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Emergency medicine

Editorial

Intensive care and the gaps in health outcomes for Indigenous Australians

Geoffrey J Dobb and Kwok M Ho

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (11): 492-493 Free

Research

Trauma‐related admissions to intensive care units in Australia: the influence of Indigenous status on outcomes

Fraser Magee, Anthony Wilson, Michael J Bailey, David Pilcher, Paul J Secombe, Paul Young and Rinaldo Bellomo

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (11): 493-498 Free

Study protocol

Evaluating patients presenting to the emergency department after syncope: validation of the Canadian Syncope Risk Score

Jason Chan, Jonathan Hunter, Douglas Morel, Emma Ballard, David Brain, Alan Yan and Julia Hocking

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (11): 507-508.e3 Free

Research

Traumatic spinal cord injury in Victoria, 2007–2016

Ben Beck, Peter A Cameron, Sandra Braaf, Andrew Nunn, Mark C Fitzgerald, Rodney T Judson, Warwick J Teague, Alyse Lennox, James W Middleton, James E Harrison and Belinda J Gabbe

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (8): 360-366 Free

Editorials

Resilient health systems: preparing for climate disasters and other emergencies

Gerard J FitzGerald, Anthony Capon and Peter Aitken

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 304-305

Letters

Recognising injuries related to needlestick injury in farmers: the importance of identifying high‐pressure injections with mineral oil

Elvira Currie, Rhian Cope and Margaret C Hardy

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 333-334.e1

Perspectives

Primary care in disasters: opportunity to address a hidden burden of health care

Penelope L Burns, Kirsty A Douglas and Wendy Hu

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 297-299.e1

Research

The impact of rapid molecular diagnostic testing for respiratory viruses on outcomes for emergency department patients

Nasir Wabe, Ling Li, Robert Lindeman, Ruth Yimsung, Maria R Dahm, Kate Clezy, Susan McLennan, Johanna Westbrook and Andrew Georgiou

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 316-320 Free

Expanding the evidence base in digital health

Towards routine use of national electronic health records in Australian emergency departments

Paul Miles, Andrew Hugman, Angela Ryan, Fiona Landgren and Grace Liong

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6): S7-S9 Free

Expanding the evidence base in digital health

Artificial intelligence and the clinical world: a view from the front line

Christopher Pearce, Adam McLeod, Natalie Rinehart, Robin Whyte, Elizabeth Deveny and Marianne Shearer

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6): S38-S40 Free

Letters

Sepsis incidence and mortality are underestimated in Australian intensive care unit administrative data

David Pilcher, Sue Huckson and Peter Hicks

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (4): 188-189

Medical education / Snapshot

Traumatic eye injury from an exploding aerosol can

Varun Chandra, Lei Liu and Jonathan B Ruddle

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (4): 154

Research Letter

Exposures to e‐cigarettes and their refills: calls to Australian Poisons Information Centres, 2009–2016

Carol Wylie, Aaron Heffernan, Jared A Brown, Rose Cairns, Ann‐Maree Lynch and Jeff Robinson

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (3): 126 Free

Reflections

Adding kindness at handover to improve our collegiality: the K-ISBAR tool

David J Brewster and Bruce P Waxman

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 482-483

Reflections

Physician burnout: a recipe for disaster

Fergus JW Morris

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 486-487

Christmas competition

C-ABC: cash before care in a private emergency department?

Stephen S Teo and Vijay Manivel

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (11): 509-510

Editorials

Redefining the physician’s role in the era of online health information

Susan Ieraci

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 340-341

Letters

Nursing home “no returns” policy, when residents are discharged to the emergency department at 4 am: what does the law say?

Carmelle Peisah, Tiffany Jessop and Henry Brodaty

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (7): 324

Research

Sepsis incidence and mortality are underestimated in Australian intensive care unit administrative data

Manon Heldens, Marinelle Schout, Naomi E Hammond, Frances Bass, Anthony Delaney and Simon R Finfer

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (6): 255-260 Free

Research

Dr Google in the ED: searching for online health information by adult emergency department patients

Anthony M Cocco, Rachel Zordan, David McD Taylor, Tracey J Weiland, Stuart J Dilley, Joyce Kant, Mahesha Dombagolla, Andreas Hendarto, Fiona Lai and Jennie Hutton

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 342-347 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

An unexpected orbital foreign body

Matthew H Lee and Elaine Chong

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 63

Research

Patterns of poisoning exposure at different ages: the 2015 annual report of the Australian Poisons Information Centres

Alanna Huynh, Rose Cairns, Jared A Brown, Ann-Maree Lynch, Jeff Robinson, Carol Wylie, Nicholas A Buckley and Andrew H Dawson, on behalf of the Synthesis of the Network of Australian Poisons Services' Health Outcomes and Treatment (SNAPSHOT) investigators

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (2): 74-79 Free

Book/media/app review

Acute medicine for busy physicians

Danielle A Wood

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (1): 13

Editorials

Why are so many more adolescents presenting to our emergency departments with mental health problems?

Susan M Sawyer and George C Patton

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (8): 339-340

Research

Paediatric mental and physical health presentations to emergency departments, Victoria, 2008–15

Harriet Hiscock, Rachel J Neely, Shaoke Lei and Gary Freed

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (8): 343-348 Free