Table of contents

Abstracts

• 1 Patient acceptability and feasibility of HIV testing in emergency departments in the UK – a systematic review and meta-analysis (23 November, 2017)

  Nicola Lungu
• 2 Major incident triage and the implementation of a new triage tool, the MPTT-24 (23 November, 2017)

  James Vassallo, Jason Smith
• 3 Derivation and internal validation of a clinical decision rule to guide whole body computed tomography scanning in trauma (23 November, 2017)

  Hridesh Chatha, Ian Sammy, Rick Body, Abdo Sattout, John Hollingsworth
• 4 The risk of deterioration in CT identified mild traumatic brain injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis (23 November, 2017)

  Carl Marincowitz, Fiona Lecky, William Townend, Aditya Borakati, Trevor Sheldon
• 5 A study analysing the diagnostic performance of ECG interpretation for 30-day major cardiac events in the emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Niall Morris, Rick Body
• 6 Prognostic value of the glasgow admission prediction score: hospital length of stay, mortality and hospital readmission (23 November, 2017)

  Dominic Jones, Allan Cameron, Suzanne Mason, Colin O’Keeffe, David Lowe
• 7 Mass casualty incidents: a review of triage severity planning assumptions (23 November, 2017)

  Paul Hunt
• 8 Different approaches needed to manage ED demand among different age-groups (23 November, 2017)

  Melanie Rimmer, Suzanne Ablard, Colin O’Keeffe, Suzanne Mason
• 9 Closed chest compressions reduce survival in a model of haemorrhage-induced traumatic cardiac arrest (23 November, 2017)

  Sarah Watts, Jason Smith, Robert Gwyther, Emrys Kirkman
• 10 Decision analysis modelling of diagnostic strategies for suspected pulmonary embolism in pregnancy: the DiPEP economic evaluation (23 November, 2017)

  Daniel Pollard, Steve Goodacre, Matthew Stevenson, Gordon Fuller
• 11 Topical nsaids for analgesia in traumatic corneal abrasions: a systematic review and meta-analysis (23 November, 2017)

  Annali Lawrenson, Abel Wakai
• 12 A multi-centre randomised feasibility study evaluating the impact of a prognostic model for management of blunt chest wall trauma patients: stumbl trial (23 November, 2017)

  Ceri Battle, Hayley Hutchings, Zoe Abbott, Claire O’neill, Sam Groves, Alan Watkins, Fiona Lecky, Sally Jones, James Gagg, Rick Body, Phillip Evans
• 13 Prophylactic antibiotics for penetrating injury: a review of practice at a major trauma centre, literature review and recommendations (23 November, 2017)

  Marharyta Kamarova, Richard Kendall
• 14 Prediction of massive blood transfusion in battlefield trauma: development and validation of the military acute severe haemorrhage (MASH) score (23 November, 2017)

  Jackie Mclennan, Jason Smith, Kevin Mackway-jones
• 15 A clinical decision tool for prescribing anti-platelet medication for patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome (PAM) (23 November, 2017)

  Charles Reynard, Rick Body
• 16 Investigating the effects of under-triage by existing major incident triage tools (23 November, 2017)

  James Vassallo, Jason Smith
• 17 Exploring ambulance conveyances to the emergency department: a descriptive analysis of non-urgent transports (23 November, 2017)

  Jamie Miles, Colin O’Keeffe, Richard Jacques, Tony Stone, Suzanne Mason
• 18 How do public attitudes to automated external defibrillators affect their use in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? (23 November, 2017)

  Hyun Choi, Nana Bosompra, Mathew Updyke, Adesina Adebowale
• 19 Accuracy of biomarkers for venous thromboembolism in pregnancy: the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in pregnancy (DiPEP) biomarker study (23 November, 2017)

  Steve Goodacre, Beverley Hunt, Kiran Parmar, Neil Shephard, Kimberley Horspool
• 20 Risk factors for admission at three, urban emergency departments in england: a cross-sectional analysis of attendances over one month (23 November, 2017)

  Ian Pope, Sharif Ismail, David McCoy, Tim Harris
• 21 Daily dynamic discharge – a whole system solution to ED crowding (23 November, 2017)

  Jacques Kerr, Helen Maitland, Claire Bell, Julie White, Alan Hunter
• 22 Emergency department litigation and coroner’s inquests: a ten year analysis (23 November, 2017)

  Nicholas Tilbury, Andrew Tabner, Graham Johnson
• 23 Patient and staff perspectives on the reasons for increasing emergency department attendances (23 November, 2017)

  Suzanne Ablard, Melanie Rimmer, Colin O’Keeffe, Suzanne Mason
• 24 An audit into the number of patients suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest that are resuscitated despite a high likelihood of futility (23 November, 2017)

  Mia Cokljat, Gareth Clegg, Scott Clarke
• 25 Organ donation in emergency departments: an analysis of best practice (23 November, 2017)

  Katja Empson, Sarah Beale, Jacques Kerr, Dale Gardiner
• 26 Protocol for the upcoming study: patient input monitoring of pain in the emergency room: novel electronic log (PIMPERNEL): a randomised controlled trial of an electronic pain score display in adults in the emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Hilary Thornton, Timothy Coats
• 27 The DiPEP (Diagnosis of PE in Pregnancy) study: can clinical assessment, d-dimer or chest x-ray be used to select pregnant or postpartum women with suspected PE for diagnostic imaging? (23 November, 2017)

  Steve Goodacre, Kimberley Horspool, Catherine Nelson-piercy, Marian Knight, Neil Shephard, Fiona Lecky, Steven Thomas, Beverley Hunt, Gordon Fuller
• 28 Are we measuring what we think we are measuring? Qualitative research exploring the role of the 0–10 pain score within the adult emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Fiona Sampson, Alicia O’cathain, Steve Goodacre
• 29 Has the licensing ACT 2003 affected levels of violence in England and Wales? A systematic review of hospital and police studies (23 November, 2017)

  Caitríona Callan, Adrian Boyle
• 30 Do nice guys finish last? (23 November, 2017)

  Chris Turner, Jake Turner
• 31 The quality improvement QIP – improving multidisciplinary staff engagement with quality improvement in the RVH emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Olly Bannon, Emma Greenwood
• 32 Do low-risk patients with non-cardiac chest pain prefer early discharge after rapid rule-out in the emergency department? (23 November, 2017)

  Isabelle Hancock, Edward Carlton
• 33 Systematic review of the effectiveness of prehospital critical care following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (23 November, 2017)

  Johannes von Vopelius-Feldt
• 34 A systematic literature review of the pre-hospital lessons identified following mass casualty deliberate bombing incidents (23 November, 2017)

  Thomas Cooke, Adam Chesters, Gareth Grier
• 35 To pan-scan or not to pan-scan? Further analysis of the tarn database 2012–2017 (23 November, 2017)

  Paul Hunt, Fiona Lecky, Omar Bouamra
• 36 Frailty flying squad: an emergency department focussed acute care of the elderly service DR genevieve robson, royal united hospital NHS foundation trust (23 November, 2017)

  Samantha Ballham, Scott Buxton, Rosa Camacho, Adrianna Sinclair, Chris Dyer, Nicola Jakeman
• 37 Routine testing of salicylate levels in overdose patients: still needed? (23 November, 2017)

  Elaine Hardy, Clare Toro, Susan Dorrian, Umesh Salanke
• 38 A comparison of two interventions in the treatment of severe ankle sprains and distal fibular avulsion fractures: a patient perspective (23 November, 2017)

  Sarah Powell
• 39 Violence intervention and prevention in emergency rooms: the viper study (23 November, 2017)

  James Price, Michael Martin, Jon Dean, Haroon Ahmed, Matthew Waite, Adrian Boyle
• 40 ED crowding: the acceptability of dysfunction (23 November, 2017)

  Karl Kavanagh, Darragh Shields, Paul Staunton
• 41 Simultaneous trauma patients in emergency department’s: a difference in mortality? (23 November, 2017)

  Laura Morrow, Tim Nutbeam
• 42 Assessing factors affecting the quality of chest compressions during training for laypersons using a novel CPRCARD (23 November, 2017)

  Zariel Sim, Alexander Elgin White, Win Wah, Steven MJ Ready, Nurul Asyikin Mohd Jalil, Han Xian Ng, Marcus EH Ong
• 43 Management of acute low back pain in the ED: a systematic review (23 November, 2017)

  Jane Ashbrook, Nikos Rodgdakis, Peter Goodwin, Gill Yeowell, Michael Callaghan
• 44 Quantifying the 5 year mortality of frequent attenders to the emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Alexander Davison, Adrian Boyle, Catherine Hayhurst
• 45 Patient evaluation of trauma service (23 November, 2017)

  Balraj Jagdev, Hannah Gardiner, Chris Turner
• 46 Testing of the ‘always events’ approach to improve the patient experience in the emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Cameron Kay, David Lowe
• 47 Systematic review and meta-analysis of analgesic efficacy and safety profile of single injection fascia iliaca compartment blocks in the acute pre-operative pain management of hip fractures (23 November, 2017)

  Fiqry Fadhlillah, David Chan
• 48 Calpol: are we overdosing on blood tests? (23 November, 2017)

  Brijesh Patel
• 49 Paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest – the development of a treatment algorithm (23 November, 2017)

  James Vassallo, Tim Nutbeam, Annette Rickard, Mark Lyttle, Jason Smith
• 50 How can informal support impact child PTSD symptoms following a psychological trauma? (23 November, 2017)

  Sarah Halligan
• 51 Paediatric emergency clinicians are rarely exposed to non-airway critical procedures: a predict/PERN study (23 November, 2017)

  Juan P Garrahan, Mark Lyttle, Ed Oakley, Stuart Dalziel, Lucia Nguyen, Arjun Rao, Santiago Mintegi, Franz Babl
• 52 Loop-mediated isothermal amplification PCR (LAMP) for the rapid identification of invasive meningococcal disease in the emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Thomas Waterfield, Bethany Patenall, James McKenna, Derek Fairley
• 53 Piloting patch – providing assessment and treatment for children at home – and piecing together what works (23 November, 2017)

  Caroline Ward, Katie Knight, Mary-Rose Ballard, Georgina Keogh, Miriam Samuel, Sara Buttle, Claire Robb, Francesca Cleugh
• 54 Paediatric traumatic cardiac arrest in England and Wales a 10 year epidemiological study (23 November, 2017)

  James Vassallo, Melanie Webster, Edward Barnard, Marisol Fragoso Iniguez, Mark Lyttle, Jason Smith
• 55 ‘Mini Sim’ – innovative bite sized simulation teaching in a busy children’s emergency department (23 November, 2017)

  Rachel Sunley, Karen Moloney, Jessica Parker, Christopher Arrowsmith, Kirsty Brown, Alex Wilson
• 56 Manipulation and reduction of paediatric forearm fractures using Es-ketamine in a paediatric emergency department – a 5 year study (23 November, 2017)

  Shirley Mulvaney
• 57 Support for suddenly bereaved parents in the emergency unit (23 November, 2017)

  Emily Jones, Steffan Simpson