Table of contents

Original articles

• Availability and utilisation of physician-based pre-hospital critical care support to the NHS ambulance service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (21 March, 2011)

  Philip Hyde, Rod Mackenzie, Gail Ng, Cliff Reid, Gale Pearson
• Transporting major trauma patients from the margins of a UK trauma system (25 March, 2011)

  Tim Nutbeam, Alan Leaman, Peter Oakley
• Is routine coagulation testing necessary in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain? (10 March, 2011)

  David Martin, Iain Beardsell
• Cardioversion of acute atrial fibrillation in the emergency department: a prospective randomised trial (21 March, 2011)

  Andrea Bellone, Massimiliano Etteri, Marco Vettorello, Chiara Bonetti, Dante Clerici, Giancarlo Gini, Carlo Maino, Massimo Mariani, Anna Natalizi, Italo Nessi, Alessandro Rampoldi, Livio Colombo
• Addition of a general practitioner to the accident and emergency department: a cost-effective innovation in emergency care (25 March, 2011)

  Judith E Bosmans, A Joan Boeke, Marguerite E van Randwijck-Jacobze, Sietske M Grol, Mark H Kramer, Henriëtte E van der Horst, Maurits W van Tulder
• Application of the 2007 NICE guidelines in the management of paediatric minor head injuries in a UK emergency department (18 February, 2011)

  Rhia Ghosh, Elizabeth Docherty, Steffen Schickerling, Peter Heinz, Gregor Campbell-Hewson, Adrian Boyle
• Disparities in opioid prescribing for patients with psychiatric diagnoses presenting with pain to the emergency department (18 February, 2011)

  Lorna J Simon, Aurelia N Bizamcer, Charles W Lidz, Susan Stefan, Mark J Pletcher
• High rates of injured motorcycle drivers in emergency rooms and the association with substance use in Porto Alegre, Brazil (1 March, 2011)

  Tiago Cataldo Breitenbach, Flavio Pechansky, Daniela Benzano, Raquel De Boni
• Does integrated emergency care reduce mortality and non-elective admissions? a retrospective analysis (17 March, 2011)

  Adrian Boyle, Jonathon Fuld, Vazeer Ahmed, Tom Bennett, Susan Robinson
• Characteristics of high-echoic objects in the hepatic vessels of patients with cardiopulmonary arrest: a prospective cohort study (25 March, 2011)

  Shinju Arata, Junichi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Moriwaki, Noriyuki Suzuki, Masayuki Iwashita, Mitsugi Sugiyama, Satoshi Morita
• The 4-h target: an example of destructive goal pursuit? (21 March, 2011)

  Richard David Hardern
• Symptoms and responses to critical incidents in paramedics who have experienced childhood abuse and neglect (21 March, 2011)

  Robert G Maunder, Janice Halpern, Brian Schwartz, Maria Gurevich
• Utilisation of an embedded specialist nurse and collaborative care pathway increases potential organ donor referrals in the emergency department (17 March, 2011) Free

  Julian Garside, Marie Garside, Simon Fletcher, Bruce Finlayson
• Interhospital variation in the RATPAC Trial (Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac markers) (26 May, 2011)

  Mike Bradburn, Steve W Goodacre, Patrick Fitzgerald, Tim Coats, Alasdair Gray, Taj Hassan, Julian Humphrey, Jason Kendall, Jason Smith, Paul Collinson, On behalf of the RATPAC Research Team*