Table of contents
January 2007 - Volume 24 - 1
Primary Survey
- Primary Survey (20 December, 2006)
Emergency casebooks
- An unusual cause of chest pain: foreign body in the oesophagus (20 December, 2006)
- Factitious hyperamylasuria by a nurse: symptom of Munchausen’s syndrome (20 December, 2006)
- “Hitting the nail on the head” (20 December, 2006)
- Brugada-like electrocardiographic changes induced by fever (20 December, 2006)
- Back pain as the presenting symptom of generalised tetanus (20 December, 2006)
- Transient global amnesia caused by painless aortic dissection (20 December, 2006)
- Calcified cervical disc in a three year old (20 December, 2006)
- Emergency casebook (20 December, 2006)
- Acute laryngeal spasm (20 December, 2006)
Editorial
- Urgent care: is this the future? Probably (20 December, 2006)
Review
Original Articles
- Post-war development of emergency medicine in Kosovo (20 December, 2006)
- Emergency blood transfusion services after the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan (20 December, 2006)
- Sick notes, general practitioners, emergency departments and fracture clinics (20 December, 2006)
Short reports
Socrates
An occasional series on critical care
- Critical care in the emergency department: patient transfer (20 December, 2006)
Best evidence topic reports
- Use of Heliox in the management of acute exacerbation of COPD (20 December, 2006)
- Is CT effective in cases of upper oesophageal fish bone ingestion? (20 December, 2006)
- Does plain radiography predict pneumothorax size? (20 December, 2006)
- Is defibrillation effective in accidental severe hypothermia in adults? (20 December, 2006)
Prehospital care
Letters
- Dictated versus hand-written accident and emergency discharge documents (20 December, 2006)
- The trauma room: a “one-stop shop” for diagnosis and treatment? (20 December, 2006)
- Preventing glass injuries in the emergency department (20 December, 2006)
- Sedate with caution (20 December, 2006)
Sophia
- Sophia (20 December, 2006)
Commentaries