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Original articles

• Critical care in emergency department: massive haemorrhage in trauma (10 February, 2012)

  Tushar Mahambrey, Katherine Pendry, Alexandra Nee, Samantha Bonney, Patrick A Nee
• What is the incidence of major adverse cardiac events in emergency department chest pain patients with a normal ECG, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction score of zero and initial troponin ≤99th centile: an observational study? (10 February, 2012)

  Anne-Maree Kelly
• Implementation of an evidence based guideline reduces blood tests and length of stay for the limping child in a paediatric emergency department (2 March, 2012)

  Peter J McCanny, Siobhan McCoy, Tim Grant, Sean Walsh, Ronan O'Sullivan
• Survey of the use of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in UK paediatric emergency departments (2 March, 2012) Free

  Barnaby R Scholefield, Mark D Lyttle, Kathleen Berry, Heather P Duncan, Kevin P Morris
• An analysis of predictive markers for intracranial haemorrhage in warfarinised head injury patients (22 February, 2012)

  Simon Rendell, John S Batchelor
• Major trauma and urban cyclists: physiological status and injury profile (22 February, 2012)

  Joanna Manson, Sian Cooper, Anita West, Elizabeth Foster, Elaine Cole, Nigel R M Tai
• Hanging-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Melbourne, Australia (16 March, 2012)

  Conor Deasy, Janet Bray, Karen Smith, Stephen Bernard, Peter Cameron
• ‘Do you know where your cyanide kit is?’: a study of perceived and actual antidote availability to emergency departments in the South West of England (2 March, 2012)

  Louisa J Mitchell, Ian Higginson, Jason E Smith, Liam Swains, Jennifer Farrant, James Gagg, Charlotte Lindenbaum, Nick Mathieu
• Nose and vein, speed and pain: comparing the use of intranasal diamorphine and intravenous morphine in a Scottish paediatric emergency department (12 March, 2012)

  Luke Regan, Andrew R Chapman, Anna Celnik, Lesley Lumsden, Reem Al-Soufi, Nicola P McCullough
• How well informed are patients when leaving the emergency department? comparing information provided and information retained (12 March, 2012)

  Hans Marty, Yvonne Bogenstätter, Gabriela Franc, Franziska Tschan, Heinz Zimmermann
• Survey of trainee attitudes to preparation for and participation in the FCEM examination (7 March, 2012)

  Jamie G Cooper, Elaine Rutherford, Wayne Hamer
• Assessment of adverse drug event recognition by emergency physicians in a French teaching hospital (25 February, 2012)

  Lucien Roulet, Françoise Ballereau, Jean-Benoît Hardouin, Anne Chiffoleau, Leïla Moret, Gilles Potel, Nathalie Asseray