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Emergency medicine

Editorials

Troponin measurement and the new assays: how low can we go?

Con N Aroney, Peter E Hickman, Hans G Schneider, Jillian R Tate and Martin Than

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (5): 245-246

Viewpoint

Performance-based hospital funding: a reform tool or an incentive for fraud?

Antony Nocera

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (4): 222-224 Free

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009

The rational clinician in a pandemic setting

David A Bradt and Joseph Epstein

Med J Aust 2010; 192 (2): 87-89 Free

Christmas offerings

The dark side of the moon

Leonie A Calver, Barrie J Stokes and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 692-694 Free

Conference report

Trouble in paradise

Timothy J J Inglis, Ronan J Murray and Michael Watson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 597-598 Free

Christmas offerings

Successful resuscitation after drowning in a home swimming pool

William L Darvall and Shelton Smith

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 694

Rural and Remote Health

The first medical jet aircraft for the Royal Flying Doctor Service

Stephen A Langford

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 609-610

Book reviews

Volunteer medics in the Vietnam war

Robert K Likeman

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 631

Christmas offerings

Relative radio-opacity of commonly consumed fish species in South East Queensland on lateral neck x-ray: an ovine model

William R A Davies and Patricia J Bate

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 677-680 Free

Christmas offerings

The pressure of time

Anthony H T Hodgkinson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (11): 688 Free

Viewpoint

Whole-of-hospital response to admission access block: the need for a clinical revolution

E Haydn Walters and David J Dawson

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (10): 561-563 Free

Research

Bringing patients’ own medications into an emergency department by ambulance: effect on prescribing accuracy when these patients are admitted to hospital

Esther W Chan, Simone E Taylor, Jennifer L Marriott and Bill Barger

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (7): 374-377 Free

Notable cases

Early use of high-dose insulin euglycaemic therapy for verapamil toxicity

Christopher P Nickson and Mark Little

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (6): 350-352 Free

Letters

Pathology processes and emergency department length of stay: the impact of change

Andrew Georgiou and Johanna I Westbrook

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (6): 359

Letters

Pathology processes and emergency department length of stay: the impact of change

Andrew J Francis, Michael J Ray and Mary C Marshall

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (6): 359

Letters

Access block can be managed

Antony Nocera

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (5): 292-293

Letters

What can public health surveillance of emergency department presentations for acute alcohol problems tell us about social trends in drinking behaviour?

David J Muscatello, Sarah V Thackway, Daniel A Belshaw and David McGrath

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (4): 237-238

Conference report

Acute medical admissions in our hospitals: getting it right

Harvey H Newnham, Campbell H Thompson, Paul F Jenkins and Lauri T O’Brien

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (1): 9-10

Research

Black Saturday: the immediate impact of the February 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia

Peter A Cameron, Biswadev Mitra, Mark Fitzgerald, Carlos D Scheinkestel, Andrew Stripp, Chris Batey, Louise Niggemeyer, Melinda Truesdale, Paul Holman, Rishi Mehra, Jason Wasiak and Heather Cleland

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (1): 11-16 Free

Research

National survey of management of transient ischaemic attack in Australia: Take Immediate Action

Christopher J Price, David J Blacker, Rohan S Grimley, Helen M Dewey, Richard P Gerraty, Simon A Koblar, Sonia M Denisenko, Catherine E Storey, Christopher F Bladin and Kelvin M Hill

Med J Aust 2009; 191 (1): 17-20 Free

Letters

Septic shock from penetrating leg injury with Vibrio vulnificus infection

Tamara C Preda, Veronica A Preda and Allan P Mekisic

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (12): 716

Research

Pathology processes and emergency department length of stay: the impact of change

Andrew J Francis, Michael J Ray and Mary C Marshall

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (12): 665-669 Free

Book reviews

Dealing with disasters

Alexander C McFarlane

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (11): 647

Lessons from practice

Sore throat: a trivial complaint masking a life-threatening condition

Sébastien Anguille, Aurélie M Derweduwen, Jeroen Lenz, Luc Vanuytsel and Frank J Cools

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (8): 454-456 Free

Access block

Myths versus facts in emergency department overcrowding and hospital access block

Drew B Richardson and David Mountain

Med J Aust 2009; 190 (7): 369-374 Free