Highlights from this issue

[...]you may be interested to read a paper by Fuller and colleagues from Sheffield, who conducted an observational cohort study with the aim of estimating the risk of adverse outcome after mild head injury in patients taking DOACs to guide emergency department management. Head home Children are no exception where head injuries are concerned, it is estimated that more than 700 000 of them in the UK attend hospital every year with a head injury and less than 1% of these need neurosurgical intervention. Previous studies have shown that up to 46% of cardiac troponin (cTn) testing in the ED is deemed inappropriate and results in not just wasted costs but unnecessary procedures. [...]it can also cause alarm and anxiety without adding value.