Objectives—The aim of this study was to examine the quality of handover of patients in the resuscitation room by describing the current perceptions of medical and ambulance staff. Methods—This was a ...

2 Department of Forensic Medicine, Uludag University Medical School, Bursa, Turkey 3 Department of Biostatistics, Uludag University Medical School, Bursa, Turkey 4 Department of General Surgery, ...

Departments of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr M Storm-Versloot, Department of Surgery, G4-233, Academic Medical Center, ...

Objectives To gather data on the ages and weights of children aged between 1 and 16 years in order to assess the validity of the current weight estimation formula ‘Weight(kg)=2(age+4)’ and the newly ...

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany Dr M P Müller, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive ...

Objective—To determine factors associated with vomiting after minor head injury in a paediatric population with the intention of defining the role of vomiting in management decisions. Methods—A ...

Background Bleeding per rectum in infants and children is often an alarming symptom for caregivers. The differential diagnosis is wide, from the benign to life-threatening. The current literature is ...

Objectives: To describe the injuries misdiagnosed as a sprain of the wrist and to determine the approximate incidence of misdiagnosis in patients diagnosed as having a sprain of the wrist. Methods: ...

Dr H Adlington, Department of Emergency Medicine, Poole Hospital, Poole BH15 2JB, UK; harryadlington{at}yahoo.co.uk A 63-year-old women with a history of palpitations presented to the emergency ...

Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to: A Downing, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, ...

Correspondence to Dr Chinedu Ulrich Ebenebe, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; c.ebenebe{at}uke.de Background Endotracheal tube (ETT) malposition ...