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    Emergency Medicine Australasia: Volume 18, Issue 2

    101-211
    April 2006
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Editorial

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Anaphylaxis: Persistent enigma

Hugh A Sampson, 
  • Pages: 101-102
  • First Published: 18 April 2006
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Alcohol misuse: Positive response. Alcohol Health Work for every acute hospital saves money and reduces repeat attendances

Robin Touquet,  Adrian Brown, 
  • Pages: 103-107
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Original Research

Injury severity: Role of alcohol, substance use and risk-taking

Kerrianne Watt,  David M Purdie,  Ann M Roche,  Rod McClure, 
  • Pages: 108-117
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Content analysis of Australian newspaper portrayals of emergency medicine

John F Kennedy,  Christopher Trethewy,  Kevin Anderson, 
  • Pages: 118-124
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Alcohol use among young adults presenting to the emergency department

Alwie C Tjipto,  David McD Taylor,  Hui Liew, 
  • Pages: 125-130
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Profiling patients suspected of drug seeking in an adult emergency department

Charley McNabb,  Carole Foot,  Joseph Ting,  Katina Breeze,  Mark Stickley, 
  • Pages: 131-137
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Diagnosing drug-seeking behaviour in an adult emergency department

Charley McNabb,  Carole Foot,  Joseph Ting,  Katina Breeze,  Mark Stickley, 
  • Pages: 138-142
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Paediatric Emergency Medicine

Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT): First steps towards the development of an Australian and New Zealand research network

Franz Babl,  Meredith Borland,  Peter Ngo,  Jason Acworth,  David Krieser,  Sharad Pandit,  W Robert Pitt,  Elizabeth Cotterell,  Sarah Jamison, 
  • Pages: 143-147
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Blood pressure measurements on children in the emergency department

Yuri Gilhotra,  Frank Willis, 
  • Pages: 148-154
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Review Articles

Anaphylaxis: Clinical concepts and research priorities

Simon GA Brown, 
  • Pages: 155-169
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

B-type natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of heart failure in the emergency department

Robert Chircop,  George A Jelinek, 
  • Pages: 170-179
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Toxicology

Prevalence of use, epidemiology and toxicity of ‘herbal party pills’ among those presenting to the emergency department

Tonia C Nicholson, 
  • Pages: 180-184
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Truth hurts – hard lessons from Australia's largest mass casualty exercise with contaminated patients

Nicholas A Edwards,  David GE Caldicott,  Tony Eliseo,  Andrew Pearce, 
  • Pages: 185-195
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Perspective

Trauma response to the Asian tsunami: Krabi Hospital, Southern Thailand

Luke J Johnson,  Angela R Travis, 
  • Pages: 196-198
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

On the ground in Nias in response to an earthquake – an emergency team's experience

Angela Jackson,  Mark Little, 
  • Pages: 199-202
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Book Reviews

Neurotrauma: Evidence-based Answers to Common Questions

Gordian Fulde M.B.B.S., F.R.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. (Ed) F.R.A.C.S./R.C.P. (A & E) Ed. F.A.C.E.M., 
  • Pages: 203-204
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

ECG in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care

Tony Joseph FACEM, 
  • Page: 203
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Letters to the Editor

Making the case for USCOM

Rob Phillips,  Robert Bilkovski,  Joe Brierley,  Fred Berry, 
  • Pages: 205-206
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Early goal-directed therapy in the emergency department

Dr Susan Dorrian MB BCh,  Michael Lim Dr, 
  • Pages: 206-207
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Reply

Stephen Bernard MD, FACEM, FJFICM, 
  • Pages: 207-208
  • First Published: 18 April 2006

Peer Review

Peer review April 2006

Steven Doherty MB BS, FACEM, 
  • Pages: 209-211
  • First Published: 18 April 2006