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Original Articles

• Limited analgesic efficacy of nitrous oxide for painful procedures in children (27 October, 2008) Free

  F E Babl, E Oakley, A Puspitadewi, L N Sharwood
• The pharmacological effect of epinephrine administration via laryngeal mask airway in a porcine model of asphyxial cardiac arrest (27 October, 2008)

  K-T Chen, H-J Lin, H-W Jeng, C-C Lin, H-R Guo
• Senior house officers and foundation year doctors in emergency medicine: do they perform equally? A prospective observational study (27 October, 2008)

  P A R Armstrong, A L White, S Thakore
• Standards of practice in UK emergency departments before, during and after conscious sedation (27 October, 2008)

  S T Adams, C Woods, H Lyall, M Higson
• Comparison of manikin versus porcine models in cricothyrotomy procedure training (27 October, 2008)

  J Cho, G H Kang, E C Kim, Y M Oh, H J Choi, T H Im, J H Yang, Y S Cho, H S Chung
• Knowledge of signs, treatment and need for urgent management in patients presenting with an acute ischaemic stroke or transient ischaemic attack: a prospective study (27 October, 2008)

  L G Stead, L Vaidyanathan, M F Bellolio, R Kashyap, A Bhagra, R M Gilmore, W W Decker, S Enduri, S Suravaram, S Mishra, D Nash, H M Wood, A S Yassa, A M Hoff, R D Brown
• Patterns of ophthalmological complaints presenting to a dedicated ophthalmic Accident & Emergency department: inappropriate use and patients’ perspective (27 October, 2008)

  S Hau, A Ioannidis, P Masaoutis, S Verma
• The PAWS score: validation of an early warning scoring system for the initial assessment of children in the emergency department (27 October, 2008)

  P Egdell, L Finlay, D K Pedley
• Can patients apply the Ottawa ankle rules to themselves? (27 October, 2008)

  J E J Blackham, T Claridge, J R Benger
• Resuscitation room blood alcohol concentrations: one-year cohort study (27 October, 2008)

  R Touquet, E Csipke, P Holloway, A Brown, T Patel, A J Seddon, P Gulati, H Moore, N Batrick, M J Crawford