Safety Alerts
Safety Flash: Handlebar Injuries in Children
Can cause significant intra-abdominal & retroperitoneal injury Children with intra-abdominal injury may present with normal physiology and/or without visible abdominal wall injury
Can cause significant intra-abdominal & retroperitoneal injury Children with intra-abdominal injury may present with normal physiology and/or without visible abdominal wall injury
A Quality Improvement Programme open to all Type 1 UK emergency departments (EDs) to participate and improve the care of patients attending UK EDs.
This document tells you everything you need to know if your Emergency Department (ED) wishes to participate in the 2022/24 RCEM national quality improvement programme (QIP) on Mental Health (Self-Harm).
Safety Flash: Glycerol Toxicity from Slushies can present as nausea, abdominal pain, headache, drowsiness and profound hypoglycaemia
There is an upsurge of Mpox cases in the DRC and a growing number of African countries. The current variant is a ‘High Consequence Infectious Disease’ (HCID).
Use of these antidotes should always be discussed with NPIS and/or a Clinical Toxicologist who will be able to provide contact details to arrange the supply of these antidotes
With approximately 1.5 million people with a learning disability in the UK, every Emergency Department will regularly see such patients…
IV Pabrinex® will be out of stock from August 2024: Pabrinex® Intramuscular (IM) injection has been discontinued, Thiamine 50mg and 100mg tablets remain available.
A joint publication from RCEM and National Poisons Information Service (NPIS)
Produced by Dr Amy Armstrong, Consultant in Emergency Medicine/Frailty and Dr Nathalie Richard, Consultant in Emergency Medicine and RCEM SDEC SIG Chair.
In January 2023, the Department for Health and NHS England published a delivery plan to recover emergency care services following the most challenging winter the NHS has ever faced
Delivering Interventions and Services for High Intensity Use