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Should we change the Mental Health Act 1983 for emergency services?

Sections 135 and 136 were introduced in the Mental Health Act 1959 and were carried, almost entirely unaltered, into the 1983 update of our law.

Emergency Medicine 2014

Following a welcome from the morning's chair, Prof Fiona Lecky, ScHARR, University of Sheffield and honorary consultant in emergency medicine, Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, the conference...

London Trauma Conference 2013

The conference kicked off with a discussion from Dr Richard Lyon on the TOPCAT study. Looking at the rationale behind the trial and some of the problems that arose, the interim results presented by Dr...

Understanding a new model of leadership

In current times there appears to be a constant cry for good leaders and for good leadership to lead us out of our difficulties. As an example, at the 2011 Conservative Party Conference, David Cameron...

Pre-hospital lactate testing in the identification of patients with sepsis: a review of the literature

In patients presenting with sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock, could lactate testing assist with pre-hospital identification?.