Emergency Medicine Australasia publishes peer-reviewed articles, reports, reviews and opinions on the research and clinical practice of emergency care.

Emergency Medicine Australasia, with its strong interest in the effectiveness of emergency diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, is the journal of choice for anyone concerned with improving patient care in the pre-hospital and hospital emergency settings. As the leading journal in the specialty of emergency medicine in the Asia Pacific region, Emergency Medicine Australasia is committed to the furthering of scientific research, the support of educational objectives, and the dissemination of information to the emergency medicine community.

TopNews and Announcements

Free! Emergency Medicine Australasia most downloaded articles from 2010

• Does the standard intravenous solution of fentanyl (50 µg/mL) administered intranasally have analgesic efficacy?
  Crellin D, Rong XL, Babl FE
  
• Review article: Phenytoin use and efficacy in the ED
  Gallop K
  
• Beer as a burns resuscitation fluid
  Cattermole GN, Chan DYS, Graham CA, et al
  
• Review article: Emergency department assessment and management of stab wounds to the neck
  Casey SJ & Alwis WDD
  
• Chest pain research; no more comparing apples with oranges
  Kelly AM
  

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TopHighlights

Free! Emergency Medicine Australasia most downloaded articles from 2009/2010

• Procedural sedation in children in the emergency department: A PREDICT study
  Meredith Borland, Amanda Esson,Franz Babl,and David Krieser
  
• How would Australian hospital staff react to an avian influenza admission, or an influenza pandemic?
  Martinese F, Keijzers G, Grant S, et al.
  
• Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department
  Downes MA, Healy P, Page CB, et al.
  
• Emergency clinician performed ultrasound: Availability, uses and credentialing in Australian emergency departments
  Nagaraj G, Chu M, Dinh M
  
• Emergency physician credentialing for resuscitative thoracotomy for trauma
  Fitzgerald M, Tan G, Gruen R, et al.