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Mental health response to community disasters
Guest Edited by Dilwar Hussain, Amy Nitza, Tara Powell, and Karla Vermeulen.
Pediatric emergency medicine
Guest edited by Stephen Hearps and Sriram Ramgopal.
Violent crimes in the pre-hospital and hospital setting
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Optimizing opioid prescriptions in the emergency department
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Risk assessment scales to predict risk of lower extremity deep vein thrombosis among multiple trauma patients: a prospective cohort study
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Exploring the challenges to using telecardiology as perceived by pre-hospital emergency care personnel: a qualitative study
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Using infrared cameras in drones to detect bleeding events
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Cost-effectiveness of modified diagnostic strategy to safely rule-out pulmonary embolism in the emergency department: a non-inferiority cluster crossover randomized trial (MODIGLIA-NI)
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A pilot study of 17 wrist-cutting suicide injuries in single institution: perspectives from a hand surgeon
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Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis
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Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop
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ABCDE cognitive aid tool in patient assessment – development and validation in a multicenter pilot simulation study
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Is the APLS formula used to calculate weight-for-age applicable to a Trinidadian population?
Aims and scope
BMC Emergency Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all urgent and emergency aspects of medicine, in both practice and basic research. In addition, the journal covers aspects of disaster medicine and medicine in special locations, such as conflict areas and military medicine, together with articles concerning healthcare services in the emergency departments.
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