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Original articles

• A qualitative study of the barriers to procedural sedation practices in paediatric emergency medicine in the UK and Ireland (17 February, 2016)

  Siobhán McCoy, Mark D Lyttle, Stuart Hartshorn, Philip Larkin, Maria Brenner, Ronan O'Sullivan
• ‘Down-triage’ for children with abnormal vital signs: evaluation of a new triage practice at a paediatric emergency department in Japan (4 April, 2016) Free

  Takuto Takahashi, Nobuaki Inoue, Naoki Shimizu, Toshiro Terakawa, Ran D Goldman
• CT head imaging in patients with head injury who present after 24 h of injury: a retrospective cohort study (13 April, 2016)

  Carl Marincowitz, Victoria Allgar, William Townend
• Validation of ABCD2 scores ascertained by referring clinicians: a retrospective transient ischaemic attack clinic cohort study (7 April, 2016)

  Dipankar Dutta, Sarah-Jane Bailey
• Does emergency physician empathy reduce thoughts of litigation? A randomised trial (21 March, 2016)

  Dustin D Smith, Jesse Kellar, Elizabeth L Walters, Ellen T Reibling, Tammy Phan, Steven M Green
• Bystander cricothyrotomy with ballpoint pen: a fresh cadaveric feasibility study (19 April, 2016)

  Ulrich Kisser, Christian Braun, Astrid Huber, Klaus Stelter