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<p>This article outlines the recently updated guidelines of the European Resuscitation Council and discusses the implications for nurses.
<p>Low velocity penetrating injuries commonly occur in the younger adult male.
<p>Pain is one of the most common reasons for patient attendance at A&E departments (1), and its management should be a high priority in patient care.
<p>Providing clean needles and syringes to injecting drug users is one established strategy to prevent the spread of HIV and other blood borne infections (1).
<p>The need to consider the effect of the hospital environment on the hospitalised child has been well established for over 30 years (1).
<p>It is estimated that about 2,500 individuals are admitted to mental health facilities annually from a typical district health authority population (1).
<p>During winter, caring for babies with bronchiolitis is a common occurrence for most A&E nurses.
<p>The Department of Health (1), in its Health of the Nation document, has set targets for the reduction of alcohol consumption and accidents related to alcohol intake.
<p>This article describes the assessment and initial management of a patient with a burn injury.
<p>Nurses working in the pre-hospital environment are well placed to provide psychological care for victims, relatives and bystanders who are directly involved in the inci
<p> The emergency nurse practitioner’s role provides a new complementary minor injury service to that currently provided by A&E medical staff.
<p>About 500 people the in drowning accidents in the UK each year(1). Although there are no figures to show the number of ‘near drownings’, American figures suggest that 25 per cent of all submersion incidents result in death (2).</p>
<p>Pregnancy may be the cause of an emergency or incidental to it. In cases where the pregnancy is the cause, this is clear, such as vaginal bleeding in threatened abortion. What must also be decided is whether the emergency is a threat to the pregnancy or not.</p>
<p>Few nurses would undertake an expansion of an existing role, for example endotracheal intubation, without additional training and assessment. Yet many become involved in the delivery of pre-hospital care equipped only with existing hospital based skills (1).</p>
<p>As many as 35 per cent of women attending A&E may do so as a result of violence from a known man (1). But despite this chilling figure, those working in A&E continually fail to make an appropriate assessment, and thus miss the opportunity to intervene (2).
<p>Self-poisoning, second only to ischaemic heart disease, is the most common cause of acute medical admissions in the UK. Although potentially lethal drugs are regularly consumed, the overall hospital mortality is less than 1 per cent.</p>
