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Original Articles

• In an emergency—call the clinical librarian! (22 April, 2009)

  T J Coats, S Sutton, C Vorwerk, M W Cooke
• Intravenous thrombolysis for ischaemic stroke: short delays and high community-based treatment rates after organisational changes in a previously inexperienced centre (22 April, 2009)

  A Tveiten, Å Mygland, U Ljøstad, L Thomassen
• Basic cardiac life support education for non-medical hospital employees (22 April, 2009)

  M S Sim, I J Jo, H G Song
• Syncope management in the UK and Republic of Ireland (22 April, 2009)

  C J Stockley, M E Bonney, A J Gray, M J Reed
• Emergency abdominal aortic aneurysm presenting without haemodynamic shock is associated with misdiagnosis and delay in appropriate clinical management (22 April, 2009)

  M Gaughan, D McIntosh, A Brown, D Laws
• Relationship between intensive care complications and costs and initial 24 h events of trauma patients with severe haemorrhage (22 April, 2009)

  A W Husari, H Belzberg, K Kassak, C M Dunham
• Validation study of a transcutaneous carbon dioxide monitor in patients in the emergency department (22 April, 2009)

  J McVicar, R Eager
• Comparison of bupivacaine and lidocaine with epinephrine for digital nerve blocks (22 April, 2009)

  M Alhelail, M Al-Salamah, M Al-Mulhim, S Al-Hamid
• Oculovagal reflex in paediatric orbital floor fractures mimicking head injury (22 April, 2009)

  A Cobb, R Murthy, M Manisali, J Uddin, A Toma