A man living with cancer died after being given multiple overdoses of morphine
Clinical
<p>Each year, the London Centre of the National Poisons Information Service receives
<p>Emergency departments present multiple composite realities providing emergency nu
<p>Emergency departments are notoriously busy clinical areas with increasing pressur
<p>The assessment of pain in children is a subject that has been widely discussed, a
<p>Paracetamol is an analgesic and antipyretic agent that became available in the UK
<p>Adolescence is a time of great change, physically, psychologically and socially (
<p>Forging links between theory and practice in a bid to affirm evidenced based prac
<p>SAPAL TACHAKRA addresses the training and expertise of emergency nurse practition
<p>After more than a century, aspirin remains one of the most popular drugs in the w
<p>The cortices of the adrenal glands produce Cortisol and insufficient circulating
<p>Children abused through prostitution is a poorly understood and under researched
<p>For some time the A&E department at Ipswich had been using either a gener
<p>Paraphenylenediamine (p-phenylenediamine, PPD) is a colourless/slightly pink, grey or yellow crystalline solid (lumps or powder). On oxidation, usually through exposure to air, it turns red, brown then finally black. PPD is essentially a dye and chemical intermediate.
<p>Handover is an important nursing ritual, essential for continuity of care (Kennedy 1999), and as nurses we should be aiming to improve the efficiency of handover in the environment we work in.
<p>Chloe the triage nurse thought the man in front of her was obviously crazy. He was looking about him wildly and talking about messages beamed by the radio.
<p>Emergency nurses are pivotal to the management of patients with an acute coronary syndrome and the national service framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease has further highlighted this by emphasising the importance of A&E driven thrombolysis.
<p>Mothballs are not as commonly used as they were in the past, but there are still available. Last year NPIS (London) received 76 enquires concerning mothballs, that is more than one a week.</p>
<p>Ankle sprains remain one of emergency departments’ most frequently presenting complaints. Lorimer et al (2002) state that one individual per 10,000 each day will invert and sprain their ankle.
