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Special Data Supplement for this Issue:

Primary survey

  • Primary survey

    • Simon Carley
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 63

Editorial

  • Improving the care of emergency admissions

    • Geoff Hughes
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 64 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.056267

Review

  • Is ice right? Does cryotherapy improve outcome for acute soft tissue injury?

    • N C Collins
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 65-68 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051664

Emergency Medicine Questions (EMQ)

  • Emergency Medicine Questions (EMQ)121

    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 69

Original Articles

  • Comparison of the Simplify D-dimer assay performed at the bedside with a laboratory-based quantitative D-dimer assay for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in a low prevalence emergency department population

    • M S Runyon,
    • D M Beam,
    • M C King,
    • E H Lipford,
    • J A Kline
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 70-75 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.048918

  • National survey of the management of eye emergencies in the accident and emergency departments by senior house officers: 10 years on—has anything changed?

    • D Sim,
    • A Hussain,
    • A Tebbal,
    • S Daly,
    • E Pringle,
    • A Ionides
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 76-77 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.049999

  • Integrated hospital emergency care improves efficiency

    • A A Boyle,
    • S M Robinson,
    • D Whitwell,
    • S Myers,
    • T J H Bennett,
    • N Hall,
    • S Haydock,
    • Z Fritz,
    • P Atkinson
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 78-82 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051037

  • Comparison of characteristics of admitted emergency department patients requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the ICU and non-ICU setting

    • N J White,
    • C J Lindsell,
    • B S Bassin,
    • A Venkat
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 83-87 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051920

  • Emergency department measurement of urinary S100B in children following head injury: can extracranial injury confound findings?

    • A Pickering,
    • J Carter,
    • I Hanning,
    • W Townend
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 88-89 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.046631

  • S100B protein in benzodiazepine overdose

    • J Ambrožič,
    • M Bunc,
    • J Osredkar,
    • M Brvar
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 90-92 doi:10.1136/emj.2006.044222

Images in emergency medicine

  • Circumferential aortic dissection

    • A Bouzas-Mosquera,
    • M Solla-Buceta,
    • S Fojón-Polanco
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 75 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.049908

  • The boy that coughed up a sweet corn

    • C D Okereke
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 82 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.046375

  • Chilaiditi’s sign or Chilaiditi’s syndrome in the emergency department

    • B Hivert,
    • G Der Sahakian,
    • Y E Claessens,
    • B Randone,
    • G Afanou,
    • J C Allo
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 87 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.046417

  • Tumoral calcinosis of bilateral hip

    • Y-L Chen,
    • W-C Chang,
    • S-J Chu,
    • S-H Tsai
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 97 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.050450

  • Case review of an old disease: empyema necessitates

    • C Tezel,
    • H Kıral,
    • Y Tezel,
    • M Keles
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 114 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.049270

  • Large prepubertal ovarian cyst

    • B J Buckley,
    • S Ulrich
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 118 doi:10.1136/emj.2006.045344

  • Laparotomy for treatment of seizures

    • P Szawarski,
    • L Dvorkin,
    • E Tam
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 120 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.049221

Short report

  • Not another 4th of July report: uncommon blast injuries to the hand

    • M Frank,
    • U Schmucker,
    • P Hinz,
    • A Zach,
    • A Ekkernkamp,
    • G Matthes
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 93-97 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.052316

Occasional series in critical care in the emergency department

  • Airway management

    • P A Nee,
    • J Benger,
    • R M Walls
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 98-102 doi:10.1136/emj.2005.030635

Best Evidence Topic reports

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

    • Edited by Simon D Carley
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 103

  • BET 1. THE ROLE OF TOPICAL ANALGESIA IN ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA

    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 103-104 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.056648

  • BET 2. SHOULD ONDANSETRON BE USED AS THE FIRST-LINE ANTI-EMETIC IN PARACETAMOL OVERDOSE?

    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 104-105 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.056655

  • BET 3. WHICH IS THE BEST CLINICAL TEST FOR DIAGNOSING A KNEE MENISCAL INJURY?

    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 105-107 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.056663

  • BET 4. ROLE OF PLAIN ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPH IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF INTUSSUSCEPTION

    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 106-107 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.056671

Prehospital care

  • Clinical care in the “Hot Zone”

    • M Byers,
    • M Russell,
    • D J Lockey
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 108-112 doi:10.1136/emj.2006.037689

Emergency casebooks

  • Spontaneous pneumomediastinum following ecstasy ingestion and sexual intercourse

    • B W Stull
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 113-114 doi:10.1136/emj.2006.041558

  • CT scan findings in oesophagogastric perforation after out of hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation

    • A Sajith,
    • B O’Donohue,
    • R M Roth,
    • R A Khan
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 115-116 doi:10.1136/emj.2006.044008

  • Propafenone-induced Brugada-like ECG changes mistaken as acute myocardial infarction

    • S Chutani,
    • N Imran,
    • B Grubb,
    • Y Kanjwal
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 117-118 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.052829

  • Horner’s syndrome in a patient presenting with a spontaneous pneumothorax

    • C Thakar,
    • I Hunt,
    • V Anikin
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 119-120 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.055129

EMQ answers

Letters

  • Ultrasound simulator for venous access

    • C Brown,
    • B McNicholl,
    • R Wright
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 122 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051151

  • “America”: a mnemonic for the TIMI risk score

    • G Cattermole
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 122 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.053595

  • Other clinicians play a part in expediting reperfusion

    • T Quinn
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 122 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.054486

  • Author’s response

    • J M Kendall
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 122 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.054494

Book review

  • A history of accident and emergency medicine, 1948–2004

    • R Touquet
    Emerg Med J 2008;25:2 122-123 doi:10.1136/emj.2007.055426

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