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Contents: July 1 2003, Volume 20, Issue 4 [Index by Author] Other Issues:

July 2003 Supplement

	Primary Survey
	Editorials
	Reviews
	Original articles
	Short reports
	Research series
	Best evidence topic reports
	Journal scan
	Prehospital care
	Case reports
	Letters
	Book reviews

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Primary Survey:

Pete Driscoll and Jim Wardrope: Primary Survey
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 303. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.303 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials:

P Driscoll, J Wardrope, and C Laird: Prehospital emergency medicine: the series
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 304. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.304 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

K Mackway-Jones and S Carley: Accumulating knowledge: five years of BETs
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 304. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.304-a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Reviews:

P Gosling: Salt of the earth or a drop in the ocean? A pathophysiological approach to fluid resuscitation
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 306. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.306 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

B A Foëx: How the cholera epidemic of 1831 resulted in a new technique for fluid resuscitation
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 316. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.316 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A Wakai, A Gleeson, and D Winter: Role of fibrin D-dimer testing in emergency medicine
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 319. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.319 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Original articles:

C N Brookes, J D Whittaker, C Moulton, and D Dodds: The PEP respiratory monitor: a validation study
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 326. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.326 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Harvey, L Forbes, D Jarvis, J Price, and P Burney: Accident and emergency departments are still failing to assess asthma severity
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 329. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.329 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

H Nakayama, M Shibayama, N Yamami, S Togawa, M Takahashi, and Y Mano: Decompression sickness and recreational scuba divers
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 332. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.332 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S S W Chan, K C Ng, D J Lyon, W L Cheung, A F B Cheng, and T H Rainer: Acute bacterial gastroenteritis: a study of adult patients with positive stool cultures treated in the emergency department
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 335. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.335 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A Yildiz, G S Sachs, and A Turgay: Pharmacological management of agitation in emergency settings
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 339. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.339 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P Leonard and T F Beattie: How do blood cultures sent from a paediatric accident and emergency department influence subsequent clinical management?
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 347. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.347 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Short reports:

M Quigley and J Burton: Evidence for cause of death in patients dying in an accident and emergency department
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 349. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.349 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

F O’Leary: Is email a reliable means of contacting authors of previously published papers? A study of the Emergency Medicine Journal for 2001
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 352. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.352 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A J Logan and M D Holt: Management of whiplash injuries presenting to accident and emergency departments in Wales
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 354. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.354 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

N C Samaniego, F Morris, and W J Brady: Electrocardiographic artefact mimicking arrhythmic change on the ECG
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 356. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.356 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

H R Guly: ABCDEs
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 358. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.358 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research series:

K Mackway-Jones: Seeking funding for research
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 359. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.359 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Best evidence topic reports:

K Mackway-Jones: Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 362. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.362 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Nick Ohly and Stewart Teece: Accuracy of negative dipstick urine analysis in ruling out urinary tract infection in adults
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 362. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.362-a [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ziauddin Hassan, Devasena M Subramonyam, and Shobhan Thakore: Venous blood gas in adult patients with diabetic ketoacidosis
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 363. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.363 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kerstin Hogg and Andrew Ashton: Antithrombotic treatment of below knee deep venous thrombosis
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 364. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.364 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Dhurga Gnanasegaram and Jon Argall: Buccal nitrates in left ventricular failure
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 364. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.364-a [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Walid Alsalim and Mohamed Fadel: Oral methionine compared with intravenous n-acetyl cysteine for paracetamol overdose
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 366. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.366 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Ged Brown and Kerstin Hogg: Clinical probability scoring and pulmonary embolism
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 367. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.367 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Russell Boyd and Kerstin Hogg: Accuracy of combining clinical probability score and simpliRED D-dimer for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 367. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.367-a [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kerstin Hogg and Russell Boyd: IL D-dimer test in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 368. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.368 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kerstin Hogg and Debbie Dawson: Outpatient investigation of pulmonary embolism
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 370. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.370 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kerstin Hogg and Debbie Dawson: Outpatient treatment of pulmonary embolism
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 370. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.370-a [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

K Hogg, G Brown, and K Mackway-Jones: Accumulator BET: a traumatic pleuritic chest pain
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 372. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.372 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Journal scan:

J P Wyatt and L Freeman: JournalScan
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 373. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.373 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Prehospital care:

G K Isbister, A H Dawson, and I M Whyte: Feasibility of prehospital treatment with activated charcoal: Who could we treat, who should we treat?
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 375. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.375 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P A D Clements: Hazards of performing chest compressions in collapsed patients with internal cardioverter defibrillators
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 379. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.379 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Case reports:

S H Boyce, P A R Armstrong, and J Stevenson: Effect of innappropriate naltrexone use in a heroin misuser
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 381. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.381 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

R Rawlins, K M Brown, C S Carr, and C R Cameron: Life threatening haemorrhage after anterior needle aspiration of pneumothoraces. A role for lateral needle aspiration in emergency decompression of spontaneous pneumothorax
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 383. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.383 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

H D’Costa, F Bailey, B McGavigan, G George, and B Todd: Perforation of the oesophagus and aorta after eating fish: an unusual cause of chest pain
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 385. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.385 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

D Bourne, N Beck, and C B Summerton: Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia presenting as acute generalised peritonism
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 386. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.386 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

C J Blakeley and N Thiagalingham: Spontaneous retroperitoneal haemorrhage from a renal cyst: an unusual cause of haemorrhagic shock
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 388. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.388 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

C E Payne: An after dinner speaker?
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 389. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.389 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P A Gowens, R J Davenport, J Kerr, R J Sanderson, and A K Marsden: Survival from accidental strangulation from a scarf resulting in laryngeal rupture and carotid artery stenosis: the "Isadora Duncan syndrome". A case report and review of literature
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 391. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.391 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

U R Shanker, J Webb, and A Kotze: Sodium bicarbonate to treat massive ß blocker overdose
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 393. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.393 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters:

H R Guly and G Bryce: Changing patterns in the care of emergencies in the community: workload of the Westcountry Ambulance Service 1994–2001
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 394. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.394 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

G Davies, D Lockey, T Coats, and K D Wright: Prehospital thoracotomy • Author’s reply
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 394. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.394-a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P Atkinson and R Lennon: Use of emergency department ultrasound in the diagnosis and early management of femoral fractures
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 395. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.395 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P Knowles: Transthoracic echocardiography during cardiac arrest due to massive pulmonary embolism
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 395. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.395-a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book reviews:

D A Kilroy: Emergency ophthalmology: a rapid treatment guide: Edited by K C Chern. (Pp 297; £44.00). McGraw Hill, New York, 2002. ISBN 0-07-137325-X
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 396. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.396 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Carole Libetta: Neurological emergencies, 3rd edn: R A C Hughes, editor. (£35.00). BMJ Books, 2001. ISBN 0-7279-1405-7.
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 396. doi:10.1136/emj.20.4.396-a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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