Table of contents

Original articles

• Are we ready? Preparedness of acute care providers for the Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand (19 July, 2013)

  Sultan Al-Shaqsi, David McBride, Robin Gauld, Ammar Al-Kashmiri, Abdullah Al-Harthy
• Optimal position for external chest compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: an analysis based on chest CT in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest (19 July, 2013)

  Kyoung Chul Cha, Yeong Jun Kim, Hyung Jin Shin, Yong Sung Cha, Hyun Kim, Kang Hyun Lee, Woocheol Kwon, Sung Oh Hwang
• High risk of ‘failure’ among emergency physicians compared with other specialists: a nationwide cohort study (19 July, 2013)

  Yi-Kung Lee, Ching-Chih Lee, Chien-Chih Chen, Chun-Hing Wong, Yung-Cheng Su
• Rescuer fatigue under the 2010 ERC guidelines, and its effect on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) performance (19 July, 2013)

  Catherine H McDonald, James Heggie, Christopher M Jones, Christopher J Thorne, Jonathan Hulme
• Effects of flashlight guidance on chest compression performance in cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a noisy environment (19 July, 2013)

  Je Sung You, Sung Phil Chung, Chul Ho Chang, Incheol Park, Hye Sun Lee, SeungHo Kim, Hahn Shick Lee
• Mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin improves disposition strategies for patients with acute dyspnoea: results from the BACH trial (19 July, 2013)

  Martin Möckel, Julia Searle, Oliver Hartmann, Stefan D Anker, W Frank Peacock, Alan H B Wu, Alan Maisel, on behalf of the BACH Writing group
• Predictive variables of an emergency department quality and performance indicator: a 1-year prospective, observational, cohort study evaluating hospital and emergency census variables and emergency department time interval measurements (19 July, 2013)

  Enrique Casalino, Christophe Choquet, Julien Bernard, Abigael Debit, Benoit Doumenc, Audrey Berthoumieu, Mathias Wargon
• Emergency cricothyroidotomy performed by inexperienced clinicians—surgical technique versus indicator-guided puncture technique (19 July, 2013)

  Matthias Helm, Björn Hossfeld, Christian Jost, Lorenz Lampl, Tobias Böckers
• Deliberate self-harm patients in the emergency department: who will repeat and who will not? Validation and development of clinical decision rules (19 July, 2013)

  Katarina Bilén, Sari Ponzer, Carin Ottosson, Maaret Castrén, Hans Pettersson
• Efficacy of metronome sound guidance via a phone speaker during dispatcher-assisted compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation by an untrained layperson: a randomised controlled simulation study using a manikin (19 July, 2013)

  Sang O Park, Chong Kun Hong, Dong Hyuk Shin, Jun Ho Lee, Seong Youn Hwang
• Risk of repeat visits, hospitalisation and death after uncompleted and completed visits to the emergency department: a prospective observation study (19 July, 2013)

  Oli Pall Geirsson, Oddny Sigurborg Gunnarsdottir, Jon Baldursson, Birgir Hrafnkelsson, Vilhjalmur Rafnsson
• Prehospital delay in acute stroke and TIA (19 July, 2013)

  Kashif Waqar Faiz, Antje Sundseth, Bente Thommessen, Ole Morten Rønning
• Are boys and girls that different? An analysis of traumatic brain injury in children (19 July, 2013)

  Niamh C Collins, Michal Molcho, Peter Carney, Linda McEvoy, Lourda Geoghegan, Jack P Phillips, Alf J Nicholson
• Can initial clinical assessment exclude thoracolumbar vertebral injury? (19 July, 2013)

  Dinendra Singh Gill, Biswadev Mitra, Fairleigh Reeves, Peter A Cameron, Mark Fitzgerald, Susan Liew, Dinesh Varma