The notes of 100 patients seen consecutively in the resusci- tation room of a University Teaching Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) were recalled from the electronic patient record system. Once the written notes are completed they are sent away for an electronic image to be made and stored on the database. May 2006 was chosen as the starting date for the audit since at the time it was the most recently com- pleted electronic record. The resuscitation room log was used to identify the patients who had been seen in the resuscitation room.