Sommario

• • ·Masthead

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• Original Contributions

  • ·A depression screen and intervention for older ED patients

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    Fredric M. Hustey, Michael D. Smith

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  • ·Can elevated troponin I levels predict complicated clinical course and inhospital mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism?

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    Ersin Aksay, Sedat Yanturali, Selahattin Kiyan

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  • ·Specialized emergency nurses treating ankle and foot injuries: a randomized controlled trial

    Pagina :144-151

    Robert Jan Derksen, Fred C. Bakker, Elly S.M. de Lange-de Klerk, Irma M. Spaans, Emil A. Heilbron, Bart Veenings, Henk J.Th.M. Haarman

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  • ·Clinical prediction rule to distinguish pelvic inflammatory disease from acute appendicitis in women of childbearing age

    Pagina :152-157

    Koji Morishita, Masanori Gushimiyagi, Mikio Hashiguchi, Gerald H. Stein, Yasuharu Tokuda

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  • ·Helicopter emergency medical services and stroke care regionalization: measuring performance in a maturing system

    Pagina :158-163

    Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, John Pliakas, Christine Hong, Katie Chan, Gina Kim, Lauren Nentwich, Stephen H. Thomas

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• Brief Reports

  • ·ED presentations of acute renal infarction

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    Chien-Cheng Huang, Hong-Chang Lo, Hsien-Hao Huang, Wei-Fong Kao, David Hung-Tsang Yen, Lee-Min Wang, Chun-I Huang, Chen-Hsen Lee

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  • ·Electrocardiographic features and prognosis in acute diagonal or marginal branch occlusion

    Pagina :170-173

    Filip M. Szyma?ski, Marcin Grabowski, Krzysztof J. Filipiak, Grzegorz Karpi?ski, ?ukasz A. Ma?ek, Przemys?aw Stolarz, Anna Hrynkiewicz, Janusz Kochman, Robert Rudowski, Grzegorz Opolski

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  • ·Electrocardiographic artifacts due to electrode misplacement and their frequency in different clinical settings

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    Alain Rudiger, Jens P. Hellermann, Raphael Mukherjee, Ferenc Follath, Juraj Turina

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• Diagnostics

  • ·Accuracy of the cerebrospinal fluid results to differentiate bacterial from non bacterial meningitis, in case of negative gram-stained smear

    Pagina :179-184

    Patrick Ray, Ghislaine Badarou-Acossi, Alain Viallon, David Boutoille, Martine Arthaud, David Trystram, Bruno Riou

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• Reviews

  • ·Health care facilities' “war on terrorism”: a deliberate process for recommending personal protective equipment

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    Kristi L. Koenig, Connie J. Boatright, John A. Hancock, Frank J. Denny, David S. Teeter, Christopher A. Kahn, Carl H. Schultz

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  • ·Right upper lobe pulmonary edema as consequence of mitral regurgitation

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    Fabrice Agésilas, Alexandre Herbland, Ruddy Valentino, Denise Rieux, Jocelyne Lebrun, Christian Crombé, Hossein Mehdaoui, Pascal Schlossmacher, Florence Gey

     
  • ·Delayed clinical decompensation and death after pediatric nifedipine overdose

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    Michael A. Miller, David A. Masneri, Thomas Herold

    
  • ·Unrecognized periorbital penetrating nail in the brain: case report

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    Federico Bilotta, Giovanni Rosa, Roberto Delfini, Raffaella Pinto, Brenno Fiorani

     
  • ·A vaccine misadventure

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    Marc E. Levsky, Laurie B. Pemberton, Michael A. Miller, Gene Wallace

     
  • ·The “forbidden” chest x-ray: tension pyopneumothorax

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    Nevin Kollannoor Chinnan, Ajay Rathore, Ashraf Ibrahim Mohamed Shabaan, Wael Al Samman

     
  • ·All stressed out and no pump to go

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    Marilyn Geninatti, Marc Thames

     
  • ·Feeling bloated

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    Fadi Braiteh, Margaret B. Row

     
  • ·Transorbital ventricular decompression in an acutely decompensated hydrocephalic ED patient

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    Sharon R. Wilson, Bobbie Schauer, Daniel D. Price

     
  • ·Acute heart failure associated with venlafaxine poisoning

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    Pascal Fangio, Bernard De Jonghe, Corinne Appéré-De-Vecchi, Jean-Claude Lachérade, Jean-Pierre Terville, Hervé Outin, Joël Dagorn

    
  • ·Detection of a giant wooden foreign body with multidetector computed tomography and multiplanar reconstruction imaging

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    Mecit Kantarci, Hayri Ogul, R. Murat Karasen

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  • ·Inability to pass a nasogastric tube: a surgical emergency

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    Ronald K. Moy, Alicia M. Salazar, Shu B. Chan

     
  • ·Anticholinergic toxicity associated with the ingestion of lupini beans

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    Joanne Litkey, Michael W. Dailey

    
  • ·Fat embolism syndrome with multiple hypointensity signals detected by head magnetic resonance imaging demonstrating a favorable outcome: a case report

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    Youichi Yanagawa, Naoyuki Kaneko, Toshihisa Sakamoto, Yoshiaki Okada

     
  • ·Isolated headache as the sole manifestation of dural sinus thrombosis: a case report with literature review

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    Wei-Lung Chen, Su-Hen Chang, Jiann-hwa Chen, Yung-Lung Wu

     
  • ·Tension viscerothorax mimicking tension pneumothorax

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    M. Cumhur Sivrikoz, Egemen Döner, M. Cumhur Tulay

     
  • ·Ectopic pregnancy presenting as rectal pain

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    Eleanor A. Erwin, Francis L. Counselman

     
  • ·Nursemaid's elbow in a 31-year-old female

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    Bradley V. Pearson, David W. Kuhns

     
  • ·Disseminated head and neck emphysema with pneumocephalus due to air compressor injury into orbit

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    Bo Seung Kang

     
  • ·Fulminant fatal toxic shock syndrome with Staphylococcus aureus

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    Amanda L. Wilson, Michael W. Kaufman, Richard B. Thomson, Patrick J. Gavin

     
  • ·Massive hiatal hernia masquerading as a tension pneumothorax

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    Chee-Fah Chong, Yu-Ming Lin, Chun-Chieh Chao, Shih-Tsuo Shen, Tse-Yu Huang

     
  • ·Retrobulbar hemorrhage resulting from syncopal seizures after a dental procedure

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    Ricky Kue, Francis Renzi

     
  • ·Takotsubo cardiomyopathy associated with sepsis in type 2 diabetes mellitus

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    Sawako Ohigashi-Suzuki, Yasushi Saito, Ichiro Tatsuno

     
  • ·Uncommon cardiovascular manifestations after a Latrodectus bite

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    Bulent Erdur, Ibrahim Turkcuer, Aytac Bukiran, Omur Kuru, Ismail Varol

     
  • ·Inverted U wave, a specific electrocardiographic sign of cardiac ischemia

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    Ali A. Sovari, Farhad Farokhi, Abraham G. Kocheril

     
  • ·Misleadingly migratory pain in acute renal infarction

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    Hsin-Yi Lin, Tzong-Luen Wang, Chee-Fah Chong, Chien-Chih Chen

     
  • ·Recurrent hyponatremia under desmopressin overdosing—is abuse a possible explication?

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    Thomas Hillemacher, Anja Schanze, Thomas Kraus, Johannes Kornhuber, Stefan Bleich

    
  • ·An irreducible posterior knee dislocation

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    Charles E. Cady, Andrew L. Cardoni, Michael J. Berger

     
  • ·Axillary artery dissection due to blunt shoulder trauma

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    Murat Ersel, Selahattin Kiyan, Ersin Aksay, Bortecin Eygi, Tanzer Calkavur

     
  • ·Stress-induced cardiomyopathy: takotsubo left ventricular dysfunction

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    Caroline Boulouffe, Dominique Vanpee, Laurence Gabriel

    
  • ·Pneumocephalus secondary to an epidural blood patch

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    Timothy R. Hurtado, Francis A. Clarkson

     
  • ·Severe headache caused by dilatative arteriopathy of the internal carotid artery

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    Je Sung You, Sung Pil Chung

     
  • ·Spontaneous splenic rupture secondary to pegfilgrastim to prevent neutropenia in a patient with non–small-cell lung carcinoma

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    Nicole J. Watring, Thomas W. Wagner, James J. Stark

     
  • ·Acute myocardial infarction in the setting of an apparent pacemaker anomaly: ventricular pseudofusion

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    Daniel R. Rodgers

     
  • ·Spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage after intravenous epinephrine use for multiple bee stings

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    OYu Kwon, SungPil Chung, KyeongRyong Lee, SeungWhan Kim

     
  • ·Severe explosive headache: a sole presentation of acute myocardial infarction in a young man

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    Vei-Ken Seow, Chee-Fah Chong, Tzong-Luen Wang, Jiann-Ruey Ong

    
  • ·Complete common iliac artery transection: an easily misdiagnosed but fatal complication of blunt abdominal injury

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    Shih-Yu Ko, Ken-Hing Tan, Chung-Yu Cheng-Huang, Meng-Kai Huang, Vei-Ken Seow, Chien-Chih Chen

     
  • ·Cardiac rescue with intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation in refractory shock due to acute meningococcemia

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    Yu-Hui Chiu, Chorng-Kuang How, Chii-Hwa Chern, Lee-Min Wang, Chun-I Huang

    
  • ·Proper observation of patient-related factors is an important determinant in the use of the D-dimer test for exclusion of venous thromboembolism in the ED

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    Wim P.M. Houdijk

    
  • ·The effect of the gravitation of the moon on acute myocardial infarction

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    Ryotaro Wake, Daiju Fukuda, Minoru Yoshiyama, Kenei Shimada, Junichi Yoshikawa

     
  • ·Internet-based survey on the use of additional lead electrocardiograms and fibrinolysis of posterior and right ventricular acute myocardial infarctions

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    Michael P. Somers, Jesse M. Pines, William J. Brady, Dominique Caovan