Journal Reviews

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Risk stratified approach to early intervention for renal colic

3 March 2021 | | Endourology and Stones, Trauma and Emergency Urology | emergency treatment, renal colic, therapeutics, ureteral calculi, ureteroscopy

Existing guidance on this topic is based on older and smaller studies, and there remains variation in practice. This review of database outcomes of 1168 out of 3081 (38%) patients who underwent early intervention after presentation to nine Canadian emergency...

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Urological in-flight medical events

6 November 2020 | | Trauma and Emergency Urology | aerospace medicine, emergency treatment, travel, urologic diseases

The future of air travel may seem uncertain at the present time, but up until the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 44,000 inflight medical emergencies occurred annually, averaging 1 in 604 flights. Some of you will have heard the heart-sink announcement “if...