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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editors

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• • ·What’s coming in Annals • May 2006

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• • ·Manuscript submission agreement

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• • ·Information for readers

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• • ·Images in Emergency Medicine

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    Kevin M. Ahlers, Rawle A. Seupaul

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• • ·Resident Editorial Board Fellowship Appointment

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• • ·Resident Editorial Board Fellowship Application

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• • ·Calendar

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• • ·Classified 2006 advertising rates & information : New value-added feature—your ad online at no additional cost!

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• • ·Classified

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• HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

  • ·Effects of Hospital Closures and Hospital Characteristics on Emergency Department Ambulance Diversion, Los Angeles County, 1998 to 2004

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    Benjamin C. Sun, Sarita A. Mohanty, Robert Weiss, Richard Tadeo, Maureen Hasbrouck, William Koenig, Carol Meyer, Steven Asch

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  • ·Analysis of Ambulance Transports and Diversions Among US Emergency Departments

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    Catharine W. Burt, Linda F. McCaig, Roberto H. Valverde

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• IMAGES IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE

  • ·Chokehold Strangulation

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    Adam S. Nielson, Christopher S. Kang

     

• EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

  • ·Impact of the San Diego Serial Inebriate Program on Use of Emergency Medical Resources

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    James V. Dunford, Edward M. Castillo, Theodore C. Chan, Gary M. Vilke, Peter Jenson, Suzanne P. Lindsay

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  • ·Comparison of Termination-of-Resuscitation Guidelines for Basic Life Support: Defibrillator Providers in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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    Marcus E.H. Ong, James Jaffey, Ian Stiell, Lisa Nesbitt, OPALS Study Group

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  • ·Diagnosis

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    Adam Sanford Nielson

    

• NEWS AND PERSPECTIVE

  • ·Emergency medicine goes global: Specialty steps up humanitarian role

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    Eric Berger

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  • ·A clash of practice models: Debate roils around mega-group medicine

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    George Flynn

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• INJURY PREVENTION

  • ·EMS Helicopter Crashes: What Influences Fatal Outcome?

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    Susan P. Baker, Jurek G. Grabowski, Robert S. Dodd, Dennis F. Shanahan, Margaret W. Lamb, Guohua H. Li

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  • ·Souls on Board: Helicopter Emergency Medical Services and Safety

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    Alexander P. Isakov

     
  • ·Impact of Georgia’s Teenage and Adult Driver Responsibility Act

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    Angelyn Rios, Marlena Wald, Sascha R. Nelson, Kimberly J. Dark, Megan Emily Price, Arthur L. Kellermann

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  • ·National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Notes

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    Mary Pat McKay, Federico Vaca, Herbert G. Garrison, Mary Pat McKay, Catherine S. Gotschall

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  • ·Commentary: Seatbelt use: Nearly an epidemic of safety

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• ALLERGIC REACTIONS

  • ·Second Symposium on the Definition and Management of Anaphylaxis: Summary Report—Second National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease/Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network Symposium

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    Hugh A. Sampson, Anne Muñoz-Furlong, Ronna L. Campbell, N. Franklin Adkinson, S. Allan Bock, Amy Branum, Simon G.A. Brown, Carlos A. Camargo, Rita Cydulka, Stephen J. Galli, Jane Gidudu, Rebecca S. Gruchalla, Allen D. Harlor, David L. Hepner, Lawrence M. Lewis, Phillip L. Lieberman, Dean D. Metcalfe, Robert O’Connor, Antonella Muraro, Amanda Rudman, Cara Schmitt, Debra Scherrer, F. Estelle Simons, Stephen Thomas, Joseph P. Wood, Wyatt W. Decker

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• NEUROLOGY

  • ·Allopregnanolone, a Progesterone Metabolite, Is More Effective Than Progesterone in Reducing Cortical Infarct Volume After Transient Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion

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    Iqbal Sayeed, Qingmin Guo, Stuart W. Hoffman, Donald G. Stein

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  • ·Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the Emergency Department

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    Daniel C. McGillicuddy, Oriana Walker, Nathan I. Shapiro, Jonathan A. Edlow

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• CHANGE OF SHIFT

  • ·For You, For Me

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    Elizabeth S. Hilton

    

• IMAGES IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE

  • ·Pemphigus Vulgaris

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    Kevin M. Ahlers, Rawle A. Seupaul

     

• CORRESPONDENCE

  • ·Intravenous Use of Buprenorphine Tablets Associated With Rhabdomyolysis and Compressive Sciatic Neuropathy

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    Raymond C.S. Seet, Erle C.H. Lim

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  • ·Emergency Intensivists…Why Not Now?

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    Jay L. Falk

    
  • ·In reply

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    David Tom Huang

    
  • ·Lack of Scorpion Antivenom Leads to Increased Pediatric ICU Admissions

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    Bradley D. Riley, Frank LoVecchio, Anthony F. Pizon

     

• BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS

  • ·Berk W.A.. F.A. Davis Co (2005). 324 pages, $19.95, ISBN 0-8036-1262-1

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    Christopher Fee

    
  • ·Jenkins J.L., Braen G.R.. Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (2005). 861 pages, $39.95, ISBN 0-7817-5035-0

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    Chintu Shah