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Emergency medicine

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

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

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

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

Letters

Possible link between obesity and severe COVID‐19

John Dyett

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

Perspectives

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

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

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

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

Perspectives

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

Research letter

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

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

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

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

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