June 2005 31: 3 JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY NURSING 247 literature in the United States,
United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Spain, demonstrating that this problem is not …

Context Emergency departments (EDs) are experiencing increased patient volumes and
serve as a source of care of last resort for uninsured patients. Common assumptions about …

Some of the most frightening stories that have emerged from the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic have been of overwhelmed physicians caring for patients despite a …

Prehospital care has evolved significantly from its origins in military conflicts to today's
complex Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems. Highly specialized providers …

Objectives: The authors hypothesized that a new strategy, termed the independent‐capacity
protocol (ICP), which was defined as primary stabilization at the emergency department (ED) …

Ever since the emergence of SARS, when we were reminded that the nature of health care
practitioners' duty to care is greatly contested, it has remained a polarizing issue …

The disciplines of paramedicine and emergency medicine have evolved synchronously over
the past four decades, linked by emergency physicians with expertise in prehospital care …

Objectives: The trend toward operating Canadian hospitals at full capacity necessitates in
some settings the transfer of patients from one hospital's emergency department (ED) to …

Walker suggests that “[the courts] are willing to adjust the standard of care when personnel
or equipment are limited as a result of an actual scarcity of resources beyond the control of …

Objective. Ambulance diversion has been proposed as a solution to emergency department
overcrowding andwaiting room deaths. For ethical andlegal reasons, it remains highly …