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Original articles

• Are first rib fractures a marker for other life-threatening injuries in patients with major trauma? A cohort study of patients on the UK Trauma Audit and Research Network database (24 January, 2017)

  Ian Ayenga Sammy, Hridesh Chatha, Fiona Lecky, Omar Bouamra, Marisol Fragoso-Iñiguez, Abdo Sattout, Michael Hickey, John E Edwards
• Validity of the Manchester Triage System in patients with sepsis presenting at the ED: a first assessment (19 December, 2016) Free

  Ingo Gräff, Bernd Goldschmidt, Procula Glien, Ramona C Dolscheid-Pommerich, Rolf Fimmers, Daniel Grigutsch
• Reasons and evolution of non-thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke (25 October, 2016)

  T Reiff, P Michel
• A randomised experiment comparing low-cost ultrasound gel alternative with commercial gel (16 December, 2016)

  Christine Riguzzi, Allison Binkowski, Mike Butterfield, Farhad Sani, Nathan Teismann, Jahan Fahimi
• Mid-arm circumference can be used to estimate weight of adult and adolescent patients (19 December, 2016)

  Giles N Cattermole, Colin A Graham, Timothy H Rainer
• Procedural sedation in the emergency department by Dutch emergency physicians: a prospective multicentre observational study of 1711 adults (21 October, 2016)

  Gaël JP Smits, Maybritt I Kuypers, Lisette AA Mignot, Eef PJ Reijners, Erick Oskam, Karen Van Doorn, Wendy AMH Thijssen, Erik HM Korsten
• Can emergency medicine research benefit from adaptive design clinical trials? (28 October, 2016)

  Laura Flight, Steven A Julious, Steve Goodacre
• Low-acuity presentations to the emergency department in Canada: exploring the alternative attempts to avoid presentation (24 November, 2016) Free

  Lynette D Krebs, Scott W Kirkland, Rajiv Chetram, Taylor Nikel, Britt Voaklander, Alan Davidson, Bryn Holroyd, Cristina Villa-Roel, Katelynn Crick, Stephanie Couperthwaite, Chris Alexiu, Garnet Cummings, Brian H Rowe