Table of contents

Research Article

• Violence: the relation between seriousness of injury and outcome in the criminal justice system. (1 July, 1997)

  J Shepherd
• Intravenous chlorpromazine versus intramuscular sumatriptan for acute migraine. (1 July, 1997)

  A M Kelly, M Ardagh, C Curry, J D'Antonio, S Zebic
• Characteristics of self referred patients attending minor injury units. (1 July, 1997)

  B Dolan, J Dale
• Medical involvement in prehospital care--a transatlantic comparison. (1 July, 1997)

  G Johnson
• Prehospital emergency rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia. (1 July, 1997)

  C A Graham, A D Meyer
• Capnography for monitoring non-intubated spontaneously breathing patients in an emergency room setting. (1 July, 1997)

  C V Egleston, H Ben Aslam, M A Lambert
• Bilateral humeral head fractures following an electric shock. (1 July, 1997)

  F M Saunders, M R James
• Axillary brachial plexus block--an underused technique in the accident and emergency department. (1 July, 1997)

  C A Mackay, D F Bowden
• A pilot study to assess the sensitivity and specificity of an intrasound device in the diagnosis of ankle fractures. (1 July, 1997)

  A Dancocks, A Rouse, J Hiscox
• Administration of medicines by emergency nurse practitioners according to protocols in an accident and emergency department. (1 July, 1997)

  J Marshall, C Edwards, M Lambert
• Head injury instructions: a time to unify. (1 July, 1997)

  J Parsley, L Fletcher, A F Mabrook
• School accidents to children: time to act. (1 July, 1997)

  A Maitra
• A review of 105 negligence claims against accident and emergency departments. (1 July, 1997)

  A Gwynne, P Barber, F Tavener
• Ichthyosarcotoxism: poisoning by edible fish. (1 July, 1997)

  I C Grant
• Traumatic pericardial tamponade: relearning old lessons. (1 July, 1997)

  R Crawford, H Kasem, A Bleetmen
• Back from the dead: extracorporeal rewarming of severe accidental hypothermia victims in accident and emergency. (1 July, 1997)

  A J Ireland, V L Pathi, R Crawford, I W Colquhoun
• Unusual pattern of injury caused by a pyrotechnic hand held signal flare. (1 July, 1997)

  D W Oliver, M Ragbir, P J Saxby
• Gamma hydroxybutyrate--a coma inducing recreational drug. (1 July, 1997)

  J M Ryan, I Stell
• Pneumococcal pericarditis presenting as an out of hospital cardiopulmonary arrest. (1 July, 1997)

  A R Wass, P Mann, J I Wilson
• Conversion disorder presenting as a head injury. (1 July, 1997)

  F E Poyner, P E Pritty