3 Woman-Child Center, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Department of Radiology, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Center Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ...

A 67 year old woman taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) presented to the accident and emergency department with an anaphylactic reaction to flucloxacillin. This case highlights the uncertainty ...

Midazolam meleate, a water soluble 1,4 benzodiazepine, was used intravenously in 20 patients suffering seizures, of whom 12 were in status epilepticus. In all cases, midazolam in a dose of 2.5-15 mg ...

2 Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (IRIS), UMR 8156-997, UFR SMBH, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris 13, Paris, France Correspondence to Professor Patrick Chariot, ...

Objective Early warning scores (EWS) are used to predict patient outcomes. We aimed to determine which of 13 EWS, based largely on emergency department (ED) vital sign data, best predict important ...

Correspondence to Dr Damian Roland, Emergency Medicine Academic Group, Room 003A, Robert Kilpatrick Clinical Sciences Building, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester LE1 5WW, UK; dr98{at}le.ac.uk If ...

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 Stephen Mullen, Paediatric Emergency Department, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast BT12 6BA, UK; stephenm.mullen{at}belfasttrust.hscni.net Objectives The Burns and ...

2 Violence Research Group, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to: Professor J P Shepherd Dental School, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff University, Health ...

Background Although pyrethroids are known for low toxicity to humans, clinical systemic characteristics of pyrethroid poisoning remain undefined. We investigated atypical presentations of pyrethroid ...

Glucose and Pulmonary Infection Group, St George’s, University of London, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr Emma Baker Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, Physiological ...

A 30 year old woman with a history of depression and previous suicide attempts was brought to the emergency department in coma. She had injected herself with cyanide subcutaneously and had severe ...