Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine: 17 (4)

Editorials

Communication skills training for emergency department senior house officers—a qualitative study (1 July, 2000)
Gavin Lloyd, Dave Skarratts, Neil Robinson, Cliff Reid
Can communication skills workshops for emergency department doctors improve patient satisfaction? (1 July, 2000)
Fei Lung Lau
Evaluating the use of computerised clinical guidelines in the accident and emergency department (1 July, 2000)
H D M Poncia, G D R Bryant, J Ryan
A standardised neurosurgical referral letter for the inter-hospital transfer of head injured patients (1 July, 2000)
J Keaney, M O Fitzpatrick, D Beard, D A W Ritchie, L T Dunn
A comparison of the efficacy and safety of morphine and pethidine as analgesia for suspected renal colic in the emergency setting (1 July, 2000)
Alan O'Connor, Stephan A Schug, Hester Cardwell
Pain in young children attending an accident and emergency department (1 July, 2000)
Clare McCarthy, Susie Hewitt, Imti Choonara
Why do children vomit after minor head injury? (1 July, 2000)
F D Brown, J Brown, T F Beattie
Drug related deaths in the community: A preventive role for accident and emergency departments? (1 July, 2000)
John M Ryan, Isabelle Spronken

An introduction to everyday statistics—2 (1 July, 2000)
P Driscoll, F Lecky, M Crosby

Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (1 July, 2000)
K Mackway-Jones
Ingested coins and metal detection (1 July, 2000)
Sue Maurice, Kevin Mackway-Jones
Regional anaesthesia for femoral shaft fractures in children (1 July, 2000)
Rob Williams, Paul Wallman
Activated charcoal in paracetamol overdose (1 July, 2000)
Katrina Richell-Herren, Magnus Harrison
Management of uncomplicated soft tissue gunshot wounds (1 July, 2000)
Kevin Mackway-Jones, Magnus Harrison
Repair of partial lacerations of the extensor tendons of the hand (1 July, 2000)
Martin Smith, Bruce Martin
Early management of displaced nasal fractures (1 July, 2000)
Terry Gilpin, Simon Carley
Antibiotics in base of skull fractures (1 July, 2000)
John Butler, Simon Carley
Glucose or glucagon for hypoglycaemia (1 July, 2000)
Russell Boyd, Bernard Foëx
Closure of pretibial lacerations (1 July, 2000)
Muhammad Ahmad, Bruce Martin
Digital or metacarpal block for finger injuries (1 July, 2000)
Stuart McKirdy, Simon Carley

Anaesthetic training in accident and emergency (1 July, 2000)
John J O'Donnell
Rapid sequence intubation (1 July, 2000)
Stephen Bush, Alasdair Gray, Alistair Mcgowan, Neil Nichol
High level simulator (1 July, 2000)
Gavin Lloyd
Emergency cranial computed tomography (1 July, 2000)
Kate Lambert, Mike Rickards, Neil Halford
The irritable hip (1 July, 2000)
Sarah J Bridges, Lisa L Goldsworthy, Jason L Louis
Topical anaesthesia use in the management of children's lacerations, a postal survey (1 July, 2000)
Stephen Bush
Feigning dystonia to feed an unusual drug addiction (1 July, 2000)
B Dooris, C Reid