Drugs misuse (including addiction)

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Prehospital care
Haemorrhage from femoral vein cannula: an additional potential source of haemorrhage among intravenous drug users

R Cooke, J Fitzpatrick
Emerg. Med. J. 2009; 26: 675. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original articles
Children who harm themselves: development of a paediatric emergency department triage tool

C Dieppe, B Stanhope, K Rakhra
Emerg. Med. J. 2009; 26: 418-420. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Best Evidence Topic reports
BET 3 IS THE WHITE CELL COUNT OF THE JOINT ASPIRATE SUFFICIENTLY SENSITIVE/SPECIFIC TO RULE IN/OUT SEPTIC ARTHRITIS?

Emerg. Med. J. 2009; 26: 435-a-437-a. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review
Packers, pushers and stuffers—managing patients with concealed drugs in UK emergency departments: a clinical and medicolegal review

R J Booker, J E Smith, M P Rodger
Emerg. Med. J. 2009; 26: 316-320. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in emergency medicine
Acute gastric dilatation

A S Kashyap, D Chopra, K P Anand, S Arora, S Kashyap
Emerg. Med. J. 2009; 26: 326. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Best Evidence Topic reports
Towards evidence based emergency medicine: Best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary

Emerg. Med. J. 2008; 25: 686-a. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Best Evidence Topic reports
BET 3 TRAINING AND PRESCRIPTION OF NALOXONE FOR PERSONAL USE IN OVERDOSE FOR OPIATE ADDICTS

Emerg. Med. J. 2008; 25: 688-689. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Best Evidence Topic reports
BET 5: IS DANTROLENE THE BEST WAY TO TREAT HYPERTHERMIA IN PATIENTS WITH COCAINE ABUSE?

Joanne Probert, Jacqui Macnair
Emerg. Med. J. 2008; 25: 442-443. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original articles
Acute medicine teaching in an undergraduate medical curriculum: a blended learning approach

I M Shah, M R Walters, J H McKillop
Emerg. Med. J. 2008; 25: 354-357. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [ web only appendix ]  

Original articles
Survey of cases of paracetamol overdose in the UK referred to National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) consultants

H K R Thanacoody, A M Good, W S Waring, D N Bateman
Emerg. Med. J. 2008; 25: 140-143. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]