Reduced noise in the emergency department: the impact on staff well-being and room acoustics.

Background And Introduction: The ED is often perceived as noisy. Excessive noise has deleterious effects on health and productivity. This study evaluated if a package of noise-reducing interventions altered workload, physical complaints, productivity and room acoustics.

Treatment of torus fractures in the forearm in children using bandage therapy.

Background: In a torus fracture, there is an intact cortex at the side of the fracture which gives more intrinsic stability than in greenstick fractures, where one side of the cortex is disrupted. Two previously done studies compared soft bandage therapy (BT) with cast therapy in the treatment of torus forearm fractures in children and showed this is safe and does not cause any complications. The aim of our study was to validate these studies by treating all patients presenting to emergency department with a torus fracture with BT and investigate whether any complications occur.