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Original articles

• Immediate surge in female visits to the cardiac emergency department following the economic collapse in Iceland: an observational study (22 September, 2011)

  Guðlaug Rakel Guðjónsdóttir, Már Kristjánsson, Örn Ólafsson, Davíð O Arnar, Linn Getz, Jóhann Ágúst Sigurðsson, Sigurður Guðmundsson, Unnur Valdimarsdóttir
• The prognostic value of tissue oxygen saturation in emergency department patients with severe sepsis or septic shock (21 September, 2011)

  Christiane Vorwerk, Timothy J Coats
• Remote specialist assessment for intravenous thrombolysis of acute ischaemic stroke by telephone (27 October, 2011)

  Matthew Rudd, Helen Rodgers, Richard Curless, Mark Sudlow, Stuart Huntley, Badanahatti Madhava, Mark Garside, Christopher I Price
• To resuscitate or not to resuscitate: a logistic regression analysis of physician-related variables influencing the decision (6 September, 2011)

  Sharon Einav, Gady Alon, Nechama Kaufman, Rony Braunstein, Sara Carmel, Joseph Varon, Moshe Hersch
• Predictive factors of bacteraemia in low-risk patients with febrile neutropenia (19 October, 2011)

  Shin Ahn, Yoon-Seon Lee, Yeon Hee Chun, Kyung Soo Lim, Won Kim, Jae-Lyun Lee
• Emergency clinicians' attitudes and decisions in patient scenarios involving advance directives (19 October, 2011)

  Rebecca E Wong, Tracey J Weiland, George A Jelinek
• Impact of influenza across 27 public emergency departments in Australia: a 5-year descriptive study (27 October, 2011)

  Justin Boyle, Julia Crilly, Gerben Keijzers, Marianne Wallis, James Lind, Ross Sparks, Louise Ryan
• Paediatric arrhythmias in the emergency department (21 September, 2011) Free

  Henning Clausen, Theane Theophilos, Kim Jackno, Franz E Babl
• Homemade ultrasound phantom for teaching identification of superficial soft tissue abscess (21 September, 2011)

  Mark D Lo, S Heath Ackley, Patrick Solari
• Older people presenting to the emergency department after a fall: a population with substantial recurrent healthcare use (1 October, 2011)

  Jacqueline C T Close, Stephen R Lord, Evgeniya (Jenya) Antonova, Monique Martin, Benedikte Lensberg, Morag Taylor, Jamie Hallen, Ann Kelly
• Outcomes of therapeutic hypothermia in unconscious patients after near-hanging (19 September, 2011)

  Byung Kook Lee, Kyung Woon Jeung, Hyoung Youn Lee, Jae Hoon Lim