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Original articles

• Avoidable emergency admissions? (14 September, 2012)

  Borge Lillebo, Bodil Dyrstad, Anders Grimsmo
• Epidemiological study of acute poisoning in children: a 5-year retrospective study in the Paediatric University Hospital in Białystok, Poland (31 August, 2012)

  Urszula Pawłowicz, Anna Wasilewska, Witold Olański, Marta Stefanowicz
• Vitamin D deficiency in children presenting to the emergency department: a growing concern. Vitamin D deficiency in Birmingham's children: presentation to the emergency department (8 September, 2012)

  Lisa Kehler, Sapna Verma, Ruth Krone, Emily Roper
• A re-conceptualisation of acute spinal care (8 September, 2012)

  Mark Hauswald
• Role of routine pelvic radiography in initial evaluation of stable, high-energy, blunt trauma patients (14 September, 2012)

  Shahram Paydar, Fariborz Ghaffarpasand, Mehdi Foroughi, Ali Saberi, Maryam Dehghankhalili, Hamidreza Abbasi, Babak Malekpoor, Ali Mohammad Bananzadeh, Mohammad Vahid Hosseini, Shahram Bolandparvaz
• Vomiting should be a prompt predictor of stroke outcome (27 September, 2012)

  Kazuo Shigematsu, Osamu Shimamura, Hiromi Nakano, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Tatsuyuki Sekimoto, Kouichiro Shimizu, Akihiko Nishizawa, Masahiro Makino
• Residents’ experiences in dealing with abuse in emergency department: a survey in Iran hospitals (26 September, 2012)

  Hossein Alimohammadi, Akram Zolfaghari Sadrabad, Farahnaz Bidarizerehpoosh, Hojjat Derakhshanfar, Ali Shahrami, Reza Farahmand rad
• Effectiveness of a five-level Paediatric Triage System: an analysis of resource utilisation in the emergency department in Taiwan (14 September, 2012)

  Yu-Che Chang, Chip-Jin Ng, Chang-Teng Wu, Li-Chin Chen, Jih-Chang Chen, Kuang-Hung Hsu
• Paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Melbourne, Australia: improved reporting by adding coronial data to a cardiac arrest registry (4 October, 2012)

  Conor Deasy, David Hall, Janet E Bray, Karen Smith, Stephen A Bernard, Peter Cameron, on behalf of the VACAR Steering Committee
• Hyponatraemia in patients with crush syndrome during the Wenchuan earthquake (26 September, 2012)

  Li Zhang, Ping Fu, Li Wang, Guangyan Cai, Lin Zhang, Dezheng Chen, Dongyang Guo, Xuefeng Sun, Fuqiong Chen, Weihong Bi, Xinjie Zeng, Haiyan Li, Zhaohui Liu, Yong Wang, Songmin Huang, Xiangmei Chen, for the Wenchuan earthquake-related AKI study group
• Characteristics of femur fractures in ambulatory young children (4 October, 2012)

  Louise Capra, Alex V Levin, Andrew Howard, Michelle Shouldice
• A comparison of three supraglottic airway devices used by healthcare professionals during paediatric resuscitation simulation (17 October, 2012)

  Domagoj Schunk, Markus Ritzka, Bernhard Graf, Benedikt Trabold
• Violence in the emergency department: a multicentre survey of nurses’ perceptions in Nigeria (4 October, 2012)

  Kolawole Olubunmi Ogundipe, Amarachukwu Chiduziem Etonyeaku, Ismaila Adigun, Emmanuel O Ojo, Tunde Aladesanmi, Jones O Taiwo, Obitade Sunday Obimakinde