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Severe sepsis: do emergency departments offer patients optimal care?

01 April 2007

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Sepsis claims thousands of lives every day throughout the world (Kieft et al 1993), while patients with severe sepsis occupy about 46 per cent of all intensive care...

Invasive haemodynamic monitoring: the role of emergency nurses in helping to provide critical care

01 April 2007

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Accurate monitoring of critically ill patients in emergency departments (EDs) is crucial to providing the information needed to optimise patient outcome.

Practice makes perfect - Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

01 March 2007

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

In November 2000, the 11-month-old son of one of the authors developed a small lesion on the left side of his chest, which trebled in size within a few hours. The...

Endotracheal tubes: early detection of oesophageal intubation

01 March 2007

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Emergency intubation is typically performed in Clinically unstable patients, and in environments that are less well controlled than operating theatres.

Paronychia: Unexpected radiograph findings

01 April 2007

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Hand infections are common presentations to minor injury services and emergency departments, and, if not dealt with appropriately and in a timely fashion, they can...

Penile fracture

01 May 2007

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

A 21-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) with a history of having had sexual intercourse seven days earlier, during which he had heard a tearing...

Involving users in self-harm services

10 February 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

It is not new for patients to speak out about their experiences of mental health care; nor is it new for such experiences to be highlighted to those in power.

Knife crime education

06 November 2008

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Over the past two years, the UK media have focused increasingly on knife crime and there has been a widespread perception that the incidence of this type of assault...

Improving end-of-life care in emergency departments

06 November 2008

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Emergency department (ED) professionals often appear in the media as heroic individ uals capable of saving people from death.

Taking the anxiety out of dementia

10 February 2009

Emergency Nurse

Feature

JO JAMES and CAZ HODNETT say that changes to the environments of and practices in emergency departments can improve the care offered to patients withdementia