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Original Articles

• Can you deliver accurate tidal volume by manual resuscitator? (8 October, 2008)

  H M Lee, K H Cho, Y H Choi, S Y Yoon, Y H Choi
• Derivation of a risk assessment tool for emergency department patients with sickle cell disease (8 October, 2008) Free

  A W Bernard, C J Lindsell, A Venkat
• Forget the blood, not the stone! Microhaematuria in acute urolithiasis and the role of early CT scanning (8 October, 2008)

  K Xafis, G Thalmann, L M Benneker, C Stoupis, D J Buggy, H Zimmermann, A K Exadaktylos
• Imaging paediatric blunt abdominal trauma in the emergency department: ultrasound versus computed tomography (8 October, 2008)

  J G Browning, A G Wilkinson, T Beattie
• Understanding patient experience of out-of-hours general practitioner services in South Wales: a qualitative study (8 October, 2008)

  J N Egbunike, C Shaw, S Bale, G Elwyn, A Edwards
• Paediatric allergic reactions in the emergency department: a review (8 October, 2008)

  N Melville, T Beattie
• Lactic acidosis not hyperlactatemia as a predictor of inhospital mortality in septic emergency patients (8 October, 2008)

  S-W Lee, Y-S Hong, D-W Park, S-H Choi, S-W Moon, J-S Park, J-Y Kim, K-J Baek
• The density ratio of grey to white matter on computed tomography as an early predictor of vegetative state or death after cardiac arrest (8 October, 2008)

  S P Choi, H K Park, K N Park, Y M Kim, K J Ahn, K H Choi, W J Lee, S K Jeong
• Factors predicting mortality in victims of blunt trauma brain injury in emergency department settings (8 October, 2008)

  K-Y Hsiao, C-T Hsiao, H-H Weng, K-H Chen, L-J Lin, Y-M Huang
• Modified early warning score predicts the need for hospital admission and inhospital mortality (8 October, 2008)

  V C Burch, G Tarr, C Morroni