Objective: The National Ambulance Service (NAS) provides emergency medical services throughout Ghana and
trains emergency medical technicians (EMTs) at the NAS Prehospital Emergency Care Training School (PECTS).
Currently the majority of EMT…
Introduction: In many low-income countries, Emergency Medicine is underdeveloped and faces many opera-
tional challenges including emergency department (ED) overcrowding and prolonged patient length of stays
Introduction: Paediatric emergency medicine (PEM) is poorly developed in low and middle-income countries.
The magnitude of challenges facing Paediatric Emergency Departments (PEDs) in Nigeria has not been well
described. This study aimed to assess…
Introduction: Despite agreement in the literature that “stable” blunt trauma patients may be managed con-
servatively, in Egypt many such patients receive operative management. This paper presents the results of a
Introduction: Injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally and disproportionately affects low-
income countries. While most injury data comes from tertiary care centers in urban settings, the purpose of this
The covid-19 era poses significant and unprecedented challenges for
re-organisation of care, redistribution of resources and rationing of
services [1,2]. A review of patients' clinical characteristics showed a
high prevalence of respiratory…
Introduction: Colchicine overdose is uncommon but is associated with a high mortality rate. It has a narrow
therapeutic index and has been described to have a 100% mortality with ingestion of > 0.8 mg/kg (Finkelstein
et al., 2010; Herran-Monge et…