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July 2003, Volume 20, Issue 4

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  1. Primary Survey
  2. Editorials
  3. Reviews
  4. Original Articles
  5. Short reports
  6. Research series
  7. Best evidence topic reports
  8. Journal scan
  9. Prehospital care
  10. Case reports
  11. Letters
  12. Book reviews
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Primary Survey

  • Primary Survey

    • Pete Driscoll,
    • Jim Wardrope
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 303 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.303

Editorials

  • Prehospital emergency medicine: the series

    • P Driscoll,
    • J Wardrope,
    • C Laird
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 304 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.304

  • Accumulating knowledge: five years of BETs

    • K Mackway-Jones,
    • S Carley
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 304-305 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.304-a

Reviews

  • Salt of the earth or a drop in the ocean? A pathophysiological approach to fluid resuscitation

    • P Gosling
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 306-315 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.306

  • How the cholera epidemic of 1831 resulted in a new technique for fluid resuscitation

    • B A Foëx
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 316-318 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.316

  • Role of fibrin D-dimer testing in emergency medicine

    • A Wakai,
    • A Gleeson,
    • D Winter
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 319-325 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.319

Original Articles

  • The PEP respiratory monitor: a validation study

    • C N Brookes,
    • J D Whittaker,
    • C Moulton,
    • D Dodds
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 326-328 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.326

  • Accident and emergency departments are still failing to assess asthma severity

    • S Harvey,
    • L Forbes,
    • D Jarvis,
    • J Price,
    • P Burney
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 329-331 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.329

  • Decompression sickness and recreational scuba divers

    • H Nakayama,
    • M Shibayama,
    • N Yamami,
    • S Togawa,
    • M Takahashi,
    • Y Mano
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 332-334 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.332

  • Acute bacterial gastroenteritis: a study of adult patients with positive stool cultures treated in the emergency department

    • S S W Chan,
    • K C Ng,
    • D J Lyon,
    • W L Cheung,
    • A F B Cheng,
    • T H Rainer
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 335-338 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.335

  • Pharmacological management of agitation in emergency settings

    • A Yildiz,
    • G S Sachs,
    • A Turgay
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 339-346 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.339

  • How do blood cultures sent from a paediatric accident and emergency department influence subsequent clinical management?

    • P Leonard,
    • T F Beattie
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 347-348 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.347

Short reports

  • Evidence for cause of death in patients dying in an accident and emergency department

    • M Quigley,
    • J Burton
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 349-351 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.349

  • Is email a reliable means of contacting authors of previously published papers? A study of the Emergency Medicine Journal for 2001

    • F O’Leary
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 352-353 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.352

  • Management of whiplash injuries presenting to accident and emergency departments in Wales

    • A J Logan,
    • M D Holt
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 354-355 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.354

  • Electrocardiographic artefact mimicking arrhythmic change on the ECG

    • N C Samaniego,
    • F Morris,
    • W J Brady
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 356-357 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.356

  • ABCDEs

    • H R Guly
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 358 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.358

Research series

  • Seeking funding for research

    • K Mackway-Jones
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 359-361 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.359

Best evidence topic reports

  • Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary

    • K Mackway-Jones
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 362 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.362

  • Accuracy of negative dipstick urine analysis in ruling out urinary tract infection in adults

    • Nick Ohly,
    • Stewart Teece
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 362-363 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.362-a

  • Venous blood gas in adult patients with diabetic ketoacidosis

    • Ziauddin Hassan,
    • Devasena M Subramonyam,
    • Shobhan Thakore
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 363-364 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.363

  • Antithrombotic treatment of below knee deep venous thrombosis

    • Kerstin Hogg,
    • Andrew Ashton
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 364-365 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.364

  • Buccal nitrates in left ventricular failure

    • Dhurga Gnanasegaram,
    • Jon Argall
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 364-366 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.364-a

  • Oral methionine compared with intravenous n-acetyl cysteine for paracetamol overdose

    • Walid Alsalim,
    • Mohamed Fadel
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 366-367 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.366

  • Clinical probability scoring and pulmonary embolism

    • Ged Brown,
    • Kerstin Hogg
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 367 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.367

  • Accuracy of combining clinical probability score and simpliRED d-dimer for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

    • Russell Boyd,
    • Kerstin Hogg
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 367-368 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.367-a

  • IL D-dimer test in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

    • Kerstin Hogg,
    • Russell Boyd
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 368-369 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.368

  • Outpatient investigation of pulmonary embolism

    • Kerstin Hogg,
    • Debbie Dawson
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 370 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.370

  • Outpatient treatment of pulmonary embolism

    • Kerstin Hogg,
    • Debbie Dawson
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 370-371 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.370-a

  • Accumulator BET: a traumatic pleuritic chest pain

    • K Hogg,
    • G Brown,
    • K Mackway-Jones
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 372 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.372

Journal scan

  • JournalScan

    • J P Wyatt,
    • L Freeman
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 373-374 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.373

Prehospital care

  • Feasibility of prehospital treatment with activated charcoal: Who could we treat, who should we treat?

    • G K Isbister,
    • A H Dawson,
    • I M Whyte
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 375-378 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.375

  • Hazards of performing chest compressions in collapsed patients with internal cardioverter defibrillators

    • P A D Clements
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 379-380 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.379

Case reports

  • Effect of innappropriate naltrexone use in a heroin misuser

    • S H Boyce,
    • P A R Armstrong,
    • J Stevenson
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 381-382 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.381

  • Life threatening haemorrhage after anterior needle aspiration of pneumothoraces. A role for lateral needle aspiration in emergency decompression of spontaneous pneumothorax

    • R Rawlins,
    • K M Brown,
    • C S Carr,
    • C R Cameron
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 383-384 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.383

  • Perforation of the oesophagus and aorta after eating fish: an unusual cause of chest pain

    • H D’Costa,
    • F Bailey,
    • B McGavigan,
    • G George,
    • B Todd
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 385-386 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.385

  • Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia presenting as acute generalised peritonism

    • D Bourne,
    • N Beck,
    • C B Summerton
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 386-387 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.386

  • Spontaneous retroperitoneal haemorrhage from a renal cyst: an unusual cause of haemorrhagic shock

    • C J Blakeley,
    • N Thiagalingham
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 388 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.388

  • An after dinner speaker?

    • C E Payne
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 389-390 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.389

  • Survival from accidental strangulation from a scarf resulting in laryngeal rupture and carotid artery stenosis: the “Isadora Duncan syndrome”. A case report and review of literature

    • P A Gowens,
    • R J Davenport,
    • J Kerr,
    • R J Sanderson,
    • A K Marsden
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 391-393 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.391

  • Sodium bicarbonate to treat massive β blocker overdose

    • U R Shanker,
    • J Webb,
    • A Kotze
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 393 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.393

Letters

  • Changing patterns in the care of emergencies in the community: workload of the Westcountry Ambulance Service 1994–2001

    • H R Guly,
    • G Bryce
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 394 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.394

  • Prehospital thoracotomy

    • G Davies,
    • D Lockey,
    • T Coats
    1. Commentator:
      • K D Wright
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 394-395 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.394-a

  • Use of emergency department ultrasound in the diagnosis and early management of femoral fractures

    • P Atkinson,
    • R Lennon
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 395 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.395

  • Transthoracic echocardiography during cardiac arrest due to massive pulmonary embolism

    • P Knowles
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 395-396 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.395-a

Book reviews

  • Emergency ophthalmology: a rapid treatment guide: Edited by K C Chern. (Pp 297; £44.00). McGraw Hill, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-07-137325-X

    • D A Kilroy
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 396 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.396

  • Neurological emergencies, 3rd edn: R A C Hughes, editor. (£35.00). BMJ Books, 2001. ISBN 0-7279-1405-7.

    • Carole Libetta
    Emerg Med J 2003;20:4 396 doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.396-a

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