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Letters 15 Feb 2021

Trends in elasticated strap‐related injuries from Melbourne, Australia, 2007–2018

Philip Rothschild, Peter Meagher and Thomas G Campbell

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (3): 142-142.e1

Editorials 18 Jan 2021

Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19: known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns

Mervyn Singer

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 20-21 Free

Research 18 Jan 2021

Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic

Aidan JC Burrell, Breanna Pellegrini, Farhad Salimi, Husna Begum, Tessa Broadley, Lewis T Campbell, Allen C Cheng, Winston Cheung, D James Cooper, Arul Earnest, Simon J Erickson, Craig J French, John M Kaldor, Edward Litton, Srinivas Murthy, Richard E McAllister, Alistair D Nichol, Annamaria Palermo, Mark P Plummer, Mahesh Ramanan, Benjamin AJ Reddi, Claire Reynolds, Tony Trapani, Steve A Webb and Andrew A Udy

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 23-30 Free

Research letters 18 Jan 2021

Social restrictions during COVID‐19 and major trauma volume at a level 1 trauma centre

Teagan L Way, Seth M Tarrant and Zsolt J Balogh

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 38-39 Free

Perspectives 5 Oct 2020

Fit testing of N95 or P2 masks to protect health care workers

Adrian Regli and Britta S Ungern‐Sternberg

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 293-295.e1 Free

Research letters 28 Sep 2020

Fewer presentations to metropolitan emergency departments during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Andrew W Kam, Sarah G Chaudhry, Nathan Gunasekaran, Andrew JR White, Matthew Vukasovic and Adrian T Fung

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 370-371 Free

Letters 22 Sep 2020

Possible link between obesity and severe COVID‐19

John Dyett

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 380-380.e1 Free

Perspectives 31 Aug 2020

COVID‐19 and the Indo–Pacific: implications for resource‐limited emergency departments

Isobelle G Woodruff, Rob D Mitchell, Georgina Phillips, Deepak Sharma, Patrick Toito'ona, Krishantha Jayasekera, Khine Shwe Wah, Megan Cox and Gerard M O'Reilly

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 345-349.e1 Free

Consensus statement 3 Aug 2020

Management of adult cardiac arrest in the COVID‐19 era: consensus statement from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine

Simon Craig, Mya Cubitt, Ashish Jaison, Steven Troupakis, Natalie Hood, Christina Fong, Adnan Bilgrami, Peter Leman, Juan Carlos Ascencio‐Lane, Guruprasad Nagaraj, John Bonning, Gabriel Blecher, Rob Mitchell, Ellen Burkett, Sally M McCarthy, Amanda M Rojek, Kim Hansen, Helen Psihogios, Peter Allely, Simon Judkins, Lai Heng Foong, Stephen Bernard and Peter A Cameron

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (3): 126-133 Free

Editorials 6 Jul 2020

Critically ill Indigenous Australians and mortality: a complex story

Paul J Secombe, Alex Brown, Michael J Bailey and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 13-14 Free

Research 15 Jun 2020

Long term outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians after hospital intensive care

William G Mitchell, Adam Deane, Alex Brown, Shailesh Bihari, Hao Wong, Rajaram Ramadoss and Mark Finnis

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 16-21 Free

Research letter 25 May 2020

Presentations to emergency departments by children and young people with food allergy are increasing

Rachel O'Loughlin and Harriet Hiscock

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 27-29 Free

Perspectives 25 May 2020

Transfusion support in mass casualty events: lessons for hospital and pathology preparedness from the Bourke Street Mall incident

Linda Saravanan and Amanda Ormerod

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 504-506.e1

Perspectives 22 May 2020

Early clinical response to a high consequence infectious disease outbreak: insights from COVID‐19

Amanda M Rojek, Martin Dutch, David Camilleri, Emma Gardiner, Emma Smith, Caroline Marshall, Kirsty L Buising, Nicola Walsham and Mark Putland

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 447-450.e1 Free

Research letters 15 May 2020

When a system breaks: queueing theory model of intensive care bed needs during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Hamish DD Meares and Michael P Jones

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 470-471 Free

Consensus statements 5 May 2020

Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID‐19 adult patient group

David J Brewster, Nicholas Chrimes, Thy BT Do, Kirstin Fraser, Christopher J Groombridge, Andy Higgs, Matthew J Humar, Timothy J Leeuwenburg, Steven McGloughlin, Fiona G Newman, Chris P Nickson, Adam Rehak, David Vokes and Jonathan J Gatward

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 472-481 Free

Research 4 May 2020

Surge capacity of intensive care units in case of acute increase in demand caused by COVID‐19 in Australia

Edward Litton, Tamara Bucci, Shaila Chavan, Yvonne Y Ho, Anthony Holley, Gretta Howard, Sue Huckson, Philomena Kwong, Johnny Millar, Nhi Nguyen, Paul Secombe, Marc Ziegenfuss and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (10): 463-467 Free

Research letters 20 Apr 2020

Characteristics, treatment and complications of herpes zoster ophthalmicus at a tertiary eye hospital

Rahul Chakrabarti, Grace George, Kristen Wells and Carmel Crock

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (5): 226-227 Free

Research 13 Apr 2020

Improving acute stroke care in regional hospitals: clinical evaluation of the Victorian Stroke Telemedicine program

Chris F Bladin, Joosup Kim, Kathleen L Bagot, Michelle Vu, Natasha Moloczij, Sonia Denisenko, Chris Price, Nancy Pompeani, Lauren Arthurson, Casey Hair, Justin Rabl, Mick O'Shea, Patrick Groot, Leslie Bolitho, Bruce CV Campbell, Helen M Dewey, Geoffrey A Donnan and Dominique A Cadilhac

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (8): 371-377 Free

Research 24 Feb 2020

Discharge destination and patient‐reported outcomes after inpatient treatment for isolated lower limb fractures

Lara A Kimmel, Pamela M Simpson, Anne E Holland, Elton R Edwards, Peter A Cameron, Richard S Steiger, Richard S Page, Raphael Hau, Andrew Bucknill, Jessica Kasza and Belinda J Gabbe

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (6): 263-270 Free

Letters 3 Feb 2020