Introduction Major trauma is the third leading cause of avoidable mortality in the UK. Defining which patients require care in a major trauma centre is a critical component of developing, evaluating ...

1 Accident and Emergency Department, Dewsbury and District Hospital, Dewsbury, UK 2 Accident and Emergency Department, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK Objectives—To determine whether the ...

Following resuscitation from cardiorespiratory arrest 80% of patients are comatose. Of these patients, 20% will survive and regain consciousness. Is it possible to predict an individual’s long term ...

1 Emergency Center, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, P.R. China 2 Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, P.R. China 3 Medical College of Wuhan University, P.R. China 4 Public Health School ...

4 Trauma Audit and Research Network, Health Sciences Research Group, School of Community based Medicine, Manchester Medical Academic Health Sciences Centre, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, UK ...

Department of Anesthesiology & Intensive Care Medicine, Section Emergency Medicine, Armed Forces Medical Centre Ulm, Ulm, Germany Correspondence to Dr Holger Gässler, Armed Forces Medical Centre Ulm, ...

Correspondence to C Thakar, Trauma Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK; chrish49{at}hotmail.com The Hoffa fracture is a rare unicondylar fracture of the lower ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Dr Y-F Choi Medical Officer, Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole ...

Dr T D Carrigan, Specialist Registrar in Accident and Emergency, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF Objectives—To determine the prevalence and patterns of alcohol and drug ...

Correspondence to: Mr P E Pritty, Accident and Emergency Department, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, London Road, Derby DE1 2QY, UK; ppritty{at}aol.com Colchicine overdose is uncommon but potentially life ...

Correspondence to Dr T E Martin, Anaesthetic Department MP 25, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester SO22 5DG, UK; Terry.Martin{at}wehct.nhs.uk Pulmonary thromboembolism has an incidence of more ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. OBJECTIVE--To examine the management of traumatic pneumothorax in a department where some of these injuries do not receive chest drains ...