Emergency Medicine Journal

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Comparative effectiveness of ceftriaxone and ampicillin-sulbactam for empiric management of community-acquired pneumonia in ...
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Are medical students in prehospital care at risk of moral injury?

Background The term ‘moral injury’ may be useful in conceptualising the negative psychological effects of delivering emergency and prehospital medicine as it provides a non-pathological framework for ...
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Application of Step-by-Step and Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) Clinical Decision Aids in the management of young febrile infants in a UK cohort ...
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Introduction to the “space-control theory of paramedic scene management”

Dr A Campeau, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Emergency Health Services Branch, 6th Floor, 5700 Yonge Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M2M 4K5; anthony.campeau{at}ontario.ca ...
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How events in emergency medicine impact doctors’ psychological well-being

Background Emergency medicine is a high-pressured specialty with exposure to disturbing events and risk. We conducted a qualitative study to identify which clinical events resulted in emotional ...
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Pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria (PERC) in pulmonary embolism—revisited: A systematic review and meta-analysis

1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 2 Department of General Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA 3 Knowledge and Encounter Research, ...
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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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BET 2: Is there an association between iodine, shellfish and contrast agent allergies?

A shortcut review was carried out to establish whether having a shellfish or iodine allergy changed the risk of allergic reaction in patients receiving radiocontrast medium more than other concomitant ...
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Temperature measurement of babies born in the pre-hospital setting: analysis of ambulance service data and qualitative interviews with paramedics

Background Birth before arrival at hospital (BBA) is associated with unfavourable perinatal outcomes and increased mortality. An important risk factor for mortality following BBA is hypothermia, and ...
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Improving domestic violence screening practices in the emergency department: an Australian perspective

Correspondence to Amy Lynn Sweeny, Emergency Department, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Southport, QLD 4215, Australia; amy.sweeny{at}health.qld.gov.au Introduction Domestic violence (DV) is ...
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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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Evolution of methodology and reporting of emergency medicine quantitative research over a 20-year period

Objective We aimed to determine trends over time in article origin, and article and methodology characteristics. Method We examined original research articles published every fifth year over a 20-year ...