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Original articles

• A traumatic tale of two cities: does EMS level of care and transportation model affect survival in patients with trauma at level 1 trauma centres in two neighbouring Canadian provinces? (4 November, 2017) Free

  Colin Rouse, Jefferson Hayre, James French, Jacqueline Fraser, Ian Watson, Susan Benjamin, Allison Chisholm, Beth Sealy, Mete Erdogan, Robert S Green, George Stoica, Paul Atkinson
• Utility of prehospital electrocardiogram characteristics as prognostic markers in out-of-hospital pulseless electrical activity arrests (21 October, 2017)

  Michael L Ho, Mathieu Gatien, Christian Vaillancourt, Veronica Whitham, Ian G Stiell
• Use of the low-frequency/high-frequency ratio of heart rate variability to predict short-term deterioration in emergency department patients with sepsis (18 August, 2017)

  Douglas P Barnaby, Shannon M Fernando, Kevin J Ferrick, Christophe L Herry, Andrew J E Seely, Polly E Bijur, E John Gallagher
• Pre-emptive ice cube cryotherapy for reducing pain from local anaesthetic injections for simple lacerations: a randomised controlled trial (12 October, 2017)

  JaeWoo Song, HyukHoon Kim, EunJung Park, Jung Hwan Ahn, Eunhui Yoon, Samsun Lampotang, Nikolaus Gravenstein, SangChun Choi
• Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of seven day clinical standards (8 November, 2017)

  Rachel Meacock, Matt Sutton
• Calculating the proportion of avoidable attendances at UK emergency departments: analysis of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Sentinel Site Survey data (30 October, 2017) Free

  Toby Morris, Suzanne M Mason, Chris Moulton, Colin O’Keeffe