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Original articles

• Utility of the Pentax-AWS in performing tracheal intubation while wearing chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear personal protective equipment: a randomised crossover trial using a manikin (13 June, 2013)

  Dong Hyuk Shin, Pil Cho Choi, Ji Ung Na, Jun Hwi Cho, Sang Kuk Han
• Functional outcomes and quality of life of young adults who survive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (4 July, 2012) Free

  Conor Deasy, Janet Bray, Karen Smith, Linton Harriss, Stephen Bernard, Peter Cameron, on behalf of the VACAR Steering Committee
• Patterns of abdominal injury in 37 387 disaster patients from the Wenchuan earthquake (25 July, 2012)

  Yinglong Xu, Jiwei Huang, Jixiang Zhou, Yong Zeng
• A report of an outbreak of toxicity from a novel drug of abuse: ERIC-3 (27 August, 2012)

  Stephen Douglas Haig, Charlotte Kelly, Clare Morden
• Triage vital signs do not correlate with serum lactate or base deficit, and are less predictive of operative intervention in penetrating trauma patients: a prospective cohort study (16 July, 2012)

  Nicholas Caputo, Robert Fraser, Andrew Paliga, Marc Kanter, Karlene Hosford, Robert Madlinger
• Induction of a shorter compression phase is correlated with a deeper chest compression during metronome-guided cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a manikin study (25 July, 2012)

  Tae Nyoung Chung, Jinkun Bae, Eui Chung Kim, Yun Kyung Cho, Je Sung You, Sung Wook Choi, Ok Jun Kim
• The usefulness of rapid point-of-care creatinine testing for the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy in the emergency department (25 July, 2012)

  Je Sung You, Yong Eun Chung, Jong Woo Park, Woonhyoung Lee, Hye-Jeong Lee, Tae Nyoung Chung, Sung Phil Chung, Incheol Park, Seungho Kim
• How reliable and safe is full-body low-dose radiography (LODOX Statscan) in detecting foreign bodies ingested by adults? (25 July, 2012)

  Georgios Mantokoudis, Simone Hegner, Patrick Dubach, Harald Marcel Bonel, Pascal Senn, Marco Domenico Caversaccio, Aristomenis K Exadaktylos
• Satisfaction with the humanitarian response to the 2010 Pakistan floods: a call for increased accountability to beneficiaries (9 August, 2012)

  Thomas Kirsch, Muhammad Ahmed Siddiqui, Paul Clayton Perrin, W Courtland Robinson, Lauren M Sauer, Shannon Doocy