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A review of medically unexplained symptoms, especially in the context of emergency medicine, by Stephenson and Price is challenging. They argue that patients with these characteristics are under recognised and ignored in our teaching and literature. This article may provoke correspondence.
See p 595
A group from Southend describe the use of oxygen alert cards in chronic respiratory disease patients who are at risk of CO2 retention when treated with uncontrolled oxygen in prehospital care. The card proved helpful in the ambulance and in the emergency department in reducing iatrogenic disease.
See p 636
TOXBASE, introduced in 1999, was the first example
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