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Emergency medicine

Editorials

Subspecialisation in surgery and the continuing challenge of providing emergency surgery services

Ian R Gough

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (7): 358-359

Letters

Bicycle handlebar injuries in Western Australia: from imprints to abdominal wall hernias

Parshotam K Gera, Andrew P Barker, Ian Gollow, Jillian Orford, Sue Wicks and Liz Whan

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (5): 295

Letters

Comparison of crystalline methamphetamine (“ice”) users and other patients with toxicology-related problems presenting to a hospital emergency department

Paul I Dargan and David M Wood

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (4): 234

Medical education

Development of the Australian Core Competencies in Musculoskeletal Basic and Clinical Science project — phase 1

Mellick J Chehade and Aleksander Bachorski

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (3): 162-165 Free

Redefining Roles

Getting back into the emergency department: diversifying general practice while relieving emergency medicine workforce shortages

Simon M Willcock

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (2): 113-114 Free

Research

Outcomes of patients with transient ischaemic attack after hospital admission or discharge from the emergency department

Elias E Kehdi, Dennis J Cordato, Peter R Thomas, Roy G Beran, Cecilia Cappelen-Smith, Neil C Griffith, Ibrahim Y Hanna, Alan J McDougall, John M Worthington and Suzanne J Hodgkinson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 9-12 Free

Research

The increasing problem of motorcycle injuries in children and adolescents

Catherine A Bevan, Franz E Babl, Penny Bolt and Lisa N Sharwood

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 17-20 Free

Corrections

Bystander basic life support: an important link in the chain of survival for children suffering a drowning or near-drowning episode

Jeanette Marchant, Nicholas G Cheng, Lawrence T Lam, Fiona E Fahy, S V Soundappan, Danny T Cass and Gary J Browne

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 56

Editorials

Clinical stroke guidelines: where to now?

Craig S Anderson

Med J Aust 2008; 189 (1): 4-5

Research

Impact of an ultrabroadband emergency department telemedicine system on the care of acutely ill patients and clinicians’ work

Johanna I Westbrook, Enrico W Coiera, Michelle Brear, Stuart Stapleton, Marilyn I Rob, Monique Murphy and Patrick Cregan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (12): 704-708 Free

Book review

On-call help

Robert P Dowsett

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 661

Letters

A food “lifeboat”: food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic or other catastrophe

Craig B Dalton, Michelle A Cretikos and David N Durrheim

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 679

Letters

A food “lifeboat”: food and nutrition considerations in the event of a pandemic or other catastrophe

Jennie C Brand-Miller, Jennifer McArthur and Anna Haug

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (11): 679

Research

An observational study of emergency department intern activities

Jia Ni Zhu, Tracey J Weiland, David M Taylor and Andrew W Dent

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (9): 514-519 Free

Matters arising — Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Daniel M Fatovich

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 489

Matters arising — Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Julia J Batmanian, Meeyin Lam, Caitlin Matthews, Andrew Finckh, Martin Duffy, Robert Wright, Bruce J Brew and Romesh Markus

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 489-490

Matters arising — Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Stephen M Davis, Peter J Hand and Geoffrey A Donnan

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 490

Letters

Sternal fracture in an Australian Rules footballer

Robert J Douglas

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 493-494

Public health

Bystander basic life support: an important link in the chain of survival for children suffering a drowning or near-drowning episode

Jeanette Marchant, Nicholas G Cheng, Lawrence T Lam, Fiona E Fahy, S V Soundappan, Danny T Cass and Gary J Browne

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 484-485

Matters arising — Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischaemic stroke

Gino J Toncich

Med J Aust 2008; 188 (8): 489

Emergency medicine

Characteristics and outcomes of patients who “did not wait” after attending Perth public hospital emergency departments, 2000–2003

Jacqui Hall and George A Jelinek

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 626-629 Free

Emergency medicine

Deck the halls with rows of trolleys . . . emergency departments are busiest over the Christmas holiday period

Wei Zheng, David J Muscatello and Adam C Chan

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 630-633 Free

Emergency medicine

Inside the emergency department

Clare A Skinner

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 634-635 Free

Emergency medicine

Cardiac arrest and chewing gum — an unfortunate combination

Angus G Thompson, Shakeeb Razak and Rohan Jayasinghe

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 635

Emergency medicine

Emergency department overcrowding: dying to get in?

George Braitberg

Med J Aust 2007; 187 (11): 624-625