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Original Articles

• Effectiveness and safety of an emergency department short-stay unit as an alternative to standard inpatient hospitalisation (20 October, 2006)

  A Juan, A Salazar, A Alvarez, J R Perez, L Garcia, X Corbella
• Consigning “brutacaine” to history: a survey of pharmacological techniques to facilitate painful procedures in children in emergency departments in the UK (20 October, 2006)

  B Loryman, F Davies, G Chavada, T Coats
• Validation of physiological scoring systems in the accident and emergency department (20 October, 2006)

  C P Subbe, A Slater, D Menon, L Gemmell
• Impairment of coagulation by commonly used resuscitation fluids in human volunteers (20 October, 2006)

  T J Coats, E Brazil, M Heron, P K MacCallum
• Evaluation of low-cost computer monitors for the detection of cervical spine injuries in the emergency room: an observer confidence-based study (20 October, 2006)

  M H Brem, C Böhner, A Brenning, K Gelse, T Radkow, M Blanke, P M Schlechtweg, G Neumann, I Y Wu, W Bautz, F F Hennig, H Richter
• Rapid onset of haemodynamic effects after angiotensin converting enzyme-inhibitor overdose: implications for initial patient triage (20 October, 2006)

  C Lucas, G A Christie, W S Waring
• Adverse events experienced while transferring the critically ill patient from the emergency department to the intensive care unit (20 October, 2006)

  L Gillman, G Leslie, T Williams, K Fawcett, R Bell, V McGibbon
• Fluid replacement via the rectum for treatment of hypovolaemic shock in an animal model (20 October, 2006)

  A S Girisgin, F Acar, B Cander, M Gul, S Kocak, S Bodur