Background Suicidal behaviours and self-harm are associated with an increased risk of suicidal death and make up a significant subset of the mental health calls responded to by ambulance services.

Objective: To develop an understanding of the current system and future development of training and education within a large UK ambulance trust, based upon the experiences, beliefs, and opinions of ...

Background In 2015, Ambulance Service Medical Directors raised concerns regarding a perceived increase in suicide deaths among ambulance service staff. The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives ...

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India Correspondence to: Dr S K Jindal Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Postgraduate Institute ...

Background Emergency physicians were trained to perform echo in life support (ELS)—that is, limited transthoracic echocardiography during advanced life support (ALS) management of cardiac arrest.

Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Correspondence to: Dr M Cooke, Emergency Medicine Research Group, Centre for Primary ...

Correspondence to: Dr Y Nigam, School of Health Science, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK; y.nigam{at}swansea.ac.uk Objectives: The objective of this regional study ...

2 Conquest Emergency Department, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Hastings, UK 3 The Royal London Hospital Emergency Department, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK 4 St Mary's Emergency ...

Correspondence to: Dr Benger, Research Fellow in A&E Telemedicine, Accident and Emergency Department, Tewkesbury Hospital, Barton Road, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire GL20 5QN, UK (JB{at}sectae.org.uk) ...

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1 Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 2 Department of Clinical Toxicology and Pharmacology, Calvary Mater Newcastle, Waratah, New South ...

Objectives—To improve the time taken for children arriving to the accident and emergency (A&E) department in pain to receive analgesia. Delivery within 30 minutes of triage was taken as an achievable ...