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<p>Budget airlines, greater worldwide travel networks and faster access to formerly inaccess ible and ‘exotic’ destinations have led to a significant increase in foreign t
<p>To provide patients with accurate and efficient clinical diagnoses, clinicians must not only acquire a sound knowledge of anatomy and clinical assessment skills, but al
<p>Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with undifferentiated and previously undiagnosed conditions.
<p>NHS Lanarkshire provides unscheduled care in a wide variety of settings, including emergency departments (EDs), acute receiving units, out-of-hours centres, community h
<p>In an ever modernising NHS, referring to health- care methods that were used before modern medical supplies were available can seem strange, yet ‘old fashioned’ treatme
<p>Older people are high users of emergency care services, in particular emergency department (ED) and ambulance services (Department of Health (DH) 2007).</p>
<p>Patients present to emergency departments (EDs) with many different physical and psychological illnesses, and there can be several social complexities associated with t
<p>Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with undifferentiated and previously undiagnosed conditions.
<p>Chemical burns to the eyes are potentially devastating for the individuals concerned and are regarded as ophthalmic emergencies.</p>
<p>The link between long-bone fractures and intracranial bleeds in infants, and the suggestion that neither injury is accidental, was introduced to the clinical world more
<p>Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with undifferentiated and previously undiagnosed conditions.
<p>Body piercing is now a common practice among people of all age groups in the UK, and most experienced emergency nurses will almost certainly have cared for patients wit
<p>Nurses working in emergency care often have to manage patients with undifferentiated and previously undiagnosed conditions. This month, Emergency Nurse continues to look at how emergency nurses across the UK have tackled them</p>
<p>The World Health Organization (2006) defines stillbirth, or fetal death, as death before the complete expulsion or extraction of all the products of conception, irrespective of pregnancy duration.</p>
<p>Almost all emergency nurses have experienced the pressures of meeting the four-hour operational standard.</p>
<p>Research shows that pain is the primary issue for more than 70 per cent of patients who present at emergency departments (EDs) (Tanabe and Buschmann 1999, Tcherny-Lessenot et al 2003), making it the most prevalent reason for attendance.</p>
<p>The reason for attending emergency departments (EDs) given by most patients with non-life threatening injuries is that they are in pain (Hogan 2005) and the responsibility for relieving such pain lies with emergency nurses (Dolan 2000).</p>
<p>A 40-year-old, right-handed male carpenter recently presented to the author’s emergency department complaining of ‘left wrist drop’.</p>
