One of the hallmarks of an emergency department (ED), compared with an urgent care, or a physician’s office, is that patients are seen by the clinicians in order of acuity, not arrival. When there are ...

Background Thrombectomy is the primary treatment in the management of acute large vessel occlusions (LVO) strokes; however, many rural hospitals are not able to perform this procedure and must ...

Empathy is a reigning topic in healthcare because of its relationship to the aims of medical practice: improved health outcomes1 adherence to treatment recommendations, improved quality of care and ...

Objectives Emergency clinicians conduct code status conversations as part of shared decision-making regarding the management of patients with serious life-limiting illnesses. Given that varying ...

Poverty and social deprivation affect health from birth to death, with morbidity increasing, mortality occurring earlier, and access to appropriate healthcare worsening along the gradient from ...

We have read with great interest the recently published study titled ‘Comparison of the Effects of Vapocoolant Spray and Topical Anaesthetic Cream (Lidocaine–Prilocaine) on Pain of Intravenous ...

A most unusual submission for ‘The View from Here’ is a poem by Louie1 from Minnesota. Louie has chosen an original but powerful conduit in poetry to express his dread, anguish and frustration at the ...

Background Medical imaging use has increased progressively, prompting discussions about its clinical impact. Interventions to reduce low-value imaging have had varying success, as they generally do ...

Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a complex and heterogenous condition characterised by abnormal neurological symptoms that are linked to structural and functional alterations in widely ...

Background Older patients’ attendances at EDs are rising. There are concerns that these individuals have prolonged stays, which have been shown to be associated with adverse clinical outcomes. We ...

The D-dimer is a stable termination product of fibrin degradation. It was introduced as a biomarker of coagulation activation in the early 1970s and first evaluated as a test to exclude venous ...

Defining research priorities in a specialty as broad as emergency medicine is a significant challenge. In order to fund and complete the most important research projects, it is imperative that we ...