urgent eye care services in the uk have been facing increasing number of attendances over the recent years with hospitals struggling to keep up with the demand. the high number of patients presenting to these services poses great challenges for their sustainability. inappropriate referrals, the introduction of the european working time directive for junior doctors, the “never refuse” policy...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This review focuses on development and maturation of the tactical evacuation and en route care capabilities of the military trauma system in Afghanistan and discusses hard-learned lessons that may have enduring relevance to civilian trauma systems. RECENT FINDINGS Implementation of an evidence-based, data-driven performance improvement programme in the tactical evacuation an...

Many computer based medical simulators focus on individual skills training. However, medical care is frequently rendered by teams. In addition, the conditions under which care is provided can be a crucial factor in training. For example, mass-casualty events can involve the management and triage of large numbers of victims under austere environments. Learning to care for the injured warfighter ...

In order to conduct empirical casualty modelling in China, Chinese historical earthquake events is the essential basis. However, commonly used casualty databases that focus on Chinese earthquakes and provide comprehensive information rarely exist. Regarding this situation, we derived an earthquake casualty database of Mainland China from authorized Chinese published data sources. The casualty d...

ACCIDENT and Emergency Medicine is a relatively new but rapidly expanding specialty, and although many textbooks related to it have been published in recent years for doctors, the same has not occurred for nurses. This book, written by a team of doctors in Lancaster, covers a wide range of the emergencies and not so acute conditions seen in every casualty department, and the nurse is given very...