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BMJ Journals

Table of contents

July 2011 - Volume 28 - 7

Emergency Medicine Journal: 28 (7)

Primary survey

Highlights from this issue (23 June, 2011) Free
Kevin Mackway Jones

Editorial

Is Lansley for turning? (23 June, 2011)
Geoff Hughes

Commentaries

Full capacity protocol: an end to double standards in acute hospital care provision (17 March, 2011)
P Gilligan, G Quin
UK guidelines for the management of pituitary apoplexy a rare but potentially fatal medical emergency (23 December, 2010)
Mark Vanderpump, Clare Higgens, John A H Wass

Review

Does computer-aided clinical decision support improve the management of acute abdominal pain? A systematic review (2 November, 2010)
Jamie G Cooper, Robert M West, Susan E Clamp, Tajek B Hassan

Original articles

Characteristics of general practices associated with emergency admission rates to hospital: a cross-sectional study (22 April, 2011) Free
M J G Bankart, R Baker, A Rashid, M Habiba, J Banerjee, R Hsu, S Conroy, S Agarwal, A Wilson
Usefulness of initial glucose level to improve acute coronary syndrome diagnosis in the emergency department (20 July, 2010)
Sandrine Charpentier, Maxime Cournot, Dominique Lauque, Claire Girardi, Vincent Bounes, Meyer Elbaz, Jean Louis Ducassé
Diagnostic performance of mean platelet volume for patients with acute coronary syndrome visiting an emergency department with acute chest pain: the Chinese scenario (21 July, 2010)
Hsin Chu, Wei-Lung Chen, Chien-Cheng Huang, Hsin-Yu Chang, Hung-Yi Kuo, Chorng-Ming Gau, Yue-Cune Chang, Ying-Sheng Shen
The prognostic value of mean platelet volume in decompensated heart failure (26 July, 2010)
Hayati Kandis, Hakan Ozhan, Serkan Ordu, Ismail Erden, Onur Caglar, Cengiz Basar, Subhan Yalcin, Recai Alemdar, Mesut Aydin
Validation of triage criteria for deciding which apparently inebriated persons require emergency department care (8 July, 2010)
Keith Flower, Anneke Post, Jeremy Sussman, Niels Tangherlini, John Mendelson, Mark J Pletcher
Pain assessments at triage with the Manchester triage system: a prospective observational study (2 August, 2010)
Ineke van der Wulp, Leontien M Sturms, Annemarie de Jong, Marian Schot-Balfoort, Augustinus J P Schrijvers, Henk F van Stel
Weight estimation in paediatrics: a comparison of the APLS formula and the formula ‘Weight=3(age)+7’ (20 July, 2010)
Mark D Luscombe, Ben D Owens, Derek Burke
Trampoline-related injuries in children: a preliminary biomechanical model of multiple users (28 July, 2010)
Simon Menelaws, Andrew R Bogacz, Tim Drew, Brodie C Paterson
Tag rugby: a safe alternative? A review of hand injuries sustained playing tag rugby (2007 season) (2 August, 2010)
M E O'Keeffe, F J Conroy, J Kelly, P Regan, J McCann
Patients' perspectives on injuries (3 September, 2010)
N Azam, M Harrison
Factors predicting patients' perception of privacy and satisfaction for emergency care (26 July, 2010)
Yen-Ko Lin, Chia-Ju Lin

Prehospital care

Prehospital non-invasive ventilation for acute cardiogenic pulmonary oedema: an evidence-based review (12 November, 2010)
Paul M Simpson, Jason C Bendall
Prognostic significance of acute pain preceding out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (27 June, 2010)
Joji Inamasu, Satoru Miyatake, Hideto Tomioka, Toshiyuki Shirai, Masaya Ishiyama, Junpei Komagamine, Kenichi Kase, Kenji Kobayashi
Rescue efforts management and characteristics of casualties of the Wenchuan earthquake in China (13 October, 2010)
Lulu Zhang, Yuan Liu, Xu Liu, Yi Zhang
On-scene times and critical care interventions for an aeromedical retrieval service (19 August, 2010)
Alasdair R Corfield, Jenny Adams, Rachel Nicholls, Stephen Hearns

Short report

Early prehospital use of non-invasive ventilation improves acute respiratory failure in acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (15 September, 2010)
Willi Schmidbauer, Olaf Ahlers, Claudia Spies, Anke Dreyer, Georg Mager, Thoralf Kerner

Emergency casebooks

Images In…: Dying spell caused by vascular ring (23 June, 2011)
Chihiro Iida, Mitsutaka Shiota, Daisuke Hata
Unusual association of diseases/symptoms: Two days with a broken knife blade in the neck – an interesting case of Horner's syndrome (23 June, 2011)
S Dubois-Marshall, S De Kock

Best evidence topic reports

Towards evidence-based emergency medicine: Best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (23 June, 2011)
K Mackway-Jones
BET 1: Use of non-sedating antihistamines in the common cold (23 June, 2011)
BET 2: Routine coagulation testing in adult patients with epistaxis (23 June, 2011)
BET 3: Fucidic acid or chloramphenicol for neonates with sticky eyes (23 June, 2011)
BET 4: Hydrotherapy following rotator cuff repair (23 June, 2011)

PostScript

Letter: Response to the recent best evidence topic on the use of thrombolysis in stroke (23 June, 2011)
Philip Kaye
Letter: Author's response (23 June, 2011)
Craig James Ferguson

Miscellanea

Theme: Ketamine use and abuse (23 June, 2011)
Michael Davey
Highlights from the literature (23 June, 2011)
Andre Dubois, Jonathan Wyatt

Images in emergency medicine

Intraocular foreign body in an F-18 jet mechanic (3 August, 2010)
J Schmitz, F Bishop, S J Patel
Anal fistula associated with septic arthritis (24 September, 2010)
Richard Kuo, Fei-Shih Yang
Imaging findings in angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor induced angioedema (3 August, 2010)
Y M Bhatt, W Aucott
The pelvic belt: a cautionary tale of pressure necrosis (25 March, 2011)
Simon Ball, Nirav K Patel, Angus Lewis

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