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Original Articles

• Developing a virtual learning course in emergency medicine for F2 doctors (25 July, 2007)

  Simon Carley, Kevin Mackway-Jones
• Alcohol: a missed opportunity. A survey of all accident and emergency departments in England (25 July, 2007)

  R Patton, J Strang, C Birtles, M J Crawford
• Impact of the new UK licensing law on emergency hospital attendances: a cohort study (25 July, 2007)

  Alastair Newton, Shah Jalal Sarker, Gurjinderpal S Pahal, Eric van den Bergh, Charles Young
• Use of blood alcohol concentration in resuscitation room patients (25 July, 2007)

  Emese Csipke, Robin Touquet, Tim Patel, James Franklin, Adrian Brown, Paul Holloway, Nicola Batrick, Michael J Crawford
• Retention of information by emergency department staff at ambulance handover: do standardised approaches work? (25 July, 2007)

  Rhiannon Talbot, Anthony Bleetman
• Asian earthquake: report from the first volunteer British hospital team in Pakistan (25 July, 2007)

  S Laverick, S Kazmi, S Ahktar, J Raja, S Perera, A Bokhari, S Meraj, K Ayub, A da Silva, M Pye, M Anser, J Pye
• Emergency ultrasound of the abdominal aorta by UK emergency physicians: a prospective cohort study (25 July, 2007)

  B Dent, R J Kendall, A A Boyle, P R T Atkinson
• Effect of teleradiology upon pattern of transfer of head injured patients from a rural general hospital to a neurosurgical referral centre (25 July, 2007)

  Itamar Ashkenazi, Jacob Haspel, Ricardo Alfici, Boris Kessel, Tawfik Khashan, Meir Oren
• Short stay emergency admissions to a West Midlands NHS Trust: a longitudinal descriptive study, 2002–2005 (25 July, 2007)

  E Sibly, C M Wiskin, R L Holder, M W Cooke
• Peripheral line dead space: an unrecognised phenomenon? (25 July, 2007)

  Dave Geggie, Deborah Moore
• Accuracy of emergency medical dispatchers’ subjective ability to identify when higher dispatch levels are warranted over a Medical Priority Dispatch System automated protocol’s recommended coding based on paramedic outcome data (25 July, 2007)

  Jeff Clawson, Christopher H O Olola, Andy Heward, Greg Scott, Brett Patterson
• The Bradford Burn Study: the epidemiology of burns presenting to an inner city emergency department (25 July, 2007)

  A A Khan, J Rawlins, A F Shenton, D T Sharpe