Emergency Medicine Journal: 27 (3)

Primary survey

Primary survey (19 March, 2010) Free
Simon Carley

Editorial

Caring to the end? (19 March, 2010)
Geoff Hughes

Commentaries

The College of Paramedics (British Paramedic Association) position paper regarding the Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee recommendations on paramedic intubation (19 March, 2010)
Malcolm Woollard, R Furber, on behalf of the Council of the College of Paramedics
Joint Royal College Ambulance Liaison Committee Airway Working Group commentary (19 March, 2010)
Mike Jackson
Prehospital airway management (19 March, 2010)
Mark Fitzgerald

Review

The implications of the NICE guidelines on neurosurgical management for all severe head injuries: systematic review (19 March, 2010) Free
Helen Barratt, Mark Wilson, Fionna Moore, Rosalind Raine

Personal view

Hostel emergency medicine in Iran (19 March, 2010)
Brona Geary

Commissioned Series

Urgent care and the patient (19 March, 2010)
C Salisbury, A Coulter
Alternative services to deliver urgent care in the community (19 March, 2010)
S Mason, H Snooks
Access to urgent health care (19 March, 2010)
C Salisbury, D Bell
Secondary care and changing the face of emergency care (19 March, 2010)
D Bell, S Mason

Original articles

Provision of trauma teams in Scotland: a national survey (19 March, 2010)
J Hornsby, T Quasim, N Dignon, A Puxty
Point of care troponin decreases time in the emergency department for patients with possible acute coronary syndrome: a randomised controlled trial (19 March, 2010)
Conrad Loten, John Attia, Carolyn Hullick, John Marley, Patrick McElduff
Alcohol intoxication at a university hospital acute medicine unit—with special consideration of young adults: an 8-year observational study from Switzerland (19 March, 2010)
M Haberkern, A K Exadaktylos, H Marty
What factors are associated with repeated domestic assault in patients attending an emergency department? A cohort study (19 March, 2010)
Adrian Boyle, Claire Frith, Daniel Edgcumbe, Catriona McDougall
Things that go bump … bump … bump: an analysis of injuries from falling down stairs in children based at Sheffield Children's Hospital (19 March, 2010)
Elizabeth Docherty, Abu Hassan, Derek Burke
Elevated serum S100B levels in acute spinal fracture without head injury (19 March, 2010)
Sang Jin Lee, Chan Woong Kim, Kwang Jung Lee, Ju Won Choe, Sung Eun Kim, Je Hyeok Oh, Yong Soon Park
To ED or not to ED: NHS 24 referrals to the emergency department (19 March, 2010)
Ronald Cook, Shobhan Thakore, William Morrison, J Meikle
Temporal and spatial characteristics and treatment strategies of traumatic brain injury in Wenchuan earthquake (19 March, 2010)
Jianwen Gu, Wentao Yang, Jingmin Cheng, Tao Yang, Yan Qu, Yongqin Kuang, Haidong Huang, Libin Yang, Weiqi He, Lu Min
Surveying young patients (19 March, 2010)
Theresa Foster, Victoria Maillardet

Short report

Sonographic diagnosis of epiglottal enlargement (19 March, 2010)
Firat Bektas, Secgin Soyuncu, Ozlem Yigit, Murat Turhan

Prehospital care

A critical reassessment of ambulance service airway management in prehospital care: Joint Royal Colleges Ambulance Liaison Committee Airway Working Group, June 2008 (19 March, 2010)
Charles D Deakin, Tom Clarke, Jerry Nolan, David A Zideman, Carl Gwinnutt, Fionna Moore, Michael Ward, Carl Keeble, Wim Blancke
From the prehospital literature (19 March, 2010)
Malcolm Woollard

Emergency casebooks

A congenital abnormality masquerading as encephalitis in an 11-year-old girl (19 March, 2010)
D Horner, D Jones, S Carley
An unusual presentation of congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (Ondine's Curse) (19 March, 2010)
B L Lovell, R E Bullock, K N Anderson
Spotting the complex tachycardia (19 March, 2010)
Ahmed Mahdi, Simon Anderson, Simon Carley, Vaikom Mahadevan

Best Evidence Topic Reports

Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (19 March, 2010)
Bernard A Foëx
BET 1 (19 March, 2010)
BET 2 (19 March, 2010)
BET 3 (19 March, 2010)

PostScript

Letter: Patient satisfaction and healthcare providers (19 March, 2010)
Giles N Cattermole, Colin A Graham, Timothy H Rainer
Letter: Boosting interface medicine (19 March, 2010)
A Abdul-Ghani
Correction (19 March, 2010) Free

Images in emergency medicine

A late complication of a traumatic flail segment: colonic herniation (19 March, 2010)
Ian Hunt, Kassim Rekieh, Kenneth Stewart, Eric L R Bédard, Azim Valji
Emergency retinal pallor (19 March, 2010)
P Moradi, A Chandra, N Islam
Tuberculous tension pneumothorax (19 March, 2010)
N Athey, A Hills
Spontaneous pneumocephalus (19 March, 2010)
J H Oh, H I Na
Unusual cause of acute upper airway obstruction (19 March, 2010)
M-J Bair, I-T Lin, H-L Chen, C-H Lee
Bilateral chronic subdural haematoma misdiagnosed as neuroleptic malignant syndrome (19 March, 2010)
A Akhaddar, A Karouache, B Elmostarchid, M Boucetta
Asymptomatic left-sided pericardial cyst (19 March, 2010)
C O'Connell, A Byrne, L Swales
Image on spontaneous pneumomediastinum presenting as sore throat (19 March, 2010)
Ramesh Kapa Baskaran

Miscellanea

Theme: Acute bacterial meningitis (19 March, 2010)
M Davey
Theme: Acute bacterial meningitis (19 March, 2010)
Sophia (19 March, 2010)
Munawar Al-Mudhaffar, Jonathan Wyatt

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March 2010 - Volume 27 - 3

Primary survey

Editorial

Commentaries

Review

Personal view

Commissioned Series

Original articles

Short report

Prehospital care

Emergency casebooks

Best Evidence Topic Reports

PostScript

Images in emergency medicine

Miscellanea

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Table of contents

March 2010 - Volume 27 - 3

Primary survey

Editorial

Commentaries

Review

Personal view

Commissioned Series

Original articles

Short report

Prehospital care

Emergency casebooks

Best Evidence Topic Reports

PostScript

Images in emergency medicine

Miscellanea

Issue Information