Emergency care networks

Defining and measuring successful emergency care networks: a research agenda.

The demands on emergency services have grown relentlessly, and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has asserted the need for "regionalized, coordinated, and accountable emergency care systems throughout the country." There are large gaps in the evidence base needed to fix the problem of how emergency care is organized and delivered, and science is urgently needed to define and measure success in th...

Improving emergency obstetric care.

Professor Bob Pattinson qualified as an obstetrician and gynecologist in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1985 and underwent further training in perinatal care in Oxford in 1987/88. He completed an MD on the use of Doppler ultrasound in high-risk pregnancies in 1992. In 1997 the MRC in South Africa awarded him the Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies ResearchUnit. Currently, Professor Patti...

Emergency and Critical Care

Anaesthesia – critical care – emergency

This web resource provides a selection of hyperlinks to a variety of sites of interest mainly to anaesthetists, but also contains intensive care unit and emergency medicine links. The homepage offers a choice of French or English as the primary language. There is a search function that enables one to search the links either by category or by using a word string. On the homepage there is also a ...

Pediatric Emergency Care

When an emergency medicine physician evaluates a child with abdominal pain and a history of appendectomy, appendicitis is often excluded from the differential. We present a case of a 16 year-old boy who developed stump appendicitis 3 years after laparoscopic appendectomy. Knowledge of this rare phenomenon in children can lead to timely diagnosis and avoid the significant additional morbidity as...