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Primary survey:

Colville Laird

Primary survey
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 249. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial:

Geoff Hughes

A new College is born
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 250. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.059089 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary:

Malcolm Woollard and Kevin Mackway-Jones

All that glistens is not gold
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 251-252. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.057711 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

H L Ng, L M Sin, M F Li, T L Que, and S Anandaciva

Acute epiglottitis in adults: a retrospective review of 106 patients in Hong Kong
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 253-255. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.050153 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miscellanea:

Emergency Medicine Questions (EMQ)
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 256. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EMQ answers
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 316. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebecca Whiticar and Jonathan Wyatt

Sophia
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 318. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original articles:

B H Hartstein and J D Barry

Mitigation of pain during intravenous catheter placement using a topical skin coolant in the emergency department
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 257-261. doi:10.1136/emj.2006.044776 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R Shariat Moharari, P Khademhosseini, R Espandar, H Asl Soleymani, M T Talebian, P Khashayar, and A Nejati

Intra-articular lidocaine versus intravenous meperidine/diazepam in anterior shoulder dislocation: a randomised clinical trial
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 262-264. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051060 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [web only appendix]  

P Gilligan, S Winder, I Singh, V Gupta, P O Kelly, and D Hegarty

The Boarders in the Emergency Department (BED) study
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 265-269. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.048173 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M O McCarron, M Armstrong, and P McCarron

Potential for quality improvement of acute stroke management in a district general hospital
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 270-273. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051680 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

W-T Chia, Y-S Chen, C-F J Lin, H-H Liu, and B-F Lin

Difference in time to x ray with similar time to treatment decision leads to differences in waiting times of patients with hip fracture in a crowded emergency department
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 274-275. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051490 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J France, C Keen, and S Bowyer

Communicating risk to emergency department patients with chest pain
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 276-278. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.054106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H J Kim, S P Chung, I C Park, J Cho, H S Lee, and Y S Park

Comparison of the GlideScope video laryngoscope and Macintosh laryngoscope in simulated tracheal intubation scenarios
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 279-282. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.052803 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Images in emergency medicine:

A A K Kotis, P Tsikouris, and L Guindaglia

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 261. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051391 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C Costopoulos, R S Patel, and C D Mistry

Painful Horner’s syndrome
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 295. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051953 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K Sanyal and K Sabanathan

Air below the right diaphragm: Chilaiditi sign
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 300. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.052027 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

I-Tsung Lin, Wen-Hsiung Chang, Shou-Chuan Shih, Wen-Han Chang, and Ming-Jong Bair

Bedside echogram in ischaemic bowel
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 304. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.053462 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J Al Abdulla, C S Carr, and A M Alkhulaifi

An unusual "internal" penetrating liver injury
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 306. doi:10.1136/emj.2006.040139 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Saurabh S Dhawan and Carlos R Shammas

Spontaneous globe luxation
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 309. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.051193 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T Broom and C D Okereke

"All that wheezes is not asthma"
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 311. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.050930 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C S Carr, S Alkhafaji, and A M Alkhulaifi

Penetrating cardiac nail gun injury
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 313. doi:10.1136/emj.2006.040121 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Short report:

R Whiticar, D Laba, and S Smith

Exertional heat stroke in a young man with a documented rise in troponin I
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 283-284. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.052472 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Best Evidence Topic reports:

Simon D Carley

Towards evidence based emergency medicine: Best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 285. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Callaghan and Stephanie Pye

BET 1. THE EFFECTS OF GLUCOSAMINE ON OSTEOARTHRITIS OF THE KNEE JOINT
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 285-287. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.059386 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Munro and Cain English

BET 2. SUBCUTANEOUS HEPARIN IS AS GOOD AS LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT HEPARIN IN THE ACUTE TREATMENT OF THROMBO-EMBOLIC DISEASE
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 287-289. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.059394 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steven Cowman and John Butler

BET 3. THE USE OF INTRAVENOUS AMINOPHYLLINE IN ADDITION TO BETA-AGONISTS AND STEROIDS IN ACUTE ASTHMA
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 289-290. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.059402 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ayan Sen, Shweta Gidwani, and Craig Ferguson

BET 4. COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY FOR DETECTION OF SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 290-291. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.059410 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prehospital care:

A Porter, H Snooks, A Youren, S Gaze, R Whitfield, F Rapport, and M Woollard

"Covering our backs": ambulance crews’ attitudes towards clinical documentation when emergency (999) patients are not conveyed to hospital
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 292-295. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.050443 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M P Müller, M Hänsel, S N Stehr, S Weber, and T Koch

A state-wide survey of medical emergency management in dental practices: incidence of emergencies and training experience
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 296-300. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.052936 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

D Lutman, M Montgomery, P Ramnarayan, and A Petros

Ambulance and aeromedical accident rates during emergency retrieval in Great Britain
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 301-302. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.046557 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Z B Perkins, C Mitchell, and O Donald

Prehospital thrombolysis of a massive pulmonary embolus
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 303-304. doi:10.1136/emj.2008.059022 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Emergency casebooks:

J L Walker, G H Smith, M S Gaston, and C M Robinson

Spontaneous compartment syndrome in association with simvastatin-induced myositis
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 305-306. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.055848 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C A Papadopoulos and H Wilson

Capecitabine-associated coronary vasospasm: a case report
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 307-309. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.055681 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A Hovland, H Bjørnstad, R F Hallstensen, K A Hugaas, J A Westlie, T Elden, and K Andersen

Massive pulmonary embolism with cardiac arrest treated with continuous thrombolysis and concomitant hypothermia
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 310-311. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.056390 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K V Numanoglu and D Tatli

A rare cause of partial intestinal obstruction in a child: colonic lithobezoar
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 312-313. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.056812 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S S Nishtar, R Rajendran, A Mathur, and S Khattak

Fulminant myocarditis: a rare but life-threatening association of Crohn’s disease
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 314-315. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.054643 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PostScript:

E Smith and F Khan

Peripheral blood cultures in the emergency department
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 317. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.054502 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

BA Foëx

Every second counts: the race to transplant the first human heart
Emerg Med J 2008; 25: 317. doi:10.1136/emj.2007.057075 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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