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Original articles

• Emergency/disaster medical support in the restoration project for the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident (26 November, 2012)

  Naoto Morimura, Yasushi Asari, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Kazunari Asanuma, Choichiro Tase, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Tohru Aruga, Members of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, Emergency, Task Force on the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident (JAAM-TF-FNPPA)
• A descriptive analysis of patients with an emergency department diagnosis of acute pericarditis (6 December, 2012)

  Andrew J Hooper, Antonio Celenza
• Who needs a shot … a review of tetanus immunity in the West of Ireland (18 December, 2012)

  Adrian Moughty, John O Donnell, Mary Nugent
• The use of the laryngeal tube disposable by paramedics during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospectively observational study (2008–2012) (10 January, 2013)

  Jens-Uwe Müller, Thomas Semmel, Roland Stepan, Timo F Seyfried, Aron F Popov, Bernhard M Graf, Christoph H R Wiese
• The impact of adding clinical assistants on patient waiting time in a crowded emergency department (22 November, 2012)

  Edward Pei-Chuan Huang, Sot Shih-Hung Liu, Cheng-Chung Fang, Hao-Chang Chou, Chih-Hung Wang, Zui-Shen Yen, Shyr-Chyr Chen
• External validation of the Cardiff model of information sharing to reduce community violence: natural experiment (26 November, 2012)

  Adrian A Boyle, Katrina Snelling, Laura White, Barak Ariel, Lawrence Ashelford
• Patient-controlled analgesia compared with interval analgesic dosing for reducing complications in blunt thoracic trauma: a retrospective cohort study (6 December, 2012)

  Stephen Edward Asha, Kate Anne Curtis, Colman Taylor, Allan Kwok
• Comparison of the costs of care during acute illness by two community children's nursing teams (6 December, 2012)

  Peter Callery, Richard G Kyle, Helen Weatherly, Michele Banks, Carol Ewing, Peter Powell, Susan Kirk
• Patients’ and carers’ experiences of gaining access to acute stroke care: a qualitative study (26 November, 2012)

  Madeleine Harrison, Tony Ryan, Clare Gardiner, Amanda Jones