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September 2003 Supplement

	Primary Survey
	Editorials
	Commentary
	Review
	Original articles
	Clinical audit
	Short reports
	Statistics
	Research series
	Best evidence topic reports
	Journal scan
	Prehospital care
	Case reports
	Letters
	Book review
	Correction
	Electronic pages

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Primary Survey:

Pete Driscoll and Jim Wardope: Primary Survey
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 397. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.397 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Editorials:

J Perrin: Working together, sharing the burden
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 398. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.398 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

J Wardrope and P Driscoll: Health care policy makers, we have a problem
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 399. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.399 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Commentary:

M J Schull: Sex, SARS, and the Holy Grail
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 400. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.400 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Review:

S Trzeciak and E P Rivers: Emergency department overcrowding in the United States: an emerging threat to patient safety and public health
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 402. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.402 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Original articles:

D M Fatovich and R L Hirsch: Entry overload, emergency department overcrowding, and ambulance bypass
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 406. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.406 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A Frampton, G J Browne, L T Lam, M G Cooper, and L G Lane: Nurse administered relative analgesia using high concentration nitrous oxide to facilitate minor procedures in children in an emergency department
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 410. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.410 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Marr, K Steele, V Swallow, S Craggs, S Procter, J Newton, B Sen, and A McNabb: Mapping the range and scope of emergency nurse practitioner services in the Northern and Yorkshire Region: a telephone survey
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 414. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.414 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S M Heath, R J I Bain, A Andrews, S Chida, S I Kitchen, and M I Walters: Nurse initiated thrombolysis in the accident and emergency department: safe, accurate, and faster than fast track
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 418. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.418 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

J C T Close, R Hooper, E Glucksman, S H D Jackson, and C G Swift: Predictors of falls in a high risk population: results from the prevention of falls in the elderly trial (PROFET)
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 421. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.421 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [Web-only Appendix]

M A Graber and D VanScoy: How well does decision support software perform in the emergency department?
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 426. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.426 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Goodacre and N Calvert: Cost effectiveness of diagnostic strategies for patients with acute, undifferentiated chest pain
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 429. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.429 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A Downing, S Cotterill, and R Wilson: The epidemiology of assault across the West Midlands
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 434. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.434 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A Boyle and C Todd: Incidence and prevalence of domestic violence in a UK emergency department
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 438. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.438 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

J T K Chan and P A Cameron: A pragmatic approach to timely disease surveillance in the emergency department
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 443. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.443 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Clinical audit:

R D Hardern, F T Leong, A-V Page, M Shepherd, and R C M Teoh: How evidence based are therapeutic decisions taken on a medical admissions unit?
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 447. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.447 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Short reports:

C Kastner and A Tagg: Improving the effectiveness of the emergency management of renal colic in a district general hospital: a completed audit cycle
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 449. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.449 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

R Patton, M J Crawford, and R Touquet: Impact of health consequences feedback on patients acceptance of advice about alcohol consumption
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 451. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.451 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Statistics:

S R Jones, S Carley, and M Harrison: An introduction to power and sample size estimation
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 453. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.453 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Research series:

M O Columb, P Haji-Michael, and P Nightingale: Data collection in the emergency setting
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 459. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.459 [Abstract] [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: 464. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.464 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Rob Torok and Jeremy Till: Biphasic or monophasic defibrillation for adult ventricular fibrillation
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 464. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.464-a [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kevin Mackway-Jones and Janet Marsden: Ascorbate for alkali burns to the eye
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 465. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.465 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Angaj Ghosh and Russell Boyd: Leucovorin (calcium folinate) in "antifreeze" poisoning
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 466. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.466 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Kerstin Hogg and Reddy Mahu: Vasopressin or adrenaline in cardiac resuscitation
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 467. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.467 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Joel Desmond and Mahmoud Megahed: Is the central venous pressure reading equally reliable if the central line is inserted via the femoral vein
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 467. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.467-a [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fiona Lyon and Debbie Dawson: Oucher or CHEOPS for pain assessment in children
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 470. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.470 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Journal scan:

J P Wyatt and L Jones: JournalScan
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 471. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.471 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Prehospital care:

T Jones and M Woollard: Paramedic accuracy in using a decision support algorithm when recognising adult death: a prospective cohort study
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 473. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.473 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

M D Luscombe and J L Williams: Comparison of a long spinal board and vacuum mattress for spinal immobilisation
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 476. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.476 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Y Nigam and J Cutter: A preliminary investigation into bacterial contamination of Welsh emergency ambulances
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 479. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.479 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

T Calkins, T C Chan, R F Clark, B Stepanski, and G M Vilke: Review of prehospital sodium bicarbonate use for cyclic antidepressant overdose
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 483. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.483 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Case reports:

M Ryan, T F Beattie, K Husselbee, and J Freeman: Use of the infant transwarmer mattress as an external warming modality in resuscitation from hypothermia
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 487. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.487 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

N Elaldi, M Turan, M Arslan, I Dokmetas, and M Bakir: An unusual cause of cholecystitis: a worm in the bag
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 489. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.489 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

F Wrigley, K Hashemi, and C J Blakeley: Occular trauma related to airbag deployment
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 490. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.490 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

L Keating, F P Morris, and W J Brady: Electrocardiographic features of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 491. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.491 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

M L Davies and T K Rowlands: Death from petrol inhalation after an armoured vehicle rollover
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 494. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.494 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

S Leigh-Smith and G Davies: Tension pneumothorax: eyes may be more diagnostic than ears
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 495. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.495 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters:

L A Wallis, H Guly, and F E Lecky: Lack of change in trauma care in England and Wales since 1994 • Author’s reply
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 497. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.497 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

R Eager, J Sutton, R Spedding, and R Wallis: Use of anti-D immunoglobulin in maternal trauma
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 498. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.498 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

P Atkinson: Tissue adhesive with adhesive strips for wound closure
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 498. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.498-a [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Book review:

C Laird: Outdoor emergency care: comprehensive pre-hospital care for non urban settings, 4th edn: US National Ski Patrol and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. (Pp 938; price not stated). Jones and Bartlett, 2003. ISBN 0-7637-1715-0
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 498. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.498-b [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Correction:

: Correction
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 498. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.498-c [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Electronic pages:

O Hugli and S Cook: A reversible cause of refractory hypoxaemia
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 5. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.e5 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

A-K Anderson, U Mohan, and R Liesner: Transient lupus anticoagulant: an unusual cause of bruising in children
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 6. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.e6 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

B Paul, P Hirudayaraj, and M W Baig: Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis: an unusual presentation of weakness
Emerg Med J 2003; 20: 7. doi:10.1136/emj.20.5.e7 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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