office phones advising patients what to do in case of an emergency. But when a suicidal patient in crisis calls the psychiatrist and...
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From:Family Practice News (Vol. 37, Issue 11)NEW YORK -- If a child presents in the emergency department with near-miss sudden infant death syndrome or with a Reye's syndrome-like illness, one should consider the possibility of an inborn error of metabolism, Dr....
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 119, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVES. Recognition and treatment of evolving critical illness is a fundamental element of hospital care. Hospital systems should triage patients to receive appropriate levels of care. We describe here the levels of...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 13, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRCN Wales has presented government officials with a position paper that demands 'urgent attention' should be paid to improving emergency care services. The document states: 'The RCN believes that the burden of blame...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 12, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedSelf-harm, described as a behaviour not an illness (Isacsson and Rich 2001), is a complex issue with much debate surrounding its cause and treatment (McAllister 2003 and Freeman 2002, Redley 2003). Nine out of ten...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 19, Issue 25) Peer-ReviewedONE IN FOUR patients presenting at A&E is a child, however there is considerable room for improvement in their care. A recent survey questions the ability of some nurses in A&E to deliver paediatric emergency care and...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRCN Wales has submitted a list of 28 recommendations to the Welsh Assembly Government to improve emergency care. It has done so to help tackle what college officials describe as a 'whole system dysfunction', because...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 17, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe national emergency care practitioner (ECP) initiative began in response to a project at Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust to develop paramedic and nursing skills, and was informed by guidance published...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 13, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedThe publication last month of the Department of Health's white paper on improving community health is set to spur on changes in emergency care provision, delegates heard. Referring to Our Health, Our Care, Our Say: A...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 27) Peer-ReviewedOrganised sport among children and adolescents accounts for a quarter of concussive head injuries sustained during leisure activities. Researchers in Australia compared the characteristics of children and adolescents...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 41) Peer-ReviewedA drive to cut A&E admissions caused by alcohol misuse will be led by 24 multiprofessional teams, including nurse experts in the field. Teams set up across England by strategic health authorities (SHAs) will provide...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 43) Peer-ReviewedOne year on, the adrenaline rush and emotions remain a vivid memory for the nurses who worked in London on July 7 2005. 'The department works at its best when there is a major incident,' says Elaine Cole, lead nurse...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) published its proposals this month for a national strategy for developing emergency care. Central to these long awaited proposals is the development of a 'common form of...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 14, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedFor some years now, we have focused on education as a means to advance practice in minor injury and, latterly, minor illness care, and many emergency nurse practitioners (ENPs) work in these fields as a result....