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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:Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Ghulam Shabir and Sajjad Hussain Abstract This research aims to measure the Portrayal of the leading Pakistani Newspapers towards Punjab Emergency Service (Rescue 1122) functioning and emergency medical...
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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:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEmergency nurses are being encouraged to ask more patients to take part in research to provide sounder evidence for improving emergency care. Obtaining consent is one of the challenges facing researchers wanting to...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 21, Issue 35) Peer-ReviewedMajor sporting events such as the rugby world cup final can affect workload in A&E units. Researchers from the West Midlands and New South Wales, Australia, used retrospective analysis to investigate changes in A&E...
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From:Journal of Healthcare Management (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION The organization is a 142-bed acute care hospital, located within a rural county of 32,000 people. It also operates a 174-bed nursing home and skilled rehabilitation unit, a home health...
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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: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. 12, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedEmergency departments are getting dirtier, at least according to patients surveyed by the Healthcare Commission. The survey results were published last month as part of the Healthcare Commission's patient survey...
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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. 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: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:Current Paediatrics (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction: The paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) based at University Hospital of Wales has seven beds and serves the population of South and West Wales. Prior to its establishment in 1999, a survey estimated the...
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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...