Table of contents

Emergency casebooks

• Shock resuscitation with acupuncture: case report (23 February, 2006)

  C-H Hsu, Y Hua, G-P Jong, C-L Chao, J-Y Liu, K-C Hwang, P Chou
• Bolus thrombolytic infusion during prolonged refractory cardiac arrest of undiagnosed cause (23 February, 2006)

  A Sheth, P Cullinan, V Vachharajani, S A Conrad
• Lower limb amputation with CPR in progress: recovery following prolonged cardiac arrest (23 February, 2006)

  R Wise, I Higginson, J Benger, N Rawlinson
• Contact burns from hair straighteners: a new hazard in the home (23 February, 2006)

  R A Duncan, S Waterston, T F Beattie, K Stewart
• Successful resuscitation of hypermagnesaemic asystolic cardiac arrest with the use of early transvenous cardiac pacemaker: a case report (23 February, 2006)

  M A Miller, C S Crystal, J Helphenstine, S E Young
• Volar dislocation of the index carpometacarpal joint in association with a Bennett’s fracture of the thumb: a rare injury pattern (23 February, 2006)

  J P Dillon, A J Laing, R Thakral, J M Buckley, K Mahalingam
• Seeing the invisible: painless aortic dissection in the emergency setting (23 February, 2006)

  C Ayrik, H Cece, O Aslan, O Karcioglu, E Yilmaz
• Case of the month: Cutaneous myiasis in a returning traveller from the Algarve: first report of tumbu maggots, Cordylobia anthropophaga, acquired in Portugal

  (23 February, 2006)

  S J Curtis, C Edwards, C Athulathmuda, J Paul
• Emergency casebook (23 February, 2006)
• Take a closer look (23 February, 2006)

  T Moutray