Table of contents
November 2001 - Volume 18 - 6
Editorials
- The e-future of the EMJ(1 November, 2001)
Reviews
- The use of nuclear medicine techniques in the emergency department (1 November, 2001)
Original Articles
- Should ambulant patients be directed to reception or triage first? (1 November, 2001)
- Teaching and learning (1 November, 2001)
- Traumatic brain injury after a motor vehicle accident: Fact or “fantasy”? (1 November, 2001)
- Alcohol and radiographs in the accident and emergency department (1 November, 2001)
Best evidence topic report
- Negative urine analysis to exclude urinary tract infection (1 November, 2001)
- Intramuscular piroxicam or intramuscular diclofenac for renal colic (1 November, 2001)
- Oral (fast dissolving) piroxicam or intramuscular diclofenac for renal colic (1 November, 2001)
- NIPPV for acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema (1 November, 2001)
- Corticosteroids in the management of near-drowning (1 November, 2001)
- The Ottawa ankle rules in children (1 November, 2001)
- Belching as a symptom of myocardial ischaemia (1 November, 2001)
- Skull fracture and intracranial injury in children (1 November, 2001)
- Indication for head CT in children with mild head injury (1 November, 2001)
Simulated interactive management series
Journal Scan
- Journal scan (1 November, 2001)
Pre-hospital care
Case reports
- Manubriosternal joint dislocation in contact sport (1 November, 2001)
- TB or not TB: an unusual sore finger (1 November, 2001)
- Status epilepticus in accident and emergency: a difficult case (1 November, 2001)
- Unintentional rapid opioid detoxification (1 November, 2001)
- Two cases of isolated first rib fracture (1 November, 2001)
- Dissection or embolism (1 November, 2001)
- Occult splenic injury: delayed presentation manifesting as jaundice (1 November, 2001)
- Traumatic asymmetrical bilateral hip dislocation in an adult (1 November, 2001)
- Toluene induced hypokalaemia: case report and literature review (1 November, 2001)
Emergency casebooks
- Pneumomediastinum secondary to dental extraction (1 November, 2001)
- Controlling epistaxis with an improvised device (1 November, 2001)
- Cardiac air gun pellet injury (1 November, 2001)
- Rhabdomyolysis and polydipsic hyponatraemia (1 November, 2001)
- The Ottawa Ankle Rules and missed fractures of the talus (1 November, 2001)
- Subcutaneous emphysema of upper limb (1 November, 2001)
Letters to the Editor
- Foreign bodies in the nose and ear (1 November, 2001)
- Can nurse practitioners offer a quality service? (1 November, 2001)
Book review
- Gastrointestinal emergencies. (1 November, 2001)