Acute admission of self-harm Paracetamol overdose to the emergency department

Order Description Instructions: 1. Choose a topic from the course content relevant to common presentations in your Emergency Department (ED) that is different to the topic you chose for assignment 1 (e.g. gastrointestinal emergencies such as bowel obstruction, mental health presentations such as self-harm, neurological emergencies such as stroke, cardiac emergencies such as AMI etc.). You do not need to confirm this choice with your course convenor unless you need further clarification of your topic. 2. Clearly identify your topic in the name of your paper (e.g. Acute admission of a patient with {add in your topic here} to the Emergency Department) and in your introduction and conclusion. 3. Search for peer-reviewed articles that are predominantly research papers (primary studies as well as literature reviews) about your topic. A small number of discussion papers are acceptable (e.g. clinical updates, education pieces). In your structured essay you must review at least 20 relevant, current peer-reviewed articles from the last 7 years. Text books are not acceptable for this assessment, but may assist you in finding relevant articles to include in your review. Briefly display or state your search terms, databases, and number of results you initially considered in your paper. 4. Summarise, interpret, synthesise and analyse your articles to create an overview of the literature for your reader for the following areas and use the structured headings of: