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Expired CO2 Measurement in Intubated or Spontaneously Breathing Patients from the Emergency Department
Published on: January 29, 2011
Accident and emergency medicine in the United Kingdom
1Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. mchughd@med.unc.edu
Abstract:
This article describes the history and current status of the practice of hospital-based accident and emergency (A&E) medicine in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Included are comments on training and certification, the operations of the typical A&E department, and developments in research and academics. Also included are the authors' thoughts on issues of future importance to A&E medicine. As transatlantic links at all levels become increasingly common in this dynamic specialty, we clarify unfamiliar terminology and practices for international readers.
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