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Research Article

• The detection of alcohol misuse in accident and emergency departments--grasping the opportunity. (1 September, 1996)

  A Paton
• Detection of alcohol misusing patients in accident and emergency departments: the Paddington alcohol test (PAT) (1 September, 1996)

  S G Smith, R Touquet, S Wright, N Das Gupta
• Cerebral oximetry and stroke distance: the future of emergency department monitoring? (1 September, 1996)

  I Sammy, J Hanson, M R James
• Changes in stroke distance in response to haemorrhage in a swine model. (1 September, 1996)

  M J Clancy, J Alderman, N Cavallero, K J Taylor
• Role of the accident and emergency department in the non-heart-beating donor programme in Leicester. (1 September, 1996)

  T B Hassan, M Joshi, D N Quinton, R Elwell, J Baines, P R Bell
• Critical analysis of an accident and emergency ward. (1 September, 1996)

  T H Rainer, I J Swann, R Crawford
• Review of a computer based telephone Helpline in an A&E department. (1 September, 1996)

  S Srinivas, F Poole, J Redpath, T J Underhill
• Trends in the use of accident and emergency services by the homeless on the Wirral. (1 September, 1996)

  S M Earnshaw, R C Barnes, R Brown
• Hyaluronidase (Hyalase): a useful addition in haematoma block? (1 September, 1996)

  N J London, F A Osman, K Ramagopal, S F Journeaux
• Alkalinisation of lignocaine to reduce the pain of digital nerve blockade. (1 September, 1996)

  P Cornelius, J Kendall, S Meek, R Rajan
• The use of a metal detector to locate ingested metallic foreign bodies in children. (1 September, 1996)

  B Tidey, G J Price, C A Perez-Avilla, I J Kenney
• Antipersonnel mines: who are the victims? (1 September, 1996)

  S J Jeffrey
• Incidence, pathology, and treatment of adder (Vipera berus L.) bites in man. (1 September, 1996)

  C J Reading
• Septic and non-septic olecranon bursitis in the accident and emergency department--an approach to management. (1 September, 1996)

  I M Stell
• Rollerblading in children: the Edinburgh experience. (1 September, 1996)

  D McGrath, T F Beattie
• Acute shortness of breath: an unusual cause. (1 September, 1996)

  H Cosgrove, H Guly
• Silent myocardial infarction during hypoglycaemic coma. (1 September, 1996)

  F M Saunders, T Llewellyn
• Inadvertent subclavian artery puncture in an intravenous drug abuser. (1 September, 1996)

  G W McNaughton, I J Swann
• Ecstasy induced retropharyngeal emphysema. (1 September, 1996)

  M Onwudike
• An unusual cause of hiccups. (1 September, 1996)

  S Perry, J Stevenson