Table of contents

Original Articles

• Head injuries: a study evaluating the impact of the NICE head injury guidelines (18 November, 2005)

  Z Hassan, M Smith, S Littlewood, O Bouamra, D Hughes, C Biggin, K Amos, A D Mendelow, F Lecky
• An audit of clinical practice in the management of head injured patients following the introduction of the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) recommendations (18 November, 2005)

  J Kerr, R Smith, S Gray, D Beard, C E Robertson
• Derivation of a clinical decision rule to guide the interhospital transfer of patients with blunt traumatic brain injury (18 November, 2005)

  C D Newgard, J R Hedges, J V Stone, B Lenfesty, B Diggs, M Arthur, R J Mullins
• Are we able to comply with the NICE head injury guidelines? (18 November, 2005)

  A A Qureshi, V Mulleady, A Patel, K M Porter
• Has the assessment of isolated ankle injuries altered since 1993? (18 November, 2005)

  T Locker, M Tryfonidis, S Mason
• Relationship between Trendelenburg tilt and internal jugular vein diameter (18 November, 2005)

  S Clenaghan, R E McLaughlin, C Martyn, S McGovern, J Bowra
• Jehovah’s Witnesses in the emergency department: what are their rights? (18 November, 2005)

  S Woolley
• Prevalence and healthcare burden of illegal drug use among emergency department patients (18 November, 2005)

  S Binks, R Hoskins, D Salmon, J Benger
• The effect of blunt abdominal trauma on appendix vermiformis (18 November, 2005)

  B Etensel, M Yazıcı, H Gürsoy, S Özkısacık, M Erkuş