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Brief history of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine

Correspondence to Dr Roderick Mackenzie, Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Pre-hospital Care Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DW, ...
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Evaluation of triage methods used to select patients with suspected pandemic influenza for hospital admission

3 Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK 4 Department of Medical Statistics, School of Health and Related ...
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INITIAL RESULTS OF THE RE-VERSE AD TRIAL: IDARUCIZUMAB REVERSES THE ANTICOAGULANT EFFECTS OF DABIGATRAN IN PATIENTS IN AN EMERGENCY SETTING OF MAJOR ...

Objectives & Background Dabigatran, an oral thrombin inhibitor, is widely used for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation. Idarucizumab, a monoclonal antibody fragment directed against dabigatran, ...
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1060 All-cause presentations to emergency facilities in low-income and low-middle income Sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review

Introduction Emergency conditions constitute a large proportion of the total global burden of disease and annual global deaths. All 10 leading causes of death in LMICs are conditions which are ...
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The minimum clinically significant difference in visual analogue scale pain score does not differ with severity of pain

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 ...