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Medical education / Lessons from practice

Hyperkalaemic cardiac arrest due to cream of tartar ingestion

Daniel Yee Lee Ng, Laksmi Govindasamy, Andrew Hughes and Hwee Min Lee

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (11): 542-544 Free

Editorial

Optimising the impact of smartphone‐activated volunteer responder programs on out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest outcomes by increasing responder density

Alan Morrison and Paul Simpson

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 502-503 Free

Research

Smartphone‐activated volunteer responders and survival to discharge after out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2018–23: an observational cohort study

Belinda Delardes, Mads Christian Tofte Gregers, Emily Nehme, Michael Ray, Dylan Hall, Tony Walker, David Anderson, Daniel Okyere, Ashanti Dantanarayana and Ziad Nehme

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (10): 504-509 Free

Scoping review

Urgent care centres for reducing the demand on emergency departments: a scoping review of published quantitative and qualitative studies

Feby Savira, Madison Frith, Clarissa J Aditya, Sean Randall, Naomi White, Andrew Giddy, Lauren Spark, Jamie Swann and Suzanne Robinson

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (9): 450-461 Free

Research

Social determinants of health and intensive care unit admission rates and outcomes for children, Australia, 2013–2020: analysis of national registry data

Katie M Moynihan, Vanessa Russ, Darren Clinch, Lahn Straney, Johnny Millar, Marino Festa, Natasha Nassar, Shreerupa Basu, Thavani Thavarajasingam, Debbie Long, Paul J Secombe and Anthony J Slater, for the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group and Centre for Outcomes and Resource Evaluation

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (8): 412-421 Free

Editorial

Strong medication overdose data, but we need to consider both toxicity and therapeutic need when prescribing

Angela L Chiew and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (7): 337-338 Free

Perspective

A future for the hospital‐in‐the‐home (HITH) deteriorating patient: shifting the paradigm

Mya Cubitt and Seok Lim

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (4): 168-171 Free

Research letter

Cannabis poisonings in Australia following the legalisation of medicinal cannabis, 2014–24: analysis of NSW Poisons Information Centre data

Rose Cairns, Sara Allaf and Nicholas A Buckley

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (3): 155-157 Free

Research

Out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests in Victoria, 2003–2022: retrospective analysis of Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry data

Emily Nehme, David Anderson, Ross Salathiel, Anthony Carlyon, Dion Stub, Peter A Cameron, Andrew Wilson, Sile Smith, John J McNeil and Ziad Nehme

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 603-611 Free

Narrative review

Developing the green operating room: exploring barriers and opportunities to reducing operating room waste

Ludmilla Pillay, Kenneth D Winkel and Timothy Kariotis

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 279-284 Free

Research letter

Emergency department presentations in Queensland by First Nations people, remote residents, and young children during the COVID‐19 pandemic, 2020: interrupted time series analysis

Amy L Sweeny, Gerben B Keijzers, Dinesh Palipana, John Gerrard and Julia L Crilly

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 579-581 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Minimising harm: avoiding intubation for psychogenic non‐epileptic seizures

Stephen Bacchi, Santosh Verghese and Mark Slee

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 364-365 Free

Research letter

Ambient maximum daily temperature and mental health‐related presentations to a western Sydney emergency department, 2015–2019: analysis of hospital and meteorological data

Wen Yu Claire Ooi, Taylor A Braund, James Elhindi and Anthony WF Harris

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (7): 379-380 Free

Letters

Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative

Amith Shetty, Jean‐Frederic Levesque and Walid Jammal

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 217-217 Free

Letters

Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative

Michael Montalto

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 217-217 Free

Guideline summary

Patient blood management guideline for adults with critical bleeding

Biswadev Mitra, Margaret Jorgensen, Michael C Reade, Anastazia Keegan, Anthony Holley, Shannon Farmer, Nichole Harvey, James Winearls, Michael Parr and Craig J French, for the Clinical and Consumer Reference Group for the Update of Patient Blood Management Guidelines (Module 1: Critical Bleeding/Massive Transfusion)

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (4): 211-216 Free

Narrative review

Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for refractory cardiac arrest in Australia: a narrative review

Mark Dennis, Kiran Shekar and Aidan JC Burrell, For the National ECPR Working Group

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (1): 46-53 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis secondary to disseminated tuberculosis in a young adult with Crohn's disease

Rattanak Visal Hean, David A Sheffield, Kirsten Herbert and David Brewster

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (8): 350-352

Research

Hospitalisations and in‐hospital deaths following moderate to severe traumatic brain injury in Australia, 2015–20: a registry data analysis for the Australian Traumatic Brain Injury National Data (ATBIND) project

Gerard M O'Reilly, Kate Curtis, Biswadev Mitra, Yesul Kim, Afsana Afroz, Kate Hunter, Courtney Ryder, Delia V Hendrie, Nick Rushworth, Jin Tee, Shane D'Angelo, Emma Solly, Oashe Bhattacharya, Mark C Fitzgerald, Gerard M O'Reilly, Kate Curtis, Biswadev Mitra, Yesul Kim, Afsana Afroz, Kate Hunter, Courtney Ryder, Delia V Hendrie, Nick Rushworth, Jin Tee, Shane D'Angelo, Emma Solly, Oashe Bhattacharya and Mark C Fitzgerald

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (7): 316-324 Free

Research letter

Lower urgency care in the emergency department, and the suitability of general practice care as an alternative: a cross‐sectional study

Haomin S Wu and James L Mallows

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (4): 166-167 Free

Perspectives

Defibrillator access across Australia: the first step in avoiding a chain of fatality

Elizabeth Paratz, Gregory J Page and Garry LR Jennings

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (4): 146-148 Free

Editorials

Has the COVID‐19 pandemic unmasked the fragility of the Australian health care system?

Lucy E Kirk and Imogen Mitchell

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 457-458 Free

Editorials

The inter‐hospital transfer of critically ill patients with COVID‐19: a double‐edged sword

Peter T Morley

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 458-459 Free

Research

The characteristics of SARS‐CoV‐2‐positive children in Australian hospitals: a PREDICT network study

Laila Ibrahim, Catherine Wilson, Doris Tham, Mark Corden, Shefali Jani, Michael Zhang, Amit Kochar, Ker Fern Tan, Shane George, Natalie T Phillips, Paul Buntine, Karen Robins‐Browne, Vimuthi Chong, Thomas Georgeson, Anna Lithgow, Sarah Davidson, Sharon O'Brien, Viet Tran and Franz E Babl

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 460-466 Free

Research

Mortality among people admitted to Australian intensive care units for reasons other than COVID‐19 during the COVID‐19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study

Sing Chee Tan, Tess Evans, Matthew L Durie, Paul J Secombe and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 467-473 Free