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Table of contents

March 2007 - Volume 24 - 3

Emergency casebooks

Bradycardia in minor trauma: don’t be slow on the uptake! (9 March, 2007)
Pratik Shah, Marcus Likeman, Lisa Munro-Davies
Fulminant Wegener’s granulomatosis presenting as epistaxis (9 March, 2007)
Ankur Thapar, Ajith George, Andrew Pfleiderer
Lodged oesophageal button battery masquerading as a coin: an unusual cause of bilateral vocal cord paralysis (9 March, 2007)
Jonathan Michael Bernstein, Stuart A Burrows, Michael W Saunders
Spontaneous cervical cord haemorrhage: an unusual presentation (9 March, 2007)
Adel Helmy, Greg Mellor
Haemothorax after pig-tail catheter removal in a patient with primary spontaneous pneumothorax (9 March, 2007)
Demosthenes Makris, Medi Hatthabi, Arnaud Scherpereel, Jean-Jaques Lafitte, Charles-Hugo Marquette
Beware of prosthetic valve thrombosis despite therapeutic anticoagulation (9 March, 2007)
Paul William Xavier Foley, Raj Sharma, Paul R Karla
Allergy evaluation after emergency treatment: anaphylaxis to the over-the-counter medication clobutinol (9 March, 2007)
Cornelia S Seitz, Eva-B Bröcker, Axel Trautmann
Case of the month: Honey I glued the kids: tissue adhesives are not the same as “superglue” (9 March, 2007)
Luke Cascarini, Anand Kumar
An unusual presentation of foreign-body ingestion at the emergency department (9 March, 2007)
A Gunduz, S Turedi
Emergency casebook (9 March, 2007)
Complications of yoga (9 March, 2007)
A S Kashyap, K P Anand, S Kashyap
Calcaneal avulsion fracture (9 March, 2007)
T F Platts-Mills, M D Burg, Z T Pollack

Primary Survey

Primary Survey (9 March, 2007) Free
Steve Goodacre

Editorial

For whom the bell tolls (9 March, 2007)
Geoffrey Hughes

Commentary

Should exercise treadmill testing be provided in the emergency department? (9 March, 2007)
J Arnold, S Goodacre

Original Articles

Clarification of cyanide’s effect on oxygen transport characteristics in a canine model (9 March, 2007)
Julius Cuong Pham, David T Huang, Francis T McGeorge, Emanuel P Rivers
Bayes pulmonary embolism assisted diagnosis: a new expert system for clinical use (9 March, 2007) Free
Davide Luciani, Silvio Cavuto, Luca Antiga, Massimo Miniati, Simona Monti, Massimo Pistolesi, Guido Bertolini
Endotracheal tube and laryngeal mask airway cuff volume changes with altitude: a rule of thumb for aeromedical transport (9 March, 2007)
Catherine Mann, Neil Parkinson, Anthony Bleetman
Stability of succinylcholine solutions stored at room temperature studied by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (9 March, 2007)
Frederic Adnet, Laurence Le Moyec, Charles E Smith, Michel Galinski, Patricia Jabre, Frederic Lapostolle
Validation of the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) in self-referred patients in a European emergency department (9 March, 2007)
Jolande Elshove-Bolk, Francis Mencl, Bas T F van Rijswijck, Maarten P Simons, Arie B van Vugt
A population follow-up study of patients who left an emergency department without being seen by a medical officer (9 March, 2007)
Mohammed Mohsin, Roberto Forero, Sue Ieraci, Adrian E Bauman, Lis Young, Nancy Santiano
The East Anglian specialist registrar assessment tool (9 March, 2007)
Susan Robinson, Katharine Boursicot, Catherine Hayhurst
Do emergency department physiotherapy Practitioner’s, emergency nurse practitioners and doctors investigate, treat and refer patients with closed musculoskeletal injuries differently? (9 March, 2007)
Stephen T E Ball, Kate Walton, Stephen Hawes
Bupivacaine in the emergency department is underused: scope for improved patient care (9 March, 2007)
Jia Jia Shen, David McD Taylor, Jonathan C Knott, Catherine E MacBean
The College of Emergency Medicine curriculum: is the specialty-specific knowledge section fit for purpose? (9 March, 2007)
Sarah Robinson, Claire Vincent, Jude Reay, Mike Clancy
The intubating laryngeal mask: is there a role for paramedics? (9 March, 2007) Free
Robert Menzies, Hamid Manji
Safe access/egress systems for emergency ambulances (9 March, 2007)
A Jones, S Hignett

Short reports

Hypokalaemia and sudden cardiac death—lessons from implantable cardioverter defibrillators (9 March, 2007)
Micha Maeder, Hans Rickli, Christian Sticherling, Regula Widmer, Peter Ammann
Low-flow priapism needs recognition and early correct treatment (9 March, 2007)
Simon John Monkhouse, Simon Bell
Do peripheral blood cultures taken in the emergency department influence clinical management? (9 March, 2007)
Philip T Munro, Neil Howie, Jan F Gerstenmaier
Do peripheral blood cultures taken in the emergency department influence clinical management? (9 March, 2007)
Neil Howie, Jan F Gerstenmaier, Philip T Munro
Life-threatening episode after ingestion of toad eggs: a case report with literature review (9 March, 2007)
Hung-Yi Kuo, Chin-Wang Hsu, Jiann-Hwa Chen, Yung-Lung Wu, Ying-Sheng Shen

Best evidence topic reports

Towards evidence based emergency medicine: Best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (9 March, 2007)
Bernard A Foëx
Conservative management or suturing for small, uncomplicated hand wounds (9 March, 2007)
Shafic Said Al-Nammari, A J Quyn
Prophylactic antibiotics are not indicated in uncomplicated hand lacerations (9 March, 2007)
Shafic S Al-Nammari, Adam J Reid
C Reactive Protein and the diagnosis of intracranial infection (9 March, 2007)
Amy Au-Yong, Tim Coats

Prehospital care

The prehospital management of chest injuries: a consensus statement. Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (9 March, 2007)
Caroline Lee, Matthew Revell, Keith Porter, Richard Steyn
A dramatic drop in blood pressure following prehospital GTN administration (9 March, 2007)
Malcolm J Boyle
From the prehospital literature (9 March, 2007)
Malcolm Woollard

Letters

Attitudes to triage of Chinese emergency room patients in a Beijing tertiary hospital (9 March, 2007)
Houli Wang, Tengda Xu
Photokeratitis following the manipulation of aquaria disinfection lamps (9 March, 2007)
Amit S Verma, Dorian Dwarika, Ronnie M Bhola, Sheraiz Emamali
A guide to reducing citation errors in bibliographies (9 March, 2007)
Babita Ghai, Akshay Kumar Saxena, Jeetinder Kaur Makkar
Medico-legal consideration of gastric lavage in acutely intoxicated patients (9 March, 2007)
Hyuna Bae, Kyunghwan Lee

Sophia

Sophia (9 March, 2007)
Esther Wilson, Jonathan Wyatt

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