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Medical education / Lessons from practice

Rhabdomyolysis due to jellyfish envenomation in Western Australian waters

Anthony C Rengel, Sue Davel, Sarah O’Connor and Nicholas Medcraft

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (8): 397-399

Medical education / Snapshot

Acute lymphangitis

Yu‐Lin Tai and Chien‐Yu Lin

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (6): 287-287

Letters

Ambulance ramping, system pressure, and hospitals in crisis: what do the data tell us?

Laura M Boyle, Mark Mackay and Keith Stockman

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 526-527

Editorials

The implications of living with COVID‐19 for intensive care in Australia

Raymond Raper

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 511-512 Free

Research

Increasing ICU capacity to accommodate higher demand during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Edward Litton, Sue Huckson, Shaila Chavan, Tamara Bucci, Anthony Holley, Evan Everest, Sean Kelly, Steven McGloughlin, Johnny Millar, Nhi Nguyen, Mark Nicholls, Paule Secombe and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (11): 513-517 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Methaemoglobinaemia associated with the atypical use of sodium nitrite as a food additive

Caitlin O’Neill, Zeina Najjar, Andrew Ingleton, Alan Edwards, Andrew Dawson and Leena Gupta

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 256-257.e1

Medical education / Lessons from practice

The risk of ketogenic diets while breastfeeding: severe euglycaemic ketoacidosis

Nardeen S Habashy, Hwang Tan and Emily J Hibbert

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 208-209.e1

Editorials

What is the role of general practice in the Chain of Survival for treating people with cardiac arrest?

Siobhán Masterson and Tomás Barry

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 214-215

Research

Cardiac arrests in general practice clinics or witnessed by emergency medical services: a 20‐year retrospective study

Brian Haskins, Ziad Nehme, Peter A Cameron and Karen Smith

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (5): 222-227 Free

Research letters

Emergency department presentations by residents of Sydney quarantine hotels during the COVID‐19 outbreak

Michael Dinh, Owen Hutchings, Kendall Bein, James Shaw, Aditi Raut, Saartje Berendsen Russell, Dianna Jagers, Rajip Thapa, Gregory Fox, James Edwards, Timothy Wand and Warwick Britton

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 473-474 Free

Ethics and law

Transparent triage policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a critical part of medico‐legal risk management for clinicians

Eliana Close, Lindy Willmott, Tina Cockburn, Simon Young, Will Cairns and Ben P White

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (2): 71-74.e1 Free

Perspectives

Should we be routinely co‐prescribing naloxone for patients on long term opioids?

Pallavi Prathivadi and Suzanne Nielsen

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (9): 403-404.e1

Letters

Sepsis and adrenal insufficiency: a potentially lethal combination

Peter S Hamblin, Bu B Yeap and David J Torpy

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 334-334.e1

Research

The CANBACK trial: a randomised, controlled clinical trial of oral cannabidiol for people presenting to the emergency department with acute low back pain

Bronwyn Bebee, David M Taylor, Elyssia Bourke, Kimberley Pollack, Lian Foster, Michael Ching and Anselm Wong

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 370-375 Free

Research letters

The influence of travelling to hospital by ambulance on reperfusion time and outcomes for patients with STEMI

Eleanor Redwood, Karice Hyun, John K French, Leonard Kritharides, Mark Ryan, Derek P Chew, Mario D'Souza and David B Brieger

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 377-378 Free

Letters

Reduced suicidal presentations to emergency departments during the COVID‐19 outbreak in Queensland, Australia

Jerneja Sveticic, Nicolas JC Stapelberg and Kathryn Turner

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 284-284.e1 Free

Perspectives

A pathway for acute chest imaging in suspected or confirmed COVID‐19

David Ngan, Suzanne McKeen, Meegan Gun, Daniel Haustead, Andrew Low, Brett Lorraine and James Bewes

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 299-301.e1 Free

Perspectives

A national system for monitoring intensive care unit demand and capacity: the Critical Health Resources Information System (CHRIS)

David Pilcher, Nicholas R Coatsworth, Melissa Rosenow and Jason McClure

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 297-298.e1 Free

Letters

Notes from afar: reflections from two Australian intensivists in Sweden during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Michelle S Chew and Thomas Halliday

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (5): 235-235.e1 Free

Letters

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

Research letters

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

Editorials

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

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

Perspectives

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

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