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This edition explores the increasing variety of clinical challenges from acute medicine. Articles on subjects ranging from asthma to diving medicine, gastroenteritis to ß blocker overdose, ECG artefact to accuracy of death certification should stimulate thought and hopefully be relevant to your clinical practice.
Gastroenteritis is not one of the most fashionable areas of emergency medicine. Therefore the study by Chan et al is useful in highlighting this condition. The authors point out that the incidence of causative agents will vary in different countries and even within a community. However, they provoke interesting discussion on the utility of stool culture and of antibiotic treatment. What are your department’s guidelines?
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The article by Foex on the history of intravenous therapy for cholera is a scholarly review of one of the most important advances in medical treatment of fluid loss. A valuable reflection on how a treatment we now
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