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Original Articles

• Effect of a pathway bundle on length of stay (22 June, 2009)

  J Sloan, K Chatterjee, T Sloan, G Holland, M Waters, D Ewins, N Laundy
• The Manchester Triage System provides good reliability in an Australian emergency department (22 June, 2009)

  A I Grouse, R O Bishop, A M Bannon
• Amethocaine versus EMLA for successful intravenous cannulation in a children’s emergency department: a randomised controlled study (22 June, 2009)

  C Newbury, D W Herd
• Comparison of neurological outcomes following witnessed out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation defibrillated with either biphasic or monophasic automated external defibrillators (22 June, 2009)

  K Kajino, T Iwami, R A Berg, A Hiraide, Y Hayashi, H Yukioka, H Tanaka, T Shimazu, H Sugimoto
• Ten things your emergency department should consider to prepare for pandemic influenza (22 June, 2009) Free

  S M Robinson, H R Sutherland, D J W Spooner, T J H Bennett, C-H A Lit, C A Graham
• Comparison of powered and conventional air-purifying respirators during simulated resuscitation of casualties contaminated with hazardous substances (22 June, 2009)

  J Schumacher, S A Gray, L Weidelt, A Brinker, K Prior, W M Stratling
• Predicting admission and mortality with the Emergency Severity Index and the Manchester Triage System: a retrospective observational study (22 June, 2009)

  I van der Wulp, A J P Schrijvers, H F van Stel