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BMJ Journals

Table of contents

February 2009 - Volume 26 - 2

Emergency Medicine Journal: 26 (2)

Primary survey

Primary survey (22 January, 2009) Free

Editorial

Knife crime reporting (22 January, 2009)
Geoffrey Hughes

Emergency Medicine Questions (EMQs)

See page 149 for answers
(22 January, 2009)

Review

Echocardiography in the emergency department (22 January, 2009)
J Wright, R Jarman, J Connolly, P Dissmann

Original Articles

Abdominal and Cardiac Evaluation with Sonography in Shock (ACES): an approach by emergency physicians for the use of ultrasound in patients with undifferentiated hypotension (22 January, 2009)
P R T Atkinson, D J McAuley, R J Kendall, O Abeyakoon, C G Reid, J Connolly, D Lewis
Interobserver variability in CT scan interpretation for suspected acute appendicitis (22 January, 2009)
K H in’t Hof, G P Krestin, E W Steijerberg, H J Bonjer, J F Lange, W B Becking, G Kazemier
Can a modified thrombolysis in myocardial infarction risk score outperform the original for risk stratifying emergency department patients with chest pain? (22 January, 2009)
R Body, S Carley, G McDowell, J Ferguson, K Mackway-Jones
Coma and impaired consciousness in the emergency room: characteristics of poisoning versus other causes (22 January, 2009)
S Forsberg, J Höjer, C Enander, U Ludwigs
Case management of patients who frequently present to a Scottish emergency department (22 January, 2009)
J Skinner, L Carter, C Haxton
Imaging the oesophagus after penetrating cervical trauma using water-soluble contrast alone: simple, cost-effective and accurate (22 January, 2009)
L Nel, L Whitfield Jones, T C Hardcastle

Short reports

The usefulness of the GlideScope video laryngoscope in the education of conventional tracheal intubation for the novice (22 January, 2009)
J S You, S Park, S P Chung, Y S Park, J W Park
Airtraq optical laryngoscope: tracheal intubation by novice laryngoscopists (22 January, 2009)
Y Hirabayashi, N Seo

Critical appraisal series

Critical appraisal for emergency medicine: 6 Systematic reviews (22 January, 2009)
S Goodacre

Best Evidence Topic reports

Towards evidence based emergency medicine: Best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (22 January, 2009)
BET 1. CAN PARAMEDICS ACCURATELY PERFORM DRUG CALCULATIONS? (22 January, 2009)
BET 2. SERUM LACTATE AS A MARKER FOR MORTALITY IN PATIENTS PRESENTING TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT WITH TRAUMA (22 January, 2009)
BET 3. USE OF PERICARDIOCENTESIS FOR PATIENTS WITH CARDIAC TAMPONADE IN PENETRATING CHEST TRAUMA (22 January, 2009)
BET 4. TREATING CHLAMYDIA IN PREGNANCY (22 January, 2009)

Prehospital care

Ambulance call triage outcomes for patients reporting pain: a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of pain score versus triage level (22 January, 2009) Free
B Lord, J Cui, M Woollard
Influence of air ambulance doctors on on-scene times, clinical interventions, decision-making and independent paramedic practice (22 January, 2009)
K Roberts, K Blethyn, M Foreman, A Bleetman
Designing emergency ambulances for the 21st century (22 January, 2009)
S Hignett, E Crumpton, R Coleman
Treatment of presumed acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema in an ambulance system by nurses using Boussignac continuous positive airway pressure (22 January, 2009)
W Dieperink, E E M Weelink, I C C van der Horst, R de Vos, T Jaarsma, L P H J Aarts, F Zijlstra, M W N Nijsten

Images in emergency medicine

Late-diagnosed diaphragmatic hernia in an 8-year-old girl (22 January, 2009)
A R Hart, J Walker
Stuck in the mud: an unusual football injury (22 January, 2009)
A Byrne, C Bell, D Kealey

Emergency casebooks

Tension pneumothorax secondary to automatic mechanical compression decompression device (22 January, 2009)
A C Hutchings, K J Darcy, G L A Cumberbatch
Splenic injury as a rare complication of colonoscopy (22 January, 2009)
S R Lewis, D Ohio, G Rowley
Achalasia: an unusual cause of airway obstruction (22 January, 2009)
S R Bruijns, A Hicks

EMQ answers

For questions on page 81
(22 January, 2009)

Letters

A combined alcohol and drugs counselling service model in an emergency department (22 January, 2009)
K Luczakiewicz, D Emerton
No Wii cause for concern (22 January, 2009)
M Harrison
Patient examination (22 January, 2009)
D J Potts, S M Smith
Author's response (22 January, 2009)
R M Rodriguez
Non-trauma CT head scans in the emergency department: are we doing too much? (22 January, 2009)
P Bilbault
Ventricular tachycardia following snakebite envenoming (22 January, 2009)
J Francis
Author’s reply (22 January, 2009)
J M Pappachan
The Licensing Act and emergency hospital attendances (22 January, 2009)
R Hayward
Could new communication systems be used to advise public in emergency situations? The HSDPA/WCDMA-based video telephony application to pre-hospital care medicine (22 January, 2009)
J S You, S Park, S P Chung, J W Park
Mandibular fracture caused by mastication (22 January, 2009)
A Ali Khan, A Banerjee, D Mbamalu
Pneumperitoneum due to chest compressions (22 January, 2009)
A Rose, M W Cooke, R Davies

Sophia

Sophia (22 January, 2009)

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