EMJ

HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS REGISTER


[Advanced]
Emergency Medicine Journal 2007;24:523
© 2007 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, and British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine
This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit a response
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this link to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Add article to my folders
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Maconochie, I.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Maconochie, I.
Topic Collections
Right arrow EMJ Primary survey
Right arrowRelevant Articles

Primary Survey

Ian Maconochie, Deputy editor

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.


ALCOHOL
Alcohol features in quantity in this month’s edition of the EMJ, with three original papers looking at different aspects of misuse of this drug.

The effect on the new UK licensing laws on emergency department (ED) attendances is studied in the paper by Newton et al. Have the laws made a difference? They may not have from this intriguing study, that looks at the differences in patient numbers presenting before and after the laws were introduced.
See page 532

And what about ED departments? Are they following the Alcohol Reduction Strategy, which recommends that active screening procedures for alcohol misuse are undertaken and that patients are offered brief interventions? The results of a survey of English ED departments, by Patton et al make stark reading.
See page 529

And what to do about seriously ill patients who come into the resuscitation room? Should they have their blood alcohol levels . . . [Full text of this article]


Relevant Articles

Alcohol: a missed opportunity. A survey of all accident and emergency departments in England
R Patton, J Strang, C Birtles, and M J Crawford
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 529-531. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Impact of the new UK licensing law on emergency hospital attendances: a cohort study
Alastair Newton, Shah Jalal Sarker, Gurjinderpal S Pahal, Eric van den Bergh, and Charles Young
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 532-534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Use of blood alcohol concentration in resuscitation room patients
Emese Csipke, Robin Touquet, Tim Patel, James Franklin, Adrian Brown, Paul Holloway, Nicola Batrick, and Michael J Crawford
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 535-538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Effect of teleradiology upon pattern of transfer of head injured patients from a rural general hospital to a neurosurgical referral centre
Itamar Ashkenazi, Jacob Haspel, Ricardo Alfici, Boris Kessel, Tawfik Khashan, and Meir Oren
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 550-552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Short stay emergency admissions to a West Midlands NHS Trust: a longitudinal descriptive study, 2002–2005
E Sibly, C M Wiskin, R L Holder, and M W Cooke
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 553-557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Peripheral line dead space: an unrecognised phenomenon?
Dave Geggie and Deborah Moore
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 558-559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

The Bradford Burn Study: the epidemiology of burns presenting to an inner city emergency department
A A Khan, J Rawlins, A F Shenton, and D T Sharpe
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 564-566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

The Livingston Paediatric Dose Calculator
Matthew J Reed and Jane Fothergill
Emerg. Med. J. 2007 24: 567-568. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]





HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS REGISTER
Terms and conditions relating to subscriptions purchased online  ¦  Website terms and conditions  ¦  Privacy policy
© 2007 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, and British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine