Table of contents

Original articles

• Emergency department crowding: prioritising quantified crowding measures using a Delphi study (23 December, 2011)

  Kathleen Beniuk, Adrian A Boyle, P John Clarkson
• “Do you really need to ask me that now?”: a self-audit of interruptions to the ‘shop floor’ practice of a UK consultant emergency physician (22 November, 2011)

  Jon Allard, Jonathan Wyatt, Alan Bleakley, Blair Graham
• Safety and efficiency of triaging low urgent self-referred patients to a general practitioner at an acute care post: an observational study (8 December, 2011)

  Lieke M van der Straten, Henk F van Stel, Frans J M Spee, Marleen E Vreeburg, Augustinus J P Schrijvers, Leontien M Sturms
• The need for a usable assessment tool to analyse the efficacy of emergency care systems in developing countries: proposal to use the TEWS methodology (20 December, 2011)

  Jared H Sun, Michele Twomey, Jeffrey Tran, Lee A Wallis
• Airway management in unconscious non-trauma patients (28 October, 2011)

  Klaus Nielsen, Christian Muff Hansen, Lars Simon Rasmussen
• Accuracy of a feedback device for cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a dental chair (1 November, 2011)

  Nicolas Segal, Florian Laurent, Louis Maman, Patrick Plaisance, Pascal Augustin
• Randomised controlled crossover trial of the effect on Ptco₂ of oxygen-driven versus air-driven nebulisers in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

  (8 December, 2011)

  Llifon Edwards, Kyle Perrin, Mathew Williams, Mark Weatherall, Richard Beasley
• A retrospective cohort study to re-evaluate clinical correlates for intracranial injury in minor head injury (8 December, 2011)

  Alison Sheehan, John S Batchelor
• Intravenous paracetamol versus morphine for renal colic in the emergency department: a randomised double-blind controlled trial (20 December, 2011)

  Mustafa Serinken, Cenker Eken, Ibrahim Turkcuer, Hayri Elicabuk, Emrah Uyanik, Carl H Schultz
• Acute traumatic coagulopathy decreased actual survival rate when compared with predicted survival rate in severe trauma (20 December, 2011)

  Su Jin Kim, Sung Woo Lee, Gap Su Han, Sung Woo Moon, Sung Hyuck Choi, Yun Sik Hong
• Paediatric trauma patients and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: correlation and significance (3 January, 2012)

  Cem Ertan, Özlem Özel Özcan, Mustafa Safa Pepele
• Dexmedetomidine in the emergency department: assessing safety and effectiveness in difficult-to-sedate acute behavioural disturbance (8 December, 2011)

  Leonie Calver, Geoffrey K Isbister