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Original articles

• Relationship between renal dysfunction and outcomes in emergency department patients with potential acute coronary syndromes (6 March, 2012)

  Anna Marie Chang, Meredith Edwards, Asako C Matsuura, Kristy M Walsh, Emily Barrows, Jeffrey Le, Judd E Hollander
• Do emergency physicians and radiologists reliably interpret pelvic radiographs obtained as part of a trauma series? (12 March, 2012)

  Clare Bent, Sugama Chicklore, Alastair Newton, Karel Habig, Tim Harris
• Impact of the introduction of emergency ultrasound to one large UK emergency department: the REBUS study (6 March, 2012)

  T'ng Choong Kwok, Sue Johnson, Matthew James Reed
• Triage of pregnant women in the emergency department: evaluation of a triage decision aid (7 March, 2012)

  Mary McCarthy, Susan McDonald, Wendy Pollock
• Modified early warning score with rapid lactate level in critically ill medical patients: the ViEWS-L score (16 March, 2012)

  Sion Jo, Jae Baek Lee, Young Ho Jin, Tae Oh Jeong, Jae Chol Yoon, Yong Kyu Jun, Bo Young Park
• Drug-induced movement disorders in children at paediatric emergency department: ‘dystonia’ (7 March, 2012)

  Oksan Derinoz, Ayla Akca Caglar
• Decreased length of stay after addition of healthcare provider in emergency department triage: a comparison between computer-simulated and real-world interventions (7 March, 2012)

  Theodore Eugene Day, Abdul Rahim Al-Roubaie, Eric Jonathan Goldlust
• Comparison of overlapping (OP) and adjacent thumb positions (AP) for cardiac compressions using the encircling method in infants (8 March, 2012)

  Jung Soo Lim, YongCheol Cho, Seung Ryu, Jin Woong Lee, SeungWhan Kim, In-Sool Yoo, YeonHo You, Byung Kook Lee, Jin Hong Min, Won Joon Jeong
• Usefulness of nefopam in treating pain of severe uncomplicated renal colics in adults admitted to emergency units: a randomised double-blind controlled trial. The ‘INCoNU’ study (16 March, 2012)

  Farès Moustafa, Jérôme Liotier, Thierry Mathevon, Daniel Pic, Christophe Perrier, Jeannot Schmidt
• Serial multiple biomarkers in the assessment of suspected acute coronary syndrome: multiple infarct markers in chest pain (MIMIC) study (21 March, 2012)

  Stephen PJ Macdonald, Yusuf Nagree, Daniel M Fatovich, Michael Phillips, Simon GA Brown