Accident and emergency staff.

Accident and emergency services.

A CONFERENCE of this nature is most valuable in bringing together people who are interested and involved in the accident and emergency services, to discuss the problems and to look at possible solutions. Increasingly over the last few years it has become more difficult to staff accident and emergency departments. This situation has caused eminent bodies such as the Royal College of Physicians, ...

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Hepatitis B vaccination: uptake by medical staff in accident and emergency departments.

To assess the current uptake of hepatitis B vaccine and attitudes towards immunization among accident and emergency practitioners in the UK, a postal survey was carried out. Questionnaires were sent to 742 members of the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine (BAEM). Four hundred and six (55%) replies were received. Of 351 respondents in career-grade posts 309 (88%) had receive...

The first aid management of epistaxis by accident and emergency department staff.

Most nose bleeds can be controlled by compressing the ala nasi, thus applying direct pressure over Little's area. The ability to demonstrate the correct position for this manoeuvre was assessed in 115 members of the staff of the accident and emergency (A&E) department of a major teaching hospital. Overall, the correct response rate was only 33% and even trained medical and nursing staff achieve...

Deliberate self harm assessment by accident and emergency staff--an intervention study.

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of specific training for accident and emergency (A&E) staff on the quality of psychosocial assessment of deliberate self harm patients. METHODS A non-randomised intervention study that compared the psychosocial assessment of deliberate self harm patients before and after a one hour teaching session for the A&E departments nursing and junior medical staff. Adequ...