A man living with cancer died after being given multiple overdoses of morphine
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<p>When looking after patients in A&E who present with acute coronary syndro
<p>The impact of specialist nurses on the skill retention, expertise and job satisfa
<p>Crush syndrome remains rare in European practice but is common in areas of civil
<p>Radical reforms are being implemented in A&E to manage ever growing press
<p>Aim: To assess the ability of nurses using the Manchester Triage System (MTS) to
<p>There is mounting interest in the United Kingdom and the United States in the edu
<p>This paper sets out to demonstrate the need for accurate nursing assessment of pa
<p>Alcohol intoxication is a major contributing factor for admission to A&E
<p>The ‘plight’ of older people in A&E departments has received much media c
<p>New guidance issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is s
<p>Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a common event and is a major cause of unexpect
<p>Ankle injuries in the UK account for many patients attending A&E departme
<p>An internet and library literature search was undertaken to discover current best practice in ankle sprain management. A Medline search was undertaken for the terms ‘ankle injury’, ‘ankle sprain’ and ‘ankle research’ using the Ovid interface.
<p>Plants and plant extracts can adversely affect the skin in several ways that can be all too familiar, but sometimes surprising.
<p>Audit is a word that can conjure thoughts of facts and figures that some nurses may struggle to relate to clinical practice. Nurse led changes in service developments, and their application to practice, are often unrecognised and poorly promoted even by the nurses who make the changes.
<p>This, the last of three literature reviews, builds on previous articles concerned with the stressors and stresses of pre-deployment (Wild 2003a) and deployment (Wild 2003b) to war in general, and the 1991 Gulf War (GW) in particular.</p>
<p>For most emergency nurses, rescue is something that happens in the pre-hospital phase of patient management.
<p>Sodium chloride and sodium bicarbonate are widely used both pharmaceutical and in the home. Each can cause hyperna-traemia, defined as a sodium concentration greater than 150mmol/L, in overdose.
