Nasogastric tube feeding is an essential way of delivering enteral nutrition when the oral
route is insufficient or unsafe. Malnutrition is recognised as a reversible factor for sarcopenia …

Background Heterogeneous access to clinical learning opportunities and inconsistency in
teaching is a common source of dissatisfaction among medical students. This was …

Gallstone disease accounts for the vast majority of acute surgical admissions in the UK, with
a major treatment being cholecystectomy. Practice varies significantly as to whether surgery …

Functional motor redundancy enables humans to move with distinct muscle activation patterns
while achieving a similar outcome. Since humans select similar strategies, there seems to …

To the Editor—The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prompted mass
restructuring of the NHS workforce, the scale of which was unprecedented in its 72-year history. …

A quarter of patients admitted with a proximal femoral fracture suffer from an acute episode of
delirium during their hospital stay. Yet it is often unrecognised, poorly managed, and rarely …

Background Takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a syndrome characterized by acute left ventricular
wall motion abnormalities leading to left ventricular systolic dysfunction. It remains an …

Introduction: Rigid cervical spine collars can be used to maintain the position of the cervical
spine following injury or surgery. However, they have been associated with difficulty …

Background: The effects of weather on overall mortality are well documented. Anecdotally,
icy conditions are perceived to result in more falls and admissions for neck of femur (NOF) …

Background In young healthy volunteers a cervical hard collar has been shown to change
swallowing physiology. The risk of aspiration pneumonia increases with age. Methods In this …