Table of contents

Original articles

• The feasibility of civilian prehospital trauma teams carrying and administering packed red blood cells (22 December, 2012)

  Daniel Bodnar, Stephen Rashford, Sue Williams, Emma Enraght-Moony, Lachlan Parker, Benjamin Clarke
• Traumatic lacerations: what are the risks for infection and has the ‘golden period’ of laceration care disappeared? (12 January, 2013) Free

  James V Quinn, Steven K Polevoi, Michael A Kohn
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of routine total body CT compared with selective CT in trauma patients (12 January, 2013)

  Donagh A Healy, Aidan Hegarty, Iain Feeley, Mary Clarke-Moloney, Pierce A Grace, Stewart R Walsh
• Use of prothrombin complex concentrates: 4-year experience of a national aeromedical retrieval service servicing remote and rural areas (23 January, 2013)

  Laura Catriona Robertson, Jayne A C McKinlay, Philip T Munro, Stephen Hearns
• Reliability and validity of a new French-language triage algorithm: the ELISA scale (23 January, 2013)

  Jerôme Jobé, Alexandre Ghuysen, Paul Gérard, Gary Hartstein, Vincent D'Orio
• Extending access to specialist services: the impact of an onsite helipad and analysis of the first 100 flights (26 January, 2013)

  Eleanor S Freshwater, Phillip Dickinson, Robert Crouch, Charles D Deakin, C Andy Eynon
• Trauma survival prediction in Asian population: a modification of TRISS to improve accuracy (12 January, 2013)

  Canon King On Chan, Kelvin KW Yau, Moon-Tong Cheung
• The impact of consultation on length of stay in tertiary care emergency departments (26 January, 2013)

  Craig Brick, Justin Lowes, Lindsay Lovstrom, Andrea Kokotilo, Cristina Villa-Roel, Patricia Lee, Eddy Lang, Brian H Rowe
• Analgesic response to morphine in obese and morbidly obese patients in the emergency department (12 January, 2013)

  Asad E Patanwala, Karen L Holmes, Brian L Erstad
• Femoral nerve blocks in fractures of femur: variation in the current UK practice and a review of the literature (26 February, 2013)

  Rajnish Mittal, Era Vermani
• Manchester triage system version II and resource utilisation in the emergency department (23 January, 2013)

  André Peralta Santos, Paulo Freitas, Henrique Manuel Gil Martins
• Is the interpretation of rapid antigen testing for respiratory syncytial virus as simple as positive or negative? (20 August, 2013)

  Paul Walsh, Christina Overmyer, Christine Hancock, Jacquelyn Heffner, Nicholas Walker, Thienphuc Nguyen, Lucas Shanholtzer, Enrique Caldera, James Pusavat, Eli Mordechai, Martin E Adelson, Kathryn T Iacono