Background: Prescribing medication appropriate to a child’s bodily dimensions is fundamental to paediatric emergency medicine. Mathematical formulae are frequently used in clinical practice to ...

Correspondence to: Professor Kelly, Department of Emergency Medicine, Western Hospital, Private Bag, Footscray, Vic 3011, Australia (Anne-Maree.Kelly{at}nwhcn.org.au) Objective—To determine whether ...

Accident and Emergency Department, Birmingham, Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr I Velissariou Accident and Emergency, Department ...

Background For the prehospital diagnosis of raised intracranial pressure (ICP), clinicians are reliant on clinical signs such as the Glasgow Coma Score (GCS), pupillary response and/or Cushing’s triad ...

The University of Birmingham, School of Health Sciences, The Medical School, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: Mr T Kilner, The University of Birmingham, School of Health Sciences, The Medical School, ...

Objectives & Background Since ‘legal highs' emerged as drugs of abuse in the UK, Emergency Physicians have battled to keep up with the latest drug craze. Whilst many of these drugs present with ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Ankara, Turkey Correspondence to: Dr S Sener Attending Physician of Emergency Medicine, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Department ...

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain. Primary prevention represents the optimum method of virtually abolishing the factors that lead to this injury scenario ...

Aims and Objectives Renal colic is often extremely painful, and existing analgesic regimes frequently provide insufficient relief. There is biological plausibility that metoclopramide, a prokinetic ...

2 Violence Research Group, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to: Professor J P Shepherd Dental School, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Health ...

3 Woman-Child Center, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Department of Radiology, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ...