1 Department of Emergency Medicine, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Wythenswawe Hospital, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: Mr S D Carley, Department of ...

Ninety-six people died following a crowd crush at the Hillsborough Football Stadium, Sheffield, UK in 1989. The cause of death in nearly all cases was compression asphyxia. The clinical and ...

Background Increasing numbers of older patients are presenting to the ED following trauma. These patients require multidisciplinary care that the traditional trauma model fails to provide. A Silver ...

2 Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit, Wessex Neurological Centre, Southampton, UK Correspondence to: Dr C A Eynon Director of Neurosciences Intensive Care, Wessex Neurological Centre, Tremona Road, ...

1 Department of Anaesthesia, Centre of Head and Orthopaedics 4231, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Department of Intensive Care Medicine 4131, Copenhagen ...

Objectives: Several trials have been published examining the role of antibiotics in dog bite wound management. A meta-analysis of these suggests that there is very little benefit to routine antibiotic ...

Background Despite pronounced increases in homelessness and mental health problems in the USA over the past decade, further ...

Correspondence to: MrK M Porter Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, Selly Oak Hospital,Raddlebarn Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 6JD, UK; keith.porteruhb.nhs.uk Lower limb fractures are common ...

Objective To describe trends regarding snakebite enquiries to the UK National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) from 2004 to 2010. Methods The NPIS telephone enquiry database, the UK Poisons ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA 3 ...

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Cohort, cross sectional, and case-control studies are collectively referred to as observational studies. Often these studies are the only practicable method of studying various problems, for example, ...