You are here

Article Text

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

Primary survey
Highlights from this issue
Free
  1. Caroline Leech, Associate Editor
  1. Correspondence to Dr Caroline Leech, Emergency Department, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry CV2 2DX, UK; caroline.leech{at}uhcw.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2018-207687

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Does a brief intervention in the ED reduce illicit drug use?

    Health promotion is critical in Emergency Medicine (EM), and Brief interventions (BI) for alcohol use are well established. This prospective cohort study assessed the efficacy of a BI for drug use in a US Emergency Department. As expected there was a large loss to follow-up (40% and 44% in each arm) resulting in an underpowered study and we don’t know if some of those were due to mortality from drug use. The BI lasted for 20–30 min with a significant number of questions, which might be hard to achieve in a time-pressured department. However, the study failed to demonstrate any reduction in self reported drug use or an increase in drug treatment service utilisation over a twelve-month period. In the accompanying commentary, Richard Saltz discusses how we still have a responsibility to address this important public health problem.

    Paediatric intubation: how low do you go?

    Many Emergency physicians use the Advanced Paediatric Life Support calculation of age in years/2+12 cm to calculate the length of an oral endotracheal tube at …

    View Full Text