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July 2004, Volume 21, Issue 4

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  1. Primary Survey
  2. Editorials
  3. Commentary
  4. Reviews
  5. Original Articles
  6. Short reports
  7. Best evidence topic reports
  8. Journalscan
  9. Prehospital care
  10. Letters
  11. Book review
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Primary Survey

  • Primary survey

    • Pete Driscoll,
    • Jim Wardrope
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 399

Editorials

  • The NICE guidelines for the management of head injury: the view from a district hospital

    • A M Leaman
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 400 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.015024

  • Are we ready for NICE head injury guidelines in Scotland?

    • I J Swann,
    • T Kelliher,
    • J Kerr
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 401-402 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.015644

  • NICE head injury guidelines

    • T J Coats
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 402 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016485

Commentary

  • HIV post-exposure prophylaxis after sexual assault

    • J Crossley
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 403 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.005686

Reviews

  • The NICE guidelines in the real world: a practical perspective

    • J Dunning,
    • F Lecky
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 404-407 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.014944

  • Proarrhythmic effects of adenosine: a review of the literature

    • M L Mallet
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 408-410 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016048

  • Problem based learning

    • D A Kilroy
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 411-413 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.012435

  • Diagnosing traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta in the emergency department

    • C E O’Conor
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 414-419

Original Articles

  • Application of the Canadian CT head rules in managing minor head injuries in a UK emergency department: implications for the implementation of the NICE guidelines

    • H Y Sultan,
    • A Boyle,
    • M Pereira,
    • N Antoun,
    • C Maimaris
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 420-425 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.011353

  • Evaluation of the impact of the Canadian CT head rule on British practice

    • A Boyle,
    • L Santarius,
    • C Maimaris
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 426-428

  • Head injuries in Leeds: changes in epidemiology and survival over 12 years

    • M D Wittenberg,
    • J P Sloan,
    • I F Barlow
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 429-432 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.006775

  • Severe head injury in children: geographical range of an emergency neurosurgical practice

    • R C Tasker,
    • S Gupta,
    • D K White
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 433-437

  • The safety and effectiveness of minor injuries telemedicine

    • J R Benger,
    • S M Noble,
    • J Coast,
    • J M Kendall
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 438-445

  • Limited usefulness of initial blood cultures in community acquired pneumonia

    • J Corbo,
    • B Friedman,
    • P Bijur,
    • E J Gallagher
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 446-448

  • HIV post-exposure prophylaxis provided at an urban paediatric emergency department to female adolescents after sexual assault

    • R C Merchant,
    • R Keshavarz,
    • C Low
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 449-451

  • Improving access to diagnostics: an evaluation of a satellite laboratory service in the emergency department

    • P Leman,
    • D Guthrie,
    • R Simpson,
    • F Little
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 452-456

  • Educational psychology in medical learning: a randomised controlled trial of two aide memoires for the recall of causes of electromechanical dissociation

    • E Dyson,
    • S Voisey,
    • S Hughes,
    • B Higgins,
    • P J McQuillan
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 457-460 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.012377

  • Does speculum examination have a role in assessing bleeding in early pregnancy?

    • R Hoey,
    • K Allan
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 461-463 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.012443

  • Derivation of a typology for the classification of risks in emergency medicine

    • M Thomas,
    • K Mackway-Jones,
    • N Boreham
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 464-468

  • Identifying and comparing risks in emergency medicine

    • M Thomas,
    • R Morton,
    • K Mackway-Jones
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 469-472

  • Development, utilisation, and importance of accident and emergency department derived assault data in violence management

    • A L Warburton,
    • J P Shepherd
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 473-477

  • Pattern of injuries in helmeted motorcyclists in Singapore

    • K-Y Tham,
    • E Seow,
    • G Lau
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 478-482

  • Emergency surgery in patients in extremis from blunt torso injury: heroic surgery or futile care?

    • A Brooks,
    • B Davies,
    • D Richardson,
    • J Connolly
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 483-486

Short reports

  • A computer program for generating New Deal compliant SHO rosters

    • B S Todd
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 487-490 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.011676

  • Hazardous drinkers in the accident and emergency department—Who accepts advice?

    • R Patton,
    • M Crawford,
    • R Touquet
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 491-492 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.011403

  • Laryngopharyngeal pH measurement

    • E J Spurrier,
    • M J Clancy,
    • C D Deakin
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 493-494

  • Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia: improving diagnosis and management within the accident and emergency department

    • S F O’Rourke,
    • A Sauvage,
    • P A Evans
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 495-497 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.012054

Best evidence topic reports

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

    • K Mackway-Jones
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 498 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016519

  • Abdominal radiography in “body packers”

    • Jonathan Costello,
    • Will Townend
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 498 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016527

  • Use of heliox for acute asthma in the emergency department

    • Michelle Jacobs,
    • Cilla Reid,
    • John Butler
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 498-499 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016535

  • CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS AND THE SURVIVAL OF PATIENTS IN CARDIAC ARREST

    • Joel Dunning,
    • Adrian Levine
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 499-501 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016543

  • Oral or intravenous thiamine in the emergency department

    • Rupert Jackson,
    • Stewart Teece
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 501-502 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016550

  • Antibiotic prophylaxis for pretibial haematomas in the elderly population

    • Stewart Teece,
    • Ian Crawford
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 502 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016568

  • Prophylactic antibiotics for subungual haematoma

    • Jonathan Costello,
    • Marten Howes
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 503 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016576

Journalscan

  • JournalScan

    • J P Wyatt,
    • D Alao
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 504-505

Prehospital care

  • Systematic review of interventions to reduce delay in patients with suspected heart attack

    • A Kainth,
    • A Hewitt,
    • A Sowden,
    • S Duffy,
    • J Pattenden,
    • R Lewin,
    • I Watt,
    • D Thompson
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 506-508 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.013276

  • Training doctors in prehospital care: the West Midlands (UK) approach

    • K M Porter
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 509-510 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.010744

  • 5 Assessment and identification of paediatric primary survey positive patients

    • M Woollard,
    • F Jewkes
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 511-517 doi:10.1136/emj.2004.016501

  • Prehospital determination of tracheal tube placement in severe head injury

    • Š Grmec,
    • Š Mally
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 518-520

Letters

  • The impact of NICE guidelines for the management of head injury on the workload of the radiology department

    • B P Shravat,
    • K A Hynes
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 521-522 doi:10.1136/emj.2003.012849

  • Vasopressin or adrenaline in cardiac resuscitation

    • T E Locker
    1. Commentator:
      • K Hogg,
      • R Mahu,
      • and I Crawford
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 522

  • Vasopressin—the continuing evidence. 2 February 2004

    • K Hogg
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 522

  • BETs—Should they be published in the journal?

    • A P Webster
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 522-523

  • BestBETs reply from the BestBETs group

    • K Mackway-Jones
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 523

  • Good BETs?

    • J Wardrope,
    • P Driscoll
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 523

  • Emergency contraception

    • B Taylor,
    • L Bacon
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 523-524

Book review

  • Paediatric education for prehospital professionals

    • F E Jewkes
    Emerg Med J 2004;21:4 524

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