Table of contents

Original articles

• Establishment of a definitive protocol for the diagnosis and management of body packers (drug mules) (10 November, 2010)

  Nageswara Mandava, Richard S Chang, John H Wang, Michael Bertocchi, Jonathan Yrad, Shyam Allamaneni, Edouard Aboian, Malini H Lall, Rosalind Mariano, Neil Richards
• Emergency department-focused thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke (19 August, 2010)

  Phil Kaye, Louise Shaw, Barbara Madigan, Nicola Jakeman
• A cross-sectional survey of snake oral bacterial flora from Hong Kong, SAR, China (29 May, 2010)

  Ka Keung Lam, Paul Crow, Kenneth Ho Leung Ng, Kam Chuen Shek, Hin Tat Fung, Gary Ades, Alessandro Grioni, Kit Sun Tan, Kam Tong Yip, David Christopher Lung, Tak Lun Que, Tommy Shing Kit Lam, Ian D Simpson, Kwok Leung Tsui, Chak Wah Kam
• Emergency management of minor head injury in anticoagulated patients (25 November, 2010)

  A Leiblich, S Mason
• An evaluation of echo in life support (ELS): is it feasible? What does it add? (4 October, 2010)

  C Hayhurst, C Lebus, P R Atkinson, R Kendall, R Madan, J Talbot, P Ross, D Lewis
• Prognostic value of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in hospitalised patients with community-acquired pneumonia (29 May, 2010)

  Ki Young Jeong, Kyuseok Kim, Tae Yun Kim, Christopher C Lee, Si On Jo, Joong Eui Rhee, You Hwan Jo, Gil Joon Suh, Adam J Singer
• Demand and capacity planning in the emergency department: how to do it (28 October, 2010)

  I Higginson, J Whyatt, K Silvester
• Comparison of emergency department point-of-care international normalised ratio (INR) testing with laboratory-based testing (29 May, 2010)

  Antonio Celenza, Kirsty Skinner