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Point-of-care COVID-19 test in ED significantly reduces turnaround-time

Point-of-care COVID-19 test in ED significantly reduces turnaround-time

telephone triage

Telephone triage consensus study identifies life-threatening chest pain requiring high priority ambulance response

Intrathoracic bleeding after rib fracture similar for DOACs and vitamin K antagonists

head trauma

Three key factors predictive of abnormal CT scan in children with minor head trauma

LBBB ECG changes

Abnormal axis and LBBB on an ECG predictive of COVID-19 hospital mortality

achilles tendon

Ultrasound imaging of value for diagnosis of Achilles tendon rupture in ED

childhood cancer

Cancer diagnoses in young people fell but ICU admissions increased during first wave of pandemic

Professor Claudio Ronco

Webcast: Blood purification strategies in sepsis

convenience sample

Convenience sampling leads to selection bias in ED studies

acute coronary syndrome

ACS presentations via emergency services at ED increased after warning signs campaign

children at A&E

Non-urgent attendances represent a substantial number of children’s emergency care visits

dyspnoea

Three amino acids predict 90-day mortality in patients admitted to ED with dyspnoea