OBJECTIVES To measure the impact of the urgent care telephone service NHS 111 on the emergency and urgent care system. DESIGN Controlled before and after study using routine data. SETTING Four pilot sites and three control sites covering a total population of 3.6 million in England, UK. PARTICIPANTS AND DATA Routine data on 36 months of use of emergency ambulance service calls and inciden...

Urgent dental care education is a critical aspect of the D.D.S. curriculum as dental students must be adequately prepared to face real-world dental emergency challenges in practice. Dental emergency education is likely the most variable component of the dental curriculum. To assess potential differences in emergency education, a sixteen-question survey was sent to directors of urgent care of al...

The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) recognizes emergency care for infants, children, adolescents, and individuals with special health care needs is an essential duty of every dentist. The American Dental Association’s Principles of Ethics and Code of Professional Conduct states that “dentists shall be obliged to make reasonable arrangements for the emergency care of their patient...

INTRODUCTION Caring for dying patients is part of working in a rural emergency department. Rural emergency nurses are prepared to provide life-saving treatments but find there are barriers or obstacles to providing end-of-life (EOL) care. This study was completed to discover the size, frequency, and magnitude of obstacles in providing EOL care in rural emergency departments as perceived by rura...

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...

OBJECTIVE To quantify the change in door to needle time when delivery of thrombolytic treatment of acute myocardial infarction was changed from the coronary care unit to the emergency department. DESIGN A comparative observational study using prospectively collected data. SETTING Coronary care unit and emergency department of an Australian teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 89 patients recei...

The Dutch health-care system provides high-quality inpatient care, but emergency care apart from trauma is poorly developed. A model for emergency medicine based on Anglo-American and Australasian principles was introduced in 2000, and a national integrated training curriculum was introduced in 2007. There exist many impediments and opposition to the acceptance of emergency medicine as a define...

Many patient visits to emergency departments result in the patient dying or being pronounced dead on arrival. The numbers of deaths in emergency departments are likely to increase as a significant portion of the U.S. population ages. Consequently, emergency nurses face many obstacles to providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care when death occurs. The purpose of this study was to identify suggest...