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Original Articles

• Is a chest pain observation unit likely to be cost saving in a British hospital? (1 January, 2001)

  Steve Goodacre, Francis Morris, Jane Arnold, Karen Angelini
• Biochemical markers in the management of suspected acute myocardial infarction in the emergency department (1 January, 2001)

  A M Huggon, J Chambers, N Nayeem, P Tutt, M Crook, S Swaminathan
• Prehospital rapid sequence induction by emergency physicians: Is it safe? (1 January, 2001)

  C A Mackay, J Terris, T J Coats
• Magnetic resonance imaging as the primary imaging modality in children presenting with acute non-traumatic hip pain (1 January, 2001)

  P M White, J Boyd, T F Beattie, M Hurst, G M Hendry
• Sedation for children requiring wound repair: a randomised controlled double blind comparison of oral midazolam and oral ketamine (1 January, 2001)

  Paul A Younge, Jason M Kendall
• A comparison of intramuscular ketamine with high dose intramuscular midazolam with and without intranasal flumazenil in children before suturing (1 January, 2001)

  R McGlone, T Fleet, S Durham, S Hollis
• Intravenous ketamine plus midazolam is superior to intranasal midazolam for emergency paediatric procedural sedation (1 January, 2001)

  J P Acworth, D Purdie, R C Clark
• A randomised controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of double Tubigrip in grade 1 and 2 (mild to moderate) ankle sprains (1 January, 2001)

  B L Watts, B Armstrong
• The use of the spinal board after the pre-hospital phase of trauma management (1 January, 2001)

  D Vickery
• The ATLS course, a survey of 228 ATLS providers (1 January, 2001)

  D W G Kennedy, D Gentleman