Table of contents
December 2015 - Volume 32 - 12
Primary survey
- Highlights from this issue (23 November, 2015)
Guest Editorial
Original articles
- The changing face of major trauma in the UK (23 November, 2015)
- A profile of suspected child abuse as a subgroup of major trauma patients (23 November, 2015)
- Prediction modelling for trauma using comorbidity and ‘true’ 30-day outcome (22 October, 2015)
- Confirmation of suboptimal protocols in spinal immobilisation? (11 September, 2015)
Reviews
Top ten TARN research publications
- Top Ten: Top 10 TARN research publications (23 November, 2015)
Best evidence topic reports
- BET 1: Intravenous tranexamic acid in the treatment of acute epistaxis (23 November, 2015)
- BET 2: role of vinegar in Irukandji syndrome (23 November, 2015)
- BET 3: Bedside ultrasound for the diagnosis of sternal fracture (23 November, 2015)
Global Emergency Medicine Highlights
- Abstracts from international Emergency Medicine journals (23 November, 2015)
RCEM 2015 Abstracts
- 002: HIV TESTING IN A DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (23 November, 2015)
- 003: AUDIT STANDARDS IN PAEDIATRIC SEVERE SEPSIS (23 November, 2015)
- 004: LAVAS: LACTATE—ARTERIAL AND VENOUS AGREEMENT IN SEPSIS (23 November, 2015)
- 005: WHAT MAKES A GOOD MEDICAL SHOP FLOOR LEADER? (23 November, 2015)
- 007: DELAYED BLEEDING IN ANTICOAGULATED PATIENTS AFTER BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA (23 November, 2015)
- 011: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH EXIT BLOCK, AND IMPACT ON THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (23 November, 2015)
- 012: EXCELLENCE THROUGH DESIGN—IMPROVING THE MASSIVE HAEMORRHAGE PROTOCOL (23 November, 2015)
- 017: ARE TRAUMA TEAM LEADERS ANY GOOD AT PREDICTING NEED FOR WHOLE BODY SCANS? (23 November, 2015)
- 022: WHAT DO THEY DO OUT THERE? (23 November, 2015)
- 025: SEEING IS BELIEVING: THE LIVECITY AMBULANCE E-HEALTH TELEMEDICINE PROJECT (23 November, 2015)
- 028: ADMITTED AND IGNORED? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ED PATIENTS ARRIVE ON WARDS? (23 November, 2015)
- 031: AGE-ADJUSTED D-DIMER THRESHOLD: RAISING THE BAR ON VTE DIAGNOSIS (23 November, 2015)
- 035: AGE IS ONLY A NUMBER?—TIME IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (ED) (23 November, 2015)
- 036: OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARRESTS AND EMERGENCY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY (23 November, 2015)
- 040: COLD, CRAMP & CANNOT CONTINUE IN SNOWDONIA MOUNTAIN CASUALTIES (23 November, 2015)
- 041: TROPONIN USE IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SYNCOPE (23 November, 2015)
- 045: USING A CLINICAL PHARMACIST IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (23 November, 2015)
- 047: ARE WE TALKING BUT NOT BEING HEARD? (23 November, 2015)
- 052: PRE-HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SKILLS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS (23 November, 2015)
- 053: END-TIDAL CO2 DETECTION DURING CADAVERIC VENTILATION (23 November, 2015)
- 056: THE ESCAPE OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE TRAINEES FROM IRELAND (23 November, 2015)
- 059: S-KETAMINE SEDATION IN A TERTIARY PAEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT (23 November, 2015)
- 060: THE USE (MISUSE?) OF MONTELUKAST IN WHEEZY PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN (23 November, 2015)
- 064: WHAT DO YOUNG PEOPLE WANT FROM THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT? (23 November, 2015)
Image challenge
- Image challenge: A woman with recurrent vomiting and body cramps (23 November, 2015)
Commentary